UK Newswire Archive
Hollywood - Weaponised Dream Factory: an Interview with Matthew Alford
22-10-2010 09:16
Where They Have Holes In Their SoulsWe bask in a certain reflected glory from the newspapers we read. To “take” The Times is to be far more intellectual, far more highbrow, than someone who takes the Mail. To read the Mail is to be far more responsible than someone who gawks in the Mirror. A Guardian reader is highbrow with a human face: intellectual, aware, like other “broadsheet” readers, but with a much greater commitment to making the world a better, fairer place. Independent readers share the same commitment, perhaps a little less earnestly.
Christmas Craft Fair
22-10-2010 07:22
Craft Fayre on November 6th 2010Craft Fayre on November 6th 2010 between 2-5pm, Quaker Meeting House, 300 Gloucester Rd, Bristol, BS7 8PD. Homemade gifts with an emphasis on recycled and eco friendly, good variety of stalls, refreshments available. Free entry, children friendly
Facebook event page here http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=163391383686511
Nottm Animal Rights Events
22-10-2010 02:36
Another two weeks fun & games
Saturday 23/10/10 - vegan catering campaigning at Anarchist Bookfair in London and Asian Deaf Festival in Derby.
Thursday 28/10/10 - Next Brinsley animal rescue work evening. Transport from Broxtowe at 18:00.
Friday 29/10/10 - Harlan demo, leaving sumac 15:00. Greet the workers of Hillcrest farm, a breeder for the vivisection industry including the notorious Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Friday 29/10/10 - Anti-greyhound racing demo at Colwick race track, from 18:30.
Friday 29/10/10 - Screening of "A Minority Pastime", Mackworth Road, Derby. 19.00.
Saturday 30/10/10 - West Midlands Vegan Festival in Wolverhampton, followed by a visit to the vegan section of the Birmingham Beer Festival..
Transport from Nottingham.
Monday 01/11/10 - World vegan day. Free food giveaway in Derby, Prep from 10:00, event starting from 12:00.
Tuesday 02/11/10 - As part of Vegan month, guerilla catering event in Nottingham, from 11:00. Help needed.
Thursday 04/11/10 - Next planning meeting in Broadway mezz bar at 19:30.
Check diary or contact us for any further details that you need.
Transition Hebden Radio, part 3 of 3
21-10-2010 23:23
A few months ago, Hebden Bridge became a Transition Town.
Anti-nuclear protests at 100 German locations this Saturday
21-10-2010 23:15
Organisers claim that at least 500 additional consignments of CASTOR containers will travel if the operating lives of 17 nuclear power stations are extended, which the conservative-led government plans to do by parliamentary decision next Thursday, 28 Oct.
Smash EDO: Hammertime arrestees! Get in touch
21-10-2010 22:25
Quite a few people who were pre emptively arrested at Smash EDO's Hammertime demo last week have told us that they are considering taking civil action against the police. This kind of action is best pursued collectively.rumours of our death have been greatly exagerated
21-10-2010 21:22
the factory social livesthere may be some confusion as to the state of affairs at the factory
we're still here and still open and still going!
there have been threats of eviction but we are not going anywhere soon
so please come and use the space, below is a list of the different rooms we have up and running
there is a lot of potential for almost any type of project to go
repair and maintenance of the space is constantly going on. the multiple roofs have been fixed, new drainage installed, large amounts of floorboards and windows have been restored, beams, joists and walls have been reinforced, repaired or simply reinstalled. much has been done, but there'sstill more to go if anyone enjoys this type of activity these are also ongoing projects to get involved in!
THE FACTORY SOCIAL CENTRE
Here are the spaces we have up and running that are free and open for people to use, and bring any new ideas or projects to…
FIRST FLOOR
art room
-screen printing facilities (in progress, we need help and expertise – we have a carousel and space for a dark room, and a sink with running water)
-paint and other art materials
-massive work table and other work surfaces
-space for creating whatever you want
function room
-space for small and/or quiet events
-large room with sofas and armchairs and light
-has been used for meetings, discussion, yoga, dance practice, skillshares, meditation, board games nights, film screenings
-‘board game night’ is here every Wednesday night from 8pm
-‘social centre meetings’ are here every Thursday at 7pm
-‘men confronting patriarchy meetings’ are here every Friday at 6pm
apothecary
-this is adjoining the function room and is a space for learning about herbal medicine
-this has many tinctures and herbs for medicinal use
-equipment (bottles, funnels, muslin cloth) to make your own tinctures, salves, oils etc.
-drying racks for your freshly foraged herbs
-books and information concerning nutrition, plants, gardening, herbs and more holistic ways to look after body and mind.
