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Bath Activist Network

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About Me

Welcome to the homepage of the Bath Activist Network. We are a Bath-based group of activists campaigning and taking action in our community on issues such as environmentalism, anti-capitalism, anti-war, human rights, animal rights and too much more than we can fit. We hold monthly meetings downstairs at the Hobgoblin pub on St James Parade, on the first Thorsday of every month from 7.30 to 9.00. Meetings are organised horizontally - which means that our group has no leaders, and everyone's opinion is equally valid. Anyone is welcome to attend, and our supporters range from pacifists, feminists, anarchists, vegans, Jo/e Bloggs on the street, to people who choose not to burden themselves with a label!
Our group is an umbrella for people with a wide range of beliefs, and means of achieving their goals - be it council lobbying, letter-writing, sustainable living, public demonstrations, info stalls or direct action; we're not even above exploiting the advert-infested swamp of MySpace!
If you are interested in getting involved, feel free to attend one of our meetings, or send us a message either here, or at [email protected]. If you have any actions you want to report, or a demo/event to announce, e-mail it to us and we'll put it on the blog page as soon as possible.
See you on the streets!
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Panamanian Real EstateCHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING:
Bath Friends of the Earth
Bath Greenpeace
Bath Stop the War Coalition
Bath Car Share Club
Bath Animal Action
Chickens Out Rescue Network
My Free Thyme resource
Bristol Independent Media Centre
Fight the Pipe!
Bath Cycling Campaign
Bath Freecycle Network
Green Bath community resource
Transition Town Bath
Activist Trauma Support
Corporate Watch
SchNEWS - the news they don't want you to know!
Stop Bristol Airport Expansion

Bristol Rising Tide

Western Animal Rights Network

My Interests

People we like and things we do: hunt sabotage / Pirates for Peace / tree defending / school workshops / gender egalitarianism/ environmentalism / veganism / autonomy / mental freedom / squatting / anti-fascism / human rights / Block G8 / Victoria Park allotments / organic/fairtrade/local food issues / BMT - Kick out the Killers / No Tesco

I'd like to meet:

We have already organised several large events in Bath, including two 'Pirates for Peace' demos, a large 'Don't Attack Iran' action, the Bath Climate Camp, monthly FreeShop, McDonalds pickets, 'The Bath Bomb' monthly freesheet and more. Current members have been involved in campaigns such as school education workshops, hunt sabotage, ban foie gras, anti-fur, freeganing, anti-fascism, disabled access issues, permaculture, mental health issues [freedom to feel!], women's rights events, squatting and tree defending, to name but a few. Our future plans involve a campaign against BMT, a Bath-based arms company who produce nuclear capacity submarines and boats, halting the loss of local retail and choice to a prospective Tesco's development, anti-deportation work, intervening in dodgy developments at Western Riverside, and maybe even a social centre: you never know!

If you have any ideas for campaigns, or want to get active, it'd be great to hear from you.

Movies:

Store Wars - A New Hope:watch movie
Cows With Guns: watch movie
Dancing on the ruins of multinational corporations:watch movie

Books:


The Bath Bomb has landed! Local radical freesheet
anarchist and other assorted agit-prop publisher/distro - more propaganda than you can shake a stick at!

cartoons by local artist, Kate Evans


Bristol Anarchist Bookfair - on its way!

My Blog

Bath Bomb 10 out now

The Bath Bomb Issue 10 free/donation May 08   Shock As 200 Shoppers Freeze Solid In Town Centre!   Last weekend saw a break from the banality of the familiar shop-till-you-drop routine of t...
Posted by Bath Activist Network on Tue, 13 May 2008 02:48:00 PST

Bath Bomb 9 now online

The Bath Bomb - @nti-copyright: copy and distribute!Issue 9free/donationApril 08 Diana Verdict: 10 Years On, Still Dead Seattle Was A Riot... Sunday the 20th April at the Porter Cellar saw a screenin...
Posted by Bath Activist Network on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:27:00 PST

Lock On For What You Believe In

Once upon a time, like so many times before, there was the people, downtrodden and ignored, by a greedy and selfish tyrant.  A generic fairytale to apply to any time and place, only the specifics...
Posted by Bath Activist Network on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:56:00 PST

ARCHIVE

Smash EDO film banned in Bath, but not by B.A.N.... [19/03/08] ...or at least, they're trying pretty hard. We regret to announce that the advertised screening of Smash EDO's 'On the Verge' documentar...
Posted by Bath Activist Network on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:56:00 PST

IF IT MOVES, WELL DEMO IT: B.A.N. 07

Our agent in the field, Matt Banning MD, takes us on a self-indulgent round-up of the last year: Well, it's been a hectic 12 months, here at BAN Towers.  In winter, we slogged it out against the ...
Posted by Bath Activist Network on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:34:00 PST