City Strolls - events - meetings
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update July 20
This Saturday, head along to the monthly demo at Brand Street Immigration Centre, in solidarity with the refugees who have to sign on there. Turning up this month, if you can, is especially important following the dawn raid on a young Kurdish family last week. Let's keep up the pressure on the Home Office! (Check the Refugees section for more details).
On Saturday evening there's the chance to get involved in action against climate change. People from across Scotland are meeting to organise a Scottish Neighbourhood at the Camp for Climate Action in August. The Sustainability section has all the info.
Have a good week!
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CONTENTS:
SOCIAL CENTRES
- Chalkboard Social Centre - ongoing
- GAP Meeting at the Chalkboard - Monday 24th July
- IWW meeting at the Chalkboard - Wednesday 2nd August
REFUGEES
-Monthly Vigil at Brand St - Saturday 22nd July
- Unity Centre - ongoing
- Vigil at the Home Office in Glasgow - every Wednesday
- Please Support the Raja family - ongoing
- Donate to No Borders Glasgow - ongoing
- 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
- Anti-war vigil - every Thursday
- Faslane 365, get involved! - ongoing
- Faslane Peace Camp needs visitors!
- Join the Direct Action Against War network - ongoing
SUSTAINABILITY
- Planning meeting for Scottish Climate Camp Neighbourhood - Saturday 22nd July
- Talamh Housing Co-op - ongoing
- Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 28th July
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 20th July
FILM SHOWINGS
- "Sparking Resistance from Glasgow to Rio" - Wednesday 26th July
- “From Baking the Planet to Self Sufficiency” - Wednesday 23rd August
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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 24th July
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 2nd August
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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Monthly Vigil at Brand St - Saturday 22nd July
Calling all asylum seekers and friends to come to Unity’s monthly protest at the Home Office
- Come and show solidarity with the Temal family taken from their home in Kennishead
- Come and demand an end to dawn raids and for the right to work
> From 10am
Brand St Immigration Centre, behind Cessnock Underground
See: http://snipurl.com/brand_street_map
For more details, contact:
The UNITY Centre, 30 Ibrox Street, Glasgow, G51 1AQ. Tel: 0141 427 7992
theunitycentre [at] btconnect.com
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The Unity Centre - ongoing
UNITY is the new, rapidly growing, union of asylum seekers formed by asylum seekers to fight for greater rights for asylum seekers and sans papiers.
The UNITY Centre at 30 Ibrox Street is open five days a week near to the Home Office Immigration centre. Here families who are scared of being detained when reporting at the Immigration Centre can 'sign in' before reporting so we can quickly alert their lawyers, friends and relatives if they are detained.
We offer friendly, practical solidarity and mutual aid to all asylum seekers, refugees and sans papiers. Phone our 24 hour action line on 0141 427 7992 if you need help.
The Centre is completley run by volunteers and funded by donations - please get in touch to help this exciting, new project.
The UNITY Centre, 30 Ibrox Street, Glasgow, G51 1AQ. Tel: 0141 427 7992
theunitycentre [at] btconnect.com
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Vigil at Brand Street Immigration Centre - every Wednesday
Keep up the pressure on the Home Office. No deportations, no dawn raids!
10am,
Brand Street, just behind Cessnock Underground
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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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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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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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Planning Meeting for Scottish Climate Camp Neighbourhood - Saturday 22nd July
The Climate Camp for Action will take place near Leeds from
26th August - 4th September
Organised in response to the rapid Climate Change we are now witnessing
- melting icecaps, flooded communities, heat waves and hurricanes -
the camp will create grassroots solutions to climate change through
action, education, networking and skill sharing.
Some people from Scotland are organising a Scottish "neighbourhood" within the camp. We'll cook, camp, take action and socialise together.
To get involved, come along to the George's Cross Chalkboard, 34 Clarendon Place.
> From 7pm, Saturday 22nd June.
For more info www.climatecamp.org.uk
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Talamh Housing Co-op - ongoing
If you fancy a few days away, and would like to come and help out for a
few days, or just for the day in a busy, sometimes chaotic community,
but fun too, then get in touch. Extra help is welcomed in the garden esp
over the summer months, and with lots of other stuff too! Visitor space
is in a basic static caravan with wood burner.
Talamh is lucky to be set in 50 acres of land, and 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.
For more info contact: talamh@lineone.net or phone 01555 820550 also see
http://www.talamh.org.uk
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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 28th July
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
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TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 20th July
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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FILM SHOWINGS
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“Sparking Resistance from Glasgow to Rio” - Wednesday 26th July
6.20 pm
Mystery Short: Critical Mass.
Venezuela - Talking of Power (2005) 62 minutes.
Mystery Short: Cows with Guns.
Entre Muros in Favelas (Between Walls in Favelas) (2005) - 55 minutes.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Sauchiehall St
Free entry.
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“From Baking the Planet to Self Sufficiency” - Wednesday 23rd August
6.20pm
Mystery Short 1: Summit from Nothing
Reach for the Sky (2005) – 40 minutes
Mystery Short 2: Dig This!
Baked Alaska (2004) – 26 minutes
The Coconut Revolution, (Bougainville Story) (2001) 50 minutes.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Sauchiehall St
Free entry.
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