next Glasgow, Radical Independent Book fair

...the Radical Independent Book fair project

NEXT event - Sat 20th January
11am - 9pm, CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD. FREE entry.

...also stalls at the 'New Year Reshuffle'
12pm - 4pm, Pearce Institute, 840 Govan Road, G51 3UU. FREE entry.
more info below and at www.citystrolls.com

....also that night 'The London Particular' films and discussion from
7pm - 9pm (approx), in the CCA. FREE entry.
more info below.

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RIB - RADICAL INDEPENDENT BOOK FAIR

...supporting small press publishers and independent
producers...circulating radical reading materials and information...

The second in an ongoing series of mini book fair events bringing
together independent publications and producers of interesting
reading matter, exciting visuals, vivid films and stimulating
political discourse.

RIB participants / publications / producers / presses for this event
include...

- ACE - AK Distribution - AK Press - Anarchist Critic - Angry
Artworks - Argyll Publishing - Autonomi - Banana Link - Black Flag -
Burgh Angel -
Camcorder Guerillas - City Strolls - Class War - Community Action -
Community Infosource - Corporate Watch - Counter Information -
Critical Mass - Critique -
Document : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival -
Electron Club - Feral Trade - Free Association - Freedom -
GAP - the Glasgow Keelie - Glasgow User Manual - Here and Now - Iran
Bulletin - INC - IWW - the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination -
Merlin Press - Metaphrog - Mute - New Social Art School - Object
Permanence - Product - Radical Philosophy - Resistance -
Scottish Anarchist - Simon Yuill - Source - Stuart Murray - Vacuum -
Variant - Voline Press - ...amongst others.

...the independent book shop is not dead - RIB...

after this one the next Radical Independent Book fair will be in
March..... we will keep you informed...

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NEW YEAR RESHUFFLE

Come on folk! waken up! theres a new year to be getting on with:

Xmas is over, the January sales are dead, Farepak is forgotten, the
money-grabbers are trying to get you thinking about summer holidays,
there must be more to life than this...AND THERE IS!
COME AND DISCOVER A WHOLE NEW WORLD HIDING INSIDE THIS ONE!

Join us at the Pearce Institute, for the "January Clear Out!" Start
your year on a thoughtful note, rather than spending notes. Pop in
for ten minutes Half hour or the whole day if you want. Check out the
program of events, there may be something to interest you. There are
films, discussions, information, and things you can join in, or do
yourself. Bring the weans, the whole family. Have a cup of tea in the
new Pearce cafe and look at the program of times and events, or visit
one or two stalls.
Films - Books - Making things - Learning things - information - Drop
in - Check it out - Put your heid roon the door ITS FREE 12 - 4

www.citystrolls.com
http://www.glasgowusermanual.com/

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THE LONDON PARTICULAR

The London Particular (in their videos, essays and practice) directly
challenge the politics of everyday dispossession. Our cities are
being carved up by developers and banks, nefariously assisted by
ever shifting, unaccountable 'public bodies'. Glasgow, Edinburgh,
Dundee and other Scottish cities take their place in an ever-
increasing phalanx of post-industrial British cities undergoing
exclusionary, profit-driven, waterside 'regeneration' - "any puddle
will do", (Iain Sinclair, psychogeographer).

The terms of the privatisation of space in any given location will
shift - but similarities abound. The theoretical work of The London
Particular can help us to flesh out these differences and
continuities in our own particular urban localities; while preparing
the ground for critical action in our attempts to reclaim our 'right
to the city'. SPACE MATTERS - it "represents the spatial and social
restructuring of the city in the interests of an elite minority". The
London particular are contesting this parasitic restructuring - so
can we.

http://thelondonparticular.org/

The London Particular is an open-ended urban research group which has
been documenting, theorising and acting against regeneration and
gentrification in East London since 2001.

In our view, so-called regeneration in fact represents the spatial
and social restructuring of the city in the interests of an elite
minority. Privatisation of space, housing and services, the
displacement of working class communities, and authoritarian social
control coincide with rising homelessness and falling living conditions.

In the name of inner city rebirth and renewal, regeneration gives us
state-sponsored gentrification and an intensified attack on the
working class. It obscures its true objectives behind a dense and
proliferating fog of quangos, agencies, partnerships, and funding
bodies. Unaccountable and untransparent, they collectively dictate
the new shape of the city through a pseudo-democratic discourse of
consultation and participation.

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