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Comment on Stokes Croft Gentrification Alert! by Ben Edwards

Ben Edwards — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:58:28 +0000

We are making a short film about Tosco wanting to use the old Jester site in Stocks Croft. If anyone from the group would be up for doing an interviews please get in touch. We are hopefully getting a short news alert out today and a longer piece out early next week so sooner rather than later would be good.

On a more general note it would be good to meet up as I am sure you have some film ideas?

Ben Edwards
iContact Video Network
07773 02 44 82

Comment on The Enemy Without Video by Doris Husein

Doris Husein — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:51 +0000

Take a look at lawsuit against MV Tintomara

Comment on Events by Bristol Radical History Group» Blog Archive » Indymedia Events

Bristol Radical History Group» Blog Archive » Indymedia Events — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:44:53 +0000

[...] 01/03/2010 Bristol Radical History Group Present: The 43 Group – Talk from a member of the anti-fascist group that helped keep fascism at bay after WWII. Find out more >> [...]

Comment on No Retreat by Louise

Louise — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:32:31 +0000

Dave Hann was not able to participate in the Bristol Indymedia and Radical History Group 5th October meeting. He died a few days before, on 29th September, a committed anti-fascist fighter and community activist. With less than a week to live and already very ill, he helped advise a group that had gathered together to defend the Deghayes family, relatives of the former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes, who in their Saltdean home on the outskirts of Brighton, (where the BNP have mustered 10% of the vote) have faced a campaign of racist and religious abuse.

I am not a born blogger and would like to all you who are much more used to it to bear with me while I try to say my piece. I realise that some of the people posting on this site may not have known either of the authors of No Retreat personally or worked with them politically but it is never a good idea to repeat unfounded rumours. These distractions hold our attention when we would do better to keep our eyes on the real enemies. I knew Dave Hann for 15 years, lived with him and loved all that time. I remember his involvement with AFA when it was still a fighting force and as a writer and activist in Brighton where we made our home. Dave resigned from Red Action over their decision to de-prioritise anti-fascist work. He also felt that the type of cultural front in Manchester developed by he and others based on broad alliance between football supporters, anti-fascists and anti-imperialists was being undervalued as political action. When No Retreat was published, both Dave and Steve Tilzey were really disappointed that attacks on their character and identity seemed to come from former comrades who seemed happy to carry out the work of the right wing. Accusing political activists of criminal behaviour has always been a strategy of the capitalist state: time and again that is how opposition to it is divided and dispersed. Steve and Dave never responded to accusations at the time of publication in hope that book would be received in the way that it was written: they tried to show that struggle against fascism was bigger and more important than any one individual, party, group or sect.

Comment on No Retreat by oldmanc7

oldmanc7 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:45:11 +0000

Cheers for Mon night nice that we could express our opinions and share our experiences with you all and take part in the discussion afterwards.
Also for the comradely hospitality shown to us during our brief visit to your City. Nic one.

Comment on No Retreat by admin

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:00:28 +0000

Yes, and I was on holiday.

Comment on No Retreat by Concussed

Concussed — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:46:40 +0000

Hello! Are you all cowards?

Comment on No Retreat by Concussed

Concussed — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:12:17 +0000

I could be wrong, just checking, don’t blow up on me but didn’t one get expelled from Red Action for a homophobic attack and the other from AFA for supplying the police with intelligence?

Been enquiring on Indymedia also.

Comment on Winstanly by admin

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:30:16 +0000

Please note that this is a Bristol Indymedia event and that it is their write up.

Comment on Winstanly by Christopher Thompson

Christopher Thompson — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:27:18 +0000

The land at St George’s Hill was, in fact, the common land of the local manor, which was essential for the economic survival of the poorer copyholders and day labourers. Their reaction was inevitably a hostile one as Christopher Durston showed more than thirty years ago.