If you’re organised enough to carry ’round a diary (I am definitely not) penciling in the
1st AND 2nd of November is highly advisable as it will see our first festival!

A two day event ending on the 2nd November to celebrate 2 YEARS of the occupied building in Cardiff. Easy enough to remember, right?

Beginning as a vague plan to host an Anarcho-Folk festival in Cardiff; the event has now evolved into a two day celebration of the ‘Brolly.
The space it has provided us has been invaluable to many, so we invite anyone and everybody who has shared the space with us to come, in particular any guests we have had to stay, musicians who’ve played and individuals who’ve led any lessons or workshops. Please come and celebrate with us!
This is an open event and will be donation upon entry to pay the acts who are travelling. Any excess money donated to us will go towards Cardiff squat funds and to Freedom Press Bookshop (who are still raising money to repair their shop and replace up to 700 books lost after fascists petrol-bombed their shop earlier this year).
Nobody will be refused entry if they cannot pay.

We will be releasing more information over the next two weeks to keep you all in suspense, just know that you will need your best dancing boots and both headliners will be supported by amazing local acts and musicians.

If you would like to play at the festival, run a stall or workshop on either of the days get in touch.
Also, any help with cooking or supplying skipped/vegan food for the festival would be much appreciated as we will have many mouths to feed!

Doors TBA
Drink tolerated after 7pm, Drunkenness not.
No drugs, no thugs!

http://redandblackumbrella.squat.net 

From Red & Black Umbrella:

On saturday the 13th of july, cardiff abc has organised a one day anti-prison event at the red and black umbrella. The event aims at creating a wider awareness and critique of the ever expanding prison society and people’s struggles against it.

The event will run from 1-11 and is split into two distinct parts.

From 1-6 there will be space for meetings, discussions, talks, workshops and skillshares, for the most part the discussions will be relatively informal and structureless so as to not stifle creativity and originality. We are asking attendees to not bring alcohol to this portion of the event
to discourage all day drinking and encourage clear, sober and respectful interaction.

From 6-11(ish) there will be a variety of music and poetry being
performed. There is a suggested donation of £5 for this portion of the
event with any excess after costs going to cardiff abc to distribute to
various prisoners/defendants that we are in contact with (for more info on
this just ask.)

There will be hot vegan food available from the beginning of the event, as
well as a variety of relevant zines; all for donation.

Hope to see you there.

Cardiff Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)

Email: cardiff_abc@riseup.net
Website: http://www.abccardiff.wordpress.com
Postal: Cardiff ABC, c/o Red & Black Umbrella, 57-58 Clifton St, Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 1LS.

http://abccardiff.wordpress.com/

Everyone is welcome come and to share a hot vegan meal with us, served free from around 7pm.

Donations welcomed to cover costs. (gas, dry food etc.)

We will also open the free shop,  the library, info shop and bike workshop space and there will be an open mic afterwards for anyone who wants to bring an instrument etc!

This Tuesday we will also be discussing the setting up of a new local Catering Collective, and we’re looking for people to get involved!

Under capitalism food is distributed according to privilege and sold for ever increasing prices. Those with enough privilege to access it have what they desire, whilst even in supposedly wealthy places many people suffer hunger and malnutrition. Our starting point is that food should be communal. We want to promote this in our work by catering for events, meetings, actions, demos etc. around the causes that we believe in. There is a plan to head to Calais, France, for a week in July already, but nothing is fixed just yet.

If you haven’t been to the RBU yet this year, this would be a great night to come. We hope to see you there next week! Squeebz and co x

It will be an open space for LGBT+, queer and allies to meet, talk and share information, literature and music over a cup of tea and some biscuits.

All welcome, leave prejudices at the door.

**Time changed because of clash with pro choice demo 2-4pm St. Mary St.**

The Red and Black is hosting an update on the legal situation around squatting, including how the English and Welsh squatting community has been affected by the law change last year and what’s still happening despite it!

We’re happy to welcome squatters from London who have been involved in the Eviction Resistance network and Squash – the Squatters Action for Secure Homes campaign and look forward to an update from these groups, and to discuss how we might have to unite again to stop the criminilastion of squatting in dissused commercial properties which has been proposed by some MP’s.

We also hope to update each other on the latest local squatting news from Cardiff, London and elsewhere, and bring in a discussion on how we can show solidarity with the hundreds of squatters evicted and arrested in Athens in the last few days.

Tea, coffee, biscuits and maybe a splattering of gack is likely to be available.

Come along on Sunday at 6pm to be a part of it!

Hope to see you there.

Love and rage – Lord C.Squeebington

From Red & Black Umbrella (see website for other updates):

As the Red and Black Umbrella is also our home, it was inevitable that some of us would be home for the 25th December, we have decided to open up on good ‘ol xmas day and have a lovely big (Vegan-as usual) pot luck meal with an open invitation to friends, family and comrades.

Hot food, tea, coffee, deserts and other vegan treats all welcome, bring a dish! (If you don’t, pretend you did…)

We hope to celebrate the day the same as the rest of the country, but for us it will be a celebration with different personal meanings, instead of part of the capitalist/religious show. There will be no baubles, tinsel or tree, but please do feel free to bring all the pudding you like!

Doors TBA,
Normally as part of our safer spaces policy our pot lucks are dry events but as it’s a special occasion drink will be tolerated, drunkenness not.

Please try to make all meals vegan so all our guests can try your delicious cooking.

Hope to see you there!

Love and Peas.x

For almost 4 months Gremlin Alley, the former Spin Bowling and Gaiety Cinema building on City Road, Cardiff, has been under occupation by The Gremlins. The Gremlins are currently under threat of eviction.

Poverty, homelessness and disability an are being systematically criminalized by the state. The recent law change regarding squatting is nothing more than an attempt to strengthen the power held by greedy landlords and property speculators. Profiteers, leeching off people in tenuous housing situations by creating a dependence on rent games and wage slavery.

The idea that legal possession of gremlin alley could be granted to a man who has left it disused and rotting for more years than we care to fucking count shows the legal system for what it is. A farcical theater dishing out (in)justice to suit the desires of capital, and sustain it’s fraudulent existence.

As Gremlin Alley, the building has been a hub of activity for social exchange, art, skill-sharing and has built strong ties with the City Road and wider Cardiff community. Having successfully resisted one eviction attempt by bailiffs, it stands as a symbol of defiance against the current regime’s determination to attack people seeking shelter. It exemplifies the strength of both the occupiers and it’s community and the ineptitude of the state and it’s goons.

We are inspired by the actions in Brighton on the 13th. We urge comrades everywhere to continue the fight against the system, continue squatting, continue resisting. Action is the best form of solidarity.

Solidarity with the Gremlins

Solidarity with Alex Haigh

Fuck the Fucking Fuckers

Squeebo

Hey all! We’re going to be having weekly open days every Friday from 2pm – 7pm at the Red and Black. It’s a good opportunity to get more involved in the centre or meet with others and do something even better. Come by and chat, browse the library, free shop and info stall or have a cup of tea by the fire and dream of burning cop cars. Whatever tickles your fancy. Hope to see you there.