City Strolls - events - meetings
Saturday, April 16, 2005
14 April Glasgow autonomy updates
Another week, another update. From education to direct action, these events should help you get involved in radical activity in and around Glasgow. And if you see something missing from these listings, let us knowCONTENTS:
MEETINGS
- GAP meeting - Monday 11th April
- IWW Branch Meeting - Wednesday 6th April
FILM SCREENINGS AND PUBLIC TALKS
- RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture - Saturday 26th March - Saturday 14th May
- El Perro Negro (Stories from the Spanish Civil War) - Wednesday 6th and Sunday 10th April
- BBC Question Time in Stirling - Wednesday 6th April
- Battle of Orgreave - Thursday 7th April
- Bars in the Memory - Thursday 7th April
- This is Camp X-Ray - Friday 8th April
- Border Crossing Services - Tuesday 12th April
- See You in the Next War - Thursday 14th April
- Victim of Geography - Friday 15th April
- Taste of Palestine - Saturday 16th April
- Israeli terrorism and Palestinian resistance - Wednesday 20th April
- Disobbedienti - Wednesday 20th April
- The Yes Men - Thursday 21st April
- The Battle of Algiers (new print) - Sunday 23rd and Monday 25th April
- Look for me in the Whirlwind - Wednesday 27th April
- Chain - Wednesday 27th April
- Pioneers of Art and Science - Thursday 28th April
- Freedom is in Your Hand! Song Workshop - Tuesday 3rd May
- A Cultural Day from Glasgow Autonomous Project - Saturday 11th June
ANTI-WAR
- Weekly anti-war stall - every Saturday from 16th April
- Week of Action Against the Corporate Plunder of Iraq - Friday 1st - Thursday 7th April
- 3rd phone blockade of weir pumps - Monday 11th April
- UXB Scotland Conference on Resisting Military Occupation - Friday 29th and Saturday 30th April
ANTI-G8
- Activist's Guide to Scots Law
- Wimmin vs G8 - Thursday 14th April
- Reshape meeting - Thursday 7th April
- Festival of Dissent - Wednesday 6th - Sunday 10th April
- Tomfoolery (all proceeds to Wimmin vs G8) - Saturday 16th April
ENVIRONMENTAL / SUSTAINABILITY
- Talamh Gardening Week - Monday 11th - Saturday 16th April
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 29th April
- G8 Earth Activist Training - Friday 27th May - Sunday 5th June
DEMONSTRATIONS/STREET PARTIES/FUNDRAISERS
- Glasgow Mayday - Sunday 1st May
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MEETINGS
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GAP meeting - Monday 11th April
We meet every Monday, 6:30 - 9pm, at the Pearce Institute, Govan Rd, on the corner of Pearce St.
All who agree with our vision statement are welcome at our meetings:
"We strive for a sustainable society where all people are free to live their lives as they see fit without fear of oppression, persecution or marginalization insofar as this does not prevent others from doing the same. We see this fulfilled thru a society built upon principles of co-operation, solidarity, mutual-aid, direct democracy and freedom of association."
http://www.glasgow-autonomy.org
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IWW Branch Meeting, Wednesday 6th April
Radical union meeting - find out more at http://iwwclydeside.mahost.org
7.30PM on wed 2nd at Pearce Institute, on Govan Road, in Govan
iwwglasgow@lists.riseup.net, info@iwwclydeside.org.uk, hereandnowscot@email.com
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FILM SCREENINGS AND PUBLIC TALKS
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RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture - Saturday 26th March - Saturday 14th May
Political art, including a poster wall where you can announce your own events and a rebel clown warroom.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow
Tuesday - Friday: 11am - 6pm
Saturday: 10am - 6pm
Sunday, Monday: closed
Free
www.cca-glasgow.com
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BBC Question Time in Stirling - Wednesday 6th April
Interested in bringing a radical analysis to the week's events? Apply to join the audience here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/3117500.stm
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El Perro Negro (Stories from the Spanish Civil War) - Wednesday 6th and Sunday 10th April
The stories of Joan Salvans Piero and Ernesto Diaz Noriega lead us through Spain in the 1930s and 1940s. Ernesto, a middle class student from Madrid, survived the war. Joan, a Catalan industrialist, was killed six days after its outbreak.
