City Strolls - events - meetings
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update 25 May
heading
Join the cycle circus this Friday, as Glasgow Critical mass tries for its biggest turn out ever. And on Saturday anarchist anthropologist David Graeber will be speaking at Glasgow uni - not to be missed.Have a good week!
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CONTENTS:
SOCIAL CENTRES
- Chalkboard Social Centre - ongoing
- GAP Meeting at the Chalkboard - Monday 29th May
- IWW meeting at the Chalkboard - Wednesday 7th June
REFUGEES
- Scottish Detainee Visitors Fundraising Gig - Saturday 10th June
- Please Support the Raja family - ongoing
- Donate to No Borders Glasgow - ongoing
- Brand Street Immigration Centre demos - every Saturday
- Creche volunteers needed for Sighthill English and Support Class -
ongoing
- No Borders Glasgow - new group
- Help a homeless asylum seeker: appeal from Positive Action in
Housing
PALESTINE
- Scottish Palestine Solidarity stall - every Saturday
ANTI-WAR
- Peace Picnic at Beith Munitions Depot - Sunday 4th June
- Faslane Peace Camp birthday party - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June
- Anti-war vigil - every Thursday
- Faslane 365, get involved! - ongoing
- Faslane Peace Camp needs visitors!
- Join the Direct Action Against War network - ongoing
SUSTAINABILITY
- Talamh needs a gardener!
- Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 26th May
- Picnic at Cre8 garden against the M74 - Saturday 27th May
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 25th May
PUBLIC TALKS
- Anarchist anthropologist in Glasgow - Saturday 27th May
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SOCIAL CENTRES
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Chalkboard Social Centre - ongoing
A space for dropping in, having a chat and participating in the
community. A variety of radical and community groups meet here
regularly. Come along and see for yourself!
Open 2pm-7pm, Wed-Sun
www.chalkboard.org.uk
Georges Cross Chalkboard, 34 Clarendon Place, just off Maryhill
Road.
Nearest underground: St George's Cross
Buses: 20, 30, 40, 61, 66 from town centre to St George's Cross end
of Maryhill Road
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GAP meeting at the Chalkboard - Monday 29th May
We hold weekly meetings in our social centre, the Georges Cross
Chalkboard, at 8pm on Mondays. Everything to do with how the centre
is run is decided at the Monday meeting.
Georges Cross Chalkboard, 34 Clarendon Place, just off Maryhill
Road.
Nearest underground: St George's Cross
Buses: 20, 30, 40, 61, 66 from town centre to St George's Cross end
of Maryhill Road
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.chalkboard.org.uk/
If you are interested in coming along this week please send an email
to
glasgow-autonomy@lists.riseup.net
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IWW meeting at the Chalkboard - Wednesday 7th June
Radical union for workers not bosses. New members can sign up at
meetings.
7.45 for 8pm
Georges Cross Chalkboard, 34 Clarendon Place, just off Maryhill
Road.
Nearest underground: St George's Cross
Buses: 20, 30, 40, 61, 66 from town centre to St George's Cross end
of Maryhill Road
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REFUGEES
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Scottish Detainee Visitors Fundraising Gig - Saturday 10th June
Music from:
Scott MacDonald
Michael Simons
Craig Campbell
8-11pm
Doors open 7pm
St.Helen’s Hall, Langside Avenue, Glasgow
Tickets £5 on the door
Refugees and asylum seekers free
All proceeds raised will go to Scottish Detainee Visitors who provide social,
emotional and
practical support to detainees in Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre
For more information on Scottish Detainee Visitors, contact Kate on
0141 248 9799 or
info@sdv.org.uk.
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Please Support the Raja family - ongoing
Asad and Tahira Raja are currently living in a small cold flat in
Sighthill with their small baby. They have lost all NASS benefits.
They have no income. They are living with their baby in cold and
unsuitable accommodation and are surviving on food parcels and
charity and a small amount of money paid out by Social Services to
help with their child.
In April 2005, Asad and Tahira learnt that UK Home Office had
refused their claim for asylum. The family say that they have never
received any formal letter advising of this decision, and their
lawyer confirmed that nothing had been communicated to his office in
reference to this asylum decision. Asad and Tahira only discovered
this negative decision when they received a letter from NASS in
April 2005 notifying the couple that they would no longer be in
receipt of any NASS support because of their negative asylum
decision.
