City Strolls - events - meetings
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomy Update. 27 Feb
Do you find these emails useful? Are they easy to read? We're thinking of re-designing the Update and want your views and ideas. Would you prefer a shorter email with a weblink to more in-depth information? Or even just a web-page which you could check every week? Let us know...
Meanwhile, join the Camcorder Guerillas tomorrow, to discuss the Future of Protesting (details in the Film Screenings section). And, until Saturday 3rd March, there's still time to donate to Scotland's twinned Zapatista municipality (see Zapatistas to find out how).Have a good week!
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CONTENTS:
REFUGEES
- No Borders Gathering - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March
- Join the Glasgow Asylum Bail Circle - ongoing
- 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
- 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 Housing Co-op - ongoing
- Cre8 Summit Community Garden - ongoing
- Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 30th March
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 1st March
WORKPLACE ORGANISING
- IWW Meeting - Wednesday 7th March
ANARCHIST HISTORY
- Anarchist History Channel - ongoing
- New Radical Films Online
ZAPATISTAS
- Fundraising Appeal for Scotland's Twinned Autonomous Municipality - before Saturday 3rd March (medicine)
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
- Glasgow "Indymedia" - new project
RADICAL BOOK FAIR
- Radical Independent Bookfair - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March
FILM SCREENINGS
- The Future of Protesting - Wednesday 28th February
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REFUGEES
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No Borders Gathering - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March
Building solidarity and direct action in the struggle against the migration
control system. For freedom, equality and justice.
- Resisting dawn raids.
- Stopping deportations.
- Fighting for refugee and migrant rights.
A weekend of discussion, workshops, information-sharing, planning and
co-ordination. Bringing together the No Border Network and refugee and
migrant rights groups from across the UK.
Plus: film screenings, an evening social on Saturday night, and Glasgow's
Radical Independent Bookfair www.ribproject.org
Open to all who are opposed to racism and oppression.
Saturday 11am-6pm
Sunday 10am-2pm
Kinning Park Complex,
Cornwall Street, Glasgow
(Next to Kinning Park underground station)
map: http://snipurl.com/kinningpark
For more details and information, to propose
workshops etc, or to volunteer to help, contact No Borders Glasgow now:
email: noborders-glasgow [at]riseup.net
www.openborders.org.uk
Download pdf flier:
www.openborders.org.uk/files/2007/02/nobordersglasgowgathering.pdf
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Join the Glasgow Asylum Bail Circle - ongoing
Do you have a spare room? If so you could help get an asylum seeker out of Dungavel detention centre. The people sent there have committed no crime and frequently become depressed and anxious during their detention.
If you can offer temporary accomodation and would like to be involved in this extremely rewarding project, please contact us via the Unity Centre.
The UNITY Centre, 30 Ibrox Street, Glasgow, G51 1AQ. Tel: 0141 427 7992
theunitycentre [at] btconnect.com
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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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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 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 30th March
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 1st March
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 March
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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New Radical Films Online
Four new films posted on the ChristieBooks Brightcove film channel
Viva Zapata! (1952) on
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=463868344
Burn! (Quemada!) (1969) on
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=464024939
Tupamaros on
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=459255775
Cuba - Memoria Sindical on
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=452316541
http://www.tvhastingschristiebooks.com
ChristieBooks, PO Box 35, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 2UX, UK
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ZAPATISTAS
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Fundraising Appeal for Scotland's Twinned Autonomous Municipality - before Saturday 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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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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RADICAL BOOK FAIR
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Radical Independent Bookfair - Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March
NEXT event
At the No Borders Gathering
www.openborders.org.uk
Sat 10th March
11am - 6pm
+
Sun 11th March
11am - 3pm
Kinning Park Complex
Cornwall Street
Glasgow
(old red sandstone school building next to Kinning Park Underground Station)
FREE entry.
for more info on RIB visit the new web site
www.ribproject.org
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FILM SCREENINGS
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The Future of Protesting - Wednesday 28th February
A Camcorder Guerillas Event with a special intervention by the Glasgow Rebel
Clown Army
7.00pm -8.45 pm
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Cinema 4, 350 Sauchiehall St.
Free, donations welcome
What is the future of protesting? Has police repression and political apathy
killed the art of a good protest? How can we energise ourselves into new,
innovative and effective ways of protesting? How can we reach out to our
communities and make a difference? A series of short films of protests from
around the globe will be followed by an open discussion and exchange of ideas -
during which Camcorder Guerillas will entertain, inform and inspire you to take
action.
* Extracts from Thirteen Experiments in Hope*
(The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, UK, 2005, 21 mins)
www.labofii.net
*Prayers to Products (Vacuum Cleaner, UK, 4 mins)
Shopping is the new religion. Praying to products is the next logical step
*Yomango Tango (Yomango, Argentina, 6 mins)
Yomango liberate bottles of champagne whilst dancing the tango in a
protest against the corporations crippling the Argentinian economy
*Mystery Shorts
Films from recent and ongoing campaigns and protests
Discussion: What is the future of Protesting?
Chaired by Camcorder Guerillas, featuring contributions from local activists and
feedback from local protests...and a special surprise intervention by the
Glasgow Rebel Clown Army!
And also prior, during and after the screening...don't miss the Radical
Independent Book Fair (RIB) Stall...
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Bob, 15:57
