You can download the full directory and programme here and below is the workshop timetable followed by the full list of facilitators and stallholders. See you on Saturday!

WORKSHOPS:

Anarchists with badges

You may find a hole in our programme where the traditional “This is Anarchism” workshop would be. Instead you will find noble volunteers wearing pin badges that declare ‘We need to talk about anarchism’. We invite you to engage these individuals in conversation about the politics and practise of anarchism; as we know there are as many anarchisms as there are anarchists. Once you have practiced on our crew, you can expand your horizons and talk to anyone and everyone about anarchism!

Know your rights

Green and Black Cross Legal

The ‘Know Your Rights’ workshop aims to give you the knowledge to combat repressive police tactics commonly used against protesters. Officers often rely on the lack of legal understanding of those participating in protest. From the 5 key things to remember to what to expect from the arrest process this interactive session will give you the tools to take action more confidently.

Tree Climbing

A rolling workshop, join at any point between 1 and 3.30. Introducing the basics of getting up and about trees in a safe and fun way with rope and harness. You will learn at least two knots, and two ascending techniques and have a go at trying them out, with two experienced professional tree climbers. Find us in Mina Rd Park.

Blockading

Dr Dye – Innovator in arm tube theory, introduces a range of techniques used to stop, block and obstruct the forces of darkness, with discussion, skillshare and hands on practical. Be prepared to get down and dirty.

The Bristol Bike Project – Dr Bike workshop!

Is your trusty steed in need of a bit of love? Come and get a free bike safety check from our mechanics and find out more about what we do at The Bristol Bike Project while you’re at it! If your bike needs more work than we can do at this workshop, we’ll give you a diagnosis and recommend you bring it to our shop for a full service where all profits are redirected to our community work getting bikes to more people who can’t afford them.

Adblock The City: a Lesson in Détournement With Brandalism Collective

Subvertising, the practice of subverting advertising, has been a regular component of Bristol anti-capitalist culture for decades. Now residents and artists are organising to reduce the number of corporate outdoor advertising panels. In this session, we’re look at some of the critiques of corporate advertising centred around cultural values, gender stereotypes, consumerism and the right to the city concept. We’ll also take a look at some of the latest creative methods from around the world in taking back public space.

Political Poster Printing with Cato Press

Cato Press – East Bristol’s print making studio – a centre for art, community and rebellion, printing woodcut posters to fan the flames of discontent. Come and print something on the press to take away and paste up!

Introduction to privilege and anti-racist practise with the Collective Liberation Project

In this workshop participants will explore their relationship to privilege and learn about how racism functions in the UK. You will leave equipped with strategies to support people of colour experiencing racism and ways to work with white people to dismantle racism in your community. The workshop is experiential, comprised of a variety of group exercices, discussion circles and active listening to explore this material with a compassionate and sensitive approach. We acknowledge that racism and other forms of oppression are often internalised in the body and link to strong emotions such as anger, guilt and shame. We provide a safe space to explore these emotions if they arise.

Key questions we will explore:

What privileged positions do we hold and how can we utilise our power to address injustice?

How can we support people that face oppression we have not experienced?

The session is open to people of all ethnic backgrounds. Please note that this session is open to a maximum of 30 participants.

Prison Abolition

Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex

The UK now has the highest prisoner suicide rate in the world and the largest prison system in Western Europe. Resistance to the prison system is escalating. Learn about struggles against 6 new mega-prisons across the UK, as well as prisoner-family campaigns against IPP sentences. The workshop will also introduce broader concepts of prison abolition in the context of anti-state and anarchist struggle.

Bristol Housing Action – Squatting in the face of Gentrification

Bristol housing and action movement are a self organised community of squatters and homeless people, supporting and providing solidarity for each other, which is is increasingly vital for a city undergoing violent gentrification. Come to the workshop to find out the history and current situation for those with no fixed abode, and get involved with our projects.

Landworkers Alliance Film- In Our Hands

This newly released film explores a quiet revolution that is transforming the way our food is produced and distributed. Our current industrial food system is a upheld by a stilted subsidy regime. But stories from the Global South have been inspiring farmers in the UK with the idea of food sovereignty.

Throughout the tumultuous summer of the Brexit referendum the Landworkers’ Alliance joined forces with two film-makers, to unearth the farms and faces are using rural traditions and modern innovations to take back control.

End Deportations: Stopping Charter Flights

Back in March Plane Stupid and End Deportation successfully stopped a charter flight to Nigeria and Ghana, but how do we #StopCharterFlights for good? In this participatory workshop we’ll explore the current context of the Home Office’s racist border policy, the brutal practice of charter flights and the ongoing resistance from those most affected. We’ll also explore options for getting involved in the campaign to #EndDeportations.

Anarchism and Animal liberation

Human supremacy and domination over other species has become the accepted ideology in our society. As anarchist’s how can we challenge this hierarchy without relying on consumer boycotts and single issue campaigns?

