City Strolls - events - meetings

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update Aug 15

This week, two of the Prestwick Weapons Inspectors have been jailed (on remand) following their actions to stop US warplanes touching down in Scotland. Today, they were being considered for bail, so please check the link to the Trident Ploughshares website for the latest news. If they stay in prison, please write to them and show your support for their actions. (Addresses in the Anti- War section).There's still time to book a space on the minibuses from Glasgow to the Camp for Climate Action - check the Sustainability section for details.

Have a good week!

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CONTENTS:

REFUGEES

- Unity Centre - ongoing
- Vigil at the Home Office in Glasgow - every Wednesday
- 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

- Support Prestwick Inspectors on Remand - ongoing
- Anti-war vigil - every Thursday
- Faslane 365, get involved! - ongoing
- Faslane Peace Camp needs visitors!
- Join the Direct Action Against War network - ongoing

SUSTAINABILITY

- Book your place on the bus with the Scottish Climate Camp
neighbourhood - ongoing
- Talamh Housing Co-op - ongoing
- Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 25th August

TACTICAL FRIVOLITY

- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 17th August

FILM SHOWINGS

- “From Baking the Planet to Self Sufficiency” - Wednesday 23rd August

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REFUGEES

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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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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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Support Prestwick Inspectors on Remand - ongoing

You'll probably have seen all the news about bomb planes travelling
through Prestwick and the attempts by civilians to inspect their cargo.
(http://scotland.indymedia.org/feature/display/1732/index.php)

Two of the 17 people arrested were refused bail by a nasty sheriff and are
currently on remand for trials on 11th September. They would appreciate
letters of support.

The addresses:

Sylvia Boyes
Prisoner on Remand
HMP Cornton Vale
Cornton Road
Stirling
FK9 5NU

Stevan van Elsen #98181
HMP Barlinnie
GLASGOW
G33 2QX

See http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article1104 for updates.

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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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Book your place on the bus with the Scottish Climate Camp
Neighbourhood - ongoing

Between Saturday 26th August and Monday 4th September a Camp for
Climate Action will take place near Leeds.

www.climatecamp.org.uk

Some of us from Scotland are organising a Scottish neighbourhood at
the camp. Two minibuses will leave Glasgow for Leeds on Thursday
24th August, returning after camp, probably on 5th/6th September. We
have 30 spaces to fill, and are asking a £5 donation to travel. To
book your place, email:

scotland@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 25th August

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 17th August

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 revolutionarysilliness. Contact Major Pan-Sweat, mashtram@yahoo.co.uk

www.clownarmy.org

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FILM SHOWINGS

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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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