Priyanka Raval

Bristol

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Articles

People Just Do Something, with Palestinian activist Iyad Burnat

1 week ago | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

Content warning: descriptions of violence and warIyad Burnat is a Palestinian activist renowned for his part in nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Iyad is head of the Bil’in Popular Committee against the Wall, which has led weekly demonstrations since 2005 against the Israeli West Bank barrier.
The Debrief: Medact – doctors fighting for Barton House residents

3 weeks ago | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

In August 2024, the community union ACORN approached Medact, a health justice charity run by doctors and other health professionals, to join its campaign seeking justice for people evacuated from the Barton House tower block the previous November. Six months on, on 27 February, Medact members delivered a hard-hitting message to a panel of floundering council officials – along with residents and press – in St Annes Board Mill Social Club, just up the road from Barton House.
In pictures: The oldest town in Bristol

1 month ago | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

In 2020, longtime friends Tina and Marilyn sat down for very different lunches at Sunshine Café on East Street in Bedminster. Sausage and mash for the former, an ice cream sundae for the latter. When local street photographer Pitlad strolled in, the pair readily posed for a snap. “I didn’t fancy mains, see,” Tina explained. “I’m having a long sausage!” Marilyn cheekily chimed in, giving everyone the giggles.
Bristol Apartheid Free Zone

2 months ago | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

As pro-Palestine marches began ‘shrinking’ last year after a huge national in the wake of Israel‘s invasion of Gaza, St Paul’s residents Matt and Sasha drew on their experiences community organising with the ACORN union to try a different way of influencing public opinion. Inspired by their neighbourhood’s history of mobilising against South African apartheid, they hit the streets to knock on doors and chat to shopkeepers, in a bid to make areas of Bristol no-go zones for Israeli produce.
Listen: People Just Do Something – Joshua Dávila, crypto & the left

2 months ago | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

Talk of cryptocurrency is everywhere just now, after reinstalled President Trump’s recent pronouncements on the subject – including launching his own meme coin, which has soared in value. That’s great news People Just Do Something, because it gives the podcast a rare aura of being bang on the news agenda, as we sit down this week with Joshua Dávila, the Blockchain Socialist.
on-strike teacher Nik talks trade unions

Jan 20, 2025 | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

Industrial action has made a comeback over the past couple of years since 2022’s ‘hot strike summer’ rolled on into a winter that saw large-scale public-sector walkouts and a National Strike Day, coordinated by 48 trade unions, during which 6,000 people rallied in Bristol. But that resurgence, fuelled by the soaring cost of living, came after a long period in which trade unions had been a fading force – arguably since Thatcher broke the back of the miners’ strike in the mid-80s.
People Just Do Something, with Popular Front's Jake Hanrahan

Dec 23, 2024 | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

“I’m definitely not an activist,” says Jake Hanrahan at the start of this week’s episode of People Just Do Something, pushing back hard on this podcast’s tagline of being about people who might identify as one. Read more Either way, Jake, is a fascinating character. After deciding during his youth in the East Midlands that he wanted to be a journalist, he allegedly sent 100 pitches to the Guardian “before they even said no”.
People Just Do Something – Meg and Bryony from SLEEC

Dec 9, 2024 | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

Burned out and disillusioned by their experience of working in mainstream charities for women who have survived sexual violence, Megan Baker and Bryony Ball decided they could do better. So after taking some well-earned rest they set up SLEEC (Survivors Leading Essential Education & Change), a radical support organisation that started with an Instagram account challenging harmful and reductive narratives, and now has its sights on changing the system and dismantling the roots of male violence.
E008: How to smash the patriarchy for good with Meg & Bryony from SLEEC | People Just Do Something | Episode 8

Dec 9, 2024 | share.transistor.fm | Priyanka Raval

Content warning: This episode tackles issues to do with sexual violence. Burned out and disillusioned by their experience of working in mainstream charities for women who have survived sexual violence, Megan and Bryony took some time out before deciding they could do better. So they set up SLEEC (Survivors Leading Essential Education & Change), a radical support organisation that seeks to change the system and dismantle the roots of male violence. How does that all work then?
People Just Do Something with guerrilla activists Led by Donkeys

Nov 25, 2024 | thebristolcable.org | Priyanka Raval

In 2018, four mates sat in a Stoke Newington pub, bemoaning the political chaos gripping the nation after the Brexit referendum. They doom scrolled through their Twitter feeds, and then they had an idea. An idea which, some weeks later, would lead them up a ladder on the A10, armed with a bucket of sloppily mixed wallpaper paste, slapping a giant tweet from David Cameron onto a billboard in the dead of night. The stunt went viral. By the next day, they had 30,000 Twitter followers.