Welcome to another Glasgow Autonomy Update.
This week, a reminder about an ongoing project that deserves your
support. The Unity Centre, near Cessnock underground, provides a
space for asylum seekers to self-organise and for everyone else to
offer practical solidarity to refugees. It's open several days a week
but Wednesdays are the focus for the solidarity vigil outside Brand
Street Immigration Centre - why not go along if you have time?
Have a good week!
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CONTENTS:
REFUGEES
- 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 - new group
- Help a homeless asylum seeker: appeal from Positive Action in
Housing
PALESTINE
- Scottish Palestine Solidarity stall - every Saturday
ANTI-WAR
- Faslane 365 Film Night - Wednesday 27th September
- 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 29th September
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY
- Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Thursday 21st September
LITERARY EVENTS
- Rebel Alliances book launch - Thursday 28th September
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REFUGEES
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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 - new group
No Borders Glasgow is committed to practical solidarity, mutual aid
and direct action in the fight against deportation, detention,
poverty and racism.
The main thing for us at the moment is being involved in the growing
resistance to deportations in Glasgow - e.g. the recent occupation
of the Immigration Reporting Centre in Govan - while putting forward
the arguments against all migration controls (often ignored or opposed
by other groups).
We have a weblog for updates on actions, campaigns,meetings, links
to other groups etc at www.openborders.org.uk and a
discussion/updates
email list at: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/noborders-glasgow
No Borders Glasgow
email: nobrders-glasgow@riseup.net
weblog: www.openborders.org.uk
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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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PALESTINE
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Scottish Palestine Solidarity stall - every Saturday
2pm-4pm at the Junction of Hope St. and Sauchiehall St. (opposite
Watt Bros.) The Scottish PSC stall attracts supporters to sign
petitions or sign-up sheets, get information about coming meetings
and events, collect literature, or buy a ribbon, tee-shirt or
Palestinian headscraf (kiffeya) and more.
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ANTI-WAR
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Faslane 365 Film Night - Wednesday 27th September
6:30pm in the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St
Admission Free
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/events/camcorder.html
Film 1: “Anthropology 101” (2006) – 16 minutes.
On a distant planet in the not-too-distant future,
an anthropology lecturer coolly examines the Earth
people before their self -destruction.
Film 2: “Breach of the Peace” (2004) – 16 minutes.
Made by Camcorder Guerillas:
www.camcorderguerillas.net
Since 1999 there have been a series of mass
non-violent but disruptive direct actions at Faslane
and Coulport (five miles from Faslane) nuclear weapons
bases on the Clyde - the Big Blockades!
Film 3: “The Loch Long Monster” (2001) – 59 minutes.
“People come to Scotland to see the Loch Ness
Monster,” says the local hotel owner on the west
coast, “but the real monster is at my doorstep.” He is
referring to the British Trident nuclear submarines
and their deadly nuclear missiles.
Discussion & Q&A with:
Anna Linea – Faslane 365.
Stuart Parkinson and Marion Hersch - Scientists for
Global Resposiblility.
Mystery Short: The Really Big Blockade. (9.30pm)
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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 garden
esp 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 29th September
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 21st September
The Glasgow Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army meets weekly on
Thursdays at 5:50 in the upstairs gallery of the Lansdowne Church
(across from Kelvinbridge Underground).
Come along to clown around and plot sinister plans for
revolutionarysilliness. Contact Major Pan-Sweat, mashtram@yahoo.co.uk
www.clownarmy.org
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LITERARY EVENTS
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Rebel Alliances book launch - Thursday 28th September
AK PRESS invite you to the book launch of
Rebel Alliances by Benjamin Franks
Lecturer in Political Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Crichton
Campus.
with contributions from contemporary activists / anarchists
+ refreshments + bookstalls
FREE EVENT
7.30pm
Street Level Gallery
48 King Street
(1st floor)
Glasgow
0141 552 2151
Rebel Alliances offers an applied philosophical perspective on
contemporary
class-struggle anarchism in Britain. It identifies the main principles
distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal and
social-democratic groupings.
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