Please print off and send this letter to McNulty back to the
campaign. More details: http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszin67/raja.html
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Donate to No Borders Glasgow - ongoing
No Borders, with other groups and individuals, are planning to open
an office early in March. We need volunteers to help renovate and
decorate the office to get it ready. We also need office equipment
such as some desks and chairs, filing cabinets and computers. If you
can help – either with painting, etc or with office equipment -
please get in touch
noborders-glasgow@riseup.net or leave a message on 0141 423 9055
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Brand Street Immigration Centre demos - every Saturday
10am - 12 noon
Picket/Vigil outside Brand Street Immigration Centre (near Cessnock
Underground - turn left out of station and then left into Brand
Street - the Immigration offices are about 200m along Brand St.)
Stop dawn raids and deportations!
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Creche volunteers needed for Sighthill English and Support Class -
ongoing
Teaching English
GCtWR’s English & Support Class in Sighthill is needing some help
with the
crèche side of its regular Thursday evening class (between 7pm and
9pm). If
you are interested and are either Disclosure checked or prepared to
be, then
please contact Sheila on 07718 896 041.
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No Borders Glasgow - new group
No Borders Glasgow is committed to practical solidarity, mutual aid
and
direct action in the fight against deportation, detention, poverty
and
racism.
The main thing for us at the moment is being involved in the growing
resistance to deportations in Glasgow - e.g. the recent occupation
of the
Immigration Reporting Centre in Govan - while putting forward the
arguments against all migration controls (often ignored or opposed
by
other groups).
We have a weblog for updates on actions, campaigns,meetings, links
to
other groups etc at www.openborders.org.uk and a discussion/updates
email
list at: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/noborders-glasgow
No Borders Glasgow
email: nobrders-glasgow@riseup.net
weblog: www.openborders.org.uk
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Help a homeless asylum seeker: appeal from Positive Action in
Housing
Over the last few weeks Positive Action in Housing has needed to
find homes for
several refugees who have been evicted or who have unstable living
situations.
They would like people to get in touch if you have a spare room in
your house
and would like to welcome a refugee into your home.
www.paih.org
Positive Action in Housing Ltd, 98 West George Street, Glasgow G2
1PJ
tel: 0141 353 2220
fax: 0141 353 3882
email: home@paih.org
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PALESTINE
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Scottish Palestine Solidarity stall - every Saturday
2pm-4pm at the Junction of Hope St. and Sauchiehall St. (opposite
Watt Bros.) The Scottish PSC stall attracts supporters to sign
petitions or sign-up sheets, get information about coming meetings
and events, collect literature, or buy a ribbon, tee-shirt or
Palestinian headscraf (kiffeya) and more.
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ANTI-WAR
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Peace Picnic at Beith Munitions Depot - Sunday 4th June
BUILT IN BEITH TO BOMB BAGHDAD
BEITH – BAGHDAD - TEHRAN NEXT?
FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN
CALL AN END TO WAR AND AGGRESSION.
Come to Defence Munitions Beith where missiles which were used in
the
Iraq war were stored, produced and tested.
1pm Peace picnic
3pm - naming of some of the dead Iraqi children.
Meet outside the main gates. Families welcome.
Bring food to share for the picnic, flowers for the fence and to
make a
large wreath, and small toys and baby clothes to lay at the fence
when
naming the dead.
DM Beith is just outside Beith and is signposted on the A737 which
bypasses Beith (onto the B706, Barrmill Road.) Transport from
Edinburgh
& Glasgow to DM Beith and pick ups from Barrmill and Beith. See
http://www.act4peace.org.uk/ for more details or contact tel:
07876698736 email info@act4peace.org.uk
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Faslane Peace Camp birthday party - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June
Bands, decks, poi, music, fun, food and drink.
Hoping to set up one stage, with 12 bands over the two days. Also a bar with hot food thro the day.
And a banquet on the saturday.
Looking for bands to play.
Any help would be appreciated.
faslaniapeacecamp@yahoo.co.uk
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Anti-war vigil - every Thursday
Hands off Iran! No nuclear war!
Thursday 5-7 pm at the Donald Dewar Statue, Buchanan St.
Check out www.iransolidarity.endofempire.org for upcoming events,
and to publicise your own anti war events.
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Faslane 365, get involved! - ongoing
Faslane 365 is a civil resistance project focussed in Scotland to
apply critical public pressure for the disarmament of Britain's
nuclear weapons by a continuous peaceful blockade of the Trident
base at Faslane.
