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The state of our health

13-09-2005 10:49

Bristle 20 cover (B&W)
“Welcome once more to Bristle, the quality-assured organ of excellence for revolutionary transformation. This issue finds the Bristle Collective in celebratory & retrospective mood (and not just because we’ve got the fewest typo errors ever!). We are bristling merry in our spiky birthday suits, happy to be celebrating the young punks 20th anniversary."

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Tonight on BBC2: Guerilla - The taking of Patty Hearst

12-09-2005 17:16

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Mon 12 Sep, 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm 90mins


In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergraduate was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history.

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Defend your local news media - Town Hall meeting, 13 September

11-09-2005 16:16

This local news campaign group was set up around a year ago, to see what could be done about the threats to the quality and independence of the local news media, as well as the crisis affecting public service broadcasting. The article includes a report on the one-day media conference (see  http://www.oxnuj.org.uk/story.php?storyID=126) also held in Oxford on March 19, as well as a draft agenda for this Tuesday's meeting.

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Mindwalk 6: The Minute KKKlan Campo, California

11-09-2005 06:39

Upstart Radios 1/2 hour of free-thought music set. Click to  http://www.upstartradio.com to listen to Upstart Radio America. Music, Art, Politics, Free Speech Radio Streaming 24/7

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PROTESTERS TO TARGET CLARKSON AT AWARDS CEREMONY

09-09-2005 18:47

Campaigners angry at Oxford Brookes University for bestowing TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson with an honorary degree will gather outside the presentation ceremony Monday morning to protest the award.

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Cindy Sheehan Asks: What Kind Of Extremist Will You Be?

09-09-2005 11:35

Thought you might like to see this article by Cindy Sheehan which appeared yesterday on the 'Common Dreams' website.

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Mindwalk 11: ...Fear itself

08-09-2005 20:14

Notes: This weeks program spotlights Bush in is ever dumbed down wisdom on BBC's Newsnight. Jody's What They Don't Tell You entitled "Fear Itself". Former child sit-com star Dickie Richards tries to sell you some shit you don't need. And finally, The Red Elvis's. Woot!

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Iraqi History and the Impact of Occupation

08-09-2005 17:51

Imagine if Britain was under the occupation of a foreign power and during that time, the occupying power destroyed buildings of historical importance to Britain. Imagine, a foreign power destroying places such as the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Hadrian’s Wall and other Roman remains, which are scattered around the country.

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Indymedia Out-door - Nostalgia #1

08-09-2005 17:10

Old-school Indymedia
It seems the auto industry PR machine appears at running at full throttle. Even in our so called NEWS and Current Affairs programs they talk about it. They say we are in love with big cars in Australia. I wonder why.

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Photos from Mela in Edinburgh Sunday 4th September

07-09-2005 21:06

Here are 13 photos from the 11th Edinburgh Mela which took place in Pilrig park, Edinburgh last weekend.

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Benefit for Peoples' Global Action at DSEi convergence, 11.9.05

07-09-2005 17:07

7pm, Sunday September 11th
at the 'convergence space' for protests against the DSEi east London arms fair - venue to be announced on Friday at www.dsei.org or ring 07817 652029.

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Publicise Your Issue at our gig

07-09-2005 15:56

We're having a gig o the 1st of October. It's for the fines and costs from the G8 protests and it will be very political. There will be room for a lot of information stalls and displays. If you want to publicise your issue, contact us.

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Dsei Graffiti Adventure!

07-09-2005 11:12

oh no its the pigz!.....

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Who Owns the High Street

07-09-2005 09:58

A poem about every British highstreet, inspired by Oxford's slavery to private property and high fences...

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Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise

07-09-2005 05:45

The city I called home for ten years is dying
But one thing you said back then finally makes sense to me, in a way it never did before. In the battle to save the people of New Orleans, you are either with us, or against us. And it is crystal clear what side you're on.

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Ten things you should know about petrol sniffing

06-09-2005 02:34

"out of sight, out of their minds."
This is the crux of the issue. As long as indigenous people are treated as second-class citizens, petrol sniffing and other substance misuse will continue unabated. Relegated to third-world conditions and no hope of making it in the white man's world, many indigenous young people out bush have no alternative other than wiping themselves out.

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ResisDANCE! (Bristol benefit night)

04-09-2005 22:58

Benefit poster
The Bristol-based Bristle magazine collective celebrates publication of its 20th issue, in it’s 8 year existence, with a massive benefit party at the Malcolm X Centre on September 17th (full details below). This event is being organised in association with the Bristol Dissent group ( dissentbristol@subsection.org.uk), with proceeds going to help those Bristolians facing charges arising from the anti-G8 protests in Scotland this July (Bristle will take just a small cut to fund future publications).

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Waterloo Fiesta Pictures 3rd Sep 2005

04-09-2005 20:12

General view of Waterloo Crescent
The Waterloo Fiesta is an annual event organised to bring together the residents, friends and families of Waterloo Crescent, near the Arboretum in Nottingham. This years event was drenched in sunshine and was great fun.

It ran from 2pm-9pm, and featured 5 live bands (ish), a BBQ, face painting, juggling, lantern making, films and slide projections.

Great success, looking forward to next years....

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Tune Liberation Party

03-09-2005 15:46

We champion the world’s finest free music to collectively demonstrate that there is much more to modern music than the mundane mainstream. The Pi Music Communication Network also has many facilities for independently minded, forward-thinking creatives and we shall promote our revolutionary communication ideology by nurturing the most potent musical community the world has ever heard - to challenge all who claim that commerce is the only thing that really matters...

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School to make evolution optional

03-09-2005 05:58

Unintelligent debate over intelligent design
It may be less heavy-handed, but the actions of the Kansas board are just as political -- and no more based in science -- than the tactics of the Dover school board. With all due respect to our elected officials, including the president, decisions about what counts as good science in public schools must be made by scientists, not politicians.