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A Conversation with the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement

Thu, 23 June 2022 19:00 – 21:00 Online event

BASE regulars, the Kurdish Solidarity Network (KSN) are organising this event, A Conversation with the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement

note: it’s online, not at BASE… book tickets via the Eventbrite link

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-the-mesopotamian-ecology-movement-registration-350465219907

A discussion on the struggle for ecology and life under state oppression in Turkey and North Kurdistan

About this event

Join Kurdistan Solidarity Network for a conversation with the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement (MEM), a network of grass-roots organisations in Turkey and North Kurdistan focusing on ecological work with a radical vision for a better society.

MEM are active on many fronts, organising in a context of economic crisis, conflict, climate change and state oppression in Turkey. They are both struggling to protect nature and communities from state-sponsored megaprojects, such as mining and dams, which displace the population and destroy the ecosystem, and also working to create living, breathing alternatives through their democratic organising model, tree planting initiatives and co-operatives.

Rather than seeing ecology as separate from politics, the group imagines a radical reorganisation of society in order to ensure the protection of nature. MEM’s vision of a radically democratic, confederal politics is based on pluralism and social ecology, where people and human societies are a part of nature. They envision a communal economy based on gender liberation that moves beyond scarcity and hierarchy, toward a world that re-harmonises human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity, and freedom. And in doing so, protects not just nature but also the rights of women, all the peoples, cultures and languages of the region, and of humanity as a whole from war, alienation and dis-empowerment.

KSN will join the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement for a two hour online discussion about their work, vision, and the context of war, fascism and severe state repression they are organising in. Ticket sales will support the work of MEM. Please donate what you can afford.

When we collectively organise with a radical vision for a better world, we have the power to make real change. And as states respond with violence, our solidarity and our struggles must be international to succeed.

Read more about the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement here.

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BKSN present: What is Kurdistan?

24th May, 18:30-21:30

BKSN WHAT IS KURDISTAN?
🧭🏔️ WHAT IS KURDISTAN? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO THE UK CONTEXT:
EDUCATION/DISCUSSION 🏔️🧭

⏰ Date: 24th May 2022, 18.30-21.30
🏜️ Location: BASE social centre, 14 Robertson Road, BS5 6JY.

Bristol Kurdistan Solidarity Network invite you to an introductory education/discussion on Kurdistan and the geopolitical situation. The event will be an opportunity to introduce the Kurdistan Freedom movement and its goals, and understand why this movement is important to our context here in the UK. Please arrive on time so we can start promptly. Snacks provided, share widely and bring your friends!

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This raffle feeds bristol!

Roll up! Roll up! It’s the awe inspiring, dazzling and immense BASE and Roses online raffle! Help this mutual aid and solidarity project to continue providing free food for as many people as possible in Bristol. Get your raffle tickets here: hdfst.uk/E63763

Since the start of April 2019 BASE and Roses has been distributing thousands of cooked meals and food boxes to 100s of people across Bristol to people who really need it.The project, self funded and run by volunteers, really needs funds to carry on. So tell all your friends and get those tickets in!Tickets are £5 each, 3 for £10 or 8 for £20!
Prize draw: February 26th live on Facebook!!!

Here are some of the prizes donated by legendary people and local businesses in our community!

* Weekend break in yurt on /Scottish border, summer 2021
* £50 Bar Tab at The Plough
* Unwedding Festival 2021 ticket in Abergavenny
* 2 x tickets to Outcider festival
* G Bros pizza meal for two
* Rowdy (graff artist) scarves and stickers
* Booja Booja box of chocolates
* BASE anarchist bookshop prize bundle
* Spanner record, CD and T shirt
* 45RPM print + art box containing stickers, patch, bin badge and customised playing cards
* 3dom original framed print
* 2 x three course meals out Pitchfork Cafe
* Cooking Masterclass session at Square Food Foundation
* We Creatures headdress – handmade red spiral devil horns
* Herbs & Roots handmade bath salts + womb doom balm (could be one prize or two)
* Dog Section Press book bundle (Abolishing the Police, Great Anarchists, Make Rojava Green Again, NO! Against Adult Supremacy)
* Subscription to DOPE magazine for a year
* Punk Aerobics session for one winner and anyone in their household
* ‘Eat The Rich’ necklace made by Fuck The Tories
* Sam Knox art prints and zines
* Bokeh Versions t shirt and record bundle
* Efa Supertramp and Killdren band merch
* Princess Di Love Dollars T Shirt from Scumdance Collective
* NoCorner, LavaLava and Rwdfwd record bundle
* Base n Roses T Shirts and patches
* 2 x Electric guitars
* Idle Hands record bundle
* 2 x Noods Radio t shirts
* Autonomads band merch
* Clayton Blizzard CDs
* Grand Collapse band merch
* Menstrual Cramps band merch
* Blackstar Printing Tshirts
* Chelsea Inn back patch
* Migraines records from Carnival Punks
* Patches from Suniti
* A working bike!
* Champagne and sloe gin from Emma
* Alex Mack art print
* Mind Your Peas art print
* Viva La May art print
* Sepr graffiti piece
* Stay Rotten art print
* Mollusca t shirt
* Handmade real silver crowbar earrings by Captain Grimace
* Bar tab and pizza from the Red Lion
* 2 x bottles of super fancy delish cider from Barleywood Orchard
* 1 x vegan cake – designed and made to order
* Bristol Fungarium: 3x bags of dried mushroom mix and 1x 2kg crate of fresh mushrooms
* Specialist Subject Records Merch & £30 Voucher
* Exchange Tshirt
* Active Distro – 2 x certain days prisoner support calendar + £20 voucher
* Deadspace Chamber Music CD and tote bag
* Abi Hubbard print and handmade patch
* Pull up bar
* 4 x Alice Jennings handmade ceramic mugs
* Empty Brains handmade t shirt and mask (+stickers)
* Falafel time meal for two
* Scoopaway food hamper
* St Paul’s Cidery gift pack
* Jeevans box of samosas
* Bundle of cooking, gardening and DIY books
* Bundle of board games
* Essential food hamper
+much much more – prizes coming in all the time!

