Autonomous spaces weekend — pre-announced events (London, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Reading, Bristol)

ASS Ben­e­fit & More 11th ‑13th April

ASS ben­e­fit
Open access squat­ters-hous­ing-land art — pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion
Work­shops & stalls
Cin­e­ma
Actions

ASS Ben­e­fit & More 11th ‑13th April
ASS flier
ASS ben­e­fit
Open access squat­ters-hous­ing-land art — pho­tog­ra­phy exhi­bi­tion
Work­shops & stalls
Cin­e­ma
Actions

Week­end long social centre/s event in Lon­don in occu­pied space/s to coin­cide with the Europe-wide days of action in defence of free spaces and for an anti-cap­i­tal­ist pop­u­lar cul­ture.

Var­i­ous venues still to be con­firmed, more info com­ing soon.

Advi­so­ry Ser­vice
housingmatters@hushmail.com
http://www.squatter.org.uk

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Space Invader Crop Circle
MANCHESTER SPACE INVADERS LINE UP
Man­ches­ter Space Invaders are a col­lec­tive of autonomous groups and indi­vid­u­als work­ing togeth­er to reclaim our city…we are mobi­liz­ing to fight gen­tri­fi­ca­tion, ‘regen­er­a­tion’ and all the bor­ders that exist with­in the city. We call for all groups, indi­vid­u­als, net­works and fam­i­lies to get involved and to join in our glo­ri­ous cel­e­bra­tion of autonomous spaces…

THURS 28TH MARCH
SPACE INVADERS MEETING 6pm
SQUAT FILM NITE 7pm
Films about squat­ting: secur­ing a build­ing, evic­tion, cul­ture..
bring your own films!
Get involved in prepa­ra­tions for the days of action!
Pop­corn, veg­an cake and beer!
For loca­tion email manchesterspaceinvaders@yahoo.co.uk..

FRIDAY 11TH
SPACE INVADERS BAND NITE
The week­end will kick off from 5pm on Friday..come to the squat for food, music and help cre­ate the space…bring yer mates, art mate­ri­als and enjoy the sounds of GNOD, CASH FOR YOUR STORIES, THE AUTONOMADS, SONIC BOOMSIX..and more!
Loca­tion TBC…call for more info

SATURDAY 12TH
I BIKE MCR BIKE ART PARADE
Dress your­self and your bike up for a bike art parade..Any theme for fan­cy dress for you and your bike is welcome..why not make it cos­mic for some fun with the Space Invaders!?
Meet All Saints Park on Sat­ur­day 12th April at 2pm for a nice pic­nic in the park and to admire each oth­ers fan­ci­ly dec­o­rat­ed steeds and riders(bring some nice pic­nic food and drink)..also if you don’t get chance to bling your bike before you come, there will be oppor­tu­ni­ty and mate­ri­als to do it there… then we shall ride around the city show­ing off how grea­tour blinged-up bikes look…..ending up at the Man­ches­ter Autonomous Spaces Squat where there will be food and enter­tain­ment and all sorts of excit­ing activ­i­ty!!!
http://ibikemcr.org.uk

PARK FUN DAY…SAT 12TH
Cathe­dral Gar­dens, out­side Urbis from 1pm to 6pm..
Bring your fam­i­ly and friends, pic­nics and crafts!
Folk bands, a soundsys­tem, mag­ic tricks, street the­atre and art ses­sion!
Tran­sis­ter mad­ness with our mobile sound system…bring your portable radio!
Get cre­ative and get involved before reclaim­ing the city with No Bor­ders…

DEMONSTRATION IN DEFENCE OF AUTONOMOUS SPACES SAT 12TH
Sat­ur­day, April 12,a demon­stra­tion for FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR ALL and IN DEFENCE OF AUTONOMOUS SPACES.Assemble at Urbis (next to Vic­to­ria Sta­tion), 5pm
Check http://www.april-12.blogspot.com/ for updates.
Across the coun­try cities are being sold to the high­est bid­ders. The dri­ve for ‘regen­er­a­tion’ is demol­ish­ing homes, mar­gin­al­is­ing com­mu­ni­ties, pri­vatis­ing pub­lic space and clos­ing down vital com­mu­ni­ty ser­vices. There has sel­dom been a time when fight­ing for autonomous spaces in Man­ches­ter has been more impor­tant.
The strug­gle for self-organ­i­sa­tion and social auton­o­my brings migrants and squat­ters into inevitable con­fronta­tion with the exist­ing social and polit­i­cal sys­tem. Self-organ­i­sa­tion does not mean liv­ing out­side of soci­ety. We want to live in it but accord­ing to our own rules. We want to eman­ci­pate our­selves from the cap­i­tal­ist process­es that gov­ern our city and our lives, with­out turn­ing our backs to soci­ety.

