City Strolls - events - meetings
Monday, May 21, 2007
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomy Update. 21 May
Critical Mass rolls back into town this Friday, and there are sure to be plenty of surprises. Come along and help make it the biggest one yet! Details in the Sustainability section. Have a good week!
P.S. Do you have a radical/grassroots event planned for Glasgow this summer? Send us a brief summary and we'll include it.
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CONTENTS:
*REFUGEES
*ANTI-WAR
*SUSTAINABILITY
*TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
*WORKPLACE ORGANISING
*ANARCHIST HISTORY
*INDEPENDENT MEDIA
**************
REFUGEES
---
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
---
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
---
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
---
Silent Disco Faslane - Friday 8th June
FREE DANCING FUN - SAY “DUMP TRIDENT!”
BOOGIE AGAINST THE BOMB…
Dance for Peace… Music conquers war…
Shake your arse at warmongers and international criminals…
Come to the Naval Base at Faslane, not too far from Glasgow (too close in fact…), where THEY keep THEIR nuclear weapons – that’s right, WMDs like the ones “we” went to Iraq to stop Saddam from having, but which “we” can have right on our doorstep, courting terrorist attack and utter world-wide disaster…
Bring your own tunes – Walkpeople, personal cds, mp3s, fruit-themed-music-players are all welcome – and dance to demonstrate the spirit of humanity, love and good-times-for-all that will eventually defeat the global obsession with war and destruction…
PLACE : North Gate, HMNB Clyde, Faslane, near Helensburgh, near Glasgow… the public transport is good!
TIME : 3pm-ish until late… see myspace.com/silentdiscofaslane and future paper-based communications for updates or email silentdiscofaslane@hotmail.co.uk…
Family-friendly event – no drugs or booze - there will no doubt be plenty of coppers in attendance – they like a party.
Legal implications should be nil if you stay on the pavement - this is not a "blockade" as such. For those interested, visit www.faslane365.org for info. on the protests that have been going on of late against the nuclear war machine.
---
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
---
***********
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 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
---
Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 25th May
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
---
'It's the Oil Stupid!' Human Rights Tribunal - Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June
The Colombia Solidarity Campaign, in partnership with
SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development),
Platform and Spinwatch, present:
"IT'S THE OIL, STUPID!"
June 22 - Open Conference on "Corporate Crime, the
Environment and Communities" 9.30am-6pm
June 23 - Preliminary Public Hearing on BP in Colombia 10am-5.30pm
VENUE - University of Strathclyde, The Graham Hills
Building, 50
George St, Glasgow.
This two-day event in Glasgow is happening now because
the social movement in Colombia has formed a chapter
of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) and is holding
a programme of sector tribunals focusing on
multinationals and human rights.
They have asked us to hold a Preliminary Public
Hearing on BP's activities in Colombia.This will be a
unique opportunity to hear the evidence, reach your
own conclusions and send a statement from the event to
the tribunal in Colombia.
Scottish Education and Action for Development
0131 555 5550
---
**************
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
---
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 24th May
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
www.glasgowkiss.org.uk
---
******************
WORKPLACE ORGANISING
---
IWW Meeting - Wednesday 6th June
Clydeside Industrial Workers of the World branch meeting, for workers in Glasgow and surrounding area. Radical union for workers not bosses. Open also to prospective and lapsed members.
7.30-9.30 Pearce Institute, Govan Rd (Opposite Govan Underground).
enquiries 07910 627 970
---
********************
ANARCHIST HISTORY
---
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
---
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
---
**********
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
---
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
---
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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PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT EVENTS HAPPENING IN AND AROUND GLASGOW SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE THEM NEXT WEEK.
Preferred format is a short summary, with practical details of when and where, and a link to a web page for more detail. If you do not have a web site of your own, the excellent http://scotland.indymedia.org/ allows anyone to easily create a page letting others know what you have been, or are up to.
Send that to glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net before Monday for inclusion in the following week.
Read more!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Environmental Justice 17th May 7pm
Glasgow University Science Festival is hosting a series of evening lectures about leading edge research and scientific controversies. Lectures are held in the Boyd Orr Building and are free and open to all. All Lectures start at 7pm.
www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.ukTitle: Environmental Justice
Date: 17th May
Time: 7pm
Details: Professor Roger Downie gives a lecture exploring the origins and the idea of environmental justice and discusses its usefulness in the debate over how we can achieve a sustainable and good quality of life for people and the rest of the living world.
Further Details can be found on the website
www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk
Hope to see you at some or all of the events.
