City Strolls - events - meetings
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Community and Community Planning Glasgow: The proposed humungous Tesco at Yorkhill
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update 27 Sep 08
This week, a reminder about an ongoing project that deserves your support. The Unity Centre, near Cessnock underground, provides a space for asylum seekers to self-organise and for everyone else to offer practical solidarity to refugees. It's open several days a week but Wednesdays are the focus for the solidarity vigil outside Brand Street Immigration Centre - why not go along if you have time?
After Friday's Critical Mass, why not go along to the Anarchists Against the Wall event at Glasgow Uni. It's a chance to meet Israeli and Palestinian anarchists and find out how to help them resist the occupation. See the Palestine section for more details.Have a good week!
P.S. We've been having requests to subscribe new people to the list/unsubscribe folk who are moving away. We will deal with this as soon as possible - sorry for any delay. Instructions on how to subscribe/unsubscribe to the list yourself should be found at the very bottom of this email :)
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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 Film Night - Wednesday 27th 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 21st 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
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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
---
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 - 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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Faslane 365 Film Night - Wednesday 27th September
6:30pm in the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St
Admission Free
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/events/camcorder.html
Film 1: “Anthropology 101” (2006) – 16 minutes.
On a distant planet in the not-too-distant future,
an anthropology lecturer coolly examines the Earth
people before their self -destruction.
Film 2: “Breach of the Peace” (2004) – 16 minutes.
Made by Camcorder Guerillas:
www.camcorderguerillas.net
Since 1999 there have been a series of mass
non-violent but disruptive direct actions at Faslane
and Coulport (five miles from Faslane) nuclear weapons
bases on the Clyde - the Big Blockades!
Film 3: “The Loch Long Monster” (2001) – 59 minutes.
“People come to Scotland to see the Loch Ness
Monster,” says the local hotel owner on the west
coast, “but the real monster is at my doorstep.” He is
referring to the British Trident nuclear submarines
and their deadly nuclear missiles.
Discussion & Q&A with:
Anna Linea – Faslane 365.
Stuart Parkinson and Marion Hersch - Scientists for
Global Resposiblility.
Mystery Short: The Really Big Blockade. (9.30pm)
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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.
---
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
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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
---
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 21st 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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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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Monday, September 25, 2006
AK PRESS - book launch of Rebel Alliances - Street Level Gallery
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
Thursday 28th September
7.30pm
Street Level Gallery
48 King Street
(1st floor)
Glasgow
0141 552 2151
Read more!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update 19 Sep
This week, a reminder about an ongoing project that deserves your support. The Unity Centre, near Cessnock underground, provides a space for asylum seekers to self-organise and for everyone else to offer practical solidarity to refugees. It's open several days a week but Wednesdays are the focus for the solidarity vigil outside Brand Street Immigration Centre - why not go along if you have time?Have a good week!
P.S. We've been having requests to subscribe new people to the list/unsubscribe folk who are moving away. We will deal with this as soon as possible - sorry for any delay. Instructions on how to subscribe/unsubscribe to the list yourself should be found at the very bottom of this email :)
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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 Film Night - Wednesday 27th 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 21st September
LITERARY EVENTS
- Rebel Alliances book launch - Thursday 28th September
**************
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 - 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
---
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
---
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 Film Night - Wednesday 27th September
6:30pm in the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St
Admission Free
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/events/camcorder.html
Film 1: “Anthropology 101’ (2006) – 16 minutes.
On a distant planet in the not-too-distant future,
an anthropology lecturer coolly examines the Earth
people before their self -destruction.
Film 2: “Breach of the Peace’ (2004) – 16 minutes.
Made by Camcorder Guerillas:
www.camcorderguerillas.net
Since 1999 there have been a series of mass
non-violent but disruptive direct actions at Faslane
and Coulport (five miles from Faslane) nuclear weapons
bases on the Clyde - the Big Blockades!
Film 3: “The Loch Long Monster’ (2001) – 59 minutes.
“People come to Scotland to see the Loch Ness
Monster,’ says the local hotel owner on the west
coast, “but the real monster is at my doorstep.’ He is
referring to the British Trident nuclear submarines
and their deadly nuclear missiles.
