Wales Culture Newswire Archive

The "Merthyr Rising" festival in Merthyr is an annual pseudo-left wing cultural event sponsored by a number of corporations including Hoover.

Yorkley Court Farm NOW under UNLAWFUL eviction-- spread the word!

Police and county court bailiffs stormed the farm early this morning.

No eviction order was served - which means its entirely illegal!

Arrests have been made, people have been snatched and dumped
away from site in the woods... no-one is allowed on-site to collect
their sleeping gear and other equipment! They need hands ASAP.

Lift from ruardinn to yorkley leaving in 30-40 mins.

Email/pm back anyone that want a lift.

RESISTANCE IS FERTILE!

RESPECT EXISTENCE!
or EXPECT RESISTANCE!

An unprecedented gathering of community Choirs, Choruses and singers will come together in the capital of Wales - the ‘Land of Song’ to help transform lives in Ghana by singing for water at an event at Roald Dahl Plas (the Oval Basin, Cardiff Bay) on Sunday 31st May 2015. Individual choir performances start at 1pm at venues around the Oval Basin, and the massed choir performance is at 3pm.

There will be three rooms of talks, workshop meetings (see below), and a main hall of stalls, plus creche, bar, cafe and more. In the evening there will be a benefit gig and social.

Remember the Manning Truthfest in January 2014? Well, it's back!

A troupe of Irish musicians, actors and activists supported by Afri will travel across the Irish sea to Pembrokeshire on 23rd January for a solidarity weekend for Chelsea Manning and her Welsh-Irish family.

Freedom's Womb is a unique video guitar message

Join us once again in Wrexham for a day celebrating peace and calling for an end to all warfare. This day is about coming together and sharing what we have in a spirit of peaceful cooperation. Peace Day events in Wrexham have always been free of charge and open to all. The success of the day is about what each of us brings to it. You are invited to bring vegetarian food to share and items you no longer need for the free stall. If you have anything else you would like to offer free of charge (no selling), please get in touch.

Three Welsh language are arrested in Aberystwyth this morning in a Welsh language rights protest. / Tri ymgyrchydd wedi eu haresstio heddiw am weithredu dros yr iaith.

The full programme of meetings, and list of stalls, for the 2014 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, has been announced. There are 5 meeting spaces, including the Permanent Culture Now marquee, at the main Bookfair venue at The Trinity Centre. Plus just down the road we have the Radical History Zone at Hydra Bookshop

The Manning Truthfest - 13 Irish musicians, performers, academics and activists came to Wales last weekend to take part in a celebration of Chelsea (Bradley) Manning's truth-telling organised with and for her Welsh-Irish family in Pembrokeshire.

Join Chelsea Manning’s Irish supporters along with her family and friends in west Wales for two days of events celebrating Truth. All proceeds will go to the Private Manning Family Fund, raising money to support family members in Wales with the cost of prison visits to Chelsea in Kansas.

Stick this in your diaries - The date for Bristol 2014 is Saturday 26 April, at the Trinity Centre, Trinity Road, Bristol BS2 0NW

Coming soon: callout for workshops/meetings & stall bookings.
Watch this space for more info…

PACK A SCRUM OF SOLIDARITY WITH US PRISONER & WHISTLEBLOWER PVT CHELSEA MANNING (FORMERLY BRADLEY MANNING)

Join us in Liverpool and Wrexham as the Rugby League World Cup gets underway

SAT 2 NOV 6pm - 11pm

Live music, films and speakers at The Casa, 29 Hope St, Liverpool
Entry by donation

SUN 3 NOV from 11.30am

Vigil outside the Wales vs USA match at Wrexham Racecourse, Mold Rd, followed by Social nearby in the afternoon.

MON 4 NOV from 9.30am

Join us at Bristol Crown Court where a police prosecution over display of FREE MANNING banners continues.

This exhibition of children's artwork from Gaza has been in Wrexham since the end of April and is currently on display at St Christopher's Community School. It will be moving to Oswestry, Shropshire in July.

See it at Hermon arts space on Saturdays 13 and 20 July and hear Rod Cox speak about the artwork and the lives of the children who created it on Friday 19 July at the same venue.

Solidarity gig in West Wales, All welcome!

Loss of Innocence

This is an exhibition of more than fifty pieces of children's artwork “some funny, some tragic, many beautiful” collected by Rod Cox during a visit to Gaza with the Aid Convoy early in 2009 in the wake of Operation Cast Lead, a sustained attack by Israel which, according to Red Crescent spokesperson Dr. Khalil Abu Foul, "did not just have 1500 killed, or 5000 wounded. It has traumatised the entire population, all 1.5 million." The exhibition is going to be in Wrexham for the next few weeks, starting with the Cathedral until 17 May.

‘The Jesus Conspiracy’
…the greatest story never told…

The band "SOLUTIONS" has at least one member of staff in the enforcement division of the UK Border Agency in Cardiff. This video shows lead singer and guitarist "Nicky Anthony Williams" at work on a dawn raid:  http://youtu.be/N1NXwTOnzp8

UK Coal (Coalfield Resources) want to open cast Great oak – aka Diglake Colliery. This site is where the January 1895 Flooding Disaster killed 77 men and boys and is close to the villages of Audley, Bignall End, Red Street and Crackley.

Some 72 bodies are still in the old workings over which UK Coal want to open cast mine.

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective brings you a night of radical music to wind down to after the 2013 Bookfair - kick back and dance yer boots off!
This is a split fundraiser for us and Bristol Defendant Solidarity. Any funds raised that we do not need will be shared out to other groups locally, as usual.

A night of frantic hardcore punk and thrash - benefit for Stop G8.

Thursday 7th March: 200 Club Newport - £3 advance