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BRISTOL TAA 2009 is nearly finished. Get on down quick!! The address is:
The Bell Hotel, 112 Bell Hill Road, Bristol, BS5 7NF. Here is the map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=BS5+7NF&oe=utf-8&rls=or...gEwAA

SATURDAY: OPEN ALL DAY with JUNK FASHION SHOW at night
SUNDAY: CLEAR UP all hands on deck to get it tidy! read full story / add a comment

As the anti-fascist supporters storm the BBC the fight come to the West this weekend. read full story / add a comment

Fundraising gig for Alphonse Daudet Touna read full story / add a comment

The other Monday I was at Easton Community Centre. I’d popped in to use their computers. While I was there I noticed a load of people milling around the outside in white paper suits. I could see this was no protest against GM crops being planted in the hanging baskets. So what was going on? Had someone been murdered and this lot were from the local constabulary – forensics – gathering evidence and checking out the scene of a crime?
Obviously not. Cause I’d been allowed to wonder in.
It turned out they were there to do voluntary work. It seems they did a bit of painting and planted some heather. How twee!
Anyway the computers were down so I had to move on. I went to St.Werberghs Community Centre.
Low and behold there were this strange group of yuppie looking executive types in white paper overalls again. I could tell they weren’t on community service for some alleged misdemeanour, they weren’t smoking enough. Anyway they just oozed of office workers/do-gooders.

It was abit strange cause they kept themselves to themselves, not interacting with anybody, just planting heather, picking up litter and white-washing the walls.

Bearing in mind these Community Centres have a great deal of use from the refugee communities in the area: refugees who are often displaced due to Britain’s foreign policies .i.e fucking wars. I was hugely upset to discoverer that these groups where from BAe fucking systems. Just so there is no mistake BAe systems are not only MASSIVELY corrupt but they are one of the world’s biggest arms dealers. Since they are so big they rely on constant wars for their very survival. The very wars that displace people turning them into refugees overnight.
What the FUCK is going on?

It would appear that those bastards from BAe claimed they were on a team building day at Community Centres in deprived areas all over Bristol.
What you and I might regard as a good skive and an early finish followed by a fast adjournment to the pub.
I personally believe this exercise was to ease their collective corporate guilt.
Well I say don’t bother. I never saw any of the white paper suited brigade inter-react with anybody other than a manager when asking where the nearest B&Q was to buy some paint brushes. (They couldn’t shop in the local hardware shop cause they’d only brought a credit card).

When I enquired at Barton Hill Settlement if they’d had requests from BAe for such ‘team building’ days, I was told that scum [my interpretation] like that wouldn’t be allowed on the premises. ‘Good for you,’ I say.

This bit is for BAe – Stop making weapons that kill and maim children, women and men.

Plus FUCK OFF and DON’T COME BACK. BASTARDS.
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Audio from Cube Event on 5th Oct 2009. read full story / add a comment

Free afternoon of making things In 35 Classics

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Bristol anti cctv and surveillance group
second encounter.

"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."
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The location has been revealed for Bristol Temporary Autonomous Art 2009.
The address is:
The Bell Hotel
112 Bell Hill Road
Bristol
BS5 7NF

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“TEACHING has changed so much over the years,” are the opening words from Paul Reid, a 39 year old from Perry Barr, when you ask him what he thinks of his new career.

“I really struggled when I was at school. It was differrent back then and admitting you had a problem understanding something wasn’t easy.’”

Paul was a car mechanic for 15 years before suffering from arthiritis and decided to change career.

“I loved mechanics so much that I decided that I wanted to teach others how to do it,” he explained.

Paul enrolled on a City and Guilds Further Education Teaching Course at Josiah Mason College in order to acquire the necessary skills and gain a teaching qualification.

Paul decided to go all the way and since completing his course he has progressed on to a Certificate in Education, a university qualification delivered at JMC in partnership with University College Worcester, which will make him a fully qualified full time teacher.

Shortly after embarking on this journey, he was offered a job as a mechanics tutor at Greensprings Training.

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Here is another update from the Brooks Planning Group. We are always happy for more people to join in the tasks of the Group. Call Judy on 07908 219834 or email saintwerburghs at gmail.com read full story / add a comment

For the second time the BNP membership list has been leaked online. Last time BNP fuhrer Nick Griffin tried to blame it on left-wing hackers - but it turned out to have been leaked by an angry former BNP member. read full story / add a comment

There’s now a great way for dyslexic people to communicate using video email.

I came across some great technology called helloWorld that can be used to:

* Send and receive Audio and Video Emails
* Create Personalised Email Templates
* Broadcasts Live on the Internet
* Store and Manage all of Your Media Online
* Create Video Play Lists for Your Website
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Panorama tonight about Bristol's racist housing estate.

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tonights panorama (8.30pm - bbc) documents two undercover reporters experiences of 8 weeks living on an estate in southmead.... read full story / add a comment

The October/November issue of the Hereford Heckler (bulletin of the Hereford Solidarity League) is out now... read full story / add a comment

Local campaign group HowZat? has criticised Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (GCCC) for pushing ahead with proposals to carry out a massive redevelopment of its ground and not listening to the concerns of people living in the surrounding residential area.

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This has been a busy week of frantic cleaning and general preperation at the Bath social cetre, the place is looking amazing, and we are starting to open our doors to the public. It is a massive, amazing space with loads of potential and we have a few updates for y'all -
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Join Eric Mutch for an evening of Fooling, and learn better communication skills for better relationships. Here is what Eric has to say about it - "By giving absolute permission to be just as you are, the demon of shame is defeated therefore leading to increased self confidence, better communication skills and freedom." Fooling gives you this permission.

For more of what Fooling is about, check out Eric's project -

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This October, in a bid to stir up racial tension and increase religious intolerance, a group calling itself the ‘English Defence League‘ (EDL) intend to hold two protests in south Wales with a “march against muslim extremists” in Swansea on Saturday 17th October and an ‘anti-mosque demo’ in Newport THIS Saturday 24th October. read full story / add a comment