A press release from Bristol International Airport, and a helpful translation. read full story / add a comment

I recently moved from Bristol to India. Looking back on my time in Bristol it is clear that, for all the bad press, a lot of people still had a sneaking suspicion that Western corporations are making some sort of contribution to improving the lot of people in the third world. Let me present a counter-example. read full story / add a comment

Persimmon has just given an artist from Redfield three hundred pounds as sponsorship for her exhibition of photos of the inside of the Elizabeth Shaw chocolate factory in Greenbank.

Is this cheap and easy way to persuade everyone that they are very very nice, or purchasing the rights to put their name all over her exhibition and implying that they are winning the fight to buy the factory site? read full story / add a comment

The "Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award" exhibition comes to Bristol Museum from 15th December to 13th January.

How can it be that the winner of the 2007 Goldman Environmental Prize (the highest honour awarded for protection of the environment) won that prize for resisting the environmental destruction being caused by the sponsor of the 2007 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award?

While wildlife suffers the effects of oil exploration, spills and climate change, Shell oil executives shmooze shamelessly at highbrow cocktail events at the Natural History Museum admiring the splendour of the nature they are destroying, all while reaping good greenwashed pr for the company... It’s so sick....

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How can Easton's most loved grocery store promote "Fairtrade" products when they fail to pay their own staff the minimum wage? Just imagine a world where the bosses of this shop had the mighty power of the supermarkets - you thought Tesco's were nasty capitalists, you haven't seen nothing!!!!

Next time youre in there, watch how they treat their staff and if you're feeling brave, ask one of the bosses if they are paying the minimum wage to ALL of their employees.

It's great to support local business, but only if they offer a better alternative than the corporations - not worse!! read full story / add a comment

Between 29 July and the 1 August 2007 Colombian and international organisations including people from Espacio Bristol-Colombia took part in an international solidarity mission to visit Casanare, one of the major oil rich regions in Colombia. There they visited communities to hear first hand accounts of the reality of living in a oil producing region and to offer their solidarity. read full story / add a comment

Support democracy, don't go to Total read full story / add a comment

Bristolians show their support for the community of Rossport in their struggle against Shell. read full story / add a comment

UWE boss leaving after "disquiet" over private contacts read full story / add a comment

A Public Inquiry has decided in favour of a community group read full story / add a comment

The Morning Star published a version of this article a couple of weeks ago. It describes the successful campaign against publishing house Reed-Elsevier's involvement in the arms trade. People involved in other similar campaigns may be interested to hear what methods were used - methods that ultimately lead to a successful conclusion. A number of Bristol people participated in the campaign. read full story / add a comment

Protestors are refusing to climb down from trees on the route of the controversial high pressure methane gas (LNG) pipeline in Wales after being given a 10 minute warning this morning by bailiffs to leave the site or face being arrested. read full story / add a comment

Five Bristol residents were charged on Monday 18th June with 2 charges relating to their occupation of BAE Systems in Filton, Bristol on Thursday 26th April this year. The group occupied an office in New Filton House, the Bristol HQ of the arms firm, for one and a half hours. Hanging a banner reading 'BAE Systems: Corruption and Destruction: Business as Usual' from the office, the group were drawing attention to the dropped Serious Fraud Office investigation into corruption with the Al-Yamamah deal with Saudi Arabia. read full story / add a comment

BAE and bribery – two linked words that seem to currently echo through the media. On google news its says there are 473 related articles to the story that will not die. read full story / add a comment

The Liberal Democrat MP for Bristol West, Stephen Williams, has decided to join the side of the record companies in his signing of an early day motion "COPYRIGHT TERM FOR PRODUCERS AND PERFORMERS". In this motion, he and the other signatories ask the government to ignore all the work done by the recent Gowers report on intellectual property, and extend the copyright on audio recordings to 70 years after the death of the musicians, rather than a straightforward 50 years. read full story / add a comment

Nestle is accused of violations of baby milk marketing codes/laws, complicity with trade union murders in Colombia and benefiting from a failure of action of child slavery in the coca trade - boycott 'em! read full story / add a comment

On Thursday 26th April 5 activists succeeded in occupying offices at BAE systems in Filton for one and a half hours, as part of a DIY Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and crimes of genocide investigation. The action caused
significant disruption to the workings of the death dealing company. read full story / add a comment

People from Espacio Bristol-Colombia and Bristol Rising Tide today picketed the Royal West of England Academy with a visual memorial of some of the people killed by the army and right-wing paramilitaries in the BP-controlled area of Colombia. The gallery is currently exhibiting the National Portrait Awards which are sponsored by BP.

The protestors stood silently in front of the gallery for two hours, holding copies of portraits from the exhibition with the faces removed, to signify the face that the faces of the murdered and disappeared are rarely seen. Public support and understanding was overwhelming, with people being visibly moved or angered to learn of BP’s activities. read full story / add a comment

Protestors have removed the faces from this years National Portrait Awards to draw attention to the sponsorship of this event by British Petroleum. read full story / add a comment

In this Wednesday’s (28th March)Computer Workshop at Kebele, we will be running a workshop on how to switch your pc to Linux. read full story / add a comment