INFO manchesterspaceinvaders@yahoo.co.uk
http://mcraz.wordpress.com
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/

SUBSCRIBE https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/manchesterspaceinvaders

CALL 07526256932 AFTER 6TH APRIL
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MORE EVENTS TBC CLOSER TO THE TIME.…if you could offer a workshop/equipment/skills/time.…get in touch and join the invaders!

manchesterspaceinvaders@yahoo.co.uk
http://mcraz.wordpress.com/

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the Auda­cious Space free cafe & info-shop

A Cel­e­bra­tion of Free Spaces
Leeds City Cen­tre, Fri­day 11th — Sat­ur­day 12th April 2008

Part of the inter­na­tion­al week­end of action in sup­port of squats and autonomous spaces around the world (see www.april2008.squat.net for more info).

Across the world, com­mu­ni­ties are under threat as city “regen­er­a­tion schemes” favour a glam­orous , busi­ness-friend­ly envi­ron­ment over and above issues such as com­mu­ni­ty,. social hous­ing and diver­si­ty. Leeds is no excep­tion as PFIs and sim­i­lar pri­va­tised “regen­er­a­tion” pro­grammes threat­en com­mu­ni­ties across the city.

We want to show that com­mu­ni­ties through­out our city are not pre­pared to lie down and accept this!

For this week­end we are plan­ning a squat­ted space in Leeds City Cen­tre, fea­tur­ing:

- cafe
— focus on hous­ing / squat­ting / gen­tri­fi­ca­tion
— free shop
— fam­i­ly friend­ly space: day­time cafe will be alco­hol-free & drug-free space
— oppor­tu­ni­ty to link up with oth­er com­mu­ni­ties threat­ened by the above issues

…but most impor­tant­ly the space will be open for what­ev­er you want it to be: an oppor­tu­ni­ty for films, dis­plays, art, work­shops… to get involved give us an email on leedssquat@googlemail.com or call 07526 261061.

The venue will be an easy walk from Leeds city cen­tre / train sta­tion / bus sta­tion — for loca­tion please call 07526 261061 or email leedssquat@googlemail.com
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Action for squats and autonomous spaces in Not­ting­ham

On Fri­day 11th and Sat­ur­day 12th of April, we are plan­ning to answer the inter­na­tion­al call out for two days of demon­stra­tion, direct action, pub­lic infor­ma­tion, street-par­ty, squat­ting etc in defence of free spaces and for an anti-cap­i­tal­ist pop­u­lar cul­ture.

Peo­ple from a num­ber of cities across the UK have already announced that tem­po­rary autonomous spaces will open for the 11th and 12th of April 2008. A group of peo­ple will open a tem­po­rary autonomous space in Not­ting­ham city cen­tre. We want this (hope­ful­ly) vibrant and pub­lic space to be an exu­ber­ant response to news of a final clo­sure of the ASBO.

By vis­i­bly tak­ing a space in the city cen­tre, we intend to raise aware­ness of squat­ting and so con­tribute to a future of squat­ting in Not­ting­ham with more long-term squats else­where in the city.

One goal for this week­end of action will be to inspire and empow­er peo­ple who have pre­vi­ous­ly been unfa­mil­iar with squat­ting. By pro­vid­ing mate­ri­als and infor­ma­tion, work­shops, squat­ters’ hand­books and by relay­ing our own expe­ri­ences, we can enable peo­ple to house them­selves with­out com­pro­mis­ing with cap­i­tal­ism. In addi­tion, we can utilise the autonomous envi­ron­ment cre­at­ed by squat­ting for oth­er needs than hous­ing. Dis­cussing cam­paigns and shar­ing knowl­edge and skills we can sup­port one anoth­er and be
empow­ered our­selves, as well as draw­ing in new peo­ple by cre­at­ing a vibrant and excit­ing place to be. This can be in the form of food, work­shops, films, art, talks — and absolute­ly any­thing you are moti­vat­ed to pro­vide.

