City Strolls - events - meetings
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update 5 sep 06
This week, support the Faslane 365 campaign at an afternoon fundraiser on Sunday. The year long blockade of the nuclear weapons base starts in October - maybe you want to join in?? See the Anti-War 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
- Faslane 365 Fundraiser - Sunday 10th September - 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 Housing Co-op - ongoing - Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing - Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 29th September
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 7th September
ANTI-CAPITALIST
- Reshape Glasgow meeting - Tuesday 5th September
LITERARY EVENTS
- Rebel Alliances book launch - Thursday 28th September
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REFUGEES
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
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
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
---Faslane 365 Fundraiser - Sunday 10th September A concert of political song featuring Rory McLeod, Alistair Hulett, Robb Johnson, Seize the Day, Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
For the benefit of Faslane 365, the continuous blockade of the Trident base which begins on 1st October.
St. Andrews in the Square, Saltmarket, Glasgow, from 1pm to 5 pm. Admission £7/£5 concession, tickets available from www.secxtra.com, SEC office on 08700132656 or SEC Ticket Office, St. Enoch's Shopping Centre.
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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 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 29th September
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 7th September 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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ANTI-CAPITALIST
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Reshape Glasgow meeting - Tuesday 5th September 9 pm at Pandora pub (corner Victoria Rd. & Alison St.). On the agenda is: Action against M 74, plus stories about the camp for climate action. Glasgow Reshape are a group building creative and effective resistance to the 2005 G8 summit and the capitalist system it is symbolic of.
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LITERARY EVENTS
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Rebel Alliances book launch - Thursday 28th September AK PRESS invite you to the book launch of Rebel Alliances by Benjamin Franks Lecturer in Political Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus. with contributions from contemporary activists / anarchists + refreshments + bookstalls
FREE EVENT 7.30pm Street Level Gallery 48 King Street (1st floor) Glasgow 0141 552 2151 Rebel Alliances offers an applied philosophical perspective on contemporary class-struggle anarchism in Britain. It identifies the main principles distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal and social-democratic groupings.
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