Wednesday 6th, 6.45pm
Sunday 10th, 5.40pm
Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose St, Glasgow. £5/£4
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Battle of Orgreave - Thursday 7th April
Based on the 1984 National Union of Mineworks strike in South Yorkshire, England, which led to a confrontation with police in the village of Orgreave. Specifically, this film takes advantage of a June 17th, 2001 reenactment of the battle with mounted police, which included many of the original strikers.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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Bars in the Memory - Thursday 7th April
Using interviews and archive footage, this documentary exposes the concentration camps and Republican slave labourers of Spain under Franco's rule.
6pm, Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose St, Glasgow. £5/4
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This is Camp X-Ray - Friday 8th April
The documentary film by Damien Mahoney hopes to reignite the debate
about Guantanamo Bay at a time when international scrutiny of the camp is
steadily intensifying.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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Border Crossing Services - Tuesday 12th April
The European Union member states' restrictive immigration regulations mean
that there is almost no chance to legally migrate to the EU and reside in
a member state. For those who want to enter, making use of border crossing
services is often the only possibility for penetrating "Fortress Europe."
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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See You in the Next War - Thursday 14th April
Much lauded by the west’s liberal-left, Radio B92 was the former Yugoslavia’s premier underground radio station in Belgrade under the rule of Slobodan Milosevic and the wars in the Balkans. Treated as traitors and subversives during this period, they were repeatedly forced off the airwaves by the government, but managed to keep broadcasting until Milosevic was overthrown.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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Victim of Geography - Friday 15th April
Based on a road-trip from the centre of a vortex (Sarajevo) to the edge of an abyss (Cape Wrath at Scotland s most northerly tip), `Victim of Geography redefines the creative documentary form/road movie genre for a pre-millennium/techno-tuned in and turned on audience.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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Taste of Palestine - Saturday 16th April
St. Francis Xavier church hall, Hope Street, Falkirk at 7.30pm
Launching the Antonine Friendship Link's Friendship Scroll.
Speakers: Iain Connon (Christian peace activist) and Rosemary Hopkins (Women in Black, Edinburgh)
Palestinian snacks, tea and coffee.
Admission by donation. For more information contact Cate at
01506 822481.
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Disobbedienti - Wednesday 20th April
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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Israeli terrorism and Palestinian resistance - Wednesday 20th April
Ted Honderich is Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. He is the author of How Free Are You? and the editor of the widely-used Oxford Companion to Philosophy. His new book After the Terror addresses questions raised by September 11.
The British branch of Oxfam International declined to accept a donation of £5,000 in royalties from the book after a Canadian newspaper raised the issue of a statement made in the book as to the rights of the Palestinians. A representative of Oxfam will be invited to attend and outline their position in relation to Palestinian human rights.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Renfield Saint Stephen's Parish Church, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow
Free
Contact: 0780 324 4739
www.scottishpsc.org.uk
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The Yes Men - Thursday 21st April
The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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The Battle of Algiers (new print) - Sunday 23rd and Monday 25th April
Cinematic recreation of the struggle of Algerians for independence from French rule between 1954 and 1962.
Saturday 23rd, 3pm - £4.50/£3.50
Monday 25th, 6pm - £5/4
Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose St, Glasgow
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Look for me in the Whirlwind - Wednesday 27th April
Celebrating the life of Marcus Garvey, who provoked the largest black mass movement in history.
8.15pm, Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose St, Glasgow. £5
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Chain - Wednesday 27th April
Chain is a glimpse of the future, here and now. Call it “Present Shock.” A melancholy photo collage of chain stores, malls, and conglomerated concrete spaces unfurls as a single, anonymous ambiance, a desolate spiritual limbo that could be anywhere.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7pm, £4/2.50
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Pioneers of Art and Science - Thursday 28th April
Gustav Metzger and Ken McMullen in conversation. Fusing art with politics and social activism Metzger's work offers profound insights into the relevance of art, and the importance of understanding the destructive impulses in society. (Film).
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Freedom is in Your Hand! Song Workshop - Tuesday 3rd May
Many people in the UK have sung the uplifting South African Freedom songs from the collection "Freedom is coming". The collector of these songs, Anders Nyberg, will make his second visit to Scotland in May to promote his new song collection FREEDOM IS IN YOUR HAND.
You don't have to be a "singer" to attend this workshop. Most songs will be taught by ear, and anyone is welcome.
Place: Renfield St Stephen's Church, Bath Street, Glasgow
Cost: Donation
To register for the workshop, contact Victoria Rudebark at the Iona Community office: 0141-332 63 43
Email: victoria.rudebark@gla.iona.org.uk
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A Cultural Day from Glasgow Autonomous Project - Saturday 11th June
Pearce Institute, Govan Road, Govan.
