activism
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School of Activism
PRSC presents the School of Activism Easter Holidays April 3rd - 22nd Climate change getting you down? Brexit making you sick? Inequality and austerity driving you mad? Is there something you wish you could change? A problem you want to help solve? You are not alone. We are all sick and tired of feeling helpless […]
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Adblock Bristol Film Screening
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomFilm screening of “Subvertisers for London”, the short new documentary by Dog Section Press following the guerrilla arts movement in London and beyond.
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Power Beyond Borders: Fighting Climate Change and Racism
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomTo fight climate change we must also fight systems of discrimination that uphold capitalism and serve to divide us. At this event we will be showing the links between racism and forces that drive climate change. We have only 11 years left to tackle this and radically transform our world. Join is if you want to be part of this!
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De-escalation Training
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA training in de-escalation skills with Shantigarbha and Gesine: Seed of Peace, in the lead up to the Summer Uprising. If you want to learn how Extinction Rebellion managed to execute over 1,000 arrests in just 10 days, with no casualties or scuffles with the police, then this event is for you.
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XR Regen Culture Post Action Debrief
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA space to bring your joy, your tears, your frustration, your questions, or whatever else might be going on for you from the Summer Uprising.
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XR REGENCafé
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA space to share stories from the Summer Uprising. The morning will start with a listening skills exercise and end with a short guided meditation. Tea & Coffee by donation. Small donations for XR welcomed.
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Bristol Earth Strike – Climate Strike Organising Forum 2019
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA meeting to organise local climate strikers, union branches, environmental activists and community groups for the September 20th Climate Strike.
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National Food Service: what would decommodified food provision look like?
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWe have a National Health Service, a National Education Service so why should food provision be outside of government perimeters? What would a National Food Service look like? How would it differ to food provision now? What is food provision now like? How does the current system fail us and the planet? And importantly, if we want a NFS how would we get there? To answer all of these questions we have a panel of food activists who will also discuss their involvement in food production and provision.
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Potent Whisper + Question Time – ‘How can the left beat Boris?’
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomCome and join us for an evening of performance and a People's Question Time ahead of the demonstration at the Tory party conference in late September. London based spoken Word artist, author and community organiser Potent Whisper will open the evening before a panel of speakers discuss the question of how the left can beat Boris?
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School of Activism 2.0
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWe define activism as ‘Active Citizenship’. The process of taking care of and taking part in your community. Don’t be a victim of circumstances. Change them.
PRSC invites you to the School of Activism this Easter, a two week programme of talks, workshops and events for all the family, designed to empower and inspire you to change the world. -
‘Class Power on Zero-Hours’ book presentation by Angry Workers
FeaturedOnline EventJoin Angry Workers, a small political collective from London, to talk about finding new ways of building class power in tough times. What next for working class politics and revolutionary strategy? Part of the School of Activism 2.0 curriculum.
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Video and Activism
FeaturedOnline EventActivists from Base join us to talk about how to use video effectively for activism and the principles of self-organised spaces. Part of the School of Activism 2.0 curriculum.
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Becoming an Activist for Drug Policy Change
FeaturedOnline EventTraining session on becoming an active campaigner for safer drug laws. Part of the School of Activism 2.0 curriculum.
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Stokes Croft Land Trust Launch Party
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomYears in the planning, this November we’re ridiculously excited to be launching the Stokes Croft Land Trust Community Share Offer to buy PRSC HQ and retain it as a cultural hub in the hands of the community - your hands. We’ll be laying on an amazing night of music, talks and community love - join us as we celebrate the launch of a new way to fight back against gentrification!
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Stokes Croft Land Trust Exhibition
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAn exhibition celebrating and explaining the goals and ambitions of Stokes Croft Land Trust's first share offer... come along, enjoy the show and invest in the future!
