New social centre in Bath: come and help out!

from bath, 14 October 2009:

BAN have opened a new social centre in Bath - now we need people to come and help make it a success

Bath Activist Network are proud to announce the opening of a new, and yet unnamed occupied social centre in the heart of Bath.

The building is massive, and in pretty good nick, but we need help before we open the doors, so come and get involved at the beginning of an exciting new social centre with loads of potential.

In particular, we need people who are up for coming along and helping get the place ready for opening, and to run activities once the place is open – cleaners, painters, electricians, artists, minor hole in roof menders, artists, musicians, radicals, dreamers, schemers, your mates and assorted malcontents are all welcome!

We already have several initiatives in the pipeline, such as a freeshop, infoshop, radical library, salsa, café, workshops, activist self defence sessions, squat games and more – and we are up for anyone with ideas or skills to share to come and contribute to the space.

The social centre is being run as a counter-capitalist initiative, run by consensus, and giving a living example of how we can create a world based on solidarity, mutual aid and co-operation, not greed and authority. To get involved in any way, big or small, contact us at bathsocialcentre@gmail.com

(we are not freely giving out the address at the moment, so email us for directions)
We are slowly gathering the stuff we need to complete the space, but our wish list includes (but is not limited to) –

*Chairs
*Tables
*Sofas
*Kitchen stuff
*Paint
*banners
*decorations
*Any unwanted stuff for the freeshop
*Any books, pamphlets or leaflets for the library

This is a really great space, and an exciting opportunity to build something brilliant in Bath, so come down and get involved from the beginning.

Bath Activist Massive x (A)

Email: bathsocialcentre@gmail.com

See: http://www.bathactivistnetwork.blogspot.com

Bookmark/Search this post with:

delicious | digg

digg |

reddit |

newsvine | furl

furl |

google |

yahoo |

technorati

Most recent articles

more headlines
with summaries
feedback

Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009

from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more

Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"

from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more