City Strolls - events - meetings
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Gentrification/Commonwealth Games Monitoring - Thursday the 27th of november at the electron club (upstairs in the CCA on sauchiehall street
Meeting Website to monitor gentrification strategies in the lead up to the commonwealth games 2014 in the east end of glasgow
hello all,
following on from discussions at the 'resisting regenicide: struggles in the city' event at the CCA on saturday the 1st of november, a few of us see the need for a website to monitor gentrification strategies in the lead up to the commonwealth games 2014 in the east end of glasgow. a model for this type of activity can be found in the london games monitor website: http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/. at the moment we're going with something 'Glasgow2014GamesMonitor' as a url, but this will be up for further discussion.we will be holding an initial open meeting to discuss how we can take these plans forward on:
thursday the 27th of november at the electron club (upstairs in the CCA on sauchiehall street). the meeting will start at 6.00 and finish at 8.00 (we can continue the discussion later if anyone wants to)
anyone interested in contributing to the website (with either content or technical skills) is very welcome, as is anyone who is interested more broadly in what will undoubtedly be an enormous transformation of the landscape in the east end of glasgow. we want to see that this transformation is for the benefit of the local population - not just the business elites.
we hope that the website, beyond providing a centralised source of useful information, can become a focus for further community engagement in the east end, particularly as it relates to the potential 'regeneration' (gentrification as we see it) of the clyde gateway area and the commonwealth games.
http://www.clydegateway.com/
http://www.glasgow2014.com/
for a more critical take see:
http://dontbackthebid.blogspot.com/
best wishes,
libby porter http://www.pnuk.org.uk/
bob hamilton http://www.citystrolls.com/
neil gray 'The Clyde Gateway: A New Urban Frontier?' http://www.variant.randomstate.org/33texts/variant33.html#L3
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Maryhill Burgh Meeting: The financial crisis - how's it going to affect us in Maryhill
A public meeting for Maryhill and beyond: Woodside Halls, 7:30PM, Wednesday the 26th of November
Tenants, Homeowners, Ratespayers, Claimants, Refugees, Migrants: ALL WELCOME
PUBLIC MEETING: for the whole community
MAP: Woodside Halls
* Your Home
* Your Rent
* Your Council Services
* Your Repairs
* Your Refuse Collection
* Your Childcare
* Your Kids Play Facilities
* Your Job
* Your Benefits
* Your Community Safety
* Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour
YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE A SAY!
How a crisis in the world's financial markets is going to hurt Maryhill, is going to hurt our services, raise our rents, hurt our pockets, and damage our community, and what we can do together in Maryhill to stop this happening.
A public meeting for Maryhill and beyond: Woodside Halls, 7:30PM, Wednesday the 26th of November
Come along, and hear what can be done. Have your say!
Meeting organised by:-
The Burgh Angel - community newspaper
The IWW - independent trade union
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Speakers include: IWW, Burgh Angel, London Coalition Against Poverty, and independent economists
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The nation's blood services are under threat from brutal cuts.
There are over 1700 blood transfusions a day. If we want to protect and maintain a health service fit for the future we can't let boardroom sociopaths bleed vital NHS blood services dry.
We are all worth more than that.
Join The Campaign: http://www.nbs.iww.org | http://nbs-sos.blogspot.com
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The nation's blood services are under threat from brutal cuts.
There are over 1700 blood transfusions a day. If we want to protect and maintain a health service fit for the future we can't let boardroom sociopaths bleed vital NHS blood services dry.
We are all worth more than that.
Join The Campaign: http://www.nbs.iww.org | http://nbs-sos.blogspot.com
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Monday, November 10, 2008
+++ THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE II +++ Dows bar (upstairs) 3-5pm Saturday 15th November Dundas St. Glasgow G1 2AH - adjacent Queen St. Station
Panel DISCUSSION with: Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Jaron Rowan, Anthony Davies, Marina Vishmidt, Leigh French, Daniel Jewesbury
Does private-public funding and management of culture mark the death of institutional and critical autonomy? Is direct censorship an anomaly, the most visible form of a wider constriction of cultural freedom, or the shape of cultural policy to come?
Following on from the Mute-organised discussion, Variant continue the exploration of the perils and opportunities for critical cultural activity in neoliberalising institutions.
followed by 5.30pm SCREENING of:
CAN DIALECTICS BREAK BRICKS?
René Viénet’s outrageously refashioned kung fu flick. A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism where martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts.
INTERMISSIONs
RIB stall : Glasgow's Radical Independent Bookfair project... helping to fill the gap left by the lack of alternative bookshops, radical events and platforms for imaginative and independent voices in our city.
http://www.ribproject.org
mini-BrothMix : chilli / curry / bread
If you'd like to contribute organic locally grown veg or to help cook-up some snacks, please get in touch: brothmix@googlemail.com
Feral Trade Coffee from El Salvador will be available. Feral Trade is trading goods over social networks.
http://www.feraltrade.org
For further information, please contact Variant:
t. 0141 333 9522
e. variantmag@btinternet.com
Event is part of Moot-Points : Exercise in Self-Organisation, Discourse and Collaboration. Transmission Gallery, November 2008.
For details of other Moot-Points events, screenings and associated publications, please see: http://www.transmissiongallery.orgRead more!
