Stokes Croft, Bristol, is home to numerous clubs, bars and cafes as well as a number of independent and cooperative businesses including Co-exist, who are hosting this year's Bristol Anarchist Bookfair.
Stokes Croft riots: residents still refusing to use Tesco after ten years
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A Tesco Express opening feels like hardly news but, in a Bristol neighbourhood, a long campaign was fought ten years ago to stop one from opening.
The new supermarket along Cheltenham Road did open its doors back in April 2011 but, with tensions running high in the area because of this, riots ended up breaking out after a raid on a squat opposite the Tesco on April 21 that same year.
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Bristol: Gloucester Road Social Centre evicted by 100 cops and bailiffs
Today (10 March) cops in Bristol have violently evicted a squatted social centre, making some occupants homeless all in the name of building more luxury flats on Gloucester Road. The pigs were very much standing on guard for the bailiffs as they tried to clear a building which used to be a Ranstad office that had been empty for years and was serving as homeless accommodation. Three people were arrested even one accused for assaulting a copper as the crowd tried to occupy the main street to cause disruption, a rediculous amount of riot cops and even cop horses were used to clear the road, resulting in clashes between them and the protesters. A group of 100 people turned up to show their solidarity to the squatters who had been living in the building for three months
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