Discussion & Q&A with:
Anna Linea – Faslane 365.
Stuart Parkinson and Marion Hersch - Scientists for
Global Resposiblility.
Mystery Short: The Really Big Blockade. (9.30pm)
---
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.
---
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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 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
---
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 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
---
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 21st 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
---
*************
LITERARY EVENTS
---
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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Friday, September 15, 2006
BIKES not BOMBS!
CYCLE RALLY OUTSIDE THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE FRIDAY 22ND SEPT ASSEMBLE 5.30PM ALBERT SQUARE MANCHESTER Tell Blair to "Get on His Bike!"The protest will leave from the Green bridge over Mile End Road E3 at 6.30am
on Thursday 21st Septmeber to cycle to Birmingham,and continue to Manchester
on Friday 22nd in time to join the cycle rally at 5.30pm.
* Bring a group from wherever you are to the cycle rally in Manchester!
* Join the London cycle at the start or along the way!
* Do some of it or all of it!
* Bring your bike on the train to Manchester!!!
* Get a loud hooter for your bike!
For more information contact Graham Turner at:
Jackie.turner@jackieapp.demon.co.uk
Read more!
Welcome to Faslane 365
October First 2006 will see the beginning of an audacious civil resistance initiative to apply critical public pressure for the disarmament of Britain's nuclear weapons...Welcome to Faslane 365
Read more!
Read more!
Thursday, September 14, 2006
WEA Local Association FREE events
Glasgow City Halls visit & talk on Merchant City - Tues. Oct. 10th. 1-3pm
Illustrated Talk on Latin American Fruit Plantaton Workers Tues. 24th. Oct. 12-1pm at the St. Mungo Museum function room. Glasgow Science Centre visit, including planetarium & astronomy Tues. 7th. Nov.
2-4pm Contact the WEA Glasgow office on 221 0003 for more information.
Read more!
Illustrated Talk on Latin American Fruit Plantaton Workers Tues. 24th. Oct. 12-1pm at the St. Mungo Museum function room. Glasgow Science Centre visit, including planetarium & astronomy Tues. 7th. Nov.
2-4pm Contact the WEA Glasgow office on 221 0003 for more information.
Read more!
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Glasgow Residents Groups Network - Campaigning activities
Our campaigning activities
Proposals for discussion at the moment include holding a permanent
protest outside Granite House, targetted protests at intransigent LHO
offices, staging a GHA tenants and homeowners roadshow to raise
awareness of the issues across Glasgow communities
Read more!
Proposals for discussion at the moment include holding a permanent
protest outside Granite House, targetted protests at intransigent LHO
offices, staging a GHA tenants and homeowners roadshow to raise
awareness of the issues across Glasgow communities
Read more!
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update 13 september
Preparations for the Faslane 365 blockade continue this week, with a direct action training this Sunday. It's open to anyone who wants to take part - check the Anti-War section for more details. Meanwhile, remember Faslane Peace Camp appreciates visitors at any time of year - for wood chopping and cake baking as well as blockading! 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 Blockade Training - Sunday 17th September
- Faslane 365 Film Night - Wednesday 27th 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
- Petrotyranny art exhibition - until Saturday 16th September
- Talamh Housing Co-op - ongoing
- Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 29th September
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 14th September
LITERARY EVENTS
- Rebel Alliances book launch - Thursday 28th September
**************
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
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Faslane 365 Blockade Training - Sunday 17th September
10am till 5pm
Organised by the Glasgow group blockading Faslane.
If you are interested, phone 0779 1917 505 for more
details or email glasgow@faslane365.org.
The Glasgow group is blockading on the 23rd and 24th October, but
if you can't do these days, the other groups
would love to hear from you. The current rota is at;
http://www.faslane365.org/BGs/rota.php
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Faslane 365 Film Night - Wednesday 27th September
6:30pm in the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St
Admission Free
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/events/camcorder.html
Film 1: “Anthropology 101” (2006) – 16 minutes.
On a distant planet in the not-too-distant future,
an anthropology lecturer coolly examines the Earth
people before their self -destruction.