Antifracking: Julys month long blockade – lessons from Preston New Road

This July grassroots activists from around the country worked with locals to shut down the Fracking site in Lancashire every single working day. For a month. Using everything from mellow mass demo days to increasingly surreal and innovative blockades. We’ll be including some choice film footage and first hand analysis of some of the unexpected outcomes. This session is for anyone interested in interrogating how that model of organising worked (and how it could be transferred), as well as those hoping to get a concise overview of what to expect from the Fracking industry in the UK this autumn.

Consent

This session will explore what radical consent means, how to implement it in our lives, and how to work with others to collectively unlearn the fucked up practices and beliefs that we are taught in this culture of rape. Based on an outline from Breaking the Silence Collective.

Revolutionary Women

Emma Goldman, Voltairine de Cleyre, Louise Michel, and Lucy Parsons are often the names that come to mind when someone thinks of pioneering anarchist women, but there were many others just as determined, devoted and courageous. This talk will highlight a selection of revolutionary women who were forgotten by a history dominated by sexism and capitalism. We’ll also look at how sexism continues to be a major issue within left-wing and anarchist movements. Based on the pamphlet of the same name, which is available on the AFed stall.

Anarchism, capitalism and mental health

Feelings of alienation, anxiety and depression are at epidemic proportions. How does our current capitalist society create and worsen many of these problems? How and why does it attempt to treat them, and in what ways does it fail? Anarchism relies on a philosophy of freedom, solidarity and mutual aid. Can its ideas influence how we respond to poor mental health in the present, and can a radically different society be healthier for us all? Why do such a high percentage of activists struggle with their mental health, and what steps can we put in place to support each other?

The End of Policing?

During the 2017 general election, the Police Federation ran an largely successful campaign, eventually taken up for different reasons by both the Labour Party’s left-wing leadership and the right-wing press, arguing a direct link between falling police numbers and rising levels of crime. Successfully challenging this conventional narrative seems like an almost overwhelming task. How, then, so we start to make a popular case for significantly fewer police officers and more attention on alternatives that are less coercive? How do we explain that the police are wholly unsuited to solving many of the problems the state wants them to deal with?

This workshop, by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol), will look at how we oppose the constantly expanding role of the police in maintaining social stability, even when that stability is inherently unjust and exploitative – not only by criticising it, but by offering alternatives.

Where are the children of the revolution?

Including parents and children – how to build radical community

Why are there so few parents involved in radical activism and does it matter? This workshop will ask what the obstacles are to staying involved in activism once you become a parent, and how we might need to revise our attitudes to children and parenting before looking at what steps we can take to make truly inclusive communities. There is lots of information on parenting, but not about creating radical community that includes and celebrates children and childhood while supporting parents and caregivers. This workshop will give space to discuss the communities we want, reflect on our limitations in creating them, and work to identify possible solutions big and small. We will discuss and share experiences that honour the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, the myriad ways we can create intergenerational anarchist communities.

Picturehouse – MacDonalds Strikes: The new unionism

There have been more strikes recently, and more strikes in workplaces that we’re always told are unorganisable. There is a history of the unorganised organising – in the 1880s the period of ‘new unionism’ saw precarious, ‘unskilled’, and unorganised workers organise for the first time and change the face of trade unions. Come and hear Picturehouse cinema and McDonald’s strikers talk about how they organised to fight back.

STALLS

Active Distribution

activedistribution.org

Objectives – Spread propaganda as cheaply as possible.

AK Press & Distribution

auk.com

AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other mind-altering material. Our goal is supplying radical words and images to as many people as possible. The books and other media we distribute are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants. We make them widely available to help you make positive (or, hell, revolutionary) changes in the world. As you probably know, the stuff we carry is less and less available from the corporate publishers and chain shops.

Dreadnought Books

dreadnought books.co.uk 125 St Georges Rd, BS1 5UW

I run an independent second hand bookshop with a focus on radical political material and have enjoyed participating in the previous three anarchist bookfairs. I am also a member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.

Freedom Press

freedompress.org.uk 84b Angel Alley, London

Freedom is a bookshop, news and publishing group aiming to spread anarchist ideas.

Housman’s Bookshop

houseman.com Kings Cross, London

Long standing anarchist/socialist/pacifist/feminist bookshop.

Hydra Bookstore

hydrabooks.org 34 Old Market, Bristol

Hydra is a bristol based volunteers co-operative. We stock a wide array of ‘radical’ literature including books, zines and pamphlets. We also serve ethically sourced coffee’s and snacks and regularly host events.

Kebele Info Shop

kebelecoop.org Kebele Social Centre 14 Robertson Rd, Easton, Bristol

We are a non-hierachical, not for profit infoshop, based out of Kebele social centre.

MEDIA

Bristol Cable

thebristolcable.org

The Bristol Cable is a media co-operative – so far owned by over 1,830 members who can all have an equal say in how we are run.

We produce a free quarterly magazine, regularly publishing website, and run media training and local events which are free or cheap for members. Our aim is to redefine media ownership, bringing it back from corporate control into the hands of ordinary people.

Consented

consented.co.uk consenteduk@gmail.com

We are a radical publication aimed at centring voices that are not usually heard in the mainstream, as well as platforming ideas that are not usually heard.

