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Activists and Thug bouncers at The Den

Speedwell | 27.02.2011 15:22

ACTIVIST EVENTS AND THUG BOUNCERS AT THE DEN
Last weekend Saturday at a benefit night for 'Child Victims of War', at the Den night club on corn street, an unknown woman was attacked by Bouncers and arrested by Cops for alleged drunk and disorderly, after being refused back into the venue where her belongings and friends were, following on from that night a member from the organising collective berated the woman!?!?! for questioning such harrasment. The said activist, when the woman was being arrested exclaimed she's 'Greek', to concerned punters who tried to see what was going on. as if to imply something more sinister and imperialist. Alongside this a number of people were thrown out for reasons unknown to them and us, One man happened to be a big issue seller, and even though he'd paid the 4 quid entry he was bustled out by 2 bouncers without him causing any problems at all, within 5 minutes of stepping through the door, clearly and act of prejudice. Also this is not the first time incidents of this nature have happened at the Den, previously for a benefit 'Against The Arms Trade', a number of people were dragged out of the venue for apparently no reason other then enjoying themselves. One poor punter was dragged out by the throat, arms and legs, just for taking his top off as he was hot, without much resisance from punter or collective organisers.

A number of people from around the scene are really really pissed off at the inaction of said collectives, and without even comment from them, it seems as if they are happy with these incidents, is it due to the venue being so central, we wonder???? Rather than giving a shit about the people, and the communites these peolpe come from- it is all well and good to raise money in solidarity with people suffering from oppression on the otherside of the globe, but if solidarity is not practiced in our streets, halls, venues regardless of/and in opposition to injustiice we face here, then what is the point in any solidarity at all. The fact of the matter is it seems that the said 'activist' is only to happy to work alongside very questionable individuals 'within the club circuit' and that such lack of care for people who are around the scene is disgusting... The fact that this venue is in the Friday/Saturday night hot spot of Corn Street, should be no excuse. If people are coming to support a good cause, the least the organisers can do is provide alteranitive security or ditch the venue all together....

We call on activists, and people in general to boycott the Thugs and Gangsters, at The Den, we can no longer, and should no longer stand for this kind of crap.......from within and outside of our community....

Speedwell
- Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/703502

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