Category Archives: Activism

New additions

Posted on November 10, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A couple of new additions to the blogroll. _saturnine who provided the recent Philip Street graffiti photos also has a blog, mainly of photos, here. Bristol Anarchist Black Cross, campaigning for prison reform have also recently started a blog. Their … Continue reading →

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Notting Hill's radical history

Posted on October 14, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s been light posting this weekend as The Blogger has been laying out Tom Vague’s excellent Bash the Rich Radical History Tour of Notting Hill pamphlet. It’s a kind of riotous, left wing, pop cultural, psychogeographic ramble through the streets … Continue reading →

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Nobel Peace Prize for Burma's monks!

Posted on October 7, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This is a bit of a rush . . .  The Nobel Committee decides on the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this coming week. If you think the prize should go to the Burmese Buddhist monastic order (sangha) there’s … Continue reading →

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"The geese are flying south from Slimbridge early this autumn"

Posted on October 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

With a Bash the Rich march through Notting Hill – perhaps heralding the greatest resurgence of english anarchism in at least a generation – scheduled to take place precisely one month from now, has the publisher of Ian Bone’s Bash … Continue reading →

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A lovely, social time for all?

Posted on September 24, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

You’ve gotta love the local anarcho-cyclist Critical Mass contingent. They’re now optimistically describing their last effort in Bristol back in May as “a lovely, social ride around Bristol”. Although they do go on to say: “There was a near police … Continue reading →

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Instant History! (Just add radicals)

Posted on August 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The 1831 Bristol riot from Brandon Hill These skateboarders learn fast. Yesterday some of them attended Bristol Radical History Group’s 175th anniversary celebration of the Great Reform Dinner ruck of 1832 on Brandon Hill. Today they’re proclaiming from the pages … Continue reading →

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While the greens gaily gather the ravers riot!!!

Posted on August 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Forget Heathrow. All the action’s in Great Yarmouth… Fifteen people have been arrested after a police station was attacked by a mob of around 100 people who hurled beer and wine bottles at the building.

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Climate Camp: ha, ha, Hari

Posted on August 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

So who’s the one reporter invited by the organisers to Heathrow’s increasingly farcical Camp for Climate Change and given free rein to wander around and do what he likes while other journalists must have a “media savvy” climate camper escort … Continue reading →

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Protest against climate change – Cheadle Railway Station 11.30 Sat 18 August

Posted on August 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Urgent call-out courtesy of Prof Chuck Wilson, Department of Pre-Revolutionary Studies, Cheadle University Protest against climate change Cheadle Railway Station 11.30 Sat 18th August Stop the smokers’ heater at the Headless Chicken! No to Tommy’s Tanning Centre! Climate change is … Continue reading →

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Long live the climate camp! The main event of the 21st century and the beginning of the worldwide historic turn of humanity away from capitalism

Posted on August 16, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The thing that’s really struck me about this Climate Camp at Heathrow is the paranoia and control freakery around the press. As The Guardian’s Helen Pidd says: “For a gathering founded on anarchist principles, the Camp for Climate Action doesn’t … Continue reading →

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