Bristolians joined international activists over the weekend to hack billboards with artworks parodying car adverts. Continue reading Activists target car companies in international ad-hacking campaign
Adblock Bristol are calling on Bristol City Council to ban the advertising of high-carbon products such as airlines, airports, petrol and diesel cars, and fossil fuel companies across the city. Continue reading Campaigners call for high-carbon ad ban
A group of residents calling themselves Bee the Change have installed a bee-friendly garden on top of a bus stop on Cheltenham Road in what they say is a call for action on nature. Continue reading Buzz Stop garden installed to benefit bees
On Wednesday May 11 the Jessop room of the Gloucester County Cricket Ground was filled with an unusual crowd. Club executives, fans and players sat alongside climate activists and campaigners. Both had come to hear a talk on an unlikely subject: climate change and cricket. This was the inaugural event of a new project called Time to Declare, a series of free talks chaired by … Continue reading Time to declare: climate activism in the world of cricket
Police at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005 were prepared for protesters. What they got was 200 clowns. The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA), and the disruption, humour and creativity it brought to Gleneagles, has since gone down in the annals of both protest and performance. Now, 15 years after CIRCA faded as an active protest group, Bristol-based activist, performer and director … Continue reading Send in the Clowns: rediscovering the clown army ahead of COP26
Violence was brought to the streets of Bristol again on Tuesday 23rd March as police used force to dismantle a peaceful encampment on College Green. The camp, which was part of the wider Kill the Bill protests against the Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill, had been intended to raise awareness about how the rights of Travellers would be curtailed by the Bill. Protestors at … Continue reading Hostile Treatment From Police in Second Night of Unrest
