CRUSH the Cabot CREDIT Circus

This Thurs­day the 25th of Sept, a call to action came to dis­rupt the far­ci­cal open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of Bristol’s brand new abom­i­na­tion.

CRUNCH the CABOT CREDIT CIRCUSThis Thurs­day the 25th of Sept, a call to action came to dis­rupt the far­ci­cal open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of Bristol’s brand new abom­i­na­tion.

CRUNCH CABOT CREDIT CIRCUS was embla­zoned across the vile new shop­ping complex’s adver­tis­ing hoard in plain view of motorists arriv­ing through the new­ly rout­ed, soon to be con­gest­ed, road sys­tem that snakes around the £500 mil­lion project that offers yet more ster­ile, soul­less, cap­i­tal­ist con­sumerism.

The ridicu­lous tim­ing of the advent of this unnec­es­sary mon­stros­i­ty, dur­ing the so-called ‘cred­it crunch’, offers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to think about just how lit­tle com­mu­ni­ty con­sul­ta­tion took place; about the mass dis­place­ment of the poor­er sec­tions of our com­mu­ni­ty to make way for its con­struc­tion; and about the sheer slap in the face to peo­ple on low-incomes whose lives hang in the bal­ance as banks crum­ble and cred­it becomes scarce. All the while the Bris­tol (Impe­r­i­al) Alliance siphon off what prof­its they might make, out of our city, to Birm­ing­ham, Lon­don and the hands of a few cor­po­rate prof­i­teers.

This rup­ture with the Alliance’s image and ethos – where ‘retail ther­a­py’ has replaced com­mu­ni­ty con­tact and our social inter­ac­tions are increas­ing­ly chan­nelled through mon­e­tary trans­ac­tions and mate­ri­al­ist con­sump­tion – serves as an excla­ma­tion. This is a call for fur­ther and sus­tained action against this odi­ous sym­bol of aggres­sive glob­al cap­i­tal­ism and the gen­tri­fi­ca­tion that is seep­ing into our city.

Already full of emp­ty shops, at such a finan­cial­ly unsta­ble time, if it doesn’t crum­ble of its own accord, this dis­ease must be purged from the city,

BUY LESS, LIVE MORE!

Take your own actions.

Whis­tle crews, musi­cal chair shop inva­sions, dress like the drones that make this sham­bol­ic cir­cus pos­si­ble and cause some mis­chief!

Join the Zom­bie march this Sat­ur­day the 27th of Sept, assem­ble 11am at the Band­stand in Cas­tle Park, sham­ble & lurch from noon.

Buy Noth­ing: Steal Some­thing Day: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

CABOT CIRCUS on Indy­media: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688930