Dan Thornham
-- Dr. Dan Thornham The Technology & Science Alliance Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Tel: 0141 330 6396 Fax: 0141 330 2806 'Energising the SETPOINTs of Scotland West and Scotland Greater Glasgow' www.setpointscotland.org.uk Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? Dr Rebecca Crawford, Development Manager, The Technology & Science Alliance, Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ t: 0141 330 5370 f: 0141 330 2806 mobile 0777 5601827 http://www.setpointscotland.org.uk/ GLASGOW UNIVERSITY SCIENCE FESTIVAL 09 Mar 2007 - 28 Jun 2007 - create, discover, explore. A huge range of lively and interactive activities. This free festival starts with a schools programme during National Science and Engineering Week (Mar 9th - 18th) and a public lectures series which continues on through to the summer. There are kids workshops during the Easter holidays, a summer schools programme and 3 family weekends in June. The programme is packed full of things to make, create, see, discover and explore. It includes the chance to extract DNA, build and keep your own radio, make and race a solar car, see a glass smashed with sound, explore parasites, see indoor lightning, lie on a bed of nails and much much more!.......... A highlight will be the celebration of the re-opening of the Hunterian Museum following its present closure for refurbishment. www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk
Read more!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomy Update. 15 May
This Wednesday, Bildwechsel feminist arts collective return to Glasgow. They're showcasing a selection of innovative work by female/feminist/queer filmmakers. Check "Film Screenings" for details.
Meanwhile the struggle goes on for Scottish asylum seekers. Many families have now called Glasgow home for 5, 6, 7 years or more, but remain in limbo with the threat of removal from the UK at any time. Join them in demanding an amnesty for ALL asylum seekers - info in the Refugees section.
Have a good week! ************
CONTENTS:
*REFUGEES
*ANTI-WAR
*SUSTAINABILITY
*TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
*WORKPLACE ORGANISING
*ANARCHIST HISTORY
*INDEPENDENT MEDIA
*FILM SCREENINGS
**************
REFUGEES
---
March for an amnesty for asylum seekers - Saturday 19th May
Assemble 12.30 outside Eagle Buildings
March 1pm to St Enoch’s Square for rally and music
Called by UNITY the union of asylum seekers in Glasgow
---
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
---
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
---
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.
---
************
ANTI-WAR
---
Unity protest at Faslane - Friday 18th May
Stop the wars that make refugees!
Stop the arms trade!
Join Unity outside the nuclear weapons base at Faslane (only 30 miles from Glasgow)
We are going to Faslane for an hour to protest against the weapons of mass destruction based there and then spend the rest of the day at Loch Lomond for a day of fun in the highlands of Scotland!
Free bus leaving George Square at 9am
---
Silent Disco Faslane - Friday 8th June
FREE DANCING FUN - SAY “DUMP TRIDENT!”
BOOGIE AGAINST THE BOMB…
Dance for Peace… Music conquers war…
Shake your arse at warmongers and international criminals…
Come to the Naval Base at Faslane, not too far from Glasgow (too close in fact…), where THEY keep THEIR nuclear weapons – that’s right, WMDs like the ones “we” went to Iraq to stop Saddam from having, but which “we” can have right on our doorstep, courting terrorist attack and utter world-wide disaster…
Bring your own tunes – Walkpeople, personal cds, mp3s, fruit-themed-music-players are all welcome – and dance to demonstrate the spirit of humanity, love and good-times-for-all that will eventually defeat the global obsession with war and destruction…
PLACE : North Gate, HMNB Clyde, Faslane, near Helensburgh, near Glasgow… the public transport is good!
TIME : 3pm-ish until late… see myspace.com/silentdiscofaslane and future paper-based communications for updates or email silentdiscofaslane@hotmail.co.uk…
Family-friendly event – no drugs or booze - there will no doubt be plenty of coppers in attendance – they like a party.
Legal implications should be nil if you stay on the pavement - this is not a "blockade" as such. For those interested, visit www.faslane365.org for info. on the protests that have been going on of late against the nuclear war machine.
---
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
---
***********
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 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
---
Glasgow Critical Mass - Friday 25th May
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
---
'It's the Oil Stupid!' Human Rights Tribunal - Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June
The Colombia Solidarity Campaign, in partnership with
SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development),
Platform and Spinwatch, present:
"IT'S THE OIL, STUPID!"
June 22 - Open Conference on "Corporate Crime, the
Environment and Communities" 9.30am-6pm
June 23 - Preliminary Public Hearing on BP in Colombia 10am-5.30pm
VENUE - University of Strathclyde, The Graham Hills
Building, 50
George St, Glasgow.
This two-day event in Glasgow is happening now because
the social movement in Colombia has formed a chapter
of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) and is holding
a programme of sector tribunals focusing on
multinationals and human rights.
