Squatted Proposed Tesco Site — Eviction Resisted This Morning In Bristol + various Tescos bricked & painted overnight

9th March 2010
A for­mer com­e­dy club, Chel­tenham Rd, Bris­tol, pro­posed to be yet anoth­er Tesco Metro, but now turned into a tem­po­rary social cen­tre — at which there has been an event on for the last fort­night, with­stood an evic­tion attempt this morn­ing.

It was around 9am that I received info that jesters was being evict­ed by the time I got there around 30 peo­ple were already on the ground sup­port­ing with numer­ous oth­ers inside and on the flat roof. This includ­ed some­one up a 12ft high tripod…as well as one cool look­ing cus­tomer in shades sit­ting on a deck chair next to his tent!

A pass­ing van, decid­ed to park right in front of where they would pre­sum­ably have ini­tial access !

There was two van loads of bailiffs…they looked fair­ly standard…no climb­ing gear — and cru­cial­ly in terms of the tri­pod — no sign of a cher­ry pick­er. This fol­lows a pat­tern in build­ing (as opposed to tree ) evic­tions where there is going to be resis­tance they turn up ready for a nor­mal evic­tion, and then (after a chat with the one police car which turned up) left with out act­ing. It’s like­ly that they will turn up, tooled up, pos­si­bly with climb­ing bailiffs — most like­ly at a more unso­cia­ble hour in the next few days. So keep your phone on..and if you can, come and join the peo­ple stay­ing in the build­ing.

At 10.30 the num­ber swelled to around 100, the Bris­tol Freeshop lads brought some crap fridges and dumped them out­side the front doors , get­ting a rid of them and bar­ri­cad­ing the build­ing from out­side at the same time huge bar­ri­cades erect­ed inside pro­tect­ing all entrances to the build­ing. they shall not pass!

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A mes­sage from Jester’s Com­e­dy Squat:

NO to Tescos. The lat­est bat­tle and the upcom­ing strug­gle at the Jester’s Com­e­dy Squat.

A mes­sage from Jester’s Com­e­dy Squat resist­ing yet anoth­er TECOS in Bris­tol.

Today, Tues­day the 9th of March 2010, bureau­crats, pri­vate bailiffs and con­trac­tors turned up at 140 Chel­tenham Road the site of the old Jester’s Com­e­dy Club. The own­ers, Tescos, received a pos­ses­sion order from the courts last month and the goons had arrived this morn­ing to car­ry it out.

They were denied entry.

They will always be denied entry no mat­ter how many cor­po­rate scum­bags, bailiffs, secu­ri­ty and police turn up.

This was the first evic­tion attempt and we are ready for the next one, be it in the next few days or a month.

We there­fore call­ing for help from any­one that can spare it. We need to be even more ready for the next attempt. That means for­ti­fy­ing and bar­ri­cad­ing the build­ing bet­ter. It means cook­ing and clean­ing inside, car­ry­ing on with the events that we have been doing, and keep­ing the spir­it alive.

Out­side we need to be talk­ing to peo­ple around us to explain what we are doing and why.

Thank you to every­one that turned up this morn­ing, it was real­ly appre­ci­at­ed. Next time they will come back with more forces and it would be great to get us all out again. Loads of us on the street out­side real­ly helps, makes peo­ple inside feel stronger and can make the dif­fer­ence!

We sup­port the attack on the Tescos in Red­field. We see that their actions and our occu­pa­tion are part of a broad strug­gle with dif­fer­ent ways of resist­ing Tescos and its take over of our city. Sol­i­dar­i­ty is one of our most impor­tant weapons that we have in this fight.

Help­ing each oth­er out com­plete­ly under­mines what this sys­tem is try­ing to do to our lives and this plan­et.

Come down! Any­thing you can do helps, and ‘every lit­tle hurts’ them!

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Tescos trashed

In the ear­ly hours of the 9th of march the Tesco store on Glouces­ter road Bris­tol was dam­age attacked. Win­dows and cctv destroyed mes­sage left. This is a response to Tesco’s increas­ing onslaught on our lives and the gen­tri­fi­ca­tion and homogeni­sa­tion of our envi­ron­ment. Reform is impos­si­ble. Cap­i­tal­ism is fun­da­men­taly insane. Lets brick their banal comod­i­fied real­i­ty. It was fun. It was easy. It will be done again you pricks.

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In the begin­ning of hours of Tues­day morn­ing, the Broad­mead branch of Tesco in Bris­tol attacked. The mul­ti­ple win­dows and the doors were crushed before those rel­a­tive that escaped in the night. Even if these actions have been tak­en in the momen­tum of the No Tesco in Stokes Croft cam­paign, we want to under­line that our effort is not lim­it­ed in such. Local, inde­pen­dent, organ­ic or green cap­i­tal­ism would be equal­ly wor­thy of attack, with the facades of com­pa­ny that are only one from a lot of objec­tives. Did these metres be tak­en in the sol­i­dar­i­ty with the squat­ted Jester’s com­e­dy club that, with their way, resists in the rise of cor­po­rate con­trol. May your bar­ri­cades stands pow­er­ful, but the rebel in you is bold­er than any barred door. We remem­ber also the com­pan­ions that are jailed for the sim­i­lar action after the last demon­stra­tion of Gaza. No repres­sion will not deter us. Every lit­tle helps.

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Tesco smashed and sprayed in Fish­ponds, Bris­tol

Tesco Metro attacked with brick and spray paint at 2 am this morn­ing — win­dows smashed and ‘no more Tesco’ sprayed on both sides of store

At 2 am this morn­ing, Tesco Metro on Lodge Cause­way was attacked with bricks and spray, with bro­ken win­dows and “no more Tesco” sprayed on both sides of the store.

This action is not to pres­sure not to build more Tesco stores, but as a total rejec­tion of all they rep­re­sent. We see Tesco as extreme form of the cap­i­tal­ist dom­i­na­tion that entraps and enslaves us all.

Our mes­sage is sim­ple: if you build up, we smash down.

For a world free of cap­i­tal­ist exploita­tion and author­i­tar­i­an rule (A)

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