City Strolls - events - meetings
Monday, March 05, 2007
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomy Update. 5 March
There's so much happening this week that it wouldn't be fair to feature only one event! Check especially the Refugees, Workplace Organising and Zapatistas sections for details of actions and meetings coming up.
Would your group like to be part of an academic study? Geography students from Durham University have asked Autonomy Updates to put them in touch with social movements in Glasgow. They will be here interviewing people from 17th-24th March. If you are interested you can contact them via Autonomy Updates.
Have a good week!
P.S. Some of you replied to our questions last week asking if we could simplify our layout - this is a first attempt, please let us know what you think. :) ************
CONTENTS:
*REFUGEES
*ANTI-WAR
*SUSTAINABILITY
*TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
*WORKPLACE ORGANISING
*ANARCHIST HISTORY
*ZAPATISTAS
*INDEPENDENT MEDIA
*RADICAL BOOK FAIR
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REFUGEES
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Protest to Stop Mass Removal Flights - Wednesday 7th March
On Monday, forty Congolese people were deported on a specially chartered plane by the Home Office. Last month the Home Office did the same to Kurds from Iraq. Families being returned in this way are in great danger.
Let's start now to prepare against any future flights!
10am
outside Eagle Buildings, Bothwell Street (large black towerblock near the motorway)
Called by the Black African Community in Glasgow and supported by Unity!
More details: 0141 427 7992, or visit the Unity centre.
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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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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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ANTI-WAR
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No Trident Replacement protest at Faslane - Wednesday 14th March
Government Announces Trident Replacement Debate/Vote - Peace Movement announces Protest at Trident Base
8a.m. to noon at North Gate of Faslane Naval Base.
The message of the protest is:- Trident is Criminal and Immoral - Whatever the Outcome of the Vote.
Please come along and let your presence show your opposition to Trident and any replacement.
For more information please phone 07835354652 or 07768-312676
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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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Women's Action at Faslane - 28th and 29th May
The Second Faslane 365 Women's Action at the Faslane nuclear base.. All women welcome,
for one day or more. Come to blockade or to support in other ways and
help get the message out.
Contacts:
Rebecca: 077 333 60955; email: women@faslane365.org
Women in Black and London women: Sue 07944877813 or Liz 07812917050
website: www.faslane365.org
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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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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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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 8th 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.
8pm
BOYD ORR Building, University Avenue
Room 506
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Save Crichton Campus Phone Lobby - Thursday 8th and Friday 9th March
Glasgow University IWW Job Branch and the Save Crichton
Campus campaign in Glasgow are a phone lobby of Glasgow University to protest the planned closure of Crichton Campus.
See: http://iwwscotland.wordpress.com/crichton-struggle/
Phone, fax or email the following on
during GMT office hours 9AM - 5PM. Let us know how it's going!
Sir Muir Russell
Principal of Glasgow University
Email: principal@gla.ac.uk
Tel: 0141 330 5995
Fax: 0141 330 4947
Mr Alexander J Scrimgeour
Executive Assistant to the Principal
A.Scrimgeour@admin.gla.ac.uk
Prof K C Calman
Principal's Office University Chancellor
telephone: 0141 330 5995
email: Chancellor@gla.ac.uk
Also those with more time to contribute can contact the University via the
switchboard and try and tie lines up there too:-
0141-330 2000
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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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Glasgow Zapatista Solidarity Group meeting - Thursday 1st March
We would like to invite everyone to the first Glasgow Zapatista Solidarity Group meeting of 2007 -
6-8pm at the Carnival Arts Centre, 34 Albion Street, Merchant City.
The group's main effort over the past 2 years has been jointly funding the construction of a new health centre in 16 Febrero municipality, in conjunction with Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity. This has now been completed - our practical solidarity must continue to develop.
We look forward to speaking with you then.
GZSG
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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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Variant Spring 2007 Issue - out now
The Oil issue
http://www.variant.org.uk
...the free, independent, arts magazine. In-depth coverage
in the context of broader social, political & cultural issues.
text : full issue
http://www.variant.org.uk/28texts/issue28.html
pdf : full issue
http://www.variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue28/Variant28.pdf
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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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Bob, 13:36
