The weapons used in Fallujah are made, thought of and refined in the factories and offices of the US and UK.
Fallujah’s women and children are bearing the consequences,

Birth deformities in Fallujah are now averaging at 2 to 3 a day.

Joanne’s talk will focus on the scientific research that has been done so far.

The Arms Industry on our doorstep continues to inflict its brutality from the comfort of their offices, unchallenged.

The UK is the world’s second biggest arms exporter.
This is our legacy.

On the 17th of Jan 2009, during the bombing of Gaza 6 anti war activists entered the EDO/ITT arms factory and decommissioened the premises to try and save some lives in Gaza.

They are on trial in Hove in Brighton on the 7th of June, if you want to support the EDO decommissioners this is what you can do:

sign the on line petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/decom1/

Write to Elijah James Smith, one of the EDO decommissioners who has been on remand since the 17th of Jan 2009

Elijah Smith, A3186AM ,
HMP Lewes , 1 Brighton Rd, Lewes,
Sussex, BN7 1EA ENGLAND
Make sure you write his prisoner number on the pages of the letter or card, to make sure it reaches him.

Send James some court clothes.

Write him a note separately that you have sent them, so he can request them. And ask him to write back to you to let you know if he receives them.
James has been sent clothes for court, the prison is saying they haven’t received them.
He likes light blue shirts size 15 and a half , his trousers size is 34in.
If you are sending him any clothes he has asked us not to buy them new, but from charity shops.
Always write his prisoner number on any package or letter you send him.

His message from prison is “Everyday do something against the war”

Support our trial
Join the peace vigil on the first day of the trial (7th june)
For tickets to the trial contact bristolstopwar@hotmail.com
or turn up during the trial and hold your own vigil outside the court.

“Every bullet that is fired, every bomb that is dropped has to be made somewhere and that somewhere can be resisted”

Joanne Baker has been actively engaged with the humanitarian situation in Iraq since 1997. She visited Iraq between 1999 and 2004 and has witnessed first hand the devastating effects of the High Tech weapons used by the coalition forces. She defied sanctions and entered Iraq with a rucksack full of medicines and visited the Hospitals and returned to Britain informing people that new and terrible weapons were causing similar deformities in births as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She has written an informative and concise book about Depleted Uranium and the devastation it has reaped in Iraq. She is a teacher, human ecologist and human rights campaigner, she talks both with humanitarian compassion and political insight.

“Every bullet that is fired, every bomb that is dropped has to be made somewhere and that somewhere can be resisted”

The story of Raytheon 9, how 9 people took on an international arms company and won…inspiring film.

Plus an informative talk by Joanne Baker on the terrible consequences that the arms trade unleashes on a civilian population.

On the 17th of January 2009, during the brutal attack on Gaza 6 people entered the EDO/ITT arms factory in Brighton and decommissioned the premises rendering the factory out of action causing a quarter of a million worth of damage and closing the premises down for a month.
The EDO decommissioners are on trial on the 17th of May, they are charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage and criminal damage of over £250,000 to the Factory.

Bristol Stop the War in conjunction with the EDO decommissioners will be showing the Raytheon 9 film at the Magpie Arts Centre on Picton St. (Ashley rd entrance) Plus Joanne Baker will be talking on the devastation inflicted on Iraq by the bombing and the occupation forces.
The Raytheon 9 film describes how, on the 12th August 2006, during the Israeli military campaign against Lebanon, 9 men stormed an arms factory in Derry, Northern Ireland. They caused an estimated £350,000 worth of damage and were arrested. They denied nothing, yet the jury acquitted them of all charges.

Joanne Baker has been actively engaged with the humanitarian situation in Iraq since 1997. She visited Iraq between 1999 and 2004 and has witnessed first hand the devastating effects of the High Tech weapons used by the coalition forces. She defied sanctions and entered Iraq with a rucksack full of medicines and visited the Hospitals and returned to Britain informing people that new and terrible weapons were causing similar deformities in births as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She has written an informative and concise book about Depleted Uranium and the devastation it has reaped in Iraq.She is a teacher, human ecologist and human rights campaigner, she talks both with humanitarian compassion and political insight.