We are inviting groups and individuals from a wide range of public
interest organisations to join in the blockade and to use the
opportunity to raise awareness of the issues that each group is
working on and to make the links between its core issues and how the
UK's nuclear weapons system affects them.
www.faslane365.org
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Faslane Peace Camp needs visitors!
Faslane Peace Camp recently celebrated its 23rd year of direct
action to oppose the Trident nuclear submarines stationed 30 miles
north of Glasgow. Visitors are always welcome, for a day, a week,
or longer!
Directions: Train from Glasgow Queen Street or 216 bus from Jamaica
Street to Helensburgh Central. Then catch the 316 bus to the peace
camp.
For more info and to check the current situation: 01436 820 901
faslanepeacecamp@hotmail.com
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Join the Direct Action Against War network - ongoing
Visit us: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/directactionagainstwar/
To join our network, please send a blank email to the address below,
& then wait for the confirmation message:
directactionagainstwar-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
The DAAW message board was initially created in Jan 2003 to improve
communication around direct action, as protests and demonstrations
were carried out to protest the arrival of US B52 Bombers to the RAF
Airbase in the otherwise sleepy Cotswold village of Fairford. Since
then the message board has become home to a wide range of campaigns
and protests, from info on the next Disarm DSEi 2005, to planning
objections to the expansion of the Atomic Weapons establishment, to
defending the right to protest in Parliament Square.
Most events or actions which are asking more than just the signing
of another petition, or which are more than another march from point
A to point B, will be considered for approval as a form of direct
action.
We look forward to receiving your subscription request.
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SUSTAINABILITY
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Talamh needs a gardener!
Talamh Housing Co-op is looking for a new member who has enthusiasm
and time enough spare to co-ordinate gardening. Talamh has a large
productive polytunnel, organic veg terraces, and soft fruit bushes.
Talamh grows for those living here, and we'd like to increase this
amount but need help to do this from someone keen to help
co-ordinate growing for next year.
Anyone who is interested, and thinks they'd like to live in a busy,
sometimes chaotic community, but fun too, is welcome to visit and
stay
to see what they think. Talamh is home to 10 adults, 4 children,
visitors, 4 dogs, a cat, and chickens. It's a member of Radical
Routes,
a network of co-ops working for social change.
Contact: talamh@lineone.net or phone 01555 820555 or 820550
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Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
Over the time of the G8 summit, Southside residents and visiting
anti-G8 activists started to create a community garden. People are
welcome along at any time to enjoy and add to the garden.
http://www.dissent.org.uk/content/view/230/108/
The garden is behind the billboards at Eglinton Toll. Bus Numbers
44,22,23,57
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Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 26th May
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
http://www.citystrolls.com/z-f-page/critical.htm
http://www.citystrolls.com/z-temp/bike-runs-pics.htm
Last Friday of every month, 5:30pm, George Square
N.B. This month's Mass has a carnival theme - dress up if you feel
like it!
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Picnic at Cre8 garden against the M74 - Saturday 27th May
As you've probably seen the tarmac has been laid in Eglinton Toll on
what little green space we have left, and apparently the M74 work is
starting at Polmadie....
11am - 2pm
We are planning a picnic on whats left of the gardens with a mural
work shop, so please come along with paints, brushes, bring seeds to
plant and instruments to play, and let folk know.
We can not let them destroy our spirit - we have to stop the
destruction.
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TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 25th May
The Glasgow Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army meets weekly on
Thursdays at 5:50 in the upstairs gallery of the Lansdowne Church
(across from Kelvinbridge Underground).
Come along to clown around and plot sinister plans for revolutionary
silliness. Contact Major Pan-Sweat, mashtram@yahoo.co.uk
www.clownarmy.org
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PUBLIC TALKS
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Anarchist anthropologist in Glasgow - Saturday 27th May
rg2 (radical geographies reading group) and AK Press host
Professor David Graeber
Yale University and New York-based
radical anthropologist active with
Ya Basta! and the Direct Action Network
> From 3pm
Public Lecture
East Quad Lecture Theatre, Gilbert Scott Building , Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
discussion and evening social
Hetherington Postgraduate Research Club
University Gardens
David Graeber is author of writings on magic in Madagascar, theories
of value,
and anarchism. He was controversially 'fired' from Yale for his
politics. He
is one of the most admired, widely translated, and exciting
anthropologists
working today.
Questions?
contact kristina.nellweaver@gmail.com
http://web.ges.gla.ac.uk/~jnorcup/ rg2/rg2.htm.
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