Capitalism in Crisis, and the Power of the Imagination a talk by Dr. Richard Greeman Saturday 15th November, 7.30pm, free
Ecotopia, Capitalism in Crisis, and the Power of the Imagination
a talk by Dr. Richard Greeman
Saturday 15th November, 7.30pm, free
hosted at the Electron Club in the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
"Ecotopia is a bet you can't refuse. Global capitalism in crisis is structurally unable to halt ecocidal productivism and the looting of the environment for quick profit. As a result, the planet is likely to become uninhabitable in two or three generations as tendencies like global warming, nuclear proliferation, flooding, epidemics, food shortages, pollution of air and water, and destruction of human communities increasingly combine in destructive synergy.
If there remains a marginal (say 1 in 100) chance for human society to survive, it would entail replacing the competitive profit system with a planetary network of producers -- a cooperative commonwealth or democratic socialism. Against the near certainty of planetary catastrophe under capitalism, we must bet on the unlikely dream of a harmonious, healthy ecosocialist world. The `Ecotopian Bet' is one we can't refuse.
Let us then begin by dreaming the dream, by imagining a technically feasable, ecologically sustainable post-capitalist future and historically possible roads leading to it. One such road, based on theories of cybernetics, chaos, emergence and an idea of Cornelius Castoriadis, I call the 'New Archimedes Lever.' It involves connecting the historically proven lever of solidarity with a global electronic platform (the Internet) in order to `lift the earth' before it succumbs to capitalist ecocide." - Richard Greeman
Longtime U.S. libertarian socialist Richard Greeman was awarded his Columbia Ph.D in April, 1968 while occupying Columbia University as one of the radical leaders of the student strike. He is best known for his translations and studies of the Franco-Russian novelist and revolutionary, Victor Serge, whose posthumous novel Unforgiving Years, has just been published by N.Y. Review Books, translated and introduced by Greeman. He is one of the founders of the Praxis Research and Education Center in Moscow, Russia, and lives in Montpellier, France. He is the author of "Beware of Vegetarian Sharks", available at http://www.lulu.com/content/923573.
For those who can't make it the the talk will be streamed live online at: http://www.anarchotv.net
For people in Edinburgh the talk will also be taking place on November 16th, 7.00pm, at Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh.
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The Electron Club is a voluntary run space where people interested in things like free open source software, circuit bending, hardware hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and video editing, green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use equipment, and share and disseminate their skills and ideas.
There are a number of ongoing groups and project at the Electron Club, for more information see the website: http://www.electronclub.org
contact: info@electronclub.org
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
Radical Independent Bookfair
SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER 2008 STUC centre 333 Woodlands Road Glasgow
(near Kelvinbridge U) FUN,FOOD,FILMS+BOOKS All events are FREE ENTRY SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER 2008
STUC centre
333 Woodlands Road
Glasgow
G3 6NG
(near Kelvinbridge U)
FUN,FOOD,FILMS+BOOKS
All events are FREE ENTRY
12.00am - 8.00pm
Stalls / Resources
...the RIB project
Glasgow's Radical Independent Book-fair project... supporting small press publishers and independent producers...circulating radical reading materials and information...
RIB has been co-ordinating events since October 2006... helping to fill the gap left by the lack of alternative bookshops and independent events in our city. We stock various books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, dvd’s, cd’s, badges, cards, t-shirts and coffee from a number of publishers and presses in an eclectic mix.
www.ribproject.org
this RiB will be documented by Anarcho TV www.anarchotv.org
12.00 - 1.00pm / 5.00 - 6.00pm
Refreshments
mini-BrothMix - pasties & pastries, pickles & preserves
For your winter delight, vegetable ingredients will be gathered through local gardeners’ donations, and guest chefs will prepare your free dishes in advance. If you'd like to contribute organic locally grown veg or help cook-up some vegan snacks, please get in touch... or just bring along your breads, pickles & preserves and seeds to swap.
brothmix@googlemail.com
1.30 - 3.30pm
Film Screening
Diversity Films
Diversity Jukebox - Come and watch new work, auld classics, or be the VJ and pick your own favourite film off the Diversity Films Volume 1 DvD and introduce to the audience
www.diversityfilms.org.uk
1.30 - 4.30pm
Kids Activities
Cardboard Club / Electron Club
High tech meets old fashioned fun head on... (or at least in a nearby room). Build cardboard structures / do cool things with computers + electronics. Fun for all ages... just bring yer imagination and an open mind!
www.citystrolls.com www.electronclub.org
2.00 - 3.30pm
Discussion
Burgh Angel
The Burgh Angel, is a community newspaper (based in the Maryhill area) dedicated to producing news and collecting information on topics that are of importance to those in the community not represented by mainline media and newspapers.
www.burghangel.wordpress.com
4.00 - 5.30pm
Book Launch
AK Press
At long last we have the much anticipated book launch of An AFAQ - volume one.
“The anarchist FAQ has been one of the standout achievements of the last decade in terms of its rigorous treatment of every aspect of the theory. Its translation from screen to print is long overdue.” (Freedom) This will be followed by a discussion on the book.
www.akuk.com www.anarchistfaq.org.uk
6.00 - 8.00pm
Film Launch/ Screening
Autonomi
Join Autonomi for the 10th anniversary of Doug Aubrey's critically acclaimed film Victim of Geography. The event will include a screening of the film and also the launch of a limited edition double-disk DvD.
www.autonomi.tv
FIRST EVENT NEXT YEAR - RIB @ the RESHUFFLE - Pearce Institute - 31st JAN 09 - FIRST EVENT NEXT YEAR
To be put on the e-mail list write to rib@angryartworks.com
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