The evening is designed to bring awareness of the fact that these murder factories are just up the road from us in our towns and cities, masquerading as respectable businesses and getting away with the worst war crimes perpetrated in human history.
The people of Iraq Afghanistan and Palestine can only look to us, the ordinary people of this country, to expose and bring to trial these war criminals in our midsts. 
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In the meantime if you want to support the EDO decommissioners this is what you can do:

sign the on line petition http://www.petitiononline.com/decom1/

Write to Elijah James Smith, one of the EDO decommissioners who has been on remand since the 17th of Jan 2009

Elijah Smith, A3186AM , HMP Lewes , 1 Brighton Rd, Lewes, Sussex, BN7 1EA ENGLAND
Make sure you write his prisoner number on the pages of the letter or card, to make sure it reaches him.

Support our trial
Join the peace vigil on the first day of the trial (17th of May)
For tickets to the trial contact bristolstopwar@hotmail.com
or turn up during the trial and hold your own vigil outside the court.

Everyday do something against the war.

Related Link: http://decommissioners.co.uk/

This Monday the 29th of March 2010 from 8pm there will be a music and film night to raise funds for the ‘frequency festival’ in portugal.

Donations for entry

Synopsis:

The CB (citizen’s band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director Sam Peckinpah. In the story, based on C.W. McCall‘s song “Convoy”, a group of struggling truckers (who stay in touch by CB) run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They arrange to form a truck convoy under the leadership of the man whose CB nickname is “Rubber Duck” (Kris Kristofferson). He is the most aggrieved of the bunch, having been harassed beyond the point of endurance by Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) a blackmailing traffic cop who pursues him ever more frantically through several states after he fails to submit to the phony speed trap he had set up. As news of the truck convoy spreads, unexpected allies join the line, and the now-gigantic illegal protest becomes the subject of national news reports.

Convoy info: http://www.allmovie.com/work/convoy-10913

Get on town, trucker stylez

We start at 8pm and go on till late. Bring any instrumentsalong for this relaxed, open, informal jam session!

‘Tuesday night is jam night.’

Dates:

6th April

4th May

1st June

6th July

3rd August

7th September

5th October

Hot chai, hot chocolate, hot art. The Magpie’s big opening this weekend.

That’s what you’re  getting this Saturday as outside the Picton Street Xmas street fayre goes.

The Magpie has cleaned up its act, whitewashed its walls and hoovered the carpets. As the greenwash spills like a toxic waste dump in Copenhagen, come in for free and soak up some non-commercial creativity.

Outside in the courtyard there are stalls offering commercial delights such as mistletoe, holly, cider, fabrics, woolie garments and all amnner of handmade, recycled winter TING.

Above from the bay doors will be performances from resident poets and prankstas: the Synchromystickz

The exhibition inside will continue all week, please come and see us.

Open daily 12-7.

Also please add to the ongoing collaborative exhibition that is the Magpie building!

The TAA exhibition is in an old pub the Bell at St George. If you are coming from Laurence Hill you go up Church road (past St Georges Park) and take the left hand fork onto Clouds Hill road.  You will pass a garage on the left and the pub is on the right hand side.  The sign for the bell is blue.

The Bell Hotel is now a free space open to all performers, artists, builders, creatives – anyone wanting to share ideas and help create this open-access participatory gallery.

Get on down! Today is create the space day, sweeping, cleaning, painting, hanging and installing pieces, sharing ideas and getting ready for opening tomorrow!

Check the flyer for further details!

For more information on TAA check:
http://www.bristolinsurgentart.co.uk/
http://www.taaexhibitions.org/

Spread the infoline number! Call for directions: 07551221090

Anybody can be an artivist, participation is the only rule.
from: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/691244

BRISTOLTAA2009 Everyone is invited!

click for: Occasional Cinema Site

With a spurt of duchampian (sur)realism, Gillman has saved the Magpie’s looming ablution disaster. With wood, screws and his baby drill, Gillman welded abstract with practicality to avert surrealism and impending toilet doom. Here is the evidence of one abstract mind that could just not take it anymore. Come and enjoy the Magpie’s latest installation. Have a sit-down or perhaps utilise the smooth sliding action of the toilet seat hinge. Whatever floats your boat.

Late publicity 45 minutes before the start, but there we go!! Anyone in the area, we’re showing a couple of films
El DIa de la Bestia: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112922/
and perhaps Gadjo Dilo: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122082/

Donations gratefully accepted, we need to fix the space up a bit!!