Why campaigns fail – and what to do about it (12, 14, 19, 21 March)

The Next Level Of Campaigning. Why campaigns failed, fail, and how they will not fail again.

Responding to time running out for achieving urgent and ultimately needed change, locally and worldwide, environmentally, politically, socially.

Most campaigns for change (since the 1960s) were based on experience, creativity and community. In spite of this, they have sometimes won specific gains but have failed to cause the wider changes desired.

After having thoroughly reviewed many campaigns, actions, and projects from the 1960s up to 2019, their successes and failures – here’s a summary of the most common mistakes, the reasons, and a surprisingly simple mind-map that can make campaigning look fairly different in set up, practice, and success in causing effective change.

This is a talk of 30 min – 45 min, followed by open time for discussion, questions, responses. Ideally leaving you with something to take home on the day.

Free Entry
Thursdays 5 March, 12 March and 19 March 2020
6:30-8:30pm

Each Thursday event is followed by a Saturday workgroup (ie on 7, 14 and 21 March) from 1-3pm.

Base Community Coop (formerly Kebele Social Centre)
14 Robertson Rd
BRISTOL BS5 6JY

200 Yards from Robertson Rd bus stop (buses 48, 48a, 49, 24)

Labour behind the label meeting 20.02.20

Human Rights & Clothes: Activist Meet-Up #1 6-8pm

Would you like to join us in supporting garment workers worldwide to defend their human rights?
Labour Behind the Label setting up regular meet-ups in Bristol in 2020 for campaigners and activists to get together, share ideas and plan campaigns, protests & actions to fight for garment workers’ rights worldwide.

We know that solidarity works!

Join us for our informal first meeting to find out more information and explore some of the ways that we can stand up for human rights in the garment industry and support garment workers demands for better working conditions.

If you are interested in joining our movement, please get in touch by emailing  meg@labourbehindthelabel.org. For more information about Labour Behind the Label- please see our website:
https://labourbehindthelabel.org/

Radical book market 21.12.19 @ Exchange

BASE infoshop will have a stall at this upcoming event, organised by the awesome Active Distribution crew. Come and get yer stocking fillers and support your local radical distros and active radical groups in Bristol. There will be books, pamphlets, music, stickers, zapatista coffee, badges, Tshirts and lots more. The perfect antidote to the consumerist fest – anticapitalist shopping!

Get in touch with Active in advance to donate books to raise funds for Heyva Sor, the Kurdish Red Crescent doing incredible work in North East Syria. http://www.heyvasoruk.org/

The Exchange cafe will also be open serving up all the good stuff.

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Bristol sisterhood meetings

Come join Bristol Sisterhood in our next meetings on Monday, 2nd and Thursday 19th of December, 6pm at Base Cafe in Easton! We will discuss new agenda for future events and activism!

💜Open to women, trans and non binary people💜

We welcome new participants with fresh ideas! Our mission is to combat violence against women, break down stereotypes and fight sexism!!

Publicado por Bristol Sisterhood en Martes, 26 de noviembre de 2019

Lumpen launch 15.12.19


Come along to the Lumpen Launch in Bristol!

15th December from 7pm at BASE.

There will be readings and chat about working class writing. With
editors of the journal, and some of the contributing writers. D. Hunter will also be reading some new shit from his sequel to Chav Solidarity, which will be the same old shit of working class trauma, prison industrial complex and whiteness.

Lumpen: A Journal of Poor and Working Class writing is exactly what it sounds like. First hand accounts of lives on the rock face of austerity, critical assessments of the state of the left, the UK, and the international. Touching on the intersections of race, gender, mental and physical health. Discussions of violence, sex, identity,
family, exclusion, education and loss. And that’s just issue one.

​Lumpen is dogmatic in it’s belief that the best ideas to fight for
social justice will come from those most affected by the social
injustice that engulfs the UK, and the international system. This is one small space for some of the ideas to come forward. Support us if you can.

The publishing world is for the economically secure, the ones who can have the family and friends in the industry, the ones who have the time and resources to take months off without earning any cash, the ones who can afford to go on as many writing retreats as they like. It’s basically well middle class. Many of our writers are working minimum wage jobs 40 plus hours a week, often with other commitments on top of that from family to social justice work. Many of our writers were marginalised from education, told that they were to stupid or ignorant to share their ideas and analysis of the world. Lumpen thinks differently, and part of thinking differently is by finding ways to offer some financial solidarity with those writers.

At Lumpen we’re aiming to be able to pay our poor and working class writers as much as we can for their craft. And we want to give them a space to try out new styles and find the voices that match their ideas.

Purchase your copy here..https://www.chavsolidarity.com/shop-1

Base for Anarchy & Solidarity in Easton