On Sunday 22nd November a Bristol-based group unveiled a 44 ton articulated truck for a convoy to Gaza this winter. This truck has been decorated with Banksy-style murals and the much-loved Bristol characters - Wallace & Gromit. The convoy will travel 5,000 miles across Europe carrying badly needed medical and humanitarian aid. Also included are drivers & skilled professionals. read full story / add a comment

Mast Sanity was set up in January 2002 and has helped thousands of campaigns since then. The organisation was founded by Lisa Oldham, and other long term mast campaigners, who saw that the mobile phone operators were gaining substantial power and rolling out a network at alarming speed that had serious and widespread health and environmental implications, and their was little help available to communities fighting both the multinationals and the chaotic planning system. read full story / add a comment

On 13th November Bristol Indymedia and Trapese collective filmed an interview with Crisitian Dominguez on his views of the COP15 summit and what his country Bolivia was hoping to achieve at the coinference. As well talking about this he also discussed his support for the people going to Copenhagen to support their demands coming from the global south. Find out what he had to say on the Bliptv Bristol Indymedia channel link below. read full story / add a comment

easy to call yourselves anarchists , when hanging -out with the easton in-crowd, wearing rags in the ghetto, the comfort zone will smother you! read full story / add a comment

On 1st December PLATFORM's Agitpod mobile cinema will set off on it's return journey from Bristol to London, why not join us? read full story / add a comment

Freemasons Hall Open Day - Saturday read full story / add a comment

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting podcast produced by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every week.
Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733.
Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Saturdays between 9-10 pm http://www.bcfm.org.uk/ read full story / add a comment

Students from Bristol set up a free shop in the heard of Broadmead, Saturday 28th November 2009 to celebrate "Buy Nothing Day" ! The aim of this event is to raise awareness about the dangers of mass consumerism, and encourage to "buy local" ! Join us from 11 am !

Please come along, bring anything you don't need instead of throwing it away, it will be a treasure for someone else !
Books, clothes, food, contribute with anything you like to the fun and generosity of the day ! read full story / add a comment

We are squatters from the Netherlands. We are asking you to organize a protest (for example by dutch embassy) in your country against squatting prohibition in the Netherlands. We suggest to organize your protests between 26 and 28 of November, because Eerste Kamer (First Chamber of dutch parliament) will vote about squatting prohibition beginnig of December.

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"Surveillance cameras clearly present a serious threat to privacy and civil liberties and the alleged trade-offs of safety or security are unproven and vastly outweighed by the risk of creating a police state." read full story / add a comment

10 months ago, on 18 January 2009, Elijah Smith A former British Soldier was arrested in Brighton. He had spent the previous night decommissioning the EDO/MBM/ITT factory in Brighton, in an attempt to stop it providing parts for weapons being used by the Israeli army to bomb civilians in Gaza. Nobody was injured or harassed during their action, which was one of property damage. He and his co-defendants did not resist arrest.
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Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is undergoing trial on charges of murder and attempted murder after an encounter with a gang of 16 far-right football hooligans. We are asking for a fair trial. read full story / add a comment

Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is undergoing trial on charges of murder and attempted murder after an encounter with a gang of 16 far-right football hooligans. read full story / add a comment

C Words is moving out of Arnolfini! Join us and let your hair down with a night of performance poetry, live acoustic music, bands, open mic, and dj blackrainbow, all in support of Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign. (Final day of exhibition 29 Nov) read full story / add a comment

Just a quick heads-up for the latest uploads to the Bristol Trade Union Forum website - http://bristolforum.wordpress.com/ read full story / add a comment

Is there anything organised in Bristol to mark this sad occasion? read full story / add a comment

Come and enjoy a delicious dinner at Kebele, followed by cake and some short animal liberation films. read full story / add a comment

This weekend, the Black Cat will play host to loads of great stuff, from a benefit gig on the friday night, to a day of workshops and activities on the saturday. Here's the timetable - read full story / add a comment

Two leading academics introduce an Oscar-winning film about the lives of women. Antonia’s Line won Best Foreign Language Film in 1996 – and forms the centre-piece of an evening of drama and debate on Sunday 29th November. Independence and solidarity are the twin poles of this thought-provoking Film Night at the Pierian Centre. read full story / add a comment

Tonight at Arnolfini Reading Room at 6pm, 57minutes, Free
"A powerful and elegant document, beautifully done." Howard Zinn, historian
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