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MARKET FUNDRAISER FOR PALESTINE – SAT 8TH FEB 10AM – 4PM

Join us for a day of solidarity, community, and fundraising for Palestine!

🌟 What’s On?
🛍️ Jumble Sale
🥣 Yummy Soup & Cakes
🎶 Live Music
➕ And More! – Expect good vibes and a welcoming space

Come along, bring your friends, and help raise vital funds!

All proceeds will go towards supporting Palestinian communities.

Please get in touch if you would like to donate clothes or books to sell or bake us a cake (vegan please!) or perform some music or poetry or have anything else to contribute!

💚 Solidarity!

HOPSICING MODERNITY READING – EVERY OTHER WEDS FROM 22/01/25

Join the Bristol Commons in reading ‘Hopsicing Modernity’ by Vanessa
Machado De Oliveira. We will discuss the book over six fortnightly
sessions and participate in some of the exercises detailed in it. We’ll
meet 7-9pm on:

Wednesday 22nd Jan, 5th, 19th Feb, 5th, 19th March and 2nd April

Both in-person at Base, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, BS5  6JY and there
will be an online option of joining. 

A solidarity fund is available to support you to buy the book if this is
a barrier for you. 

Sign up here bit.ly/BCHospicingModernity

WTF is the Solidarity Economy?! BOOK LAUNCH – FRI 12TH JULY 6-10PM

_From mutual aid and cooperation to internationalist solidarity; building a new world in the shell of the old while defending our rights and surviving together. Come and learn more about solidarity economy as revolutionary strategy._

Book launch, workshop and social with Solidarity Economy Association ticket link
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/solidarityeconomyassocation/1302598

July 12th 6pm-10pm at BASE Social Centre (Bristol). Workshop starts 6:30pm. 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol, BS5 6JY

RADICAL FRIDAYS – 5-8PM

🎉 Radical Fridays 👏 – every Friday 5-8pm at BASE. Come and meet new people and old friends 🥰, browse the library and infoshop 📚, drink tea or bring a beer🥂, eat snacks , plan the revolution 🤩. There will be a different topic to have a casual chat about each week 🌿

BEYOND “SPYCOPS”:  INFILTRATION & INQUIRIES IN 2024 – SUN 30TH JUNE 7PM

On the 1st July 2024 ‘Tranche 2’ of the Undercover policing inquiry (UCPI) will start.  This year, it will run for several months.

Anarchists and activists have been engaging with this process for several years now.  But what can we ever really learn from the police investigating themselves?  Is the UCPI just a time consuming distraction? The exposures happened in 2010, and it will be over a year before that time period is reached in the courts…  

The phrase ‘Spycops’ has become well known and understood… but in this process have some of the wider implications of undercover policing got lost?

Why is it important to continue to interrogate these issues from an anarchist perspective?

How can information be shared when there is no affinity?

How can we learn from the past without it consuming us?

The issues around infiltration are still very much relevant today, but it is vital to find new ways to engage with them.

  • Many groups are now publicly organising/mobilising around Palestine and ecological direct action.   What can be learnt from previous issues around “mass action” in terms of corporate and state surveillance?
  • This year Reclaim Power will target Drax power station in Yorkshire.  Last time this was a direct action target (2006), several of the undercover cops were involved.
  • The discussion will highlight some of the issues from the recent wave of exposures of undercover police in Barcelona.

The discussion will take place after Sunday cafe, so join us for food at 6

BASE 14 Robertson Rd, Easton  BS5 6JY  https://basebristol.org