Over the last few weeks of meet­ings we’ve made some basic logis­ti­cal deci­sions. We wel­come cre­ative, ener­getic and/or enthu­si­as­tic peo­ple, and every­one else, to help us realise and then use the space. Every Tues­day at 7pm we will have open plan­ning meet­ings to dis­cuss and plan the week­end. These meet­ings will be held at the Sumac Cen­tre, 245 Glad­stone Street, For­est Fields, Not­ting­ham.

Alter­na­tive­ly, you can con­tact us at squatnottingham@hotmail.co.uk

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Free Social Space week­end of events in Birm­ing­ham, April 11th to 13th 2008

As part of the Europe-wide call for decen­tralised action for squats and autonomous spaces (see http://april2008.squat.net/ ), there will be a tem­po­rary free space and week­end of work­shops and events in Birm­ing­ham on the 11th to 13th of April.

CALL OUT: FREE SPACE BIRMINGHAM AND THE EUROPE-WIDE CALL OUT FOR SQUATTED SOCIAL SPACES.

Across Europe on the week­end of April 11th-13th, peo­ple will be tak­ing over build­ings and open spaces left aban­doned by state or pri­vate con­cerns. For one week­end we will be unit­ed in a fes­ti­val of resis­tance across Europe. (see http://april2008.squat.net/ )

Birm­ing­ham, UK will be respond­ing to this call and invite you to join in. We’re a group of peo­ple who have formed an autonomous vol­un­tary col­lec­tive. We have no boss­es to obey, no share­hold­ers to feed and make deci­sions by con­sen­sus, all pulling our weight.

We have cho­sen to occu­py an emp­ty build­ing in the city (close to Birm­ing­ham’s main rail sta­tions and the city cen­tre) for the week­end, hope­ful­ly to improve its neglect­ed con­di­tion and open it up for the ben­e­fit of the city of which we are a part.

We hope you can join us for this event, and invite you to join our col­lec­tive or form your own with sim­i­lar aims.

Come and learn stuff, play games and enjoy the food and com­pa­ny — or come and facil­i­tate a dis­cus­sion, play a song, sing and dance.

EVENTS:

Work­shops includ­ing: bike repair and main­te­nance, con­sen­sus deci­sion mak­ing, action against cli­mate change, dis­abil­i­ty rights and pol­i­tics, 12volt elec­tric­i­ty, LETS, per­ma­cul­ture, gueril­la gar­den­ing, intro­duc­tion to social cen­tres, hous­ing rights, DIY arts (jew­ellery mak­ing, paper mache, sculp­ture and mak­ing banners)and many more…

Demon­stra­tion against gen­tri­fi­ca­tion and for free space out­side Birm­ing­ham City Coun­cil head­quar­ters on Fri­day 11th (see next arti­cle)

Enter­tain­ment includ­ing an open mic night, film show­ings and live bands (TBC)

Free shop

Food by Birm­ing­ham Food Not Bombs

WHY SQUATTING?

There is a long tra­di­tion and his­to­ry of squat­ting in the British Isles, dat­ing from at least the 14th cen­tu­ry, as peo­ple occu­pied land pre­vi­ous­ly worked and occu­pied in com­mon. The mania for enclos­ing land as pri­vate has always been resist­ed. The Dig­gers, lev­ellers and oth­ers in the tur­bu­lent peri­od of the 17th cen­tu­ry occu­pied land for com­mon use.

The prac­tice of occu­py­ing build­ings became pop­u­lar amongst de-mobilised sol­diers in the 20th cen­tu­ry. Return­ing home from the Great and Sec­ond World wars, find­ing none of the promised ‘homes fit for heroes’, squat­ting emp­ty build­ings was a com­mon method of grow­ing viable homes in the cracks and emp­ty matri­ces of post-war Britain.

More recent­ly, squat­ting enjoyed a revival in the 1960s and 70s against the dis­as­trous hous­ing and archi­tec­tur­al poli­cies of the time. And in the last ten years there has been a revival of squat­ting to answer the need for social space as well as hous­ing need. Today squat­ting acts as a bul­wark against and alter­na­tive to gen­tri­fi­ca­tion — the growth of exclu­sive hous­ing for the rich, push­ing out the poor. This is what’s hap­pen­ing in Dig­beth.

Squats are por­tals into oth­er soci­eties. Places where real alter­na­tives can be grown and autonomous col­lec­tive ways of organ­is­ing and liv­ing found free of red tape, in places oth­er­wise left emp­ty and wast­ed.