Strike Magazine

strikemag.org

STRIKE! Magazine is an independent print magazine and online multimedia platform interested in the intersection of art and radical left-wing politics. We are first and foremost concerned with communicating anti-sexist, anti-capitalist and anti-racist ideals in an accessible, challenging and exciting way. The collective is led by women, working voluntarily, and is fundamentally committed to intersectional feminist principles.

Wessex Solidarity

wessexsolidarity.wordpress.com

We maintain a radical news and comment website, support local anti-austerity initiatives and promote anarchist ideas through our literature stall. We’re affiliated to the anti fascist network.

OTHER?

Alliance for Workers Liberty

workersliberty.org

We have local branches and industrial fractions which meet regularly. We aim to build a movement which can replace capitalism, the current economic and social system based on class division and exploitation, with a new society based on consistent democracy, collective ownership and solidarity.

Anarchist Action Network

anarchistaction.net anarchistactionnetwork@riseup.net

We have quarterly meetings (4 times a year) that make decisions for the network through consensus.

Bristol Branch IWW

bristoliww.org.uk bristol@iww.org.uk

Bristol General Membership branch of the Industrial Workers of the World grassroots union.

Bristol Solidarity Federation

solfed.org.uk/local/bristol

Solidarity Federation (SolFed) was formed in March 1994. It is a federation of groups across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Everyone involved is helping to build a non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian solidarity movement.

Footprint Workers Co op

footprinters.co.uk

We are a workers co-operative, which means our business is owned by the workers. As we have no bosses we run it as we want, doing interesting jobs for interesting people.

We want to be straightforward, friendly, responsible and responsive, rather than ‘aiming to deliver comprehensive multi-platform printing solutions to clients in the voluntary and vocationally challenged sectors’.

We do it as ethically as we can, printing on proper recycled papers, powered by a genuine green electricity tariff and using the least environmentally damaging processes we can find.

We also give a percentage of the money we make to worthy projects.

Shoutout records

Bridgend Facebook: shoutoutrecords

We’re a diy record label for ethnic / anarchist punk bands based in South Wales. We try to help bands get their stuff out there by record , cd and tape. It’s for non profit just to break even.

CAMPAIGNS

Advisory Service for Squatters

advice@squatter.org.uk

We are a collective, or try to be, and we advise squatters and other homeless people.

Bristol Anarchist Black Cross

bristolabc.wordpress.com bristol_abc@riseup.net

Bristol ABC focuses on direct prisoner support and solidarity work, supporting anarchist and other prisoners worldwide. We also support anti-prison struggles in the UK by organising various info nights and events.

Bristol Anarchist Federation

bristol.afed.org.uk

Long term objective: Anarchist revolution against misogyny, white supremacy and capitalism.

Short term objectives: Support and encourage acts of resistance against oppressive aspects of our current society.

Spread anarchist ideas and views via events/publications.

Maintain a visible anarchist presence on the streets of Bristol (at larger marches, events etc).

Organising Method: In person meetings aiming to reach consensus.

Bristol Antifacists

Facebook: bristolantifacists bristolantifacists@riseup.net

We feel that as an organisation, Bristol Antifacists have been putting

into material practice the values that we all hold very dear. We are a

flat structure, consensus based group with strong anti-capitalist,

anti-statist and anti-authoritarian beliefs practising direct ant-state and anti-racist activism.

Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Facebook: bristol.psc

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) aims to build a mass solidarity movement on Palestine. It is founded on principles of justice, human rights, and opposition to all forms of racism. Bristol-PSC aim to publicise Palestine Solidarity Campaign news and local events (eg. sponsored walks, films, public talks) and to actively campaign for justice for Palestine at a local level. Our group meets on the last Tuesday of every month at Hydra Bookshop @ 7:30pm (34 Old Market, Bristol BS2 OEZ). We also offer a weekly Palestine e-bulletin; to subscribe send a mail to BristolPSC@gmail.com

Coal Action Network

coalaction.org.uk

Empty Cages Collective

prisonabolition.org info@prisonabolition.org

We are working to dismantle the prison industrial complex. We do this by catalysing and supporting various anti-prison projects and groups including a national network resisting 6 new mega-prisons, as well as a prisoner-family led campaign against IPP sentences. As an anarchist collective we aim to use the prison system as a way to highlight state violence and agitate for an anarchist society.

Frack Free Bristol

frack-off.org.uk/local-group/frack-free-bristol

Kent Refugee Help

kentrefugeehelp.org.uk

We support refugees and migrants in prison in Kent and London by visiting, finding legal advice and representation, finding sureties for bail. Raising awareness through meetings and art exhibitions

NFA Residents Association

nfaresidents@outlook.com

We are a residents association campaigning against Public Space Protection Order (PSPO). A discriminatory law that Brighton Council has passed. We want to increase awareness of their existence and prevent that happening in other places of UK.

Reclaim the Power

reclaimthepower.org.uk

Rising Tide

rising tide.org.uk/bristol

South West Against Nuclear (SWAN)

southwestagainstnuclear.wordpress.com swanactive@gmail.com

Direct action and outreach campaigning on nuclear power, waste and weapons.