Stalls and workshop spaces are filling up fast for this years Bristol anarchist bookfair, on 12 September at The Island, Bridewell St, Bristol BS1 2PY. read full story / add a comment

This morning the court granted Vestas PLC the possession order it sought for the factory where workers are currently in occupation fighting to save their jobs, and save the environment. There were suggestions about half an hour ago that bailiffs were already inside the building, which now seem to have been an attempt to demoralise the occupiers. However, this court decision means that the eviction is now imminent but the occupiers are not planning to give up. They now need all the support they can get. read full story / add a comment

On Tuesday 4th August, protesters descended on the Bristol Headquarters of the Environment Agency in Aztec West carrying windmills and banners to support the action of Vestas workers who have occupied the St Cross wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight for the last two weeks because of plans to close the site with the immediate loss of 600 jobs read full story / add a comment

The injunction to stop the Big Green Gathering cited the fact that the Big Green Gathering could not gain a Road Closure order in time for the event, despite the fact that the Highways Department had told the Big Green Gathering Chair, Brig Oubridge that it would be done. On Tuesday, 28th July, after the Big Green Gathering had been forced to cancel the event, a staff member found the Road Closure Order by a hedge on the Cheddar Road and subsequently another was found still pinned to a gatepost. Other signs appeared to have been taken down and evidence of the silver tape was still in place read full story / add a comment

Coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy is destroying the planets livability and therefore the last forty-five years of ecological green revolution has brought into being the high and low tech tools to put in place wind, tidal, and solar power that transforms to electricity and is more power than society can use. No more blackouts. This non-pollution solution provides work for all and forever more. Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars, not endless wars for more pollution. Coal itself is a dirty fossil fuel in that it burns out the atmospheres' oxygen and leaves carbon dioxide, and we cannot live on carbon-dioxide. The bosses of coal however, have created a fraud called 'clean coal' to green wash the genocidal features of burning coal. Solar is the path to liberation and will free the miners from dying early from blacklung read full story / add a comment

Around 40 people met at 48 hours notice on Friday 31st July at the Bristol Temple Meads Railway Club to hear what the visiting Vestas worker had to say. A broad coalition was formed that discussed the issues and quickly found concensus on some actions to show support and solidarity with the Vestas occupiers. read full story / add a comment

This evening I went for a run, part of my run includes running behind the old Blackberry Hill hospital site where there is a flat open space which is mowed regularly and seemly many people use for recreational activities such as walking, jogging, playing games etc. The Homes and Communities Agency have put up numerous signs (which have substantial metal poles and are very well put up) saying that the area is Private Property and warning people to stick to footpaths (which are completely invisible, it is an open field)
Why?
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A worker from the Vestas factory in Newport on the the Isle of Wight will be coming
to Bristol this Friday July 31 to give a first hand and up to date account of the
occupation and their fight to keep the plant open and save 600 jobs and the
production of the wind turbine blades. read full story / add a comment

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Vote is to strike: CWU Official David Wilshire said “this is further proof that our members have rejected Royal Mails plans” David went on to say “Royal Mail claim this is about modernisation but in reality there is nothing modern about cutting jobs”. read full story / add a comment

Press reports state that eight workers at Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset had to receive radiation decontamination treatment last week following an incident. read full story / add a comment

Following a message to the Big Green Gathering Facebook group members that as well as mentioning the closure of the Big Green also highlighted the suspician that the shutting down of the event had been a political move on the part of the police, under instructions from higher up the command chain, people then went to the Avon & Somerset Constabulary Facebook group page to complain, and the BGG group was subsequently shut down by Facebook. read full story / add a comment

A motley crew of disaffected workers from various sectors, plus some self-employed and unemployed comrades, gathered in East Bristol last Friday night. Their aim – the formation of a Bristol branch of the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies as commonly known. read full story / add a comment

VESTAS WORKERS AND “GREEN JOBS” CAMPAIGNERS HECTOR MILIBAND IN OXFORD read full story / add a comment

BNP fuhrer Nick Griffin claims he was assaulted after a pint of beer was thrown over him outside a pub in Gloucestershire read full story / add a comment

For reference, the section of the Commons Act 2006 which permits BCC to voluntarily register their own land as Town Green is ...

Section 15(8) - The owner of any land may apply to the commons registration authority to register the land as a town or village green.

BCC as owner can therefore simply apply to itself as Registration Authority to register the land. Alternatively, by withdrawing its own objection, it can permit the land to be registered as a town green.

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SchNEWS delves into the machinations of the Avon & Somerset Police and Mendips Council campaign which closed down the Big Green Gathering. This article appears in the revised edition of SchNEWS issue 685... read full story / add a comment

A Bristolian's account of taking part in an international mission of verification about biofuels in Colombia 1st-11th July 2009 - a week in Valle de Cauca and the north of Cauca where sugar cane is grown extensively and processed into ethanol for use as a biofuel. read full story / add a comment

The Big Green Gathering 2009, which was due to be held on Fernhill Farm from Wednesday 29th until Sunday 2nd has been today officially canceled after the directors decided to hand the licence for the event back to Mendip District Council, after they were threatened with the prospect of a High Court injunction being issued against the directors and owner of Fernhill Farm this coming Monday 27th. The licence was handed back to the directors on the legal advice that the Big Green would not have a chance of winning the High Court hearing.
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