City Strolls - events - meetings
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomous update 7 Feb 07
Spend some time out of the city this weekend, and get involved in Talamh's tree weekend. There's lots of conservation work to do, people to meet, and if you've not been before it's a chance to find out more about Glasgow's nearest radical housing co-op. Details in the Sustainability section. On Sunday, Antifa Glasgow launch with a punk benefit gig. Enjoy the bands and find out more about what the group are planning. (Check the Anti-Racist section for information).
Have a good week!
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CONTENTS:
REFUGEES
- No Borders Gathering - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March
- 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
ANTI-WAR
- Last Man Out (Talk on 9/11) - Saturday 10th February
- Second Vanunu Freedom Ride - Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th April
- 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 Tree Weekend - Friday 9th - Sunday 11th February
- Talamh Housing Co-op - ongoing
- Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 23rd February
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 8th February
WORKPLACE ORGANISING
- IWW Meeting - Wednesday 7th February
ANARCHIST HISTORY
- Anarchist History Channel - ongoing
ZAPATISTAS
- Fundraising Appeal for Scotland's Twinned Autonomous Municipality - before 3rd March (medicine)
ANTI - RACIST
- Antifa Scotland Benefit Gig - Sunday 11th February
SKILLSHARES
- Free Linux video editing workshop - Wednesday 7th February
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
- Glasgow "Indymedia" - new project
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REFUGEES
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No Borders Gathering - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March
The No Borders network in the UK is expanding all the time. Its principles
of self-organised, grassroots, direct action against the racist asylum and
immigration system are attracting a wide coalition of people.
The No Borders Gathering in Glasgow will bring together groups and
individuals from across the UK, and aims to strengthen the solidarity
network in the UK, and link our struggles with others for global justice.
At the Gathering we will:
- share our stories, struggles, experiences and lessons
- discuss what works and what needs to work
- place our struggle in a wider global context
- think strategically and tactically
- improve our communications and collective work
- meet each other and build up friendship and mutual understanding
- plan joint actions and campaigns
For more details, contact noborders-glasgow@riseup.net
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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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ANTI-WAR
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Last Man Out (Talk on 9/11) - Saturday 10th February
William Rodriguez, janitor at the WTC and last man out of the buildings
played a heroic role on that day, saving many lives He now tours the world
giving his account of what happened on that fateful morning. Here is a
charismatic personality and magnetic speaker whose account of real events
has earned him the censure of the authorities.
6.45- 9.30 pm
Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre, Glasgow University
http://www.last-man-out.com/
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Second Vanunu Freedom Ride - Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th April
A group of us is organising the 2nd Vanunu Freedom Ride, a
bicycle ride from Faslane to London via Glasgow and
Edinburgh in April 2007. We are aiming to highlight the persecution of
Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli anti-nuclear whistle blower who was imprisoned for 18 years, and
spent 12 of these in solitary confinement. Although released from prison,
he is subject to many restrictions on his human rights, and as well as
calling for his full freedom, we oppose the existence of nuclear weapons (in
the Middle East as well as the UK and worldwide).
Our website is not fully up date, sadly, but can be
found at:
www.vanunufreedomride.org.uk
Help needed to publicise the ride, offer accomodation and organise events to coincide with the ride.
*Ride passes through Faslane, Glasgow and Edinburgh on Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th April. *
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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 Tree Weekend - Friday 9th - Sunday 11th February
Talamh Life Centre, Birkhill House, Coalburn, South Lanarkshire. ML11 0NJ
As a follow on from the successful tree weekend last December to mark National Tree Week, Talamh invites people to come along and take part in February’s tree weekend. Come and visit Talamh where over 10,000 native trees have been planted. We will be cutting willow, continuing hedge planting to extend the wildlife corridor, and taking care of trees already planted, as well as providing general habitat maintenance.
There will be activities for children and a chance to look around the 50 acre site. Stay for the whole day and take part in what’s going on, or just pop in to see what’s happening and have a look around. Soup for lunch will be available and hot drinks during the day.
Talamh usually has tree care and tree planting days during November and February, during the planting season!.Bring warm and waterproof clothes, and suitable footwear – it’s muddy here!
For more info and travel directions contact - 01555 820550 or email talamh@lineone.net. or see www.talamhlifecentre.org.uk
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Talamh Housing Co-op - ongoing
If you fancy a few days away, and would like to come and help out
for a few days, or just for the day in a busy, sometimes chaotic
community, but fun too, then get in touch. Extra help is welcomed in
the 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 23rd February
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 8th February
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 7th February
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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ZAPATISTAS
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Fundraising Appeal for Scotland's Twinned Autonomous Municipality - before 3rd March (medicine)
A delegation from Scotland´s Zapatista Solidarity
Groups is currently in Chiapas and is visiting our
twinned Zapatista villages, including the autonomous
schools and clinic, in the next few weeks. This is a great
opportunity to directly deliver solidarity to the
people there, and strengthen their efforts to develop
autonomous self-governing communities, outside the control
of the government and big business.
To enable your donation to be delivered directly by
the Scotland Solidarity delegation currently in
Chiapas, Mexico please:
- Send donations for medicines and equipment for the
clinic in autonomous municipality "16th February"
by 3rd March
In both cases please email edinchiapas@yahoo.co.uk to
say you have donated, as long as we receive your email
by the above dates, we can deliver your donation in
time.
HOW TO DONATE
Pay money directly into our bank account, details are
Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group
Clydesdale Bank
Sort Code: 82-45-05
Account: 60129411
Send a cheque, made out out to EDINBURGH CHIAPAS
SOLIDARITY GROUP, to:
Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group
c/o ACE
17 West Montgomery Place
Edinburgh
EH7 5HA
Scotland
PS We can also put you in touch with the zapatista solidarity group in
Glasgow.
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ANTI - RACIST
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Antifa Scotland Benefit Gig - Sunday 11th February
A new militant anti-fascist group is just starting up - Antifa Scotland. We
are having a benefit gig to raise funds for the European Antifa website,
www.antifa.net
Plus info stalls and a chance for anyone interested in Antifa to get involved.
Venue: Rockers, 14 Midland St, Glasgow
Featuring: BOMBSKARE + CONSTANT FEAR + SPLINTER + ACID TONGUE + DOGS ABUSE
Info: www.bombskare.com - www.constantfear.co.uk - www.splinter.antifa.net
- http://myspace.com/acidtonguefifife - http://myspace.com/dogsabuse
Tickets: £4
Time: 6pm
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SKILLSHARES
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Free Linux video editing workshop - Wednesday 7th February
Kino workshop - video editing for Linux
at the Electron Club, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
7.30pm
admission free - no booking required
This will give a hands-on introduction to working with Kino, a
simple-to-use video editing tool for Linux, and FFMPEG, a tool for
converting between video formats and many more deeply useful things.
More information on Kino is available at:
http://www.kinodv.org
http://www.yourmachines.org/tutorials/kino.html
and for FFMPEG:
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
It is also intended that this workshop can act as a first meeting for
people more generally interested in video and related things such as
video streaming, animation, and installation, etc.
Presented by Simon Yuill, contact info@electronclub.org for more
information.
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA
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Glasgow "Indymedia" - new project
Currently working on setting up some sort of Glasgow "indymedia" just now,
If you are interested or want to help out then please email cinemaparadiso@riseup.net,
Our efforts so far have created the following website here - www.gatv.tk
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