The days events will incorporate a wide variety of participation from music to craft and food.
The early part of the day will encourage the involvement in activities of parents and children.
The evening will be dedicated to ceilidh music, dance and cabaret - finishing in time for the last underground.
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ANTI-WAR
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Weekly anti-war stall - every Saturday from 16th April
All fliers, information etc relating to the war, welcome.
12-2pm
Donald Dewar statue, top of Buchanan St.
troopsoutglasgow@yahoo.co.uk
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Week of Action Against the Corporate Plunder of Iraq - Friday 1st - Thursday 7th April
Why not organise your own actions and protests? For ideas, contact Glasgow Anti War Action
faslanepeacecamp@hotmail.com
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3rd phone blockade of weir pumps - Monday 11th April
Phone blockade weir pumps
+44 (0)141 637 7141
+44 (0)141 637 7358
We have had some success in the last 2 blockades. This time we are going to concentrate on specific times: 11 am – 1pm and 2 pm – 3pm in order to concentrate the calls. When this builds a little bigger we will go back to all day phone blockades
phone regularly at these times
Contact: vigilantewildlife (at) yahoo.co.uk
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UXB Scotland Conference on Resisting Military Occupation - Friday 29th and Saturday 30th April
Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland
he conference will celebrate:
* two years since Vieques was 'liberated'
* the launch of the UXB network
* the re-publication of CND's "Fortress Scotland" report
For day tickets £4 waged / £3 (low/unwaged)
for weekend tickets £8 waged / £6 (low/unwaged)
http://www.scotland-uxb.org/conference.html
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ANTI-G8
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Activist's guide to Scots Law:
http://www.g8legalsupport.info/guide/
Essential reading for G8 protestors and anyone else planning direct actions in Scotland.
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Women vs G8 - Thursday 14th April
Fortnightly meetings, Thursday 6:30pm, Mono cafe-bar. King St, Glasgow.
g8feministaction@riseup.net
http://g8feministaction.frockon.org/
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Reshape meeting:
Reshape Glasgow is the local Glasgow group organizing as part of the Dissent! Network, an organisation that aims to provide non-hierarchical opposition to the G8 when it arrives in Gleneagles in Strathearn, later this year.
7:30-9:00pm, Thursday 7th April
Pearce Institute
840-860 Govan Road
100 yards to the left coming out of Govan U station, big building with a clock on the front.
glasgow-reshape@lists.riseup.net
http://www.dissent.org.uk/
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FESTIVAL OF DISSENT!
6-10 April, Lanarkshire
Workshops and planning and fun, easily reached from Glasgow.
Contact festivalofdissent@riseup.net for info about how to get there, or check www.dissent.org.uk
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Tomfoolery (all proceeds to Wimmin vs G8) - Saturday 16th April
A night of random entertainment. Spoken word, film, live music, DJs, a troupe of hamburgers and much more.
april 16th, carnival arts, 34 albion street, glasgow, 8pm -1am.
Suggested donation £3-5. All genders welcome.
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ENVIRONMENTAL / SUSTAINABILITY
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Talamh courses, Talamh Life Centre, Lanarkshire
April 11th - 16th
Gardening Week
Come and help out in our organic gardens. At this busy time of year we need volunteers for planting and sowing and digging. Learn new skills for free.
http://www.talamhlifecentre.org.uk/events/page
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Glasgow Critical Mass, Friday 29th April
A happy coincidence of cyclists (i.e. YOU) getting together to ride through Glasgow, have fun and make our streets more human, less hostile. All welcome!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass
Last Friday of every month, 5:30pm, George Square
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G8 Earth Activist Training - Friday 27th May - Sunday 5th June
A short Permaculture course, specially for those who want to help set up convergence centres for the G8 protests. Novices and more experienced people welcome. Teaching skills which will also be applicable to protest camps, refugee camps, community projects etc.
Talamh Life Centre, Lanarkshire.
*You need to apply to go on this course by 22nd April!*
Contact edgezone@yahoogroups.com for more information.
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DEMONSTRATIONS/STREET PARTIES/BENEFIT GIGS
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Glasgow Mayday - Sunday 1st May
Glasgow's annual anti-capitalist carnival. Meet 12 noon, Buchanan St underground.
www.liveinthemoment.org
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