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Unchosen Bristol Film Festival - final night
24-08-2010 10:22
Raising awareness of human traffickingTuesday 9th November 7.30pm Hall 2, Colston Hall Tickets £2
CARGO – live musical with animation
DIrected by Unchosen Patron Paul Field
CARGO tells the story of the appalling struggles of African slaves and the Abolitionists’ fight to end the slave trade 200 years ago. The musical exposes that it’s still in existence today, here in the UK. It aims to show how in the past and the present ordinary people can make a difference.
Introduced by Nick Kinsella,
European Human Trafficking Consultant
Post-film talk & Q&A’s by:
Director/Composer Paul Field
Queeruption Manchester 2010
24-08-2010 09:25
QUEERUPTION is a free DIY radical queer gathering that has so far happened in London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Tel-Aviv, Sydney, Barcelona, Vancouver and Amsterdam. Every Queeruption is a little different from the last one, shaped by the people who plan it, the community that makes it happen, and the possibilities of each new location.
In some of its previous incarnations, QUEERUPTION has been dubbed a radical queer encuentro (New York, 1999), an explosion of sex and politics (London, 2002), and a great queer camping trip (Berlin, 2003).
Past QUEERUPTIONS have included shared vegan meals, political discussions, direct actions, skill-shares, workshops, bands, spoken word, dressup and cabaret, dance parties, bands, film screenings, radical sex, spontaneous haircuts, and more.
The first Queeruption happened in the spring of 1998, when about a hundred queers spent a weekend together in a squatted building in South London. The goal of the organizers was to make a politically inspiring and educational gathering that was open to all, and was about us all taking initiative, creating and participating, instead of just consuming a lifestyle sold to us.
Since then, Queeruption gatherings have happened in New York, San Francisco, London again, Berlin and Amsterdam. In London, Berlin, and Amsterdam, Queeruption took place in a single location where everyone who wanted to could live together communally. In Amsterdam, Queeruption was held at the old Afrika and De Zwijger House squat. In San Francisco and New York, the gathering was spread throughout the city space, with events, meals and accomodation in different locations. In London it was possible to squat a building, use it for one week, and then exit, leaving it once again an anonymous, unused space.
In New York and San Francisco, queeruptors were welcomed into a variety of venues, including warehouse collectives, clubs, art galleries, infoshops, an alternative college campus and individual homes. In Berlin, the political crackdown on squatting made it impossible to house everyone together centrally, so the gathering was held outside of the city on squatted land.
While some gatherings have been more communal and others more spread out, some held in the city and others rurally, the overall effect is one of building radical queer community both within the local scene and internationally. Ongoing discussions within the community include\topics of race, class, and cultural exclusivity, ablism, gender binarism/transphobia, and the reproduction of oppresive sexual norms within radical communities. These topics are of central concern to many of us in our personal lives as well as in the political sphere and they also come up within the context of Queeruption itself. As a community, in an evolving way, we are grappling with these issues.
QUEERUPTORS are active and support each other in a wide variety of political projects, including Black laundry (queers against the Israeli occupation), Gayten-LGBT (queer safety, visibility, and solidarity in Serbia), Anarchist People of Color (building a revolutionary anarchist people of color movement), Queer Mutiny and Gay Shame (creating queer alternatives to political apathy and cultural consumerism), Indymedia (international, community-based alternative media), Paper Tiger TV (challenging and exposing corporate control of mainstream media), Women on Waves (providing safe, legal abortions in countries where it's illegal), PISSR (trans rights campaign to legalize unisex public bathrooms), the Noborder Network (opposing border fascism in the EU), Disarm DSEI (protesting Europe's largest annual arms fair), and numerous campaigns against the propagation of state terrorism, economic globalization and wars without end.
Unchosen Bristol Film Festival
24-08-2010 09:22
Raising awareness of human traffickingOpening night - Tuesday 19th October 7.30pm Hall2, Colston Hall
‘Paths of Pain’ UK PREMIERE
The Paths of Pain are populated by men and women of all ages, suffering from lack of affection, lack of money, mental problems, alcoholism and drug addiction, or they are simply people who have come to a new country in search of a life that is a little better.
