Friday 14th December 1.00pm until 4.00pm At the Palestine Museum and Cultural Centre 27 Broad Street, Bristol BS1 2HG Food and snacks will be available for purchase in the Resbite cafe on the ground floor Why not go for lunch – cafe open from 11.00 am. No booking required Unless explicitly stated otherwise any commercialContinueContinue reading “Meet the Palestinian Ambassador in Bristol”
Category Archives: campaigns
Bristol’s Housing Crisis
Bristol Trades Union Council will be in Bedminster to raise awareness about Bristol’s housing crisis and campaigning for secure and affordable housing for everyone. We’re pushing to stop rogue landlords ripping-off desperate renters and for housing prices to be affordable, so people can choose what type of home they’d like for their family, as wellContinueContinue reading “Bristol’s Housing Crisis”
Fighting back in the low wage economy!
People’s Forum Organised by Bristol People’s Assembly TUESDAY 16 October 7pm TSSA, Newminster House, 29 Baldwin St, BS1 1LT Speakers include: 📢 Lauren Townsend, TGI Fridays worker & Oct 4 strike leader (Unite) 📢 Paul Shanks, striking Deliveroo rider (couriers network) 📢 Susan Newman, political economist and anti-austerity activist 📢 Rob Wotherspoon, Communication Workers UnionContinueContinue reading “Fighting back in the low wage economy!”
CND Public Conference comes to Bristol!
Sunday 21st October 2018 Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, BS8 1RJ CND’s public conference is on Sunday 21st October 2018 and will include a series of workshops and plenaries focusing on grass roots activity for peace, as well as a peace history walk. The full Public conference programme can be found here CND’s conference 2018 CNDContinueContinue reading “CND Public Conference comes to Bristol!”
Well done Fast Food Shutdown
Bristol Trades Union Council congratulates Bristol’s Food Delivery Couriers for their successful strike on 4th October 2018 with hundreds rallying outside Bristol’s premier McDonalds outlet in Broadmead. Flags and banners were flown including those from Unite, PCS, the IWW and a number of hand made banners and posters calling for a minimum of £5 perContinueContinue reading “Well done Fast Food Shutdown”
SpoonStrike – £10 an hour for all
Bristol Trades Union Council supports the Workers at McDonalds, TGI Fridays, UberEats and JD Wetherspoon in their coordinated actions to highlight issues of poverty pay, precarious contracts, insecure working and lack of union recognition. Workers at McDonalds, TGI Fridays, UberEats and JD Wetherspoon are staging coordinated action, on 4th October 2018, to highlight issues ofContinueContinue reading “SpoonStrike – £10 an hour for all”
Public meeting: Corbyn, Antisemitism and Justice for Palestine
Monday 17th September 2018, 7.00pm The Kitchen, Silver St, Bristol, BS1 2AG The introduction to the meeting from Stop The War Coalition states “Criticism of Israel is being conflated with antisemitism in ways that threaten free speech and the right to protest while silencing Palestinian voices. We must vigorously oppose all forms of antisemitism, butContinueContinue reading “Public meeting: Corbyn, Antisemitism and Justice for Palestine”
Stop Universal Credit Rally
Thursday 24 May, 1.30pm Temple St, Citizens Service Point, Bristol, BS1 6AG Despite knowing Universal Credit causes serious problems for claimants, the Tory government is pressing ahead and rolling it out to thousands of people who will have to wait weeks to receive any money. Claimants are descending into debt, relying on food banks, gettingContinueContinue reading “Stop Universal Credit Rally”
Turning Swords Into Ploughshares
Tue 22 May 2018 19:30 – 22:00 BST BAWA Centre, 589 Southmead Rd, Bristol, BS34 7RG This screening of an edited version of the recent film “The Plan” in Filton should be seen as a contribution to the discussion on how to move forward con the Defence diversification Agency resolution passed overwhelmingly at the 2017ContinueContinue reading “Turning Swords Into Ploughshares”
Cuba-US relations: Back to the future with Donald Trump?
Tuesday 12 June, 7pm Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BRISTOL, BS8 1RJ Public meeting with Canadian author Arnold August Since his election US President Donald Trump has overseen a reversal of improved Cuba-US relations: tightening the 56-year-old US blockade against the island, approving funding for ‘regime change’ programmes and reducing staff at the USContinueContinue reading “Cuba-US relations: Back to the future with Donald Trump?”
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