City Strolls - events - meetings

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update Jan 3 Happy New Year

If you're making resolutions for 2007, why not get involved in a Faslane 365 blockade, or an ongoing project like the Unity centre (see below for details of both)? Long running campaigns always need new people and fresh ideas.And if you're planning a radical event or project this year, let us know about it and we'll include it in the update.

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 - 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 26th January

TACTICAL FRIVOLITY

- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 11th January

WORKPLACE ORGANISING

- IWW Meeting - Wednesday 10th January

ANARCHIST HISTORY

- Anarchist History Channel - ongoing


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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 - 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.


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Help a homeless asylum seeker: appeal from Positive Action in Housing

Over the last few weeks Positive Action in Housing has needed to find homes for several refugees who have been evicted or who have unstable living situations. They would like people to get in touch if you have a spare room in your house and would like to welcome a refugee into your home.

www.paih.org

Positive Action in Housing Ltd, 98 West George Street, Glasgow G2 1PJ
tel: 0141 353 2220
fax: 0141 353 3882
email: home@paih.org

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PALESTINE

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Scottish Palestine Solidarity stall - every Saturday

2pm-4pm at the Junction of Hope St. and Sauchiehall St. (opposite Watt Bros.) The Scottish PSC stall attracts supporters to sign petitions or sign-up sheets, get information about coming meetings and events, collect literature, or buy a ribbon, tee-shirt or Palestinian headscraf (kiffeya) and more.
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ANTI-WAR

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Anti-war vigil - every Thursday

Hands off Iran! No nuclear war!

Thursday 5-7 pm at the Donald Dewar Statue, Buchanan St.

Check out www.iransolidarity.endofempire.org for upcoming events,
and to publicise your own anti war events.

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Faslane 365, get involved! - ongoing

Faslane 365 is a civil resistance project focussed in Scotland to apply critical public pressure for the disarmament of Britain's nuclear weapons by a continuous peaceful blockade of the Trident base at Faslane.
We are inviting groups and individuals from a wide range of public interest organisations to join in the blockade and to use the opportunity to raise awareness of the issues that each group is working on and to make the links between its core issues and how the UK's nuclear weapons system affects them.
www.faslane365.org

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Faslane Peace Camp needs visitors!

Faslane Peace Camp recently celebrated its 23rd year of direct action to oppose the Trident nuclear submarines stationed 30 miles north of Glasgow. Visitors are always welcome, for a day, a week, or longer!
Directions: Train from Glasgow Queen Street or 216 bus from Jamaica
Street to Helensburgh Central. Then catch the 316 bus to the peace
camp.

For more info and to check the current situation: 01436 820 901
faslanepeacecamp@hotmail.com


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Join the Direct Action Against War network - ongoing

Visit us: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/directactionagainstwar/
To join our network, please send a blank email to the address below,
& then wait for the confirmation message:

directactionagainstwar-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

The DAAW message board was initially created in Jan 2003 to improve communication around direct action, as protests and demonstrations were carried out to protest the arrival of US B52 Bombers to the RAF Airbase in the otherwise sleepy Cotswold village of Fairford. Since then the message board has become home to a wide range of campaigns and protests, from info on the next Disarm DSEi 2005, to planning objections to the expansion of the Atomic Weapons establishment, to defending the right to protest in Parliament Square.

Most events or actions which are asking more than just the signing of another petition, or which are more than another march from point A to point B, will be considered for approval as a form of direct action.
We look forward to receiving your subscription request.

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SUSTAINABILITY

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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

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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 26th January

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 11th January

The Glasgow Brigade of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) meets weekly on Thursdays from 6pm till 8pm in the upstairs gallery of the Lansdowne Church (across from Kelvinbridge Underground).

Come along to find your inner Clown, have loads of fun, and plot sinister plans for revolutionary silliness. Contact Major Pant-Sweat, mashtram@yahoo.co.uk

www.clownarmy.org

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WORKPLACE ORGANISING

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IWW Meeting - Wednesday 10th January

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

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ANARCHIST HISTORY

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Anarchist History Channel - ongoing


Hi: would you be so kind as to let people know of the following anarchist
film (feature/documentary) channel:

At http://tinyurl.com/t8sta

or

http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=219646953&firstVideo

You might like to note that two new documentaries ‹ The Angry Brigade and 'Persons Unknown'‹ have now been added to the Anarchist History channel on the Anarchist History channel

Please note that you can have these films shown freely on your own website
by applying to join the affiliate/syndication programme at
www.brightecove.com

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid234454000

All we ask you to do is send us the url and a brief description about the website where the Player will be located. It's dead simple, really!


See also http://www.londonfreetv.com

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> From photos to predictions, The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes has
it all. http://tv.msn.com/tv/globes2007/


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Bob, 20:11

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