Category Archives: General

84 year old Dorli Rainey after being pepper sprayed by police at Seattle protest. This primal cry for democracy sprang from young people who could no longer ignore the angst in their gut — the premonition that their future does … Continue reading →

Last night Occupy Bristol opened it’s second camp with eight tents. The new camp is opposite the KPMG building @ 100 Temple St near Temple Meads It’s a great strategic location for us, located  near to lots of financial services companies … Continue reading →

Occupy Bristol is calling on Bristol City Council to support National Move Your Money Day on 2nd Dec by committing to move their* money. Bristol City Council currently bank with RBS/Natwest, the UK leader in fossil fuel investments. We are calling … Continue reading →

A group of (mostly!) anonymous protesters from the Occupy Bristol Camp today took action at Barclays, Natwest and Lloyds banks. At 3pm the group, wearing Guy Fawks masks gathered outside the three banks on the Clifton triangle. They handed out leaflets about the … Continue reading →

On Fri 2nd December, Occupy Bristol is calling a national day of action and asking the people of the UK to move their money out of high street banks into their local credit union. A credit union is owned and … Continue reading →

Click here for .PDF version of News digest 08-11-11

We have been camping on College Green for over three weeks in order to start a national and international conversation about social inequality, political corruption and corporate greed. Although we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from our fellow Bristolians, we realise there are of course  some practical isues raised by our presence on … Continue reading →

The military organise Remembrance Day events, and they have communicated with us through our police liaison officer on this issue. The military are happy that we are not in the way and they are completely happy with us staying where … Continue reading →

from Liam Tate  

Our presence in College Green has brought us face-to-face with significant poverty-related social problems in the city – alcohol and drug abuse, anti-social behavior and mental ill-health. While we want to tackle and change the issues at the heart of … Continue reading →