Rave on Avon will take over Stokes Croft on Saturday, May 19^th bringing the best dance music from all over the South West to venues including Lakota, Blue Mountain and The Croft. The club hopping event, organised by the team behind Brisfest, will include a full day’s line-up starting at 2pm with both indoor and outdoor stages at participating venues.

Visit www.brisfest.co.uk/raveonavon for full details.

Rave on Avon will take over Stokes Croft on Saturday, May 19^th bringing the best dance music from all over the South West to venues including Lakota, Blue Mountain and The Croft. The club hopping event, organised by the team behind Brisfest, will include a full day’s line-up starting at 2pm with both indoor and outdoor stages at participating venues.

Visit www.brisfest.co.uk/raveonavon for full details.

Thank you to the following people who most recently donated to our Free Shop.  Dr Fly (Bass Kitchen) donated boxes of old vinyl, enough to keep us stocked well into next year.  JDO (Bass Kitchen) donated some old breaks and psytrance classics vinyl.  HiHat (SoulFi) donated some old techno vinyl.  Moif & Katrina (Brap FM) donated loads of Xbox games. Spalding (Pigpen Social) donated CDs and DVDs.  And last but by no means least thank you to Angeles for baking amazing cakes!

A message from Access.  Mobilizing for Global Digital Freedom.

Right now, your boss or school could demand that you hand over your Facebook, Twitter, or email password, and there is nothing you can do to stop them. Some people have even been fired from their jobs for refusing to reveal their passwords! But that could all change with the introduction of the Password Protection Act.
 
Previous attempts by governments to ban this practice have failed, in part because internet users haven’t made it a priority and spoken out against it. The Password Protection Act is our opportunity to finally end “Give up your password or else” policies and set an international standard for safeguarding our online identities.
 
We cannot be quiet anymore. Our passwords are the keys that protect our private lives, the people we communicate with, and all of our personal information.
 
Click here to sign the Access petition calling for this bill’s passage and we’ll deliver your signatures directly to an undecided Congress before they vote on the bill.

A message from Playfair 2012, campaigning for a sweat free Olympics.

Workers making Olympic sportswear for London 2012 for top brands and high street names including Adidas and Next are being paid poverty wages, forced to work excessive overtime and threatened with instant dismissal if they complain about working conditions, according to a new report.

The Fair Games? report investigated working conditions in 10 sportswear factories in China, Sri Lanka and the Philippines where they produced sportswear that will be bought by consumers and used by athletes and volunteers at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Read more.

A message from Azaaz, The World in Action.

The Brazilian Congress has just passed a catastrophic forestry bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of the Amazon. Now only President Dilma can stop it.

Fortunately, the timing is on our side — in weeks Dilma will host the world’s biggest environmental summit and insiders say she cannot afford to open it as the leader who approved the destruction of the rainforest. She’s facing mounting domestic pressure, with 79% of Brazilians rejecting this new bill. Now, if we join them we can turn up the global heat and push her to axe the bill, not the rainforest.

Dilma could make her decision any day. Let’s get her to veto the bill now. Click below to sign the urgent petition to stop the Amazon chainsaw massacre and send this to everyone:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/veto_dilma_global/?vl

A message from Positive Money, a not-for-profit research and campaigning organisation that raises awareness of the deep flaws in our current monetary system.

If you are in or around Bristol on Saturday 19th May, you may be interested to attend this event:

Bristol Festival of Ideas
Sat 19th May 2012
3.30pm-4.30pm: What if… we could create money as well as banks?

Virtually all the money in circulation has been lent into existence by commercial banks. When the government in effect franchised the creation of money to the banks it failed to keep an eye on what they did, or agree a proper ‘quid pro quo’ for the privilege.

Speakers:

Josh Ryan-Collins, nef, co-author of the book Where Does Money Come From?: A Guide to the UK Monetary and Banking System

Mark Burton, member of the Bristol Pound Team

Ruth Potts, founder of bread, print & roses

More info & Tickets:

Sign up via the Bristol Festival of Ideas website at http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=3297

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