Film 2: “Breach of the Peace” (2004) – 16 minutes.
Made by Camcorder Guerillas:
www.camcorderguerillas.net
Since 1999 there have been a series of mass
non-violent but disruptive direct actions at Faslane
and Coulport (five miles from Faslane) nuclear weapons
bases on the Clyde - the Big Blockades!
Film 3: “The Loch Long Monster” (2001) – 59 minutes.
“People come to Scotland to see the Loch Ness
Monster,” says the local hotel owner on the west
coast, “but the real monster is at my doorstep.” He is
referring to the British Trident nuclear submarines
and their deadly nuclear missiles.
Discussion & Q&A with:
Anna Linea – Faslane 365.
Stuart Parkinson and Marion Hersch - Scientists for
Global Resposiblility.
Mystery Short: The Really Big Blockade. (9.30pm)
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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.
---
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
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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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Petrotyranny art exhibition - until Saturday 16th September
An exhibition of photocollage work by Euan Sutherland.
New montage work which references and responds to some of the corporate crimes and abuses of large multinational companies throughout the world.
Harbour Gallery
567 Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow.
show continues
ends - 16th September
tuesday - saturday, 12- 4pm
related work can be found here - www.agitcollage.org/thespoils/spoilnotes.htm
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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
---
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 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 14th 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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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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Monday, September 11, 2006
Gaza is Dying
Patrick Cockburn: Gaza is Dying
Today's media carry powerful testimonies of heroism and tragedy from New York five years ago - ordinary people in that city coping with grief. The silence from Palestine is deafening, as Israel 'rampages through Gaza' following its failure to defeat the Lebanese resistance led by Hezbollah. Blair did not even raise the issue of Israel's massacres of Palestinians, nor their kidnapping of elected Palestinian politicians. Full story Link above. Join the protest Link below
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Today's media carry powerful testimonies of heroism and tragedy from New York five years ago - ordinary people in that city coping with grief. The silence from Palestine is deafening, as Israel 'rampages through Gaza' following its failure to defeat the Lebanese resistance led by Hezbollah. Blair did not even raise the issue of Israel's massacres of Palestinians, nor their kidnapping of elected Palestinian politicians. Full story Link above. Join the protest Link below
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
*A R C H I V E S C R E E N I N G S*
*Document,* the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival presents a platform for both established & emerging documentary filmmakers to screen their work at the only UK festival dedicated to raising awareness of international human rights issues.
9th September, Asylum Screening, CCA, 7:30pm, Tickets £3/£1.50
(Free to asylum seekers)
As part of our document: Archive Screening series we are proud to present:
*Border* Laura Waddington, France-UK, 2004, 27 mins.
In 2002, Laura Waddington spent months in the fields around Sangatte Red
Cross camp, France with Afghan and Iraqi refugees, who were trying to cross
the channel tunnel to England. Filmed at night with a small video camera,
the figures lit only by the distant car headlights on the motorways. Border
is a personal account of the refugees plight and the police violence that
followed the campís closure.
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*The Eye of the Needle*, ******Jonas Soderqvist, Sweden 2005, 57 mins.
The Eye of the Needle takes a close look at the Swedish, and European,
migration policies and the living situation for refugees in Europe coming
from troubled areas all over the world. The film captures the daily life of
four people, all marked by the order of the New Europe:
· a young man hiding Asylum Seekers from the authorities
· an official at the Swedish Migration Board whose job is to decide
who gets to stay and who is thrown out
· a young Bosnian woman living underground, hiding from the Swedish
police, trying to avoid deportation
· a young Macedonian man waiting for his asylum application to come
through
We have filmed their lives for two and a half years in order to capture
their respective realities. We are trying to understand the system by
looking at how it marks administrative officials as well as refugees seeking
help.******
*23**** September – CCA, 7:30pm, Tickets £3/£1.50 (Free to asylum seekers) *
******
*Pretty Dyana, Roma Screening,* Boris Mitic, 48mins******
An intimate look at four Roma families from a Belgrade favella who live by
selling cardboard and bottles which they collect with their souped-up
Citroen Dyanas. They even use the car batteries as power generators in order
to get some light, watch TV and to recharge their mobiles. ******
These are the final two***** document: Archive Screenings *series, before***
** document 4* which takes place from 12 - 16 October, at the CCA and GFT,
Glasgow.
