UK Indymedia | West Country Culture Newswire Archive

A jaunt out to another 'Managed Access' to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, at the permission [and conditions] of English Heritage. I had a nice time, met old friends and some wierd and wonderful people, doing wierd and wonderful things. BUT .... it is not as I would have it. I still sadly miss the festival that was / should be there. Read more >>

A jaunt out to another 'Managed Access' to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, at the permission [and conditions] of English Heritage. I had a nice time, met old friends and some wierd and wonderful people, doing wierd and wonderful things. BUT .... it is not as I would have it. I still sadly miss the festival that was / should be there. Read more | 2 comments >>

some more pics of stonehenge
Read more | 3 comments >>

A radical new 'easy-read' report, 'Better Streets for Stroud District' is just out. It looks at new ways of looking at road danger reduction and although written about Gloucestershire, it is applicable to anywhere. Read more >>

Pictures of Saturday's inaugural Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.
Read more | 1 comment >>

June 1st was the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, a notoriously brutal one-sided confrontation between 450 unarmed travellers - including many women and children - and a quasi-military police force of over 1,300 police and MoD. Read more >>

Roll up, roll up…it’s your only non-corporate, non-state funded, non-consumerist, environmentally-friendly (no generators, no sound systems – just the sound of you!), DIY indy mini-festie in Bristol this spring…this Saturday, 4 June, 12 noon, on reclaimed College Green, central Bristol. So do your sun-dance now! Read more >>

Travellers come from many backgrounds. But similarities far outweigh differnces, in peoples expectations on what they want out of life. Recently, politics has come crashing through the door, and trampled their boots, all over the usual suspects of , travellers, asylum seekers, migrants, and the rest .......! Read more | 3 comments >>

Anniversary of the 'Battle of the Beanfield' 1st June 1985
It's 20 years, since the major trashing of my community, travelling on the way the make the "Peoples Free Festival of Albion" at Stonehenge. It was a regular event on the calender. Read more | 1 comment >>

Anniversary of the 'Battle of the Beanfield' 1st June 1985
It's 20 years, since the major trashing of my community, travelling on the way the make the "Peoples Free Festival of Albion" at Stonehenge. It was a regular event on the calender. Read more | 10 comments >>

After a fun day info gathering, skills sharing, ideas exchanging & action planning at the Info4Action event at the Malcolm X Centre, what more could you ask for than a good night out drinking and dancing..? Read more | 1 comment >>

As part of the campaign to save Bristol's open spaces from private development, a community fun day is being held at PACKERS FIELD, WHITEHALL on Easter Monday. Support the Packers campaign for Town Green status, and show that leisure can be self-organised, fun and free. Join us from 12 - 5pm. Read more >>

As the Bath Spa stumbles from disaster, to handout, to rip off, to begging bowl...to the next disaster, there is one institution in Bath to be proud of. The monthly Leftism club night - third Friday of the month, every month, with a few specials thrown in. Read more >>

Triumph of the common man for once when time and again things and project are done in his name but in fact it is exploitation similar to the slave trade,We ask how can we justify projects such as the millenium art centre for cardiff at £105 million when the Sikhs in London have shown that you can build a Gurudwara of magnificance for £20million. Read more >>

This is a short review of the play “The Truth about Hoggett and Webb”, which was performed at the Arts Centre in Swindon on Wednesday 9th February 2005. The play compresses the story of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the aftermath into a single day in the office of two civil service bureaucrats, who produce dossiers and reports to support Blair’s case for war. It does an excellent job of unravelling the lies which led us into war, making use of quotes from real dossiers and reports, and in the humble opinion of this reviewer, it should be performed and shown as widely as possible. Read more | 2 comments >>

Here it is again. The Bristolian, Bristol's little paper with the big impact.
This fortnight - Herr Harry's Coup D'Etat, Daily Mail Nazis, The lovely Imperial Tobbacco, MP Corston resigns, Cultural fat cat cashing in, More bullshit from RDA, Winston in Bristol: THE TRUTH...
plus much, much, much more... FREE DOWNLOAD

Read more >>

West Country Culture Newswire Archive

Stonehenge - Summer Solstice 2005 :: Pictures 2 After dawn

Stonehenge - Summer Solstice 2005 :: Pictures 1 Before dawn

more stonehenge pictures from summer solstice 05

Radical new appraoch to rad danger reduction

Pix of Wychwood Festival -- Architecture-Hands On, Sat 04 Jun 05 - Set 1 of 6

Pix of Wychwood Festival -- Hands On-Kites, Sat 04 Jun 05 - Set 2 of 6

Pix of Wychwood Festival -- Kites-Music, Sat 04 Jun 05 - Set 3 of 6

Pix of Wychwood Festival -- People-Shops, Sat 04 Jun 05 - Set 4 of 6

Pix of Wychwood Festival -- Shops-Stalls, Sat 04 Jun 05 - Set 5 of 6

Battle of the Beanfield - 20 Years on :: SchNews500

Bristol - Grr8 picnic/funday - 4 June

The Travellers Situation

Anniversary of the 'Battle of the Beanfield': 'Operation Solstice'

Anniversary of the 'Battle of the Beanfield': an exhibition 'Operation Solstice'

Bristol - Resist the G8 Benefit Party

Never Mind the Academy, Here's the Packers Field Fun Day!

Keep left in Bath

Humanity

The Truth about Hoggett and Webb – review

Royal Nazis Hit New Low

Publish

Publish your news

Kollektives

West Country Topics

West Country Actions 2007

West Country Actions 2006

West Country Actions 2005

West Country Actions 2004

West Country Actions 2003

Languages

Search

West Country links

IMCs

Page 2 of 3

3 | 2 | 1