Bristol September 12th – 20th, 2009
Social Change not Climate Change
In Bristol and surrounds, a diverse group of people will converge between
the 12th and 20th September; drawn together by the common threads of our
indignation at how a combination of corporate greed, social injustice and
environmental degradation is leading us all towards climate choas and
financial collapse. Collectively we will share skills and knowledge, and
collaborate in autonomous actions to find a way out of the mess.
Themes for workshops and actions may include:
-Freedom of Movement (surveillance, migration)
-Anti-Militarism (Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Palestine, Filton)
-Climate Justice (just transition, financing of climate chaos, coal,
airports)
-Financial Collapse/Community Growth (role of banks, creating a new economy)
-Work (workers solidarity, co-operative working, workplace occupations)
-Food (animal rights, sustainable food production, permaculture)
-Autonomous Spaces (gentrification, housing, squatting)
We are particularly on the look out for anyone who's interested in doing workshops with a practical slant.
Co-Mutiny cannot happen without the collective efforts of all those who
help to organise it. If you want to get involved in running a workshop
during Co-Mutiny, either on your own, or with a collective, contact:
bristolcomutinyworkshops@riseup.net
The deadline for workshop applications is 28th August.
Capitalism and its puppet de‘mock’cracy are spiralling out of control: a self-created recession, rocketing unemployment, soaring national debt, the illegal and unjust occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, apathy towards massacres in Palestine and Sri Lanka, the criminalisation of free movement, the police assaults and murders of people on the streets, the construction of larger airports and coal-fired power stations in the face of devastating environmental degradation, the privatisation of social housing, the list goes on.
But there is hope. There are anti-governmental protests from Greece to Paris, China to London and factory and school occupations across the UK. World-wide the active, and increasingly angry, radical movements are standing up and resisting oppression, poverty, insecurity, state control and climate chaos.
Hand-in-hand with these protests are grassroots actions to build a new society and take control of our own lives. Ordinary people are finding ways to help each other in the face of the credit crisis created by the banks and corporations. We are relearning old skills and learning new ones for the transition to a just society; enabling us to create community gardens, establish housing, food and worker’s co-ops, and use new economics in the neighbourhoods where we live
In Bristol and surrounds, a diverse bunch of enraged creatives, dreamers and schemers, builders and gardeners, workers and students have been drawn together by the common threads of our indignation at how a combination of corporate greed, social injustice and environmental degradation is leading us all towards climate chaos and financial collapse. We invite you to converge on Bristol for an uprising of autonomous actions and events from 12th - 20th of September 2009. The themes for those events and days of action are:
- Climate justice (Just transition, financing of climate chaos, coal, airports)
- Freedom of movement (surveillance, migration)
- Anti-militarism (Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Palestine, Filton)
- Financial collapse / community growth (role of banks, creating a new economy)
- Work (Workers’ solidarity, co-operative working, workplace occupations)
- Food (animal rights, sustainable food production, permaculture)
- Autonomous spaces (gentrification, housing, squatting)
The Co-Mutineers will be organising actions and events but we need you to get involved, wherever you are from and whatever your experience. We encourage autonomous actions. Come on down, join the mutiny.
Brought to you by a coalition of people including the following local groups: Bristol Rising Tide, Bristol No Borders, Bristol Animal Rights Collective, Stroud Transition, Bristol Space Invaders, Bath Activist Network, Kebele Social Centre....
Dates for your diary:
Sat 13th June 12.00 noon Open Invitation Planning Meeting, The Island, Silver Street, Bristol
Sat 12th September – Bristol Anarchist Book Fare
Sun 13th - Sun 20th September - CoMutiny Action Convergence - insert your revolution here!
Fri 18th - Sun 20th September - Days of action in defence of squats and autonomous spaces.