-please call, email or drop in to arrange a consultation time with ‘witches in tracksuits’ (the informal apothecary crew)
haklab
-computer room with printers, scanners and internet connection
-geek club meet here every Tuesday night at 6pm and are happy to help with fixing computers and installing linux, discussing networking, servers etc. come hang around and talk about geeky stuff!
infopoint
-a schmorgasboard of information concerning the social centre and other anarchist events within the city and beyond. (a table with a bunch of flyers on it)
-first aid kit
-incoming telephone
social centre bathroom and shower
-please come and use if you need
GROUND FLOOR
main room
-the largest room in the building
-suitable for a variety of different activities
-‘people's kitchen’ runs here every Tuesday at 8pm (this is a donations based vegan dinner) with a film showing after
-self-defence training happens here on Wednesday at 6pm
-other events in this space are and have been: circus skills practice, cafes, tea parties, film nights, larger meetings and discussions
-we have a pool table
-there are two toilets adjoining this room
social centre kitchen
-currently in the process of building a massive kitchen looking onto portland square
-the old factory safe-room is now storage for vittels
market room
-at the moment this is where the bikes go, but will be the market room where fruit and veg will be given out for donations
bike workshop
-many salvaged bikes and parts to reassemble or fix up other bikes
workshop & tat room
-communal tools for using round the building
-building materials
cinema
-this room was totally destroyed by water damage coming in from the roof over the last few years.
-it has been saved but work needs to be done fixing the roofing better and turning the space into a cosy cinema room
also we have been very kindly been donated an off-site allotment in st pauls, which has been going well and maybe requires some love before the frost
28 Portland Square
St Pauls
Bristol
BS2 8RU
cavestreetfactory@gmail.com
01179 249533
please call or email for any information at all or drop in (ringing the doorbell by the green door on cave street) and come and see for yourself!
Details of Anti-Cuts Protests across UK this Saturday
21-10-2010 21:15
A list of anti-cuts demonstrations in towns and cities across the UK this weekend. Please help in distributing this list to other messageboards and mailing lists you have access to.Also post details of other protests you are aware of below.
From small seeds...
Rally against the cuts in Oxford
21-10-2010 21:10
The Comprehensive Spending Review was announced on 20 October. I went along to the rally against public sector spending cuts in Oxford that evening. Here is what I saw and felt ...Commune Reading Group
21-10-2010 19:22
Spaces outside capitalismThe next session of The Commune’s Bristol reading group on alternatives to capitalism will be looking at spaces outside capitalism. We will be discussing the value – or otherwise – of ‘autonomous zones’ and ‘co-operatives’ as a means of working outside the system.
The next session of The Commune’s Bristol reading group on alternatives to capitalism will be looking at spaces outside capitalism. We will be discussing the value – or otherwise – of ‘autonomous zones’ and ‘co-operatives’ as a means of working outside the system.
From 6pm on Sunday 24th October at Café Kino, Ninetree Hill, Stokes Croft. Recommended reading below – email uncaptiveminds@gmail.com for more info.
The classic statement on autonomous zones:
Hakim Bey – The Temporary Autonomous Zone
http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html#labelTAZ
A critique of lifestyle anarchism:
Murray Bookchin “Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm” http://libcom.org/library/social-anarchism–lifestyle-anarchism-murray-bookchin
If you want to shorten the reading you could skip sections 6 and 7 which relate to the session last month on primitivism, but I’m sure you will find them of interest nevertheless.
On co-operatives as a strategic approach (8 short parts)
http://boffyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/proletarian-strat....html
Crude Awakening
21-10-2010 18:50
Crude Awakening took a different approach to previous years mass direct actions, such as last years great climate swoop where the target is announced weeks in advance, with the day of action normally being a standoff with police, who like everyone else have also been warned weeks in advance. Crude Awakening was different in that a mass direct action was announced but the target kept a secret. Only that it would be anaction against the oil industry somewhere in London.
AFGHAN WAR MEETING - Cardiff
21-10-2010 18:40
Public Meeting: Afghanistan - The Case for WithdrawalThursday 28 October at 7pm, Shandon Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place (opp. Student Union)
Video of an economist's views of cuts in Oxford
21-10-2010 18:35
Dr Peter Dwyer, economist from Ruskin college, gives his views on the cuts.Video views of public sector cuts in Oxford
21-10-2010 18:04
Two vox pops from Oxford residents about their reactions to the public sector cuts.Time to go French - against the cuts
21-10-2010 17:23
It was always gonna be like this. If Labour had got in, Alasdair Darling promised that the severity of the cuts would've made Thatcher blush.
The Global Crisis, The Role and Meaning of Art in Society
21-10-2010 17:22
- Paul Klee
As the current world economic crisis deepens, the role and meaning of art in society changes as more and more people are dragged down by the weight of personal debt, unemployment and poverty. Galleries close and less people can afford to buy art creating a new awareness among artists of the fragility of the art market and the economic system behind it that creates an increasingly alienated and elitist exclusivism.
Militant murdered by (statist) unionists, Argentina
21-10-2010 17:12
Yesterday (20/10) agents of a mainstream union killed a 23-year-old activist of an independent union in Argentina. Social organisations and the non-official union confederation made an urgent call for mobilisations and a general strike in Buenos Aires.
Mark 'Stone/Kennedy' exposed as undercover police officer
21-10-2010 16:57
People's Front of Judea
21-10-2010 15:27
They are a bit behind the times in Southwell
Passing through Southwell some months ago I spotted this graffiti.
Translated it is supposed to mean Romans Go Home.
However when I revisited yesterday, it had been corrected, by some keen passer-by.
Skill share in Latin anyone?
(sorry about the obscene image)
