City Strolls - events - meetings
Monday, November 20, 2006
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update 20 Nov
This week we're spotlighting two exciting events at the Centre for Contemporary Arts. On Wednesday, check out a wide selection of work by feminist and queer filmmakers at the Glasgow Bildwechsel night. Then on Friday, as another Critical Mass rolls into town, there's films on a biking theme - just the thing to relax to after some winter cycling! Check the Film Screenings and Sustainability sections for details.
Have a good week!
************
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 - local 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
- Talamh Housing Co-op - ongoing
- Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 24th November
- Critical Mass Films and Magical Mystery Tour - Friday 24th November
November
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 23rd November
FOOD CO-OP
- Eat to the Beat for NGCFI - Saturday 2nd December
FILM SCREENINGS
- Bildwechsel Feminist Films - Wednesday 22nd November
- Freedom of Choice - Wednesday 29th November
WORKPLACE ORGANISING
- IWW Meeting - Wednesday 6th December
**************
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.
---
No Borders Glasgow - local group
No Borders is a transnational social movement of people opposed to
borders, immigration controls, detention centres and forced migration.
No Borders Glasgow is a local network committed to practical
solidarity,
mutual aid and direct action in the struggle against the persecution
and exploitation of migrants by states and bosses.
Contact details:
- email: noborders-glasgow [at] riseup.net
- Check the weblog at: www.openborders.org.uk.
- To subscribe to regular email updates on actions, demos, meetings
and other news, go to:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/noborders-glasgow or
send an email.
---
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
---
**********************
PALESTINE
---
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.
---
************
ANTI-WAR
---
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.
---
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
---
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
---
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.
---
***********
SUSTAINABILITY
---
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 gardenesp 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
---
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
---
Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 24th November
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
---
Critical Mass Films and Magical Mystery Tour - Friday 24th November
Before Critical Mass: Magical Mystery Bike Tour of Glasgow
Depart GFT 5.15pm
Depart CCA 5.30pm
FROM 7 PM at CCA cinema 4
• Underwater Bicycle Repair (10 mins)
One man and his bicycle. Underwater. With a very big fish.
• Camcorder Guerilla Shorts (10 min): Two horn honkingly good film
shorts from Glasgow’s Camcorder Guerillas of Glasgow’s critical mass peddling
their ways through the city’s streets.
Feature Film: “We are Traffic “ (50 mins).
“We are not disrupting traffic, we are traffic”. So argues one
critical mass cyclist in this film, which documents the origins and development of
critical mass from its beginnings in San Francisco in1993 to its subsequent
spread across the planet.
Discussion and Q & A: “Urban movements on two wheels – a solution to
many problems” (20 mins). Panel: tbc
Followed by Jumble Sale Soundsystem in the CCA bar.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Sauchiehall St
---
**************
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
---
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 23rd November
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
---
*************
FOOD CO-OP
---
Eat to the Beat for NGCFI - Saturday 2nd December
Maryhill Community Halls, Maryhill Road
bands, dj, raffle, food, bar, and film.
To raise funds for the North Glasgow Community Food Initiative, which provides cost price fruit and veg and runs community allotments in North Glasgow.
---
*********************
FILM SCREENINGS
---
Bildwechsel Feminist Films - Wednesday 22nd November
An eclectic programme of independent and d.i.y. films from glasgow, scottish, uk and international women / lesbian / transgender / feminist / queer film makers.
7pm, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Sauchiehall Street
Free, but ticketed.
Films include: Sink or Swim, Reincarnate, Miss Hannah, Outside Brighton Dole, A King Is Born, Don’t Do Tricks, Womb Raider, About A Girlboy, Amazing Graves, A.R.M.E., Untitled
Bonus features plucked from the bildwechsel archives in hamburg and other
international picks.
Put our next two dates in your diary: 17th January, 21st March
More info about bildwechsel at www.bildwechsel.org
and about the bildwechsel base in Glasgow at
www.bildwechselglasgow.wordpress.com
---
Freedom of Choice - Wednesday 29th November
Camcorder Guerillas present:
Mystery Shorts (15 mins)
Feature Film: Freedom of Choice (65 mins)
How do our daily decisions affect climate change, poverty, globalisation, our
consumption and other people?
...plus updates from Faslane 365 and Climate Change Camp
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Sauchiehall Street
7pm
---
******************
WORKPLACE ORGANISING
---
IWW Meeting - Wednesday 6th December
Clydeside Industrial Workers of the World branch meeting. Radical union for workers not bosses. Open also to prospective and lapsed members.
Research Club, 13 University Gardens, off University Avenue.
8pm
---
_________________________________________________________________
Windows Live™ Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb
=====================================================================
To receive these weekly news updates please email
glasgowautonomyupdates-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
To stop receiving them please email
glasgowautonomyupdates-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net
***
PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT EVENTS HAPPENING IN AND AROUND GLASGOW SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE THEM NEXT WEEK.
Preferred format is a short summary, with practical details of when and where, and a link to a web page for more detail. If you do not have a web site of your own, the excellent http://scotland.indymedia.org/ allows anyone to easily create a page letting others know what you have been, or are up to.
Send that to glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net before Monday for inclusion in the following week.
Bob, 19:07
