Abi Haque writes: Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has launched our Ban BAE counter-recruitment campaign across our Universities Networks. We are calling all interested activists to get involved in direct action against arms companies on university campuses. Education and arms companies should not mix so find out how you can get involved!

This year we want BAE Systems to be met with protests wherever it goes to recruit students. WE NEED YOUR HELP to force BAE Systems to conclude that attending university career fairs is not worth their while and shut down their main link to graduates. Education and arms companies should not mix!

BAE Systems is desperate to recruit university graduates. Each year they spend thousands of pounds on recruiting students to design, build, market and sell the next generation of killing equipment. Dick Olver (Chairman of BAE) said “Without action, the UK's widening skills gap will have become an irreversible gulf.” We certainly hope to prove him right by widening the gap between university graduates and the arms trade!

Recruitment fairs are the most straight-forward and visible approach that BAE Systems use to attract graduate talent. We want to disrupt their recruitment season this year! Controversial companies will often stop attending careers fairs when they consider their presence as detrimental to their objectives. This happened in 2008 when Climate Camp launched the 'E.ON F.OFF' campaign, which achieved such adverse publicity that e-on pulled out of careers fairs! We are hoping to achieve the same thing with our newly launched 'BAN BAE counter-recruitment campaign.'

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It was with great sadness that we heard that Will Brown had passed away recently. Will had been active in many groups throughout Bristol and the South West. He also helped Indymedia to put on events where he used his astute analysis of the economic system to highlight the injustices that were occurring as well as sharing with audiences his personal experience of the miners strike and other historical events.

We would like to send our deepest sympathies to all Will's family and friends. He will be a sorely missed. Below is a contribution from Will's friends and details of his funeral if people wish to attend, it is an open event.

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The Anti Cuts Alliance is growing in Bristol and Bath with a massive demonstration planned for the 23rd of October in Bristol, Coaches going to the Tory Party Conference on the 3rd October. Well attended meetings in Bristol and Bath have saw over 100 people representing all groups on the left coming together, even the anarchists were there.

Local groups of opposition are coming together with a meeting in Fishponds happening last Tuesday and further meetings being planned for the future. All to show opposition to the money grabbing, service wrecking, community destroying government that we have headed by David (I'm one of you, honest guv, were all in this together, please help us to help you destroy your community) Cameron.

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Bod writes: We reckon this year's bookfair was pretty successful, to be fair it was all down to the coalition, let's hope the cuts don't have too much of an effect.

We would like to thank the 47 groups, campaigns, authors, publishers and distros who ran stalls and all those who facilitated workshops and debates. We particularly want to thank the other members of our coalition: Bristol Radical History for organising 11 stalls and one meeting room, Bristol Indymedia for running another meeting space, Kebele sound collective and friends and volunteers for organising and running the after party, Lemmy from The Chelsea pub and others for keeping the masses cidered up, and Classics and Co-Exist for the use of their venues plus anyone else we have missed.

Particular thanks goes out to the Kebele Cafe collective, some of whom appeared to not stop working for a moment all day, feeding the never ending queue of hungry bookworms. We unashamedly bow to you all. Of course, above all we want to thank those who attended the event, without which there would have been a lot of unloved books and stale cake.

Based on us running out of pamphlets by 3.30pm we estimate in the region of 800 punters through the door.

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