This is an entry level session exploring some of the basic principles and values of anarchism and providing an opportunity for people to ask questions in an open and welcoming environment.

This event is free and open to all. Tea, coffee and water will be available, feel free to bring your own snacks however please make sure they are vegan.

BASE Accessibility information is available here: https://basebristol.org/safer-space/accountability-conflict-resolution-process/

If you have any specific accessibility requirements for the event please email basesocialcentre[at]riseup.net

Latest upcoming event, a thanks to @malakmattarart artist for the beautiful art. To @leighcadno for his continued determination to inspire and change minds and tell his heart wrenching stories which are both gripping and enlightening. And Vicky Moller for her continued drive to help, heal and move mountains for humanity! @communitiesforpalestiniansuk
@cwtchpals
These are your real time real life heroes changing history from grass roots. Leigh has worked as a nurse in Palastine many times and experienced horrors and beauty through resissilience and hope.
Poster design by me @jessyfergandco

✊🏽 NEW DATE – Friday 6th of February! ✊🏽

Bad Apple Bristol focuses on raising awareness about the tech industry’s participation in genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on navigating our responsibility in the West & how we can combat consumerism. We ALSO want to begin to build knowledge on how the tech industry exploits and harms Palestinians and Uyghurs.

Come and get involved — build knowledge and awareness, connect with other groups and individuals, and discuss your perspectives and ideas of how we can collectively build better in the long run. While we want to stay engaged with our communities in and around Bristol, you don’t have to make any long-term commitments by coming to this meeting, any time you give is valuable.

If you would like to volunteer with us for this meeting and have wellbeing, welfare and de-escalation training/ experience please send us a message.

Please message us if you have any questions or needs before the meeting! We look forward to welcoming you to the space.

Full details on venue accessibility can be found here:

https://basebristol.org/safer-space/accountability-conflict-resolution-process

DIGITAL SECURITY SKILL SHARE / HANG-OUT 🧑‍💻
First Monday of the Month – 7:00 – 8:30pm at BASE

Come down to BASE with your laptops and devices for a practical, hands on evening. We will collectively share tips and help each other install secure apps & plugins.As well as explore & put into place some better digital security practices to try and make us all a safer and a little less leaky with our data.

This is part of building more resilience in our communities and reducing our reliance on the state and big corporations.

This is an open, inclusive event suitable for anyone new to or comfortable with digital security.

There is no set program but some topics we might look at include:
– General Security Culture & Threat Models
– VPN’s & TOR
– Signal and other secure messaging tools
– Fdroid, Aurorastore and other useful apps & plugins
– Alternative social media to meta & X
– Alternative tools to google & microsoft
– Password managers
– Setting up Tails OS on a USB stick
– Having a look at GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel
– Whatever else people bring and want to explore

Free or make a donation to BASE for the room booking if you can 🏴

No techy experience or prior knowledge is necessary. Feel free to invite your comrades and share in your groups and networks.

BASE Accessibility information is available here: https://basebristol.org/safer-space/accountability-conflict-resolution-process/

If you have any specific accessibility or technical requirements for the event please email digitalsecurity1312@proton.me

Right now the people of Rojava are facing an existential threat as the authoritarian Syrian Transitional Government, alongside jihadist militias backed by the Turkish state, launches a large scale invasion of the territory. Let’s come together to share news of what is happening in Rojava now, why it’s important to defend the revolution, and how we can support from here!

The Resistance of Tishreen is a powerful film made during a months-long peace vigil to protect the Tishreen dam from Turkish bombardment a year ago, bringing to life the spirit of resistance that drives the Kurdish liberation struggle and the Rojava Revolution.

Berxwedan Jiyane! Resistance is life!

Sunday 25th January | 7.15 – 8.30pm
Film info:
40 minutes
Narration in Italian, interviews in Kurmanji, English subtitles
Content warning: death, injury, state oppression, mention of sexual violence.

PUBLIC TALK on the International Solidarity Movement (palsolidarity.org) at BASE, Robertson Road, Bristol, Sunday January 18th at 7:15pm (after the BASE Community meal) 

Delicious vegan food cooked by community volunteers from 6pm
Pay what you can, no one turned away due to lack of funds!

Please share widely 

Collective Action against Zionist Fascism 

A member of the BASE community will give a report back on the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement. For more than two decades ISM has stood with Palestinian communities facing ethnic cleansing and displacement. In 2026, those communities are facing a murderous onslaught by fascist settler groups.

 The report back will also cover the 2025 Zaytoun campaign, an initiative to  support Palestinian communities collectively harvest their olives in the face of vicious settler attacks.

The talk will look at the history of ISM and give information on how to join the movement.