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Day of actions against Afghan war Saturday November 20 central London
19-11-2010 16:26
This is a reminder that there is a big day of anti-war action tomorrow Saturday in central London against the war in Afghanistan. Various groups are organising events that day.Got a Short Film to Screen? Bring it along to Bluescreen 24/11/10
19-11-2010 16:22
Bluescreen - Screening Short Films @ The Cube Cinema since 2001BLUESCREEN @ THE CUBE CINEMA, BRISTOL -
Wed 24th Nov @ 8.00pm
GBP 3/2 (Filmmakers in for Free, but only one per film)
It's the last Bluescreen of the year, so make sure you come down tonight for your last fix of short film screenings for 2010!
Not been to Bluescreen before? Just BRING along the film(s) you want to screen on the night, on DVDs, Mini DVs etc, and films should be no longer than 20mins.
We welcome all Film genres, be they Dramas, Docs, Animations, Music Promos, Experimental, Skate vids... you get the idea.
And the best part is you get to see YOUR films on the Cubes Big Blue Screen, Films on the Cinema screen, as it should be!
Not got a film? Come along anyway and get inspired!
Plus Bluescreen Hi-Fi DJ's in the bar all night and re-scores from the Cube Orchestra.
Bluescreen -Screening films since 2001 and Bristols longest running independent OPEN screen Film event. Come down and find out why...
Coming in 2011- 10 years of Bluescreen!
FFI:
http: //www.myspace.com/cubebluescreen
http: //www.youtube.com/BluescreenFilms
And Facebook Group
Thanks
Bluescreen
Imprisonment
19-11-2010 15:53
This then, our penal system, constructed with one inherent major flaw.A dilemma unsuspected by most unless well versed in the law.
While serving the sentence and in prison cell pent,
Consider the incumbent’s situation – if truly innocent.
Anti-Cuts March in Gloucester Tomorrow Sat 20th
19-11-2010 15:49
Meet at The Park, 10am to leave at 10.30am
supported by Trades Council - CWU, GMB, UNISON, FBU, Aspect, USDAW, Unite - and others...
URGENT - illegal eviction of new squatted site right now
19-11-2010 15:22
New squatted site needs solidarity support again against the owner!! Come to St Phillips Road to fight eviction. Cops are here already. Please spread the word..
Muslims reject war on terror
19-11-2010 14:53
The idea that British-born Muslims are engaging in Al Qaida, violent Jihad is inherently silly.Mehdi must stay
19-11-2010 14:52
Mehdi Mirzae, 26, a national of Afghanistan and long time resident of Manchester is currently being detained in Dungavel IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK @ 03:00 hrs by Charter Flight PVT 800 on Tuesday 23rd November to Afghanistan. Please help us to fight his imminent deportation.Threats of violence from a "Buddhist Monk" in the NKT
19-11-2010 13:27
Still time to stop Tesco in Stokes Croft [1]
19-11-2010 12:22
Writing to Chief Planner and Rally at Council House Wed 8 DecemberThe No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign has successfully kept the empire-building Tesco out of our community for a year.
There are two more ways to help the campaign. Read on...
Elisabeth Winkler writes: The No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign has successfully kept the empire-building Tesco out of our community for a year. There are two more ways to help the campaign.
Reputed to be the last high street in the UK not to have corporate retailer, Stokes Croft has made it clear it wants to stay that way. Campaigning by the No Tesco in Stokes Croft and a fiercely active community has kept the multinational out of Stokes Croft for a year. Tesco did not get full planning permission on 22 September 2010, an historic community day which saw over 200 protestors fill the Council chambers. Nor did Tesco get an alcohol license for its proposed store in Stokes Croft, thanks to hundreds of letters of objection sent to Bristol City Council.
The community’s objections were supported by the police who argued that another retailer selling (cheap) alcohol in the area would increase existing problems of "pre-loading" and street drinking.
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Two more ways to take action
1. WRITE / EMAIL Bristol City Council about two vital planning issues before 7 December
a) Noise
Tesco's recent noise report is wholly inaccurate and misleading. Tesco cannot comply with the Council's noise conditions.
b) Traffic
Because goods are delivered "just-in-time" from centralised depots, a Tesco Express (by Tesco's own reckoning) would get 6 deliveries a day, 42 a week. These would block the cycle path, bus stop and two pedestrian crossings on either side.
No Tesco in Stokes Croft has a detailed template letter at http://notesco.wordpress.com/take-action-2/no-tesco-tem...tter/. Please copy, paste, add your address and personalise.
Email: nigel.butler AT bristol.gov.uk (CC: rachel.h.bibb AT gmail.com so campaigners have a copy) or write to: Nigel Butler, Development Management, City Development, Bristol City Council, Brunel House, St, George’s Road, Bristol BS1 5UY.
2) Plan to attend the Council meeting to find out if these objections have been heard - it will be another historic day for the community.