Get your raffle tickets here: hdfst.uk/E63763

Please contribute what you can and share this fundraiser widely. If you’d like to donate directly we have a Just Giving page here:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/baseandroses2

About the prize draw: as much as possible we will avoid posting items, instead we’ll do local delivery and collection to keep environmental and financial costs down. Please bear this in mind if you’re from outside of the Bristol area.

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BASE and Roses is a food distribution collective formed to tackle issues around food security in Bristol. We are delivering weekly, free food parcels to people in Bristol and distributing cooked meals to homeless people.Our initiative is based on principles of solidarity and mutual aid. We are not a charitable organisation. Anybody can self refer and request a food parcel if they need one; our distribution is not means tested.Our food distribution is run by volunteers with a small budget and is predominantly reliant on donations from food suppliers. We are aiming to get as many food donations as possible for the distribution, however to ensure our food parcels contain a substantial amount of food and a balanced selection, we are buying in extra food.We urgently need funds to pay fuel costs for drivers and to buy additional food for the parcels. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/706277240085031

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BASE and roses call for funds

BASE & ROSES FOOD DISTRIBUTION COLLECTIVE

BASE and Roses is a food distribution collective formed to tackle issues around food security in Bristol. We are delivering weekly, free food parcels to people in Bristol and distributing cooked meals to homeless people.

The Covid-19 pandemic is causing extreme suffering and disruption to people in Bristol, disproportionately impacting people in precarious situations.

Our initiative is based on principles of solidarity and mutual aid. We are not a charitable organisation. Anybody can self refer and request a food parcel if they need one; our distribution is not means tested.

Starting at the beginning of the lockdown, we have so far delivered over 2000 food parcels and 1300 cooked meals. There is a big need for food even after the lockdown.

Our food distribution is run by volunteers with a small budget and is predominantly reliant on donations from food suppliers. We are aiming to get as many food donations as possible for the distribution, however to ensure our food parcels contain a substantial amount of food and a balanced selection, we are buying in extra food.

We urgently need funds to pay fuel costs for drivers and to buy additional food for the parcels.

Please contribute what you can and share this fundraiser widely. If you prefer to arrange a bank transfer directly with us, email baseandroses@riseup.net.

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Alternatively if you are an organisation/group that can donate food to our collective please also get in touch.

To access our food parcels please contact us on 07731845211 or emaill us – baseandroses@riseup.net.

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Solidarity with the uprisings in U.S.

Anarchists and antifascists in Bristol send love, respect and solidarity to all those involved in the uprisings across the US of white supremacy. Your rage, courage and solidarity is an inspiration to us all. We share the same enemies and the same struggles. Stay strong, keep fighting and never give up until white supremacy and it’s racist, brutal protectors are destroyed. Make the cops pay and make the police history. Remember you will never walk alone! All strength to all the comrades on the streets.
In solidarity and with love and rage,
some Bristol anarchists and antifascists.

For up to date reports and analysis of the situation stateside:

https://itsgoingdown.org/

https://crimethinc.com/

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support base and roses

BASE and Roses free food distribution collective has been working hard over the last few weeks, delivering free meals and food boxes across Bristol. Check out the facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/BASEandRoses/

The mutual aid solidarity project needs funds to buy food and fuel for getting people the food they need. Please donate to the crowdfunder if you can and share it as widely as possible.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/baseandroses

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Locked down, but not knocked down!

Make no mistake, the lockdown is a massive power grab by an authoritarian government straight out of any number of dystopian future fictions. Except it’s happening now, it’s for real and they will not give up their new powers easily. The Corona virus Bill 2020 is a huge attack on our ability to gather, organise and resist the escalating totalitarian state we now face. The time to join the resistance is now.

Yes, we will self isolate for now to stop the spread of the virus, but we won’t be divided in our contempt for a government and corporations that from the outset made things so much worse and continue to make us pay for their characteristic greed and callous inaction. As usual, the root of the problem is capital and state and it’s not just the coronavirus that we need to defeat…

We share here some links to articles and statements put out by groups doing solid counter information, anti repression and anti police state work. Read, react, resist!

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2020/03/emergency-coronavirus-bill-most-draconian-powers-in-peace-time-britain/

https://netpol.org/2020/03/19/netpol-calls-for-restrictions-to-police-powers-and-a-strict-time-limit-on-draconian-coronavirus-bill/

https://freedomnews.org.uk/i-never-want-to-see-the-word-covidiot-again/