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Occupy Bristol prepares for phase 2: Sat 4th Feb 29 Jan 2012 | 08:23 am
As eviction from College Green and the end of Phase 1 approaches, Occupy Bristol would like to invite anyone who supports our aims (http://www.occupybristoluk.org/about/statement-of-purpose) to come a...
BCC: Put your money where your mouth is (part 2) 24 Jan 2012 | 12:26 pm
Although our protest camp on college green was never really directed at Bristol City Council (since the issues that brought us there aren’t within their power to change) we did ask them to do somethin...
First People’s Bristol 2050 meeting a success 23 Jan 2012 | 08:06 am
The first Peoples 2050 meeting happened yesterday. It’s probably worth mentioning again that this is only one of the projects emerging from Occupy Bristol. Other projects addressing different issues,...
One Movement: Two strategies, and fancy dress eviction 20 Jan 2012 | 03:14 am
There have been mixed messages in the media and on our Facebook page about whether Occupy Bristol is leaving college green or not, so we just wanted to clear things up. At the General Assembly meetin...
We are leaving College Green 14 Jan 2012 | 08:37 am
Late on Wednesday night the Occupy Bristol camp met and discussed our plans for 2012. We agreed that we need to move from College Green. A consensus was reached to agree a departure date with the Coun...
Bristol 2050: Democracy 2.0 9 Jan 2012 | 11:18 am
Bristol 2050 is an attempt to use a partipatory process, through a series of open public meetings, to plan a sustainable and fair future for our cities inhabitants. Neither the electoral cycle or the...
Occupy the New year! 6 Jan 2012 | 01:34 pm
As we have been expecting for some time, the council and cathedral have today started eviction proceedings against the camp. We are pleased to note that during our time here we have got both the chur...
Breaking News: Thermal imaging shows protesters are sensible people 24 Dec 2011 | 01:57 am
So it turns out the Evening post have hired a thermal imaging camera and have discovered that only a couple of tents are occupied. They could have saved themselves the bother and just asked us, we wo...
The People’s Top Ten of 2011 22 Dec 2011 | 03:32 am
What do YOU think has been the most striking image of 2011? What news story is most significant for you? This time of year we are usually over-run with lists (compiled for us by the 1%) of the ten be...
Discussions about the next phase underway 20 Dec 2011 | 11:03 am
Following a conversation with one protester yesterday BBC Bristol ran a story titled “Occupy Bristol to leave by mid-January” This was based on a misunderstanding and is factually incorrect. We quickl...