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LIVE MUSIC: FERN ENLEY – SUN 20TH JULY – 7PM
📽️ ‘To Kill A War Maching’ Film Screening at BASE Cafe – Sunday 29th June 🇵🇸
🕰️ Food from 6pm – Film screening at 7pm
Pay-what-you-can – All vegan + gluten free options available 🍲
đź“Ť BASE Social Centre, 14 Robertson Road, BS5 6JY
This film may be illegal to stream as of next week, so come and watch it while you can and help support Palestine Action 🇵🇸💥
Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories around the UK.
Since 2020, direct action group Palestine Action have documented their operations to dismantle the companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Independent film makers Rainbow Collective have combined this cache of footage with narration by the group’s founders to follow the explosive growth of one of the world’s most effective and confrontational protest groups, and the backlash activists face as they incur the wrath of the British state and the arms companies operating on their soil.
BBFC Rated 15
Immigration Raids Resistance from LA to Bristol – Thursday 26th June – 6:15pm
What does it means to stand up against mass deportations under an authoritarian regime? This is a chance to put your questions to an LA activist. As well as learn the rights you can share with people being targeted by immigration enforcement in Bristol.
We will have some short talks from the different groups and then plenty of time for questions and discussion and to think about next steps. There will also be zines, stickers and radical literature available.
Brought to you by Pyrophyte Distro, Bristol Antiraids and Friends of Bristol Antifascists
No Borders. No Flags. No Nations.
Free event
BASE Accessibility details here: https://basebristol.org/safer-space/accountability-conflict-resolution-process/
TALK: THE FAR RIGHT, ENVIRONMENTALISM AND (SETTLER) COLONIALISM: SOME INSIGHTS FROM AUSTRALIA – SUNDAY 8TH JUNE – 7PM
The Far Right, Environmentalism and (settler) Colonialism: Some Insights from Australia
As social and environmental crises escalate, ecological concerns are returning as an important talking point for the far right. How does this relate to environmentalism more broadly? What might this mean for eco-anarchist struggles going forward?
This talk discusses how left, liberal and right wing politics struggle over the meaning of environmentalism, the risks of far right entryism and green/brown alliances, and what we might do about it.
The event will also highlight how thinking drawn from anti-fascist praxis, sociology and theories of (settler) colonialism can help us understand these processes.
Insights will be (mostly!) relevant to the UK context and there will be plenty of time for discussion.
BASE IS 30!
1995-2025 …. it’s time for us to celebrate!
Whether you were a part of BASE – or Kebele Kulture Project – in the 90s, 00’s, 10’s or 20’s … even if you’ve come through the doors for the first time in the last weeks, or if you’ve heard of BASE but have not yet got involved, we invite you to be a part of celebrating 30 years of our beloved social centre supporting Anarchy and Solidarity in Easton.
We don’t think a single event is enough… so there’s a series of plans. BASE is currently thriving, but there’s a lot of work in the week to week so we’re looking to our extended networks as well as our current regular volunteers and community to get involved in participating and organising these plans – if different people take a lead on different elements we can do so much more!
1. a ZINE… we’d love to publish a zine… what format it takes depends on the folks making it happen.
could there be personal stories of the impact of BASE on individuals and groups over the years? art from the archives? a how-to-get-involved? Reflections on how BASE’s role has shifted over time? a futurist vision of BASE in 30 years? could content be developed collectively through a workshop series in May/June?
2. a STREET PARTY
there’s nothing like a street party to bring community together. we’re looking at late September…
3. EVENT SERIES @ BASE during the birthday month of November
We will be waiving space hire fees for events making up a 30th Anniversary special programme during November.
We’ll ask events to have a connection to BASE, an explicit connection to anarchism, and to have an element of collectivity (eg not just a speaker talk with no participation) … and we’ll aim to put together a programme a few weeks in advance!
4. BIRTHDAY PARTY – towards the end of November we’d like to have a decent party at a venue with a bit more capacity than BASE itself!
Want to get involved in some of all these plans? Fill in this form:Â https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/qh-ujOQ-h6fzxSW2ig51fn-BNqR1M0cDWJ5GTZoZZQI/embed/
See you at BASE ❤️
Article: Celebrating 30 years of the Base for Anarchy and Solidarity in Easton (BASE)
As the Easton-based social centre reaches its thirtieth birthday, we explore the history of the much-loved volunteer-run community space, which began life as a squat back in the mid-1990s
Read the full Bristol Cable article here: https://thebristolcable.org/2025/04/celebrating-30-years-of-the-base-for-anarchy-and-solidarity-in-easton-base/
