Easton

Edition 41

Refugee Women of Bristol: Bridging Cultures

Susannah Eley works with Citizens Advice and has come to know the women of Refugee Women of Bristol. Here, she reflects on what the charity means to them: the community they’ve built, and their strength in the face of a hostile immigration system

Susannah Eley

Edition 41

A wooden sign reading welcome in English and other languages hanging on a brick wall.

Easton Family Christian Centre: A sacred space reimagined

Begonya Miranda
Begonya Miranda

People's History

A red brick corner building on a city street with large windows and white panels

Celebrating 30 years of the Base for Anarchy and Solidarity in Easton (BASE)

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson
Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something, with Bristol Apartheid Free Zone’s Matt and Sacha on building a boycott for Palestine

Faced with shrinking support for Palestine, St Paul’s residents Matt and Sasha set up Bristol Apartheid Free Zone – a neighbourhood boycott of Israeli produce. This week’s episode, the last in the season, offers a hands-on lesson in how to push for change from within your community.

George Colwey Priyanka Raval
George Colwey, Priyanka Raval and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

This Better Work

‘Collective power is where it’s at’: City Academy workers celebrate strike action successes

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Reports

Reactions to council’s new proposals on van dwellers

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

City

“Underhand and sneaky”: Plutus Energy plan new power station

Energy company make second attempt to build an inner city power station in the city’s most deprived ward.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

City

How Bristol 24/7 missed the mark on gentrification

Social change can’t be wished away by calling it something different, argues Alex Turner

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

City

Protest reaps the rewards: repairs to housing

Following a demonstration against dangerous housing conditions, a Liv N Let manager attended the home of one of the three tenants and promised that repairs...

Nick Ballard

City

Easton residents protest “damp & dangerous” housing

Over 50 people protested today outside Liv n Let property agency on Mina road in St Werburghs. The demonstration organised by ACORN Bristol community union...

Drew Rose

City

Liv n Let Die: Del Brown – Bristol Entrepreneur or “Slum Landlord” ?

Single mums demand repairs and a halt to “revenge eviction”. Del Brown, a Bristol born and bred multi-millionaire, is “damaging the health of his tenants” claim...

Adam Cantwell-Corn
Adam Cantwell-Corn