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🎙️ People Just Do Something: David Randall, guitarist from Faithless, joins Priyanka and Isaac to reflect on the political power of music from back in the 80s to today.
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The guitarist from Faithless joins Priyanka and Isaac to reflect on the political power of music from back in the 80s to today.
🧑🏽🏫 Righting a historic injustice: why special needs teachers at one Bristol school walked out. Our 'This Better Work' series continues with this new report by by Adam Quarshie:
When teachers at a school for kids with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) found they had been underpaid, strikes followed.
📹 In this video, McKenna and others speak to the Cable about the damaging impact of the operation, enabled by Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, and explain why it was not just racist, but ineffective.
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Youth workers, community leaders and the founder of police monitoring group discuss damaging Section 60 'suspicionless' searches in Bristol
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Engaging children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is a rewarding but challenging job. When teachers at a Bristol school found they had been underpaid for years, slow progress in negotiations led to a strike.
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Part of the Cable’s NOT TO SECTION 60 campaign, this video explains the damaging and traumatising impact of controversial ‘suspicionless’ search powers in Bristol.
Full video by Aphra Evans: https://bit.ly/3XG7ADS
In 1924, a steamship ran aground near Sea Mills. When its cargo of ci******es, chocolate and other desirable goods was thrown overboard, who could blame local people for helping themselves to the b***y?
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In 1924, the Ettrick ran aground near Sea Mills. When its cargo was thrown overboard, who could blame locals for helping themselves?
👮 Our NO TO SECTION 60 petition has reached over 100 signatures.
Please support by adding yours, and tell Avon & Somerset police not to use the ineffective and racist power again.
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Section 60 is a racist power Official statistics show that Section 60 powers are used disproportionately against Black people. A Black person is 8.7 times more likely to be stopped than a white person during a suspicionless search operation. It's ineffective Nationally, in the year ending March 2023...
📹 Youth workers, community leaders and the founder of a police monitoring group explain the damaging and traumatising impact of controversial ‘suspicionless’ search powers in Bristol.
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Youth workers, community leaders and the founder of police monitoring group discuss damaging Section 60 'suspicionless' searches in Bristol
🚨 NEW Debrief podcast – chats to on:
–trade unions’ response to far-right unrest
–how they can do more for migrant workers
–whether their past relationship with racism needs to be reckoned with.
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Priyanka Raval and Adam Quarshie discuss trade unions’ response to recent race riots and how they can do more for migrant workers.
🧑🏽🏫 Engaging children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is a rewarding but challenging job. When teachers at a Bristol school found they had long been underpaid, slow progress in negotiations led to a strike.
Story by Adam Quarshie
When teachers at a school for kids with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) found they had been underpaid, strikes followed.
From the Ends of his debut novel to the 80s of his new one Fast By the Horns, the Cable caught up with Bristolian author to talk about men and masculinity in fiction and the present day.
Story by Priyanka Raval
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💪🏼 In Bristol and elsewhere, campaigns to safeguard arts venues’ future are commonplace – and regularly smash fundraising targets. But the hard work doesn’t stop there.
Story by Alex Turner
Campaigns to save cultural spaces are commonplace – and regularly smash crowdfunder targets. But the hard work doesn’t stop there.
📚 ‘Being a man kills your feelings’: Moses McKenzie on masculinity, liberation and community.
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🫢Council still hounding people with bailiffs after ‘ethical’ approach promise.
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💰 The Cable has uncovered evidence Bristol City Council is referring thousands of council tax debts to enforcement agencies despite a stated policy to do so only as a last resort.
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Bristol City Council is referring thousands of council tax debts to firms using bailiffs, despite a pledge to do so only as a last resort.
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👁 Under surveillance: how a Bristol man was recalled to prison after visiting an anarchist social centre.
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⛺ Pro-Palestine student encampments that began in the US earlier this year quick began popping up around the world. How can protesters continue to cut through this, and make an impact?
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People Just Do Something is a podcast about people who might self-identify as activists, untangling the means of effecting change in Bristol and beyond
Anyone with information about Jack O'Sullivan, who went missing March 2nd 2024 in the Hotwells area, is encouraged to come forward. If you are in the area please check your CCTV or Ring doorbells.
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✏️ Yasmeen Eshtaya is a Palestinian teacher whose life has been deeply affected by the brutal violence of the Israeli state. But she is committed to reconciliation and forming bonds through teaching Arabic to people in Bristol.
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Yasmeen Eshtaya, a Palestinian teacher deeply affected by the Israeli state's violence, is committed to reconciliation through education.
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🚨Toby Shone’s arrest by counter-terrorism police surveilling the BASE centre in Easton shows the state’s escalating clampdown on political dissent.
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Toby Shone’s arrest by police surveilling BASE anarchist centre in Easton shows the state’s escalating clampdown on political dissent.
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📻 In this second instalment of our new podcast series, People Just Do Something, reporters Priyanka and Isaac sit down with Daniel Green from the Palestine encampment at Cardiff University to discuss what it takes to organise one.
Episode here:
People Just Do Something is a podcast about people who might self-identify as activists, untangling the means of effecting change in Bristol and beyond
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📺 How Section 60 contributes to rifts between police and the communities they serve. In this video, John Pegram (@bristolcopwatch) speaks to the Cable about the damaging impact of the racist and ineffective power. 🚫 Part of our No To Section 60 campaign. Sign our petition in our bio. 👉 Watch the full video at thebristolcable.org 📹 Video by Aphra Evans
📢 Important announcement from the Bristol Cable's @elizmizon 🫡 We did it folks! 💪🎉 The Cable has now raised around 105% of the membership income target we’ve been working towards for a year. Keep joining so we can give Bristol the proper journalism it deserves! Thankyou Bristol ❤️
🥾 "Local journalism still has boots on the ground" At our tenth birthday we asked what you thought about the state of journalism and what the mainstream media might learn? 🎤 📹: @zainilyas Join the movement at thebristolcable.org
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✊ Speeches took place at a huge counter-demo in Bristol where well over a thousand people turned out in solidarity against far right, racist, xenophobic hatred. 📹📷 @melanievax
We need 'Energy & persistence in pursuit of resistance' ⚡ Just do... something! Listen to the debut episode of People Just Do Something with guest Grace Blakeley and hosts @priyraval and @isaac_k_h live from our 10th birthday at @bristoltrinity 🎉 👉 thebristolcable.org/podcasts
🍄 'The mushroom was worth it' 📹 Photo and video by @presentedbyjo Listen back to @mikaelaloach live in Bristol in our latest podcast at thebristolcable.org
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🎂 It's our birthday! Come celebrate in the sunshine at Trinity Centre from 5pm. We've got food from the The MAZI Project, activities for kids, info stalls, a live podcast with Grace Blakeley and live DJs Ef Kia + Booty Bass!💃 Grab a ticket here: https://bit.ly/3Y1uVRc Event page: https://bit.ly/3Wii9LH
🎈 Happening tomorrow! Celebrating a decade since the Bristol Cable began with music, food and kids activities with something for everyone. Grab a ticket here: https://bit.ly/3Y1uVRc
🚨 It’s been a year since Avon and Somerset’s chief constable Sarah Crew admitted her service was institutionally racist, but what is she actually doing about it? Watch the full interview at thebristolcable.org 📺 This interview was conducted as part of Together for Change, a city-wide campaign to end knife violence and hold power to account.
🚨 Challenging the police on the progress made on anti-racist policing and reforming the use of stop and search. Cable reporter Sean Morrison interviews Avon & Somerset Chief Constable Sarah Crew, one year after she admitted the service was institutionally racist. Conducted as part of Together For Change, a city-wide campaign to end knife violence and hold power to account. 📺 Full interview at thebristolcable.org
Join sleep-deprived Cable journalists Priyanka Raval and Matty Edwards as they attempt to reflect on a long night of election fever that saw Bristol’s first Green MP elected – and senior Tories kicked out around the city’s edges. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3W9NxNr
🟩 'This was a long time coming' After a historic Green victory, @priyraval speaks to @carladenyer about winning Bristol Central and holding a Labour gov. to account Watch the full interview at thebristolcable.org #bristol #ge2024 #KeepTheLightsOn
📹 How has 14 years of the Tories impacted climate change? 🌍 @extinctionrebellion activist Kathy says the Tory government’s disgraceful legacy is weaponising action on climate change as part of culture wars. Watch the full video at thebristolcable.org 🔗 Help us #KeepTheLightsOn and become a member 🔦
📹 We asked youth workers what they want to see change after 14 years of the Tories. 🥊 Courtney is a community outreach manager at Bristol boxing gym and youth charity @empirefightingchance. 📹: Afhra Evans Full story at thebristolcable.org
Frontline worker Cyril, of @bristolrefugeerights, tells the Cable what his priorities are for the next government. #refugees #asylumseekers #asylum #bristol #ge2024
We asked Simi, who works at the #Bristol Royal Infirmary, what her priorities are for the next government. #ge2024 #nhs Video: Aphra Evans
💭 Challenging the perception of mental illness in a capitalist society. A thought provoking session with Micha Frazer-Carroll, author of 'Mad World: the Politics of Mental Health' Help us #KeepTheLightsOn and #JoinTheCable today 💡