Wednesday 8 December 2010 at 2pm at the Bristol City Council, College Green.
http://www.NoTescoInStokesCroft.org.uk
UWE Occupation and Week of Actions Against Cuts
19-11-2010 12:22
UWE students to occupy Frenchay Mon 22nd Nov! Lend your support.Dear Bristol Indymedia, We are writing to let you know that UWE students will be occupying Frenchay campus on Monday 22nd of Novemeber from 4pm, as part of a week of actions taking place next week to resist the fee increases and cuts both to education and across the public sector more broadly. Please spread the word and come down and lend us your support!!!
Dear Bristol Indymedia,
Students at the University of the West of England are occupying Frenchay campus on Monday 22nd November, from 4pm. The occupation is part of a week of actions that are protesting fee increases and cuts both to education and across the public sector more broadly. For more info on the events following the occupation, see below and visit the Face Book Page: 'UWE Students Against the Cuts' (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=162641213748580&r...ef=mf).
This is shaping up to be a really exciting week in the fight back against cuts in Bristol. But we need as much help as we can get!!! Please help spread the word as far and as wide as possible, and come down and visit our ‘education camp’ on Monday. Please bring anything and everything you think could be of use, from kettles, tea bags and cakes to banners, paint, old bed sheets, music and mega-phones. We need it all!
You can reach us at the Face book group, email us at uwe.better.together@gmail.com, or call 07586453336.
In solidarity,
UWE students
Mon 22nd: Occupation of Frenchay campus. Assemble at 4pm in corridor outside entrance to Library and Core24 cafe.
Tue 23rd: Rally outside the governors' meeting on Frenchay campus. Called
by the University and College Union, students will be standing alongside them. Bristol University students are also lending their support. We're meeting outside the Red Bar on the
courtyard there at 2.30, rally at 3pm.
Wed 24th: National walkout. Frenchay, St. Matts and Bower Ashton campuses
Are all walking out at 11am. We will then make our way to town to meet with
both Bristol university students and students from further education
colleges on the green next to the Wills Memorial building.
Thu 2525th: UWE AGM. Our students union is having its annual general meeting
so we're trying to get them to be much more explicit about opposing
education cuts. Any UWE students out there that somehow haven’t heard of this yet, please get down there and make your vote count.
List of alleged war-criminals Israel
19-11-2010 12:07
The following information was received anonymously; presumably from a member of the Israeli Military. It was presented as follows:Thousands-strong solidarity ring encircles European Parliament
19-11-2010 10:49
Today, the 2010 Coalition of Social NGOs and the women, men and children, taking part in or supporting this event, have called on decision-makers to solidarity at the heart of their response to the crisis. The final declaration from the 2010 European Year must contain concrete commitments to fight poverty, exclusion and inequalities building on the 8 action points outlined by the Coalition of NGOs.Call to action: Ban BAe from the NEC careers exhibition (Nov 26th & 27th)!
19-11-2010 10:21
Come and protest the presence of arms companies, including BAE Systems at the NEC National Engineering and Construction Exhibition on November 26th & 27th!Haiti Rebellion Against United Nations Occupation Forces Spreads to Capital
19-11-2010 10:08
The protesters shouted slogans like: "Cholera: It's Minustah who gave it to us!" and "Minustah go home!" Cholera is present in all 10 of Haiti's regions. About 1,100 people have died from the disease since it emerged in the country last month. Most of the 38 deaths recorded in the capital have been in the slum district of Cite Soleil.Statement of Departure
19-11-2010 09:27
Sussex University has come out of a 5 day occupation of a new lecture theatre, built while hundreds of our lecturer's lost their jobs.Still time to stop Tesco in Stokes Croft
19-11-2010 08:22
Writing to Chief Planner and Rally at Council House Wed 8 DecemberThe No Tesco in Stokes Croft campaign has successfully kept the empire-building Tesco out of our community for a year.
There are two more ways to help the campaign. Read on...
Reputed to be the last high street in the UK not to have corporate retailer, Stokes Croft has made it clear it wants to stay that way.
Campaigning by the No Tesco in Stokes Croft and a fiercely active community has kept the multinational out of Stokes Croft for a year.
Tesco did not get full planning permission on 22 September 2010, an historic community day which saw over 200 protestors fill the Council chambers.
Nor did Tesco get an alcohol license for its proposed store in Stokes Croft, thanks to hundreds of letters of objection sent to Bristol City Council.
The community’s objections were supported by the police who argued that another retailer selling (cheap) alcohol in the area would increase existing problems of "pre-loading" and street drinking.
Two more ways to take action
1. WRITE / EMAIL Bristol City Council about two vital planning issues before 7 December
a) Noise
Tesco's recent noise report is wholly inaccurate and misleading. Tesco cannot comply with the Council's noise conditions.
b) Traffic
Because goods are delivered "just-in-time" from centralised depots, a Tesco Express (by Tesco's own reckoning) would get 6 deliveries a day, 42 a week. These would block the cycle path, bus stop and two pedestrian crossings on either side.
