Westside, Bristol Rising Tide and other activists, have been talking about the idea of holding a convergence/uprising/gathering in the city. This is an invitation to come and join us to plan and organise – meeting at Kebele, Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol on Monday March 2nd at 7.30 pm read full story / add a comment

NO2ID News No. 116

5 February 2009 read full story / add a comment

It is sad to report that Thursday 12 February is the last edition of
the Weston & Worle News, which won the Free Newspaper of the Year
title at last year's EDF Energy South West Media Awards. read full story / add a comment

He's a story that will run and run - the Seven Barrage - potentially the source of lots of power but also the home of lots of wildlife. To dam or not to dam (and where and how) - that is the question. read full story / add a comment

Following Saturday's sucessful demonstration in Bristol City Centre campaigners for Palestine (and increasingly Lebanon, Syria and Iran), are invited to join the forth-coming protest at Carmel-Agrexco, Middlesex.

Plus - should you wish to buy your beloved flowers on Valentines Day - Check they weren't grown in Israel...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421346.html?c=on...15154 read full story / add a comment

NATIONAL SQUAT MEET 2009 to be held in the Bristol Area, in March. Come get involved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! read full story / add a comment

NO2ID has been warning since 2006/7 about the stated intentions of government "to overcome current barriers to information sharing within the public sector" [1]. Now the Ministry of Justice has launched an extraordinary coup. It is about to convert the Data Protection Act into its exact opposite, a means for any government department to obtain and use any information however it likes. read full story / add a comment

Bristol Link with Nicaragua and Bristol Action for Southern Africa are organising a contribution to International Womens Day with speakers, films, music and food. Sunday 8 March 12pm to 4pm at the Colston Hall bar. Tickets only £6 including food. read full story / add a comment

Its at the bottom of Park Row, just before the bus station read full story / add a comment

The London Palestine demo, which became directed against the BBC read full story / add a comment

Images on the related link below are reason enough to smash up a weapons factory.
Yet the more I learn about this conflict the more discussed and angry I become.
It appears that the bastard president of Israel has vowed to protect his troops from charges of war crimes.
The shear number of CHILDREN either SHOT dead or wounded by small arms fire is staggering!
This is why a small bunch of Bristolians and Brighton residents decided that no longer could they stand by
and let international law be flotued, human rights abused and peoples suffering continue unnoticed. read full story / add a comment

A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail about the Bristol Cycle Expressway, a proposed cycle path that could connect large areas of north Bristol directly to the Bristol and Bath Railway Path:

Josh,

Be good to stay in the loop on this – as an interested cyclist who has two kids having to cross the Gloucester Rd on the way to / from school each day…. Thought of a cycle path alongside the Severn Beach line occurred to me a few years ago and I corresponded with Sustrans but they couldn’t be bothered thinking about anything other than reasons not to do it.

Thanks,

C

C’s e-mail got me wondering—how many times has someone with a good idea for a new cycle path contacted Sustrans and received this kind of response? How many perfectly good ideas have been thrown in the bin because of a bureaucratic lack of vision from those tasked with keeping that vision whole? How many opportunities have been lost and positive energy squandered? I wonder….

This e-mail was received the same week as it was revealed by a Bristol councillor that an investigation is underway into Sustrans’ cozy relationship with the city, specifically their employees being seconded to the City Council for the Cycling City project, and exclusion of other charities and firms to win contracts from the £11.4 million budget. Frankly, it’s too much to keep a lid on, and I felt like On the Level cannot ignore this issue any longer.

Because of these dispiriting experiences with Sustrans, I began to do some research into the organisation, speaking with former and current employees, co-founders, and doing research on the internet. Bear with me while I shatter some of your illusions about the UK’s “leading sustainable transport charity”…. read full story / add a comment

Another Indymedia server has been seized in the UK - some readers may remember a similar incident in Bristol a few years back - in this article the full details of the current seizure of related from the press release and the older Bristol seizure, for context, is related (at the end). Thanks. read full story / add a comment

The Autonomous Students Network (ASN) was founded at the October 2008 London Anarchist Bookfair at a meeting organised by London Autonomous Students Network (LASN). read full story / add a comment

A Sedgemoor District Council officer made a secret request for three-quarters of a million pounds from two nuclear companies to help with planning issues for Hinkley C, raising questions of conflict of interest and triggering a row with neighbouring West Somerset District Councillors. read full story / add a comment

Low Pay, Low Status and Low Morale - and all rubber-stamped by Nu Labour read full story / add a comment

The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. In contrast with the yearly EF! Summer Gathering, which is held outside for around five days, the winter moot is a shorter weekend meeting, inside, less aimed at skill sharing and more at looking where we are at as movement and where we want to be going. read full story / add a comment

The absence of ongoing global warming over the past decade and pronounced global cooling of the past year cannot credibly be dismissed as simple local variability in weather. It is clearly global and contrary to all predictions of carbon dioxide governed global warming.

The media are beginning to find news value in anthropogenic global warming doubts and the costs of ill-conceived countermeasures. Skeptical scientific opinions are increasingly being heard and conflicting new evidence appearing.

The alarmists have gone too far out on a very long limb for any retreat. A cooling trend in climate would be disastrous for the whole anthropogenic global warming ideology and result in a catastrophic loss of credibility for a large sector of the scientific community. The escalating fears they express appear to be based not so much on any important new evidence as on their own increasingly desperate hopes. read full story / add a comment

South West Watch - keeping a beady eye on the great and the so-called good in the South West. A news view for 2009 with bells on! Looking back to 2008 to ask - where are the plans for Dove Lane and Bristol Airport? read full story / add a comment

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