They have asked us to hold a Preliminary Public
Hearing on BP's activities in Colombia.This will be a
unique opportunity to hear the evidence, reach your
own conclusions and send a statement from the event to
the tribunal in Colombia.
Scottish Education and Action for Development
0131 555 5550
---
**************
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
---
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 17th May
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
www.glasgowkiss.org.uk
---
******************
WORKPLACE ORGANISING
---
IWW Meeting - Wednesday 6th June
Clydeside Industrial Workers of the World branch meeting, for workers in Glasgow and surrounding area. Radical union for workers not bosses. Open also to prospective and lapsed members.
7.30-9.30 Pearce Institute, Govan Rd (Opposite Govan Underground).
enquiries 07910 627 970
---
********************
ANARCHIST HISTORY
---
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
---
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
---
**********
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
---
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
---
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
---
******************
FILM SCREENINGS
---
Bildwechsel Glasgow Screening - Wednesday 16th May
A selection of queer and feminist films.
info at http://bildwechselglasgow.wordpress.com/ and now also at http://www.myspace.com/bildwechselglasgow
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 7.30pm
A free but ticketed event – get your tickets at the cca box office: Tel. 0141 352 4900
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PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT EVENTS HAPPENING IN AND AROUND GLASGOW SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE THEM NEXT WEEK.
Preferred format is a short summary, with practical details of when and where, and a link to a web page for more detail. If you do not have a web site of your own, the excellent http://scotland.indymedia.org/ allows anyone to easily create a page letting others know what you have been, or are up to.
Send that to glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net before Monday for inclusion in the following week.
Read more!
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomy Update. 8 May 2007
Bored of the ballots? Pissed off with politics? Then come along to the Radical Independent Bookfair on Saturday, for an alternative viewpoint. As well as a wide selection of books, leaflets and DVDs there will be discussion and entertainment throughout the day.
And don't forget the IWW meeting tonight if you want to take action in your workplace - more details in the Workplace Organising section.
Have a good week! ************
CONTENTS:
*REFUGEES
*ANTI-WAR
*SUSTAINABILITY
*TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
*WORKPLACE ORGANISING
*ANARCHIST HISTORY
*INDEPENDENT MEDIA
*RADICAL INDEPENDENT BOOKFAIR
*FILM SCREENINGS
**************
REFUGEES
---
March for an amnesty for asylum seekers - Saturday 19th May
Assemble 12.30 outside Eagle Buildings
March 1pm to St Enoch’s Square for rally and music
Called by UNITY the union of asylum seekers in Glasgow
---
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
---
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
---
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.
---
************
ANTI-WAR
---
Unity protest at Faslane - Friday 18th May
Stop the wars that make refugees!
Stop the arms trade!
Join Unity outside the nuclear weapons base at Faslane (only 30 miles from Glasgow)
We are going to Faslane for an hour to protest against the weapons of mass destruction based there and then spend the rest of the day at Loch Lomond for a day of fun in the highlands of Scotland!
Free bus leaving George Square at 9am
---
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 25th May
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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'It's the Oil Stupid!' Human Rights Tribunal - Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June
The Colombia Solidarity Campaign, in partnership with
SEAD (Scottish Education and Action for Development),
Platform and Spinwatch, present:
"IT'S THE OIL, STUPID!"
June 22 - Open Conference on "Corporate Crime, the
Environment and Communities" 9.30am-6pm
June 23 - Preliminary Public Hearing on BP in Colombia 10am-5.30pm
VENUE - University of Strathclyde, The Graham Hills
Building, 50
George St, Glasgow.
This two-day event in Glasgow is happening now because
the social movement in Colombia has formed a chapter
of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) and is holding
a programme of sector tribunals focusing on
multinationals and human rights.
They have asked us to hold a Preliminary Public
Hearing on BP's activities in Colombia.This will be a
unique opportunity to hear the evidence, reach your
own conclusions and send a statement from the event to
the tribunal in Colombia.
Scottish Education and Action for Development
0131 555 5550
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TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 10th May
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
www.glasgowkiss.org.uk
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WORKPLACE ORGANISING
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IWW Meeting - Wednesday 9th May
Clydeside Industrial Workers of the World branch meeting, for workers in Glasgow and surrounding area. Radical union for workers not bosses. Open also to prospective and lapsed members.
7.30-9.30 Pearce Institute, Govan Rd (Opposite Govan Underground).
enquiries 07910 627 970
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IWW Forum at RIB - Saturday 12th May
5.00 - 6.30 pm
An IWW organised public meeting to highlight recent campaigns - including the Crichton dispute and a strategy for building a mass militant workplace organisation.
