Solstice eve punky party and fundraiser
This is your invite from the Bastard Squad Collective…to a Solstice Eve birthday party for Fin and Myles, and the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010 fundraiser volume I.
Sunday June 20 at The Croft, 117-119 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RW
EARLY START: Doors open 6pm, film 6.30pm, first band 8pm. 5 quid on the door.
Film showing from 6.30pm is “Maggots and Men” a re-imagining of the 1921 Kronstadt sailor uprising with a twist of gender anarchy! (more…)
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010 – Callout
Saturday 11th September, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY,
10.30am-5.30pm
This is a callout to potential stallholders, and workshop/meeting organisers. Please apply now! Everyone else keep the day free, come down, take part in the discussions, browse the stalls and join in the fun.
Full details about the Bookfair can be found at:
http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org
including booking forms, venue and travel info, publicity, other bookfair events and more.
Graffitti on an empty office block near the city centre
Below is the Bookfair 2010 booking form. Print it out and send it in.
Download:
2010-booking-form (OpenOffice)
Here is the text:
What came first, the crucifixion or the egg?
The egg silly!
So we have another christian festival upon us. 3 or 4 months after the arrival of the son of god via a virgin birth, now we’ve got his death, resurrection and departure to heaven. You couldn’t make this nonsense up if you tried.
As with all christian festivals, this one recuperates yet another pagan festival. In this case its a mixture of the spring equinox and a goddess of fertility (Ostara or Eostre), which in olden days was naturally a time of partying and good food (rabbits - a symbol of fertility)! Now every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, we get Easter Sunday. With added chocolate. Nowadays of course, capital grasps every opportunity to make a profit, so chocolate (made from raw materials expropriated from poor countries) and flowers (flown in from poorer countries) top the list.
Of course, you can just imagine how Roman Catholic priests welcomed the addition of chocolate, “Come into my study for some chocs little boy, but first suck this…”. So this song is for the Pope, god’s representative on earth….
CRASS ‘Reality Asylum’, banned from the1978 ‘Feeding of the 5000′ EP, but released as a double single in 1979 (more…)
The next organising meeting for the Bristol anarchist bookfair 2010 takes place on Tuesday 6 April, 7.30pm, at Kebele social centre, 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY. All anarchists interested in helping to spread anarchist ideas and practices are welcome.
Meanwhile there is an apparent growth of anarchist & alternative bookfairs happening in the UK and abroad. This is a positive move for 2 reasons. Firstly it indicates increased co-operation between different anarchist trends to put them on. Secondly it indicates a growing interest in anarchism and alternatives to the failings of capital and the state - not surprising perhaps given the state of the economy, and planet. This doesn’t mean a revolution is around the corner, but its a move in the right direction. Here’s a list of few upcoming events we’ve heard of:
Bradford on 10 April
Toronto on 9 to 11 April
New York on 17 April
Gent on 17 April
Paris on 8 May
Sunderland on 8 May
Biel on 15 & 16 May
Sheffield on 22 May
Montreal on 29 & 30 May
and there are more here
Well we nearly stormed one of them...
The article below is fairly short, sharp and to the point in its critique of last year’s G20 protests and the ‘movement’. It first appeared today on UK Indymedia, the author is unknown. However it articulates what some people, at least, are thinking, and is reposted here to generate discussion. (Images added by Bookfair person. For post-G20 info on arrests and Ian Tomlinson see the Bristol ABC blog).
You may disagree? Perhaps you were on the roof at Jesters No-Tesco squat, or out trashing other Tescos? A climate camp veteran perhaps? Or maybe you’ve come out as an anarchist-communist or class-struggle anarchist and just joined/set up a new group? Maybe from where you are standing the future looks bright and the revolution is just one more action away? In which case thats great, get stuck in, may the force be with you. If you’d like to disagree with this (unknown) author then send in your view.
The Summer of Rage? A critical look at the G20 London protests one year on (original article here)
Did anyone notice the summer of rage? Like all British summers, it was disappointingly non-existent: a few letters in the guardian, a climate camp of Cath Kidston tents and, to top it all, hardly a day of sun. (more…)
The event we held at The Cube cinema on 1 February, ‘J18 and Seattle 1999 - reflections and strategies 10 years on‘, is now available to view online (its in 3 parts) - thanks to Bristol Indymedia! We thought it was interesting and worthwhile, respect to all those who came, watched and contributed (or just listened). We also produced a short pamphlet for the event, you can download the pdf and read it here 1999plus10_pamphlet (more…)
Tonight, Tuesday 9 February, sees our second organising meeting for the 2010 Bristol anarchist bookfair. We have been checking out various venues, which we’ll be discussing further. Plus we have a couple of pencilled in potential bookfair dates - the 11 or 18 September. We’ll also be looking further at possible themes for the bookfair, and its format. Plenty of items for keen anarchists to get their teeth into. We do need more people to get involved in the bookfair collective - the more people means we can organise better and more varied events. The bookfair is a very public anarchist event and a great opportunity for anarchists in Bristol to engage with a wide range of people. It is essentially your event, so dont just expect us to organise it for you.
Tonights meeting takes place at Kebele social centre, 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY, from 7.30 to 9pm. In the near future we hope to take the organising meetings to other venues, and we’d also be happy to scome and talk about the bookfair with your group, campaign, or network. get in touch.
Following on from our well attended event at The Cube on 1 February about the J18/Seattle protests, we have plenty of ideas for other events covering various topics. Again we’d like to hear from other anarchists what they think needs discussing? For example, some of us think Bristol’s anarchists would do well to hold some sort of weekend ‘politics and strategy’ gathering, which would mix political debate with some forward planning and co-ordination around agreed strategies. What do you think?
Of course many of Bristol’s healthy mix of campaigns, groups and networks continue to organise ongoing activities, many but not all of which appear on the Bristol Indymedia newswire and calendar. Here’s a few upcoming: (more…)
The Cube cinema, 1 February 2010, 7.30pm:
J18 & Seattle 1999 - reflections & strategies 10 years on
The Bristol anarchist bookfair collective and Bristol Indymedia present an evening of films and discussion that look back to the global protests and counter-summit mobilisations of 1999, and consider where next for the movement of movements. This event is part of Bristol Indymedia’s monthly programme at The Cube, entry as usual costs £3/4 but nobody will be turned away for lack of money - just state what you can afford.
We’ll be showing 2 short dramatic films, one each from J18 and Seattle, which should get your adrenalin pumping. There will be no ‘big name’ speaker, so there will be plenty of time for discussion and contributions. Scroll down for background reading links. (more…)
The 2010 Bristol anarchist bookfair is some 8 to 9 months away, but in the meantime check out the monthly film & discussion nights put on by Bristol Indymedia at The Cube Cinema. See their calendar more details of each months event, and for many other events too. (more…)