*document 4* will screen a large and diverse selection of documentary film
covering a broad understanding of international human rights including:
immigration & asylum; racism; miscarriages of justice; eviction; poverty;
social exclusion; war and conflict; workers / unemployed rights; Africa;
Palestine / Israel; central / eastern Europe; north & south America; roma,
gypsies & travellers; Kurdish issues; central Asian former soviet republics;
mental health & social care; HIV / aids; young people; women; human
trafficking; indigenous cultures; environmental exploitation & disaster...
*For more information, please contact Neill Patton on 07801 441 643 or, Mona
Rai 07963476204. Alternatively you can e-mail us at* *****
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Two very important meetings happening this week
The first is about Cumlodden Estate, where Tam Brown - a long standing resident - was evicted from in May, after he withheld payments due to the disgusting conditions he and neighbours were living in.
The second: The Souidi family from Cedar Court in Maryhill have been served notice of imminant deportation by the Home Office. The family - originally from Algeria - fear that if deported they may face persecution and torture.
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The first is about Cumlodden Estate, where Tam Brown - a long standing resident - was evicted from in May, after he withheld payments due to the disgusting conditions he and neighbours were living in. It's been called by the GHA, and will take place tomorrow (Wednesday, at 7pm, at GCC's Thornton Street Repair Office beside the high flats in Summerston.
It's vital that people attend to let the GHA know they're not going to get away with treating people like shite. Together with Tam some leaflets have been drawn up for a demonstration about the conditions ands GHA lies and mistruths later this month on the 27th and printed by Andrew for distribution afterwards, depending on what the GHA have to say. Tam needs your help to give these out as well.
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Elsewhere in Maryhill there is a meeting concerning an asylum seeker the home office wants to send back to Algeria:-
No Dawn Raids! No Deportations!
Support Asylum Seekers in Maryhill!
PUBLIC MEETING
Friday 8 September - 7:30pm
Community Central Halls, Maryhill Road
The Souidi family from Cedar Court in Maryhill have been served notice of imminant deportation by the Home Office. The family - originally from Algeria - fear that if deported they may face persecution and torture.
Ahlam Souidi, an activist and well-known figure in the local community, will address the meeting asking for solidarity and support.
The meeting will be chaired by Rosie Kane and will aim to generate a strong campaign of support for the Souidis and everyone else facing the brutal treatment of the UK Home Office.
All welcome
Read more!
International day for raising awareness of climate change
In Glasgow pro-health activists are organising a sponsored run/walk/cycle to
highlight that individuals’ health is directly linked to the health of their
environment. Currently our “Dear Green Place” is increasing its carbon
emissions through increased air travel, more roads, more cars, and a hike in
public transport costs - Making our green place and its residents an
unhealthy grey.
All motivated to take action come to an open meeting in Mono (10 Kings
Court, King Street, Glasgow, G1) at 6pm on Sunday 10th September.
This is after the Faslane 365 benefit gig called ‘A celebration of political
song’ staring Rory McLeod, Alistair Hulett, Robb Johnson, Seize the Day and
Pat Humphries & Sandy O. Which is from 13.00 to 17.00 at St Andrews in the
Square, Salt Market Glasgow (£7/5).
See you there.
Read more!
highlight that individuals’ health is directly linked to the health of their
environment. Currently our “Dear Green Place” is increasing its carbon
emissions through increased air travel, more roads, more cars, and a hike in
public transport costs - Making our green place and its residents an
unhealthy grey.
All motivated to take action come to an open meeting in Mono (10 Kings
Court, King Street, Glasgow, G1) at 6pm on Sunday 10th September.
This is after the Faslane 365 benefit gig called ‘A celebration of political
song’ staring Rory McLeod, Alistair Hulett, Robb Johnson, Seize the Day and
Pat Humphries & Sandy O. Which is from 13.00 to 17.00 at St Andrews in the
Square, Salt Market Glasgow (£7/5).
See you there.
Read more!
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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