The Industrial Workers of the World is a grassroots, democratic and militant union that seeks to organise ALL workers in ALL industries in ALL countries into 'One Big Union'.
at the Radical Independent Bookfair, Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street
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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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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 INDEPENDENT BOOKFAIR
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Next Bookfair - Saturday 12th May
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street.
11am-9pm CCA
Free
3.00 - 4.30
PRAXIS workshop
Building for Popular Democracy - a Strategic Perspective.
An Analysis of the current situation of the class struggle and an
appraisal of the need for a strategic anarchist response.
5.00 - 6.30
IWW forum
7.00 - 8.30
JOHN TAYLOR CALDWELL tribute
A screening of the 1989 documentary film - Workers City; the subversive
past.
9.00 - 10.00
HARRY HORSE celebration
A scratch performance by actor Tam Dean Burn to accompany the words and
visuals of the late Harry Horse.
www.ribproject.org rib@angryartworks.com
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FILM SCREENINGS
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Bildwechsel Glasgow Screening - Wednesday 16th May
A selection of queer and feminist films.
info at http://bildwechselglasgow.wordpress.com/ and now also at http://www.myspace.com/bildwechselglasgow
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 7.30pm
A free but ticketed event – get your tickets at the cca box office: Tel. 0141 352 4900
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PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT EVENTS HAPPENING IN AND AROUND GLASGOW SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE THEM NEXT WEEK.
Preferred format is a short summary, with practical details of when and where, and a link to a web page for more detail. If you do not have a web site of your own, the excellent http://scotland.indymedia.org/ allows anyone to easily create a page letting others know what you have been, or are up to.
Send that to glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net before Monday for inclusion in the following week.
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Arts groups on the brink as homes sold from under them
Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Arts groups on the brink as homes sold from under them It's national its everywhere, all at the same level, on the take for money. We will be a nation of cultural paupers if this continues.
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RIB
Feeling deflated or annoyed by the recent elections or just generally pissed off at politics - then come along to the bookfair where you can get (re)motivated ...browse through piles of new and old materials - buy a book - try on a t-shirt - watch a film - engage in a discussion - drop of some of your flyers - pick up someone else's leaflets - read up on radical politics - listen to a stimulating talk - arrange to meet a friend or make a new one - and if the kettles just boiled have a free fresh feral coffee...
GLASGOW'S RADICAL INDEPENDENT BOOK-FAIR PROJECT
and related RADICAL MAY EVENTS
sat 12th May
CCA - 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.free entry
stalls and resources from: 11am - 9pm - resource space (ground floor next to cafe)
related events: 3pm - 10pm (approx) - CCA 4 - (cinema space)
all events in the cinema are free (though you will need to get a ticket from the front desk)
3.00 - 4.30
PRAXIS workshop
Building for Popular Democracy - a Strategic Perspective. An Analysis of the current situation of the class struggle and an appraisal of the need for a strategic anarchist response.
5.00 - 6.30
IWW forum
An IWW organised public meeting to highlight recent campaigns - including the Crichton dispute and a strategy for building a mass militant workplace organisation. The Industrial Workers of the World is a grassroots, democratic and militant union that seeks to organise ALL workers in ALL industries in ALL countries into 'One Big Union'.
7.00 - 8.30
JOHN TAYLOR CALDWELL tribute
A screening of the 1989 documentary film - Workers City; the subversive past. Chronicling ideas around radical Scottish working class history the film includes interviews with John Taylor Caldwell along with Farquhar McLay, Hamish Henderson and James D Young. Followed by a discussion.
9.00 - 10.00
HARRY HORSE celebration All My Heroes Are Dead A scratch performance by actor Tam Dean Burn to accompany the words and visuals of the late Harry Horse.
www.ribproject.org
rib@angryartworks.com
Read more!
Saturday, May 05, 2007
May Day event on the 6th
UNITY will be at the Trade Union Council's May Day event as part of an International Block, standing alongside workers no matter what their immigration status. Unity are supporting the march alongside Positive Action in Housing, Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees and grassroots Union the IWW, organisations with long and distinguished track-records of speaking up for the rights of the excluded.
Unity the Union of Asylum seekers has called before to be given the Right to Work. "We are not here to claim benefits". All of us, no matter where we were born, are stronger if they work together to resist exploitation. We have more in common than dividing us, No One is Illegal.
Sunday 6th May, 11:00am at George Square UNITY
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Unity the Union of Asylum seekers has called before to be given the Right to Work. "We are not here to claim benefits". All of us, no matter where we were born, are stronger if they work together to resist exploitation. We have more in common than dividing us, No One is Illegal.
Sunday 6th May, 11:00am at George Square UNITY
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