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We’re back for a second episode with Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins as he joins Bristol’s Hunt Saboteurs for the day. Isaac manages to talk to some voices on the other side of the Beaufort Hunt, including the “stalkers” and the terrier men. We also hear why the Hunt Sabs keep showing up week after week, despite the doxing and intimidation they face.

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

Every week during hunting season, hundreds of riders take part in the Beaufort Hunt, one of the largest hunts in the country. In the first episode of this two-part special, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins joins Bristol’s Hunt Saboteurs for the day. We hear about the group’s direct action and disruption tactics, how technology has transformed their approach, and ask whether despite the ban, fox hunting is still happening.  

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

The Cable’s trailblazing activismcast continues its rabble-rousing run with Kojo Karam and Transform’s Dr Mary Ryder. In this episode, we trace the changing global terrain of drug regulation via corporate profit, environmental harm, and racial injustice. Having already launched his own attack on the war on drugs with The Next Fix, Koram brings clear analysis and academic rigour to this live recording with Cable journalists Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Rival providing cutting-edge local insight. 

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

We’re living in an age of media capture. Rupert Murdoch built newsrooms that ran on scandal, entrapment, and phone hacking, filling tabloids with “tits and gossip”. In return for flattering coverage, successive governments helped clear the runway for his ever-expanding media monopoly. Billionaires and hedge funds buying up national and local titles, gutting newsrooms, and turning journalism into a vehicle for shareholder returns. And now, a deranged band of tech bro-oligarchs shape how information spreads online. We’ve seen Elon Musk amplify hateful speech to mass audiences with a single click – fueling real-world violence on our streets. Something needs to change.

That’s why we’ve launched our membership campaign: News You Own, Can’t Be Bought - a call to reclaim journalism as a public good, and build a people-powered newsroom in our city. This live recording brings together people fighting to change the system – through policy, campaigning, and alternative newsroom models.

Join Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins in conversation with Aman Sethi, editor-in-chief of openDemocracy, Banseka Kayemba, Director of Naked Politics, and Liz Pendleton, co-founder of the Media Revolution, as we ask: what would it take to take the media back?  

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

This week we explore the nuts and bolts of international solidarity. Cuba Solidarity Campaign director Rob Miller delivers a crash course on the country’s revolutionary legacy, blockade politics, and what meaningful global resistance actually looks like. 

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

In this episode, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins speaks to a former NHS data analyst about Palantir’s growing role in the NHS. We learn why Health Workers For A Free Palestine are campaigning against the software company, its links to military surveillance, and concerns about private-sector control of NHS data and what it could mean for patients. The episode also explores the influence of Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor whose political views and close ties to defence and intelligence agencies have made him one of Silicon Valley’s most controversial figures. 

Health Workers 4 Palestine: https://linktr.ee/hw4fp.uk 

Med Act toolkit: www.medact.org/2024/resources/toolkits/no-palantir-in-the-nhs-campaign-toolkit/ 

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

Para equestrian Tegan Vincent-Cooke first began riding at the age of four as part of her physiotherapy for quadriplegic cerebral palsy. In this episode, Tegan tells Priyanka Raval how she quickly fell in love with riding, her journey to finding a horse of her own, and how alongside her mum she’s broken barriers in equestrian sport. Having previously represented Team GB, Tegan now rides for Jamaica, becoming the country’s first para dressage-rider on the international stage.

Help Tegan reach the World Equestrian Games: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-reach-the-world-equestrian-games?attribution_id=sl:bb2c6b04-0918-4e7d-9f68-533f09c4e994&lang=en_GB&ts=1779485159&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_content=amp20_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link 

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

This week we’re throwing the doors of City Hall wide open with Carnival executive director LaToyah McAllister-Jones. In this episode, LaToyah discusses the Citizens of Culture community-first arts initiative, and answers the questions your MP has been dodging. We hear how communities can build campaigns together that have real influence, and the cultured life that exists beyond what institutions can offer.
 

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative. 

Bristol-based activist Ben Trowell has just returned home after being detained by the Israel Defence Forces in international waters near Crete. In this episode, Ben speaks to Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins about the training he underwent before joining the Global Sumud Flotilla, daily life on board, and what happened when the IDF boarded the boat 600 nautical miles from Gaza. From dealing with land sickness to going on hunger strike while detained, Ben shares his firsthand account of the flotilla’s attempt to break the maritime blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

Sign the Bristol Apartheid Free Zone pledge: https://www.bafz.org/the-pledge/ 

The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a co-owner of the cooperative.