I have walked for two days. Thousands of indigenous have been walking since Octboer 11th 2008. They are in ‘Minga’ and over the past 6 weeks more social organisations have joined in. The indigenous started from their ancestoral territories. I started from Soacha, a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Bogota where I glimpse the realities built by thousands of refugees who have struggled to arrive here with nothing but their lives.
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Why is the Residents Parking Scheme undergoing such serious consideration bearing in mind the long term plans to reduce traffic in the city? read full story / add a comment

The weekend just gone and the one before has seen a car crash of national organising meetings, for both climate action (Climate Camp National Gathering, Workers Climate Action) and migrant solidarity (No Borders). read full story / add a comment

It just seems to keep getting worse. As residents of Bristol continue to suffer the effects of rising traffic levels and shoddy transport choices on their environment, health, and quality of life, our political leaders are scared stiff of appearing to be anti-car. Their paralysis, borne out of fear of intervening in society’s petrol addiction in any meaningful way- is preventing them doing anything to actually solve the problem. Instead, like a drug addict, we increase the dose to get the same high- we widen roads and build new car parks, hoping that it will make us forget our problems. Temporarily relieved, we wake up the next morning feeling worse than ever. Politicians talk green, but their actions are digging us deeper into the gaping black hole of car dependence and climate catastrophe every day.

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Immigration has topped the list of factors most likely to influence how people will vote

Immigration biggest issue for voters despite credit crunch and global warming read full story / add a comment

I just got myself a ‘new’ old bike, well recycled actually, but I am scared shitless about mixing it again on the car-clogged streets of Bristol with all those fossil-fuel burning, oxygen consuming, atmosphere polluting climate-changing heavy lumps of metal driven by dangerously unthinking drivers! read full story / add a comment

Why is it that a private conversation that appears to have been illegally recorded result in a fun and bubbly presenter being sacked.

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Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run 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 weekend. 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), Tuesdays 9:00 PM. http://www.bcfm.org.uk/ read full story / add a comment

A proposal to ease traffic congestion at one of Bristol's notorious gridlock hotspots. read full story / add a comment

I'm poor, I can't afford a pc in my house 24hrs a day. I don't live near a library, or any other free internet service, i only live near an internet cafe which charges. I work on minimum wage, I don't have time or money left to buy a bike and cycle around bristol looking for free internet access. All I have time and money for is the internet cafe near me. I only have about 50 - £1 to spend each week. read full story / add a comment

Any bristolians going? read full story / add a comment

Britain's most controversial Muslim woman columnist deliers 2008 Arnolfini/Benn lecture Benn Lecture 2008: Thurs 23 Oct, 7pm, Arnolfini, Narrow Quay BS1 4QA read full story / add a comment

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run 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 weekend. 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), Tuesdays 9:00 PM. http://www.bcfm.org.uk/ read full story / add a comment

THE graphs climbing across these pages (see graph, right, or explore in more detail) are a stark reminder of the crisis facing our planet. Consumption of resources is rising rapidly, biodiversity is plummeting and just about every measure shows humans affecting Earth on a vast scale. Most of us accept the need for a more sustainable way to live, by reducing carbon emissions, developing renewable technology and increasing energy efficiency.
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At the end of last week following days of collapsing banks and tax-payer funded handouts to scrounging spivs, it seemed like suddenly everyone was an anti-capitalist. There were protests in Wall Street, the City and here in Bristol against tax-funded bail-outs to the likes of Bradford and Bingley. Amid the political confusion even the Tories found themselves having to act angry at greed of the City fat-cats in order to keep up with public anger.

So how did our local rag and tribune of the people react to events? They ran another puff piece for Bristol’s fattest fat-cat Peter Hargreaves and his grubby stockbroking outfit Hargreaves Lansdown. read full story / add a comment

October / November 2008 Bristol city is celebrating women in the media, and what a better way than focussing the lenses on the presentation, under presentation or misrepresentation of women in the media.
Between Oct 15th and Nov 15th Bristol Fawcett Group with Bristol Feminist Network invited those who are interested in the media and empowering women to collate and document experiences of the representation of women in all the media.
I feel really passionate about such issues, not on local scale only, but also on international level. I have been working on a parallel program in the Middle East. Of course how women are represented or misrepresented in the media is different from society to another, but still we are underrepresented and misrepresented all over the world in different degrees and in different ways. Funny enough this is the only thing different countries all over the world share and agree on. read full story / add a comment

Early in 2008 the BBC said that they were putting together a documentary on conspiracy theorists and conspiracy theories, including how the Twin Towers plus the third tower WTC7, which all came down so neatly, and in precisely the same way on the 11th of September, 2001.
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Capitalism is in crisis and we are not any closer to articulating what an alternative might look like. Here in Bristol we should be talking and thinking about alternative economic systems.

If we are heading towards a serious economic crisis then this is the moment when anarchists need to start demonstrating alternative ways of doing things.
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Just one week after the Post greeted the opening of Carboot Circus with the most ridiculous and uncritical hype they are today reporting the first closure of one of the luxury stores as the economic crisis begins to bite the retail sector. read full story / add a comment

Cabot Circus wont make our lives better, though mainstream media and politicians tell us it is a wonder to behold! Its basically more of what has brought us huge economic, social and environmental problems. Its focus is not needs or local people but high profit for a remote few. read full story / add a comment