There’s noth­ing ‘dirty’ about squat­ting. On the con­trary, the prac­tice cleans up after the waste and dis-ease pro­duced by cap­i­tal­is­tic author­i­tar­i­an­ism, trans­form­ing wast­ed space into lib­er­at­ed space. Thus many peo­ple pre­fer the term ‘free space’ as an alter­na­tive to ‘squat’.

WHY SOCIAL CENTRES?

A viable social cen­tre can be squat­ted (occu­pied), or facil­i­tat­ed through bureau­crat­ic means such as rent­ing or pur­chase. In recent years there has been a growth in social cen­tres across Britain, from Man­ches­ter to Bris­tol, Lon­don to Leeds, Glas­gow to Not­ting­ham and in Birm­ing­ham too.

In cre­at­ing a short term occu­pied social cen­tre we hope to cre­ate a free space for the ben­e­fit of the city. The only real lim­it on what can hap­pen in a social cen­tre is the imag­i­na­tion. Since we respect the integri­ty of the build­ing and don’t trash it (unlike its ‘own­ers’) we can as a col­lec­tive open it for pos­i­tive com­mu­ni­ty projects. Social Cen­tres can and have been used for: film screen­ings, healthy food and drink, libraries of books and infor­ma­tion exchange (includ­ing free inter­net access), freeshops (the free exchange of goods) and all man­ner of creative/artistic projects,
and polit­i­cal organ­is­ing around local and glob­al issues.

In these times, when coun­cils are clos­ing and pri­vatis­ing pub­lic facil­i­ties hard won by our fore­bears, social cen­tres are an invalu­able part of soci­ety today, ful­fill­ing an increas­ing­ly ignored need.

Free Space Col­lec­tive
freespacebrum@riseup.net
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/birmingham_social_centre

Details of what’s on in Brum:

The venue will be with­in a short walk of the Cus­tard Fac­to­ry and of Moor Street Sta­tion — email freespacebrum@riseup.net or phone 07527580190 for exact loca­tion details.

FRIDAY 11TH APRIL:

10.00am (approx): Venue opens

11am — 1.30pm (approx): Ban­ner and prop mak­ing for demo (see below)

2pm: “Stop Sell­ing Off Our City” demo out­side Coun­cil House (see http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2008/04/395252.html )

5pm (approx): Return to tem­po­rary social cen­tre

6pm: Talk on pub­lic sec­tor pri­vati­sa­tion and gen­tri­fi­ca­tion, fol­lowed by din­ner cour­tesy of Birm­ing­ham Food Not Bombs

8pm onwards: Acoustic open mic night — all singers, poets, musi­cians and per­for­mance artists wel­come…

SATURDAY 12TH APRIL:

11am — 1pm:
Work­shop A: Intro­duc­tion to Social Cen­tres
Work­shop B: Bike repair and main­te­nance (pos­si­bly ongo­ing for rest of Sat)
Work­shop C: Jew­ellery mak­ing

1–2pm: Lunch

2–4pm:
Work­shop A: Talk by Mex­i­can activist on the Zap­atista move­ment
Work­shop B: Local Exchange Trad­ing Schemes (LETS)
Work­shop C: T‑shirt print­ing

4–6pm:
Work­shop A: Talk on the UK dis­abil­i­ty rights move­ment
Work­shop B: 12Volt elec­tric­i­ty
Work­shop C: Art from recy­cled mate­ri­als

6–7pm: Din­ner by Birm­ing­ham Food Not Bombs

7–9pm:
Work­shop A: Squat­ting and land rights
Work­shop B: Pales­tine sol­i­dar­i­ty
Work­shop C: Poi/fire spin­ning

9pm onwards: evening enter­tain­ment TBC

SUNDAY 13TH APRIL:

11am — 1pm:
Work­shop A: Per­ma­cul­ture and Tran­si­tion Towns
Work­shop B: Rock­et stoves (DIY wood burn­ing stoves)
Work­shop C: Face mas­sage

1–2pm: Lunch

2–4pm:
Work­shop A: Intro­duc­tion to co-oper­a­tives (Rad­i­cal Routes)
Work­shop B: Cli­mate change activism, includ­ing the Camp for Cli­mate Action
Work­shop C: Poet­ry

4–6pm:
Work­shop A: Con­sen­sus deci­sion mak­ing
Work­shop B: Sten­cil art
Work­shop C: Gueril­la gar­den­ing

6–7pm: Din­ner by Birm­ing­ham Food Not Bombs

7–9pm: “What Next?” The future of free social spaces in Birm­ing­ham — dis­cus­sion, all wel­come to par­tic­i­pate and make sug­ges­tions!

