After the Cafe – at 7pm in the Events Room there’ll be a talk and discussion with Tony from the Rebel City London collective.
The individuals from a range of London groups that make up the Rebel City collective, have tried the full range of standard outreach tactics to people – street stalls, free newsletters, flyposting, billboards, meetings, gigs & socials, film nights and other events, and of course actions. When they came up with the idea of holding talks about anarchism with youth in schools & colleges, most people just…laughed. Impossible! It was a slow burner, but they’ve now run dozens of such talks after being invited into places. See their Schools Project page.
From those talks came the idea of a book written in a style and language that would appeal to youth. Early drafts were road-tested on youth, with their comments and criticsms turned into edits. Then the youth proofread the book. Thousands of copies have been distro’d or downloaded. You can read the book here – For a future made by us all. There’s a Deaf version, and also translations into Kurdish, Arabic and Persian.
More recently they’ve also taken to making short films of a person talking about anarchism, and posting them up on tiktok and FB, in a small attempt to get anarchist voices heard. Now they’ve got more ambitious, forming ANTS, and putting together a team of confident anarchist speakers – to go out into the media world and speak about anarchism, or an anarchist persoective on a particular issue. Impossible you might say? Well we’ve heard that word before!
Come and join the discussion and help find new and better ways to spread the word about anarchism now!
On the weekend of the 24th-26th July, 2 Bristol comrades got a very impressive glimpse of what a long lasting and combative mass movement looks like. We were visiting comrades in Torino and the Val di Susa in northern Italy, home to a 3 decades long struggle against the hugely destructive Treno di Alta Velocita (TAV) capitalist mega project. The No TAV movement is a genuinely grassroots, mass movement involving tens of thousands of people, with a proud history of direct action and diversity of tactics. We could learn a lot from their struggle.
We will give a short presentation with holidarity photos and footage from recent events and actions.
There will be pizza, pasta and gelato to raise funds for No TAV defendants and prisoners.
There will be no BASE Cafe’s on Sundays during August.
Many people are away on summer holidays, have kids off school and are away working at, or enjoying festivals (and also it’s good to have a break and reset sometimes).
The next BASE Cafe will be on Sunday 6th September.
There will also be no BASE Bikes in August. The next session will be on Tuesday 1st September.
BASE needs repair and maintenance work to the roof, stairs, ceilings and doors, which will cost around £15,000.
If this work isn’t completed then we risk structural damage to the building. Whilst we have some money in reserves to pay for this, we need to raise £10,000 to cover the excess. If you want to help the building stay upright for the next 30 years, please donate!
All donations are greatly appreciated.
In addition to financial contribution, you can…
Organise a fundraising event (e.g. a gig or seeling cake)
Contribute prizes to a raffle
Spread the fundraising call, share with your colleagues, friends and family
Please contact BASE at basesocialcentre[at]riseup.net if you want to organize an event or have a prize for the raffle.
Join us from 1:00-5:00pm on Sunday July 26 to help raise some funds to support critical building repairs at BASE.
This will include a vegan bake sale, a plant swap, badge-making and an open day for the public. We warmly invite new and familiar faces to stop by 🫶
The event is co-hosted by the Infoshop and Library collectives at BASE. We will be there to chat more about what we do, how we organise, and how you can get involved in our social centre.
Please get in touch if you’d like to contribute any vegan treats for the bake sale 🥧
To participate in the plant swap:
Bring plants (indoor or outdoor), cuttings, pots etc to swap. We will aim to start swapping at 2pm to give everyone a chance to arrive, label their plants and have a look to see what other people have brought. If you would like to swap anything then we suggest making a £5 donation towards the fundraiser.
