JANUARY 2013
Thursday 31st January
Vegan Fish & Chips (and mushy peas), plus ‘March of the Penguins’ film @ Kebele, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, BS56SY.
6.30pm- food
7.30pm- film
Suggested donation for food: £2.50
A fundraiser for The Black Fish: http://www.theblackfish.org/
Thursday 31st January, 2013
Book Launch – ‘Physical Resistance: A Hundred Year’s of Anti-Fascism’ by Dave Hann @ The Hydra Bookshop
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Price: Donation
Large-scale confrontations, disruption of meetings, sabotage and street fighting have been part of the practice of anti-fascism from the early twentieth century until the twenty-first. Rarely endorsed by any political party, the use of collective bodily strength remains a strategy of activists working in alliances and coalitions against fascism. In ‘Physical Resistance’ famous battles against fascists, from the Olympia arena, Earls Court in 1934 and Cable Street in 1936 to Southall in 1978 and Bradford 2010, are told through the voices of participants. Anarchists, communists and socialists who belonged to a shifting series of anti-fascist organizations relate well-known events alongside many forgotten but significant episodes.
For more on the book details see: http://www.zero-books.net/books/physical-resistance
Studies of anti-fascism in Britain have tended to be either academic texts or partisan political histories. ‘Physical Resistance’ is neither; it is an inclusive history, broader in scope than any other work so far. It covers the whole period of anti-fascist activism but importantly, it redefines political practice according to the act of participation rather than the adherence to precisely defined ideological standpoints and offers an alternative interpretation of political action, which includes physical resistance as part of an everyday pattern of opposition. This wider and longer historical perspective is pieced together through the everyday experiences of activists themselves. The importance of any book about anti-fascism depends upon how it is used. As well as the history of anti-fascism, our discussion will address the re-emergence of an anti-fascist movement over the last year.
Related Link: http://www.brh.org.uk/site/events/physical-resistance-a…cism/
FEBRUARY 2013
Sunday 3rd February
Film screening of Josh Fox’s ‘Gasland’ @ Kebele, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol, BS5 6JY
7.30pm
“The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.”
Monday 4th February
Film screening: ‘This Land is Our Land’ @ Dove Street South, 4 Kings Square, Kingsdown, Bristol
8pm
Entry £3/£4 (But nobody turned away due to lack of funds)
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons — everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land, acclaimed author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests. Placing the commons squarely within the American tradition of community engagement and the free exchange of ideas and information, Bollier shows how a bold new international movement steeped in democratic principles is trying to reclaim our common wealth by modeling practical alternatives to the restrictive monopoly powers of corporate elites.
Film will be followed by talks and a discussion on the current rising global commons movement.
See link for introduction to the commons. http://www.permanentculturenow.com/introduction-to-the-commons/
Bristol ABC Presents
Prisoner Letter Writing Evening
First Thursday of Every Month (7th February)
We invite you to join us for an evening of food & prisoner solidarity as we write letters to anarchist, class struggle and political prisoners.
Each month we will include a film/talk/discussion/entertainment related to prisoner solidarity and the work we do at Bristol ABC.
Bristol Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) is a grass-roots collective of people supporting prisoners. We do this through letter writing, prisoner visits, spreading information and publishing literature relating to Prison, organising protests & much more.
Please join us from 6:30PM at:
Kebele, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, BS5 6JY
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