"Terror probe police release group Police officer with evidence Investigating officers removed items from a city centre address All five members of a group arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot have been released without charge"

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I have to make a very serious complaint over the new "anti terrorist" poster campaigns in Bristol.
They are of the worst taste and decency possible, and the fact that they were allowed to be put up is a disgrace.
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But on whose terms? will it be a meaningful socially useful work? Or just more of the same - but even more intense, more insecure and more pressured than before. Now, at the beginning of a recession, may be the ideal time to rethink "work".

Nowtopia is a book about a new politics of work. It profiles tinkerers, inventors, and improvisational spirits who bring an artistic approach to important tasks that are ignored or undervalued by market society. Rooted in practices that have been emerging over the past few decades, Nowtopia’s exploration of work locates an important thread of self-emancipatory class politics beyond the traditional arena of wage-labor read full story / add a comment

On Saturday 28th March 2009, the first of the series of G20 protest/actions happened in London. Keen to begin the Summer of Rage as early as possible, many people travelled from Bristol, the rest of the UK and all over Europe to attend. The march brought out 35,000 (police estimate) and was described by the BBC and The Independent as peaceful, and it was, but a major point has been missed... read full story / add a comment

I am the Green Party office manager, I am normally in the Green Party Office from 10am until 5pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday. What I wish to know is; why aren't you voting? read full story / add a comment

I have discovered that if I am cycling away from the city center and traveling up Stokes Croft the temporary traffic lights to bypass the road works do not give me enough time to clear the road works if they change shortly after I have crossed them.

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Sea rise 'to exceed projections' ......................... and what exactly does the word 'stupid' mean?

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Just looked out of my window and saw the light looking amazing so managed to get a few shots off before it went. read full story / add a comment

Been at recent demonstrations with police present then the likelihood is that you are on the CrimInt database. The government is further eroding our civil liberties by producing databases that include footage of people at demonstrations and they are retaining this information in order to build up a picture of all the events you have been at, even if you have not been involved in any illegal activities you are still on this database. Also this week the Information Commissioner has revealed that building companies were vetting employees through information covertly gathered from a private detective on trade union activiites and conduct at work. read full story / add a comment

Kerry McCarthy Labour MP for Bristol East publishes an article on her blog about privatisation of the Post Office. read full story / add a comment

Mandelson, Labour's most neo-liberal minister says to keep the Royal Mail public, it must be (partially) privatised (!). He today also accused the unions of "fighting an ideological battle" - now, remember everyone, we all decided ages ago capitalism is great. read full story / add a comment

We were told we were getting flying cars!

Forget that, welcome to the vegetarian dystopia.. How will this affect how we prepare for the future here in Bristol?

How can Bristol anarchists and activsts help to shape the new food, transport, and energy systems?

Well check out the recent farm for the future program on iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hs8zp/Natural_W...ture/

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The news today: BMW, owners of the Mini factory in Cowley, Oxford, dismiss 800+ agency workers at the end of their shift. With no notice, no redundancy, even though some have been there upto 5 years. Another 150 workers at their Swindon plant face the chop too (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7891913.stm) . Meanwhile, the Co-op is taking over Somerfields, and promises to close within a year the Somerfields head office in Bristol, with the loss to Bristol of upto 750 jobs (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7892625.stm). read full story / add a comment

BP + car + Hit and run + TV documentary + Climate Destabilisation under-estimated = headache! read full story / add a comment

This is how they name and shame shabby employers in New York - how about a similar thing here?

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Their once was a time when Bristol indymedia proudly boasted that it was higher up the google rankings than state/corporate outlets.

http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24583
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There are the biggest wildcat strikes going on for years in the UK at the moment. read full story / add a comment

Spotted near Temple Meads read full story / add a comment

If you live in Bristol you probably live less than 20 miles from Oldbury nuclear power station.

How safe is that?

"Studies we commissioned in 2001 showed an eleven-fold increase in leukaemia in nearby Chepstow, fifty percent extra breast cancers downstream of Oldbury and 37.5 percent extra prostate cancers downwind of the plant."
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For years now Trago Mills have been running racist articles in local newspapers. Here’s their latest, from the Falmouth Packet: read full story / add a comment