[ACE] Upcoming Events in Edinburgh and central Scotland
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A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTONOMOUS CENTRE OF EDINBURGH
SOME UPCOMING EVENTS
(in Edinburgh unless states otherwise)
ACE = ACE premises at 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA
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SUMMARY OF MESSAGE, more info below.
1. ACE monthly meeting 7.30pm Wed 5 Nov at ACE. All interested are welcome.
2. Anti NATO demos and activity in Edinburgh this week Wed 5 Nov onwards
3. Indymedia Scotland meeting in Glasgow Thursday the 6th November at the
G-Mac (Glasgow Media Access Centre) 3rd Floor 34 Albion Street, at 7.00 -
9.00 p.m.
4. Freequal (conscious clubbing) party being held in support of asylum
>seekers. Thurs 6 Nov 10:30 pm till 3 am Bongo Club, Holyrood Rd (ex
>Moray House student union) seven quid / five quid / refugees free
5. Lost Film Festival Friday 7 Nov. new Forest Cafe, Bristo Place 7.30pm
6. Old enough to Know Better
>Sat Nov 8 Pilton Video presents "OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER" "How the Youth
>Anti War Movement Took Edinburgh by Storm" At the Filmhouse Lothian Rd
>Edinburgh 12.30 -2.30 in Cinema 1 (in programme) as part of an anti War
>Double bill with John Pilgers new film "Breaking the Silence"
7. SUN 9 NOV PALESTINE SOLIDARITY AND ANTI WAR EVENTS
The Wall Must Fall Edