AgrrrlsCaerdydd host a Film Screening of “The Punk Singer” with discussion afterwards.

From 4pm @ Porters, Harlech Court, Bute Terrace, Cardiff CF10 2FE

“Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod.

We will be discussing feminism, women and spaces as well as any other themes arising from this film after. Be good to see people there!”

Here’s the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMbLzaVkn2s

*Two years of weekly serves this week!*

There is a party tomorrow night to celebrate -

BONFIRES NOT BOMBS! 7pm at the Wells Hotel, 77 Craddock Street, Riverside, West Cardiff

The Wells Hotel would like to invite you to a bonfire gathering in our wonderful yard, to celebrate Food Not Bombs Cardiff / Bwyd Nid Bomiau Caerdydd’s 2nd Birthday, Bronwen Little Eris Davies’s Birthday and of course bonfire night!

There will be delicious vegan food and cake, and if you would like to donate it will go to Food Not Bombs Cardiff! We will also be accepting donations of non-perishable foods (lentils, pulses, oil, tins of veg etc)

Come along…. Feel free to bring fireworks, wood, cake, food, musical instruments etc…..

https://www.facebook.com/events/685680071545992/

Food Not Bombs has celebrated two years of weekly serves! Woohoo! We are continuing to serve free meals at 12:30pm every Friday outside the back of Central Market!

As winter is approaching the plan is to prepare supplies in the kitchen for a cold and damp winter and make sure they don’t get spoiled!!!

It’s an event to raise awareness and to get people involved in taking further action together with people who are homeless.

Daytime – 3pm to around 6pm - info-stalls, music, free food, art, kids activities, speakers, free-shop and workshops; including destitution, squatting and skipping.

Evening – 7pm to 11pm – live music and a DJ, bar

http://cardiffh​omelessaction.o​rg/

An effigy of US president Barack Obama was burnt in Bute Park on Saturday 30th August. The action was organised by a group calling itself ‘Cardiff Anarchists, Travellers, Squatters and Homeless Individuals Together’ (…what others might instead call the Cardiff Squatters Network) and was attended by around 40 local young people.

This symbolic action came just days before the real Obama was due to attend an official dinner at Cardiff Castle.

The effigy was first put on trial by activists in fancy dress. The prosecution accused Obama of a list of war crimes, citing children killed by drone strikes in Afghanistan and other countries. A man with devil horns acted as the president’s defence lawyer and attempted to convince the court that the accused was just a “lovable rogue”.

“Boys will be boys, and presidents will be presidents. What’s a little bit of cheeky genocide between friends?” he said. “Who here hasn’t committed a war crime?”

A guilty verdict was returned by the raucous audience, and the judge broke her gavel trying to call the court to order. The effigy was sentenced to death by electrocution, and a colander was placed on its head.
However, the crowd had other ideas and quickly set fire to the dummy. As the flames engulfed it
a police officer arrived and people quickly dispersed.

“We didn’t plan to burn the president, but the play took on a life of its own,” said Anon Davies, one of the activists. “The crowd were really engaged, there was a real sense of unity. They were all laughing along and just started shouting “burn him!” Next thing you knew, half of them had their lighters out.”

Less than a week later the real Barack Obama joined other world leaders at Celtic Manor resort in Newport for an international NATO conference. Local activists argue that NATO fights
aggressive wars to maintain western control over oil and other natural resources. They argue that the UK spends billions of pounds on NATO annually and this would be better spent on public services.

Obama is currently facing opposition at home over his controversial signing of the unpopular NDAA Act. This law allows the president to deploy troops on US soil, and to assassinate any American without trial. There is now a cross-party action in the US Senate, to impeach him for High Treason.

“It’s been horrible to see Cardiff under lockdown like this,” said Ceri Williams, who was in the audience in the park. “There have been police with assault rifles in the city centre, and army helicopters flying overhead. The play was fun. It just made the rest of it look completely ridiculous, to be honest.”

For more information please contact Sarah Smith:
sarahsmith9011@outlook.com

We are doing all this on a tiny budget and learning as we are going. Our lives aren’t perfect and our project might not be perfect but we’re building together, putting aside our differences, like we hope everyone can, and creating something beautiful, unique and community based.

We have already cleaned up the building and the surrounding area, risking our own safety in the process to pick up used syringes, which have been around this building since long before we arrived, and disposing of them properly. To continue making this a safe space for the community, we are twice daily checking for and disposing properly of any more that we find.

As far as we know this building has been empty for two years, a situation all too common in Cardiff, when the population of people homeless is growing.
There are plans to build 40 flats here, which would be a massive unneeded disruption in this part of our community. We have already collected over 100 signatures from people living in the local area, in less than two days, opposing these plans and supporting our projects and vision with a passion.

We are planning to continue to keep the land next to us as a community car park, benefitting people in an area which has seen commuters parking outside people’s houses. Parking problems will get worse if the out-of-character development goes ahead. We are staying to stop this happening.

We have been careful to keep noise to a minimum, due to elderly neighbours in our community, and we believe a building site will be a stressful environment for all, but particularly the elderly and those attempting to learn in the nearby school.

One of our projects is to use the space to help to restart Cardiff People’s University; providing a range of unaccredited, but good quality, courses “by people, for people” and all free of charge.

The majority of us in this building have been through the housing list and realised how little help there is and how stressful it can be. We aim to offer unbiased and wide-ranging advice, information and support for, without judgement, or patronising, anyone in a similar position. This will include courses run by ourselves and information on where anyone struggling financially, or who finds themselves homeless, can get the best help, e.g food, clothes, shelter. We will also have a ‘free-shop’ of donated goods, open for anyone, where everything will be free.

We invite everyone who is positive minded and open-hearted to help us or take advantage of the advice we are offering and the projects we are aiming to make happen.

Everyone needs a little bit of help, even us, and we are extremely grateful to our local neighbours, many of whom have already been kind enough to donate us goods, furniture, gardening equipment and flowers, which we are in the process of planting for a community garden.”

From
The Squat 50 Collective

contact: squat50[@]riseup[.]net / 07405 788 793

For more info on squatting in Cardiff see: http://cardiff.squat.net

This Wednesday @ O’Neils in Cardiff City Centre

8pm – Fortnightly meeting of the South Wales Anarchists. 8:30pm – Film showing of ‘Grasp the Nettle’ (Unclassified)

Grasp the Nettle follows the exploits of a ragtag band of land rights activists in London as they struggle against corporations, government, police – and themselves – in their efforts to create alternative communities outside the framework of consumer society. For more info see: http://graspthe​nettlefilm.com

South Wales Anarchists meet regularly – get in touch to find out more…http://southwal​esanarchists.wo​rdpress.com

Away Day!!A chance to ramble together and take to the countryside!

We plan to walk for a few miles up the Taff Trail / Taith Taf…

…then get a lift back down into Cardiff, or take the train together.

Meet at 11am at the waterbus pick-up point in Bute Park by the Castle. Hope to see you there! Bring your own lunch or some dosh.

Grand Collapse-
http://grand-collapse.bandcamp.com/
Dropping Bombs-
http://droppingbombs.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvDCoZWs6W8

All profits go to Frack Free Wales.

Some info about what Fracking means to you, and what can be done to help end the disastrous destruction of our environments: http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-hell/frontline/

Doors at 6pm, BYOB, Drink Tolerated, Drunkenness not.

Love And Rage, Share widely! x

This Sunday we will happily be opening our doors to the community as we host an autonomous folk arts, bbq, music and fun day on sunday. Bring paint ya’ll!

From 11am onwards we will be sharing music, vegan food, seeds and art.
We ask and encourage those who use the space to bring vegan food, seeds to swap, paints to decorate our newly white-washed social centre walls and gardening supplies that we can use for the edible garden that we hope to start cultivating this year.

We have a nice clear space ready for Sunday, thanks to those who attended our productive (work) day yesterday.  It’s time for the space to get a new face on!
Ideas for the outside of the building greatly appreciated.

We welcome families and dogs
57 – 5 8 clifton street, cardiff.

Love and Peas! xX