All work­shops sub­ject to time change or can­cel­la­tion depend­ing on num­ber of peo­ple inter­est­ed.
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Autonomous Space Events in Read­ing! Com­mon Ground to be Reopened!

As part of the glob­al days of action for squats and autonomous spaces (see http://april2008.squat.net for two (maybe three!) events will take place in Read­ing, Berks.

FRIDAY 11TH APRIL:

* Free Cafe Event*

Read­ing Grass­roots Action will hold a free cafe event in a pri­va­tised area of the river­side in the Town Cen­tre. The action will aim to tem­porar­i­ly reclaim some space in the town cen­tre, pub­li­cise fur­ther events and organ­i­sa­tion and spread infor­ma­tion on sev­er­al linked up strug­gles from the autonomous spaces move­ments to the Zap­atis­tas and from com­mu­ni­ty gar­dens to Star­bucks work­ers. Hope­ful­ly a film will be shown illus­trat­ing the glob­al resis­tance against empire and good free food and Zap­atista cof­fee will be giv­en out.

SATURDAY 12TH APRIL:

* Com­mon Ground Squat­ted Com­mu­ni­ty Gar­den will be Re-Opened!*

Com­mon Ground — a squat­ted com­mu­ni­ty gar­den in Kates­grove area of Read­ing — was closed down by Read­ing Bor­ough Coun­cil in Octo­ber 07, fol­low­ing two pre­vi­ous­ly unsuc­sess­ful evic­tion dates.

But on Sat 12th April, it will once again by opened to the pub­lic!

- Free Entry from 1pm!

- Free BBQ (trad & veg­an options) from 3pm!

- Live Acoustic Music from 5pm!

Fea­tur­ing:

* Neil Suther­land — Pos­i­tive folk-punk in the vein of Bil­ly Bragg.
* Clay­ton Bliz­zard — Acoustic hip hop — lyri­cal genius!
* Smoky Bas­tard — Irish style folk-punk in vein of Flog­ging Molly/Pogues/Dropkicks
* Kel­ly Kemp — Coun­try style folk-punk from ex-vocal­ist of No Com­ply
* Nao­mi Hates Humans — Soul­ful folk-punk melodies
* Sam Rus­so — “Boss mad sounds!”

LOCATION:

Entrance is through the alley­way, next to ex-Wom­ens Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre, Sil­ver Street, Read­ing, RG2. It’s two mins from town cen­tre, just up Lon­don Street from Glob­al Cafe/Great Expec­ta­tions.

Q: “But wont the cops stop us?!”

A: “Nev­er fear, Plan B is here!”

If the mis­er­able coun­cil and moody cop­pers stop us, we’ll go cheer them up…

… by mov­ing the entire event out­side their offices!

So, if you can’t find us at Com­mon Ground, ring 07757280546 on the day for lat­est info!

Hope to see ya then!

P.S. We’ve even heard rumour of a free par­ty in town that night, so keep yer ears to the dirty Read­ing ground.…..

katesgrovegarden(AT)yahoo.co.uk
http://www.rgacollective.org.uk

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Bristol autonomous weekend flier front
Bris­tol: with the Broad­mead Expan­sion and its spillover into St Pauls and Old Mar­ket that is dis­plac­ing our local com­mu­ni­ties, the time is now to take mat­ters into our own hands and reclaim our pub­lic spaces.

For more info call: 07528 953 230 / 07591 631 230

FRIDAY 11th
— day­time: Come help cre­ate the space
— evening: Film night from 7pm

SATURDAY 12th
— Car­ni­val Parade start­ing from Albany Green St. Pauls at 11am.
— Art Exhi­bi­tion open all day
— Cabaret/Open mic, live music

REPAIR NOT REDEVELOP

Yup­pie flats are not part of a sus­tain­able future and are push­ing social hous­ing out of the city cen­tre. Resist the dis­place­ment of local peo­ple and join the parade!

Come One, Come All!
Take back our pub­lic space – If this moti­vates you spread the Word!

