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Event: TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber in Bristol

6 April 2011

Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the TUC, will speak in Bristol on 6 April about Britain at the crossroads, the fastest and deepest cuts in living memory, and the alternative
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March for the Alternative in London

30 March 2011

March for the Alternative against the Government’s public sector spending cuts, organised by the TUC which took place in London from Embankment to Hyde Park; 26 March 2011.
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Where is the negotiation on Libya, asks Bristol-based Iraq expert

30 March 2011

Military action against a country’s army does not serve to destabilize a leader, says Iraq expert and former Bristol NUJ executive member
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Egyptian journalists and the Guardian Readers’ Editor: a cause for concern?

29 March 2011

Chris Elliott, the Guardian Readers’ Editor, has not always been a friend of democratic expressions of rights where trade unions are concerned. Yet now, he is training the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate
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News Hound: Hardcore Anarchists and Menacing Extremists

27 March 2011

I’m glad I didn’t go on that march in London. It was full of Hardcore Anarchists and there was a Battle of Trafalgar Square! I saw it in the Daily Mail. It unsettled me so much, I had to bark for quite a long time. Then I had to sit down and eat a biscuit…
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This was the real ‘Big Society’

27 March 2011

On 26 March 2011 up to half a million people marched through the capital for a rally in Hyde Park, in the biggest expression of public anger in nearly a decade. NUJ Bristol Branch Vice-Chair Susie Weldon was there.
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Support grows for missing student James Bubear

26 March 2011

Bristol NUJ is assisting the student-led march for 19-year-old missing Bath Spa University student James Bubear, taking place in Bath on 26 March at 3 p.m. With more than 15,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter, student organisers Anna-Marie Young and Siegfried are expecting hundreds of people, including James’s family from Wales, to walk a route…
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How the Treasury refused to tell

25 March 2011

Chris, who writes regular updates for the financial media, wanted the exact figures. So he called the Treasury for verification….and they refused point blank to give them. Their reason? They wanted to be ‘transparent’.
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Event: ‘Innovation Academy’ of local journalism skills in Bristol, Friday 1 April 2011

24 March 2011

Event announcement: Innovation Academy, 21st Century Local News, Friday 1 April 2011.
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Calling all NUJ Bristol Branch members – meeting Thursday 24 March

24 March 2011

Calling all Bristol NUJ members for branch meeting.
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