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Gentrification: how to make community ownership viable
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAccompanying the launch of their share offer, the Stokes Croft Land Trust has joined forces with the Bristol Community Land Trust to bring you an evening of talks and discussions around the fascinating issues of gentrification and community ownership, with a line up of amazing guest speakers from across the co-op and community wealth building world, looking at everything from anti-gentrification to how you ensure local control through sustainable community ownership.
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What is Community Wealth Building, and how to make it work
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAccompanying the launch of their share offer, the Stokes Croft Land Trust bring you an evening of talks and discussion around the ways that community wealth building has been used as a tool by others to secure democratic control of everything from food to local services.
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Land Justice Film Night
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomJoin us for an evening of films focused on themes of land justice and common ownership as we celebrate the launch of the Stokes Croft Land Trust Community Share Offer. There will be short talks & some discussion, plus screenings of Concrete Soldiers Uk, and Arc of Justice.
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Phoebe Plummer – climate activism and throwing soup at Van Gogh
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomArguably the most well known climate activist in the UK will be coming to Bristol to give you to latest on the UKs biggest climate action campaign: Just Stop Oil Plans.
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Just Stop Oil – Welcome Talk with Roger Hallam
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAllowing the extraction of new oil and gas resources in the UK is obscene, a genocidal policy that will kill our children and condemn humanity to oblivion. It just has to stop. Hear more from the Just Stop Oil campaign.
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Opposing the drive to war (No2Nato – No2War)
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA fantastic line up of speakers saying No 2 Nato, No 2 War - we need peace, and not proxy wars!
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Community Dinner & Open Meeting for Planet Repairs
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWe have a window of opportunity that only comes every other generation – will we take it or waste it? Across the PRALER network we will take it! Join us and walk as one with communities building a new world of Global Justice.
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Community Dinner & Open Meeting for Planet Repairs
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWe have a window of opportunity that only comes every other generation – will we take it or waste it? Across the PRALER network we will take it! Join us and walk as one with communities building a new world of Global Justice.
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Global Citizenship Education Workshop
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWe have a window of opportunity that only comes every other generation – will we take it or waste it? Across the PRALER network we will take it! Join us and walk as one with communities building a new world of Global Justice.
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Creative Jam x PRALER
FeaturedPRSC Outdoor Gallery 37 Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol, United KingdomJoin us in The Yard for an evening of music, art, education, spoken word and a jam to launch a new mural on the PRSC Outdoor Gallery wall.
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School of Activism – London Recruits: Film Screening & Discussion
FeaturedSPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomFilm screening & discussion of 'London Recruits', a documentary about a group of young white British workers and students who were recruited to work undercover within South Africa during the Anti-Apartheid struggle.
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Sing for Peace ~ raising funds for BPA
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomSinging for peace in Palestine & raising funds for BPA, with a poetry workshop, group singing with BPA choir, & live music from Chai for All.
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Rave On For The Avon: Film + Q&A
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomA feature-length documentary that follows Bristol's fight to save their river in unique and daring ways, plus a Q&A with the Rave On community: learn about the journey of the film, and hear first-hand from those involved in the movement.
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Bristol Transformed: First Congress of the Comedy Party
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomWelcome, comrades, to the first policy conference of the hottest new party on the left. We invite you to bring forth your finest policy proposals - no idea too absurd - and present them to your fellow party members.
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Mae Tao Clinic & Myanmar Earthquake Aid Fundraiser
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomPhotography exhibtiion, talks, & Burmese food for sale, fundraising for Mae Tao Clinic, a lifeline for Karen and Burmese communities along the Thai-Myanmar border.
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Bristol Solidarity Cafe & School of Activism: Malcolm X Centenary
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomBristol Solidarity Cafe and PRSC present: A panel discussion titled 'Lessons on Black liberation & Anti-Imperialist Struggles Today', followed by a Q&A.
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CANCELLED: School of Activism – Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art Of Activism
SPACE at PRSC 17-25 Jamaica St, Bristol, United KingdomAn intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who work at the intersection of art, activism, biology and ecology.
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