No Tesco in Stokes Croft has a detailed template letter at http://notesco.wordpress.com/take-action-2/no-tesco-tem...tter/. Please copy, paste, add your address and personalise.
Email: nigel.butler AT bristol.gov.uk (CC: rachel.h.bibb AT gmail.com so campaigners have a copy) or write to: Nigel Butler, Development Management, City Development, Bristol City Council, Brunel House, St, George’s Road, Bristol BS1 5UY.
2) Plan to attend the Council meeting to find out if these objections have been heard - it will be another historic day for the community.
Wednesday 8 December 2010 at 2pm at the Bristol City Council, College Green.
http://www.NoTescoInStokesCroft.org.uk
BNP's campaign falls flat in Croxteth
19-11-2010 02:11
The British National Party has failed to secure a seat in the council by-election in Croxteth. Despite determined campaigning, the people of the ward overwhelmingly rejected the fascist party and its violent convict candidate, Peter Tierney.Nottm AR Events from 20th November
19-11-2010 01:25
Read on...
Friday 19th Nov: Paul Smith Fur Demo 4pm at 20 Low Pavement
Nottingham, NG1 7EA, near side entrance of Broadmarsh
http://www.paulsmith.co.uk/shop-locator/paul-smith,1272,SP.html
Contact 07815 640980
Also Fri 19th: Brinsley Animal Rescue work day until dusk
Transport 2pm from Broxtowe or elsewhere on request.
Also Fri from noon: Veggies catering preparation for Ben's event and
Vegan Society AM (see below).
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Sat 20th: Vegan Society AGM, Birmingham. Catering and travel with
Veggies Catering Campaign.
Also Hunt Sabbing as ever
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Also Saturday 20th: Join us to Celebrate and Remember our dear friend Ben.
We are very sad to pass on the news that Ben Sharkey from Nottingham
was killed last week in a cycle accident in France. He was a very big
presence in Nottingham and his loss has hit people here very hard.
Ben's body was cremated on Thursday 18th in Dunkerque in France.
However, for us, the actual celebration will be on Saturday at the
Sumac Centre, starting at 1pm with a Quaker-style Circle of Friends,
followed by a huge Ben-style party all night!
Ben touched many lives, maybe yours too.
See pictures and more info at http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1314
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Also Sat 20th: http://nottssos.org.uk/2010/11/16/from-the-forest-to-the-square-all-out-for-a-big-notts-demonstration-against-the-cuts-%E2%80%93-saturday-20th-november/
And possible Animal Rights stall - call DavidO for details.
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Sun 21st: AR Gathering planning meeting, Bradford
Also vegan breakfast at Sumac at noon to help clear from Ben's Party
and before the 4pm setting up of base camp at Sumac for the Ratcliffe
114 Trial (see below)
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Mon 22nd: Solidarity Demo for the Ratcliffe 114 Trial.
9am at the Crown Court, Canal St
20 climate action defendants are in Nottingham Crown Court for up to a
month or more, after planning to safely close down Ratcliffe
PowerStation last April to prevent the greater harm of runaway climate
change.
More at http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1810
Support includes daily People's Kitchen style meals at Sumac, for
which help is welcomed.
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Also Mon 22nd: -possible- Paul Smith demo at noon. Contact 07951 304652
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Thurs 25th: Friend or Food Dog Meat Trailer visits Sheffield.
http://www.veggies.org.uk/2010/11/friend-or-food-tour-extended/
Also Brinsley Animal Rescue rehoming evening. Contact Lee
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1562
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Fri 26th: Greyhound Racetrack Demo. Leaflets needed.
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1535
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Sat 27th: Animal Aid/Viva! Badger Cull Day of Action
Street campaign stall in Beeston to target marginal Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry
Also highlighting coalition stance on foxhunting.
Possibly 12noon Beeston Square.
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_wildlife//2397
Invite people to go to her surgery on Friday 3rd December at Nuthall
Temple Community Centre 3:00-5:00pm . By appointment only
http://www.anna4broxtowe.com/surgeries
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Sun 28th: Midlands AR Networking Skills Day, Coventry 2.30pm - 8.30pm
A chance for like minded people to come together for a short
networking meeting followed by a Skills Day with workshops to be
announced, including a legal talk.
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1440
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Thurs 2nd Dec: Nottingham Animal Rights Networking at Broadway
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=112
--other stuff--
Rose now a rep for Animal Defenders
Pat now a contact for Vegan Society
A-Z of Animal Rights, an excellent booklet by Bristol Animal Rights,
available from Veggies bookstall.
http://www.bristolanimalrights.org.uk/A-Z/index.htm
Also NottmAR does Peoples' Kitchen to be arranged
Nottm AR Christmas social TBA
Global warfare: After NATO summit, U.S. to intensify military drive into Asia
18-11-2010 23:28
National Students Protests Wed 24th November
18-11-2010 22:46
After the massive recent student protest in London the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) have called for a national day of walkouts and protest on the 24th of November.