Introduced by June Burrough, Founder of The Pierian Centre, Bristol. Lead on 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
Pre-film performance: Mimi (La Boheme)
sung by soprano Heather Keens
Post-film talk & Q&A’s by:
Portuguese Director Rui Simoes
With Interpreter
Stop a new Opencast Mine Application
24-08-2010 07:24
The Minorca Opencast Protest Group is today launching a Public Appeal for people to object to UK coal's plans for an Opencast Mine on the Minorca site as our PR 73 " A Public Appeal for help to stop a new Opencast Mine Application from succeeding in The Heart of Englsnd" on Climate Change and Environmental grounds explains.
MOPG PR 73) 24/8/10
A PULIC APPEAL FOR HELP TO STOP A NEW OPENCAST MINE APPLICATION FROM SUCCEEDING IN THE HEART OF ENGLAND
Local people in Leicestershire have been battling for nearly two years now against plans by UK Coal plc for an opencast mine on the Minorca Site between Measham and Snarestone. UK Coal plan to extract 1.25m tonnes of coal and 250,000 tonnes of fire clay from a site which is in the Heart of the National Forest. The Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) was successful during the first round of consultations in getting all the local representative bodies to oppose the application. Then it seemed there was a united wall of opposition to the proposal. Now with the second round of consultations underway, the situation has changed.
UK Coal plc has now offered to help restore part of the Ashby Canal. This has encouraged the creation of a group which advocates the development of the opencast mine solely because of the alleged benefit restoring a small section of the Ashby Canal will bring locally. In addition, MOPG understands that other canal associated groups are now writing to Leicestershire County Council voicing their support for the proposed surface mine. MOPG is aware that this ‘canal lobby’ can be persuasive and creditable, having worked hard to revive the UK canal system through voluntary work and effort over the last 50 years. There are now over 30,000 registered boat users on Britain’s canals and this interest and love of canals supports three commercial magazines. Potentially quite a lobbying force!!
But their view that their interest in seeing part of a canal restored should override the interest of all other parties is misguided. MOPG is quite capable of mounting its own objections on how this application affects local people. What we are now encouraging people and organisations to do is to voice their criticisms about this proposal to Leicestershire County Council on Climate Change and Environmental grounds, matters which affect everybody and on which anybody can register a protest. MOPG appeals to all persons concerned with the issue of Climate Change and the potential damage to both the countryside and to a Special Area of Conservation, as seen on The Country file Programme broadcast on BBC 1 on August 15th 2010, to protest to the fact that, if permission was given to UK Coal to mine the 1.25m tonnes of coal from Minorca that this would result in the emission of over 2,700,000 tonnes of CO2 (1) , a far more significant issue for many people than restoring a canal, let alone the matter of destroying a cherished landscape for up to twenty five years and risking damage to a Special Area of Conservation.
You and your organisation can act now to prevent the vested interests of a minority amenity group from allowing their concerns to restore a small section of a canal (which does not from part of the proposed site anyway) from flying in the face of all the evidence about the fact that burning this coal without carbon capture and storage technology being in place will contribute to global warming.
The date on which Leicestershire County Council will be making a decision on this planning application is the 15th October 2010. If you write to the person below on these issues it will help to prevent a successful application. Write to the Case Officer of Leicestershire County Council (LCC), Peter Bond who is dealing with this application. He will be compiling a report on this application for LCC and it will include information on what opposition there is to this proposal. Details of how to object plus a draft of an objection letter are available from the Minorca Protest site on the leicestershirevillages/measham web site @
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/measham/minorca-protest.html
If you and any group you belong to do decide to object, then please leave us a message of support on our Guest Book page @
http://mopg.co.uk/
If you are representing a group you could let us know how many people are in the group and we will try to keep a running total on the MOPG web page.
END END
REFERENCE
1) Amount of CO2 gas produced by burning 1.25m tonnes of coal is based on calculations already provided in the following source “Ref 2010 Guidelines to Defra / DECC’s GHQ Conversion Factors for Company Reporting, Annex 1 p 7, August 2010 @
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/reporting/pdf/100805-guidelines-ghg-conversion-factors.pdf
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS PRESS RELEASE CONTACT:
STEVE LEARY, SPOKESPERSON, MOPG
tel 05601 767981, email steve46leary@googlemail.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MOPG PLEASE GO TO:
http://www.mopg.co.uk or
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/measham/minorca-protest.html
“Countdown to Zero” — or to War on Iran?
24-08-2010 07:00
Boycott Heineken Music Conference in Tel Aviv (by Latuff)
24-08-2010 04:33
Juarez Narco-Violence Marked by Maquiladora Exception
24-08-2010 01:38
Mexican Border Town’s Industrial Parks Have Become a “Green Zone” in the Drug War
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Shell's Drilling Work Stopped by Shell to Sea Campaigners in Ireland
24-08-2010 00:12
Unity Day 2010
23-08-2010 23:23
This year's Unity Day was full of sunshine and good vibes. It saw thousands of people come to Hyde Park/Woodhouse Moor in Leeds to eat, drink, dance, and generally have a good time together.
People resisting climate change shut down Royal Bank HQ
23-08-2010 23:23
People resisting climate change closed down the Royal Bank of Scotland's Global HQ at Gogarburn near Edinburgh and took direct action at numerous sites throughout Edinburgh today 23rd August.
Radical Routes Summer Gathering
23-08-2010 23:23
The summer Radical Routes Gathering was an exciting time for co-ops in The North. Held at Berrington Hall Housing Co-op near Shrewsbury, the event saw representatives from housing, workers' and trading co-ops come together in a weekend of sharing ideas, working together and having fun.
Free Benefit for Taunton Womens Refuge: Rat Attack, As We Sink!, Fights & Fires + More
23-08-2010 22:22
16th Set @ Roadhouse, Taunton: Rat Attack, As We Sink!, Fights & Fires, Subgenerates, Bats About BatsFREE BENEFIT GIG FOR TAUNTON WOMENS REFUGE
http://www.tauntonwomensrefuge.org.uk/
THURSDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER @ ROADHOUSE, TAUNTON
RAT ATTACK ---- "Flying the flag for UK hardcore" Rocksound
...http://www.myspace.com/ratattackuk
AS WE SINK! ---- More Lockjaw Records hardcore from Cornwall
http://www.myspace.com/aswesinkwescream
FIGHTS & FIRES ---- Chaotic, melodic hardcore from Worcester
http://www.myspace.com/fightsandfires
SUBGENERATES ---- Taunton's favourite alternative punks
http://www.myspace.com/subgererates
BATS ABOUTS BATS ---- Bristol based hardcore punk
http://www.myspace.com/batsaboutbats
A share of the bar takings will go to Taunton Womens Refuge
Free & tasty vegan food as per usual!
Free entry!
The Long Road to The Hague: Prosecuting Former Prime Minister Tony Blair
23-08-2010 19:52
Police at Climate Camp
23-08-2010 17:23
Following the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in the UK last year, and the heavy-handed policing of the Kingsnorth climate camp in 2008, the policing of Climate camp 2010 in Scotland has seemed much less extreme. After the site was taken at 9pm on Wednesday 20th August, RBS seemingly designated the land as offical climate camp grounds and in doing so gave them leave to stay.
Israel/Palestine
23-08-2010 16:49
In order to have an understanding of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, It's important to have a sense of its history.Palestine Today 08 23 2010
23-08-2010 16:24
Bristol anarchist bookfair organising meet
23-08-2010 16:22
less than 3 weeks to go...Regular organising meet of the anarchist bookfair collective.
From 7 to 9pm at Kebele social centre, 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY
With the stalls booked, and workshops timetabled, we now concentrate on the small but key issues: other events, finances, running the actual day, banners and venue decs, and crucially publicity distro - if you can help us publicise the event...please do! Posters etc are available on the website, or pop into the meeting to get some.
We are also looking for helpers on the day, to shake collecting buckets, and staff an infopoints giving meeting locations and the like to members of the public. Email us your name and tel no. if you can spare an hour. Thanks.
Bristol Animal Rights Collective Meeting
23-08-2010 16:22
Bristol Animal Rights Collective will be having their fortnightly meeting tonight (Wed 25th August) at 7:30PM at Kebele Social Centre, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, BS5 6JY - All Welcome!Bristol Animal Rights Collective (BARC) are an autonomous group of compassionate individuals dedicated to ending all forms of animal abuse and suffering. We campaign on a number issuses, including: veganism, hunt sabotage, anti-vivisection, zoos & circuses and many others!
Come along to our meeting if you'd like to get involved with animal rights in your local area or just want to see what it's all about. Everyone is welcome. We meet every fortnight on Wednesday at Kebele Social Centre, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, BS5 6JY at 7:30PM.
http://www.bristolanimalrights.org.uk/