Inter­na­tion­al Days of Action for Squats and Autonomous Pub­lic Spaces have been called for on the 11th and 12th of April 2008. http://april2008.squat.net:8080/. Diverse groups of enraged cre­atives from Prague to New Zealand will be tak­ing things into their own hands: reclaim­ing spaces for art, hous­ing, work­shops, dis­cus­sions, talks, films, food, swap-shops, music, per­for­mances & open mics to name but the bare essen­tials.

Whilst their motives are local­ly spe­cif­ic, these autonomous actions are drawn togeth­er inter­na­tion­al­ly by com­mon threads: indig­na­tion at the impend­ing grip that cor­po­rate expan­sion has on our cities; dimin­ish­ing social hous­ing; ‘stream­lined’ rents; the homogeni­sa­tion of the high street with cor­po­rate chains; the seg­re­ga­tion of cities along the lines of wealth and pow­er…

Here in Bris­tol we will be reclaim­ing a pri­vate space and breath­ing life back into it momen­tar­i­ly for a pub­lic week­end of cel­e­bra­tion. As a rup­ture with the march of high speed com­mer­cial exis­tence, we will show films, parade through the streets, open space for art and work­shops, cook and eat food, lis­ten to music and live a lit­tle. Whether you’re a lock break­ing spe­cial­ist, poet, painter or film-mak­er and would like to get involved — or if you just want to come have a look at what can be done with love and shoe­string — come along!

The car­ni­val pro­ces­sion will make its way through Bris­tol on Sat­ur­day 12th. We will assem­ble at Albany Green, St Pauls at 11am for the start of the parade – bring friends and fam­i­ly, whis­tles and horns, ped­al pow­er and music. By tak­ing back our streets we’ll show our com­mu­ni­ties are fed up with the odi­ous creep­ing hand of shiny rede­vel­op­ment. And in prepa­ra­tion: come cre­ate cos­tumes, ban­ners and car­ni­val trim­mings at work­shops in the space the day before, Fri­day 11th.

This open invi­ta­tion is a call out to com­mu­ni­ties and indi­vid­u­als of all skills and inter­ests that can help make these days as vis­i­ble as pos­si­ble- take action in OUR city! Come join to raise aware­ness that there is an alter­na­tive, and resist the aggres­sive pri­vate expan­sion into our pub­lic spaces.

http://april2008.squat.net/index.php/category/english/lang-pref/en
Bristol autonomous weekend flier back

More Bris­tol details: Save Stokes Croft

Sat­ur­day 12th April: Protest Against Gen­tri­fi­ca­tion of Cen­tral Bris­tol

11.00am Albany Green, St. Pauls and 2.00pm Broad­mead (Cen­tre)

Bris­tol is under­go­ing mas­sive attacks on our free spaces and cul­ture by prop­er­ty devel­op­ers and their friends in the City Coun­cil. Across the city green spaces, pubs, clubs and ameni­ties are being closed and sold off with lit­tle con­sul­ta­tion with the com­mu­ni­ties affect­ed.

So if you oppose the…

* Threat of clo­sure of the clubs and pubs on Stokes Croft (Clock­work, Lako­ta, Blue Moun­tain, Junc­tion)
* The threat­ened sell off of Cas­tle Park to the devel­op­ers
* The loss of play­ing fields and green spaces city-wide
* The ‘pri­vate streets’ of Cabot Cir­cus
* The dis­per­sion orders on Col­lege Green
* The removal of the Bris­tol-Bath cycle path
* The loss of pubs and meet­ing spaces in our com­mu­ni­ties

On Sat­ur­day 12th April there will be street protests against the gen­tri­fi­ca­tion of Cen­tral Bris­tol. There will be two meet­ing points:

11.00am Albany Green, St. Pauls: Join the ‘Bris­tol Space Inva­sion’ Car­ni­val Parade as part of a europe wide week­end of action against the pri­vati­sa­tion of pub­lic space

Join­ing with…

2.00am Broad­mead (Cen­tre): ‘Save Stokes Croft from Gen­tri­fi­ca­tion’ par­ty parade going to Col­lege Green

After the parades come along to Bris­tol Space Inva­sion Autonomous Zone fea­tur­ing Art, per­for­mance, cin­e­ma, open-mic and live music — ALL FOR FREE! — Call 07528 953 230 or 07591 631 230 on the day for details of pre­cise loca­tion.

Please show your oppo­si­tion to the destruc­tion of our places, spaces and cul­ture, before its too late.

See you there.…

Save Stokes Croft and Bris­tol Space Inva­sion