Royal Mail; operating profit of some £321million, Boss Adam Crozier’s Earnings £9.2m - so what about the workers?

Bristol IWW supporterThe strike by CWU members this Thursday and Friday looks set to go ahead, despite intense pressure and intimidation by Royal Mail bosses, the entire Government, all 3 main political parties, the CBI and every boss keen to exploit their workers for profit. On the sidelines, historic strikebreakers like TNT (remember the printers Wapping strike?), Manpower and other private companies hoping to benefit from the break-up of Royal Mail are licking their lips in anticipation. Much is being made of the need for postal workers (both CWU members and the ununionised) to accept 'modernisation' in the interests of the Royal Mail business. CWU members have already seen at least 50,000 jobs go in recent years, whilst last year Royal Mail made an operating profit of some £321million, with top bosses raking in huge bonuses. Every worker, be they in the private or public sectors, knows that 'modernisation' means new technologies, new working practices, less staff, and of course more work, usually with no extra pay.... Full article.

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Last Friday a group of 'christianarchists' nexorcised several banks in Bristol involved in financial and climate crisis, the arms trade and the overall destruction of our planet and its inhabitants.

faithlessfull writes Last Friday a group of 'christianarchists' nexorcised several banks in Bristol involved in financial and climate crisis, the arms trade and the overall destruction of our planet and its inhabitants. This was the nexorcism read out as the banks were splashed with unholy water...

"Most cunning serpent, you shall no more dare to deceive the human race, persecute the people, torment the oppressed and sift them as jerky.

Anarchy wants all men and women to be free and come to the knowledge of truth.

Thus cursed dragon, and you, diabolical legions, we adjure you in the name of liberty, stop deceiving human creatures and pouring out to them the poison of eternal damnation, stop harming the world in hindering its liberation.

Begone, capitalism, inventor and master of all deceit, enemy of the people's salvation.

Give place to Anarchy in which you have found none of your works. May freedom be with thee and with thy spirit!

Priest: From the snares of Capitalism
All: deliver us, o anarchy!

Priest: That our economy may serve us in peace and liberty.
All: we beseech thee to hear us!

Priest: That thou may crush all the enemies of freedom
All: we beseech thee to hear us! Amen!"

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Eden Project under fire for greenwash collusion with EDF

Jim Duffy writes: Cornwall’s Eden Project is under sustained fire for supporting the French energy giant EDF Energy. EDF is promoting something called Team Green Britain Day, an annual event to promote a more sustainable lifestyle. The project is being promoted in association with the Eden Project to the surprise of environmentalists. EDF Energy is the largest producer of nuclear energy after the US and Canada and is determined to saddle the UK with more reactors under the cloak of low carbon energy whilst asking the Government to cut its renewables targets (1). What’s more, EDF Trading, which is based in London, advertises itself as “one of the largest participants in the global coal market.” ... “Hardly the stuff of sound environmental credentials,” Mike Rigby of anti-nuclear campaign group Stop Hinkley said, “It really is very rich for EDF, the biggest global corporate producer of nuclear waste and one of the worst carbon polluters in the world, to be lecturing the UK on how to save energy while demanding a reduction in UK wind power targets.” ... Full article.

| Eden Project support for EDF under fire | Related News/Links Regulator concerns over new reactor safety systems | Commission brought in over land donation and £2 m nuclear grant |www.stophinkley.org |

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A Critique of the New Cabot Circus Development & Banner Drop News

Further Updated! While Del Naja of Massive Attack critisied the development, ...how to spend 500 million pounds and bring the city to its knees- a star studded night of portable TV celebs, shopping debt repayment collectors and total auto gridlock.... (via Bristol Blogger) cabot writes: '50% Off Everything, Everywhere, Everyone' reads the voucher that was posted through the door today. Could Cabot Circus really be offering credit-crunched bristolians 50% off everything? On closer reading all is explained - "The advertised price of goods under UK law is only an offer - called an 'invitation to treat'. It is legal to negotiate. You may get better discounts if you talk to the manager as part of a large group offering to pay the same price."...Full article.

Updated! Crunch Cabot writes; CRUNCH CABOT CREDIT CIRCUS was emblazoned across the vile new complex’s advertising hoard in plain view of motorists arriving through the newly routed, soon to be congested, road system that snakes around the £500 million project that offers yet more sterile, soulless, capitalist consumerism. Full article.

Updated!The bristol-blogosphere has responded to the new development with a number of interesting posts around the subject and it's coverage; Evening Post Watch writes about Joined up journalism and Bread and Cabot Circuses, The Bristol Blogger notes the Nichols ripple trickle piffle and that BBC ain’t life brand? finally, the Green Bristol Blog observes the Cabot Cacophony.

George Nonbio writes; “Roll Up, Roll Up. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the unique and splendiferous; to the fantastic and extraordinary...the Cabot Circus Launch event! This will be a day of amazing performances, incredible music and a theatrical extravaganza” says the welcome message on the Cabot Circus home page. The Visit Bristol website reads "Having taken over three years to build and costing in excess of £500 million, Cabot Circus will provide city centre visitors with over 120 new shops, including 15 major flagship stores." What neither of these sites remember to mention is that around 40 of these so called "new" stores already exist in Bristol, many will simply be moving up the road leaving empty shells in Broadmead and yet more in the Galleries, as yet some of the spaces that will be created still have not been filled. Another issue conveniently neglected is that on the day of the grand opening one third of the new units in Cabot Circus will stand empty as branches will not have moved in and contracts still have not been signed. The city is simply over saturated; we already have at least one of each high street chain... Full article.

PS. Tickets are now avalible for the Bristol Indymedia Film Night; Who Killed Dr David Kelly? Event on; Monday 6th October 2008 8pm @ Cube Cinema, Stokes Croft, Bristol. Tickets are £4 + booking fee from the Here Shop, 103 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3RU. Thanks!

| Cabot Circus showing solidarity with hard up bristolians.. | Cabot Circus - wealth generator or consumer cult? | Screening of the zombie classic, Dawn of The Dead | CRUNCH the Cabot CREDIT Circus | Oh What a Circus | Gridlock today - Thanks to the Bristol Alliance (of the rich) | Other News: Autonomous peoples art against Tesco | CLOCKWORK still under threat of Demolition | Bristol North Bath Event - A Great Idea | Bristol Indymedia Film Night: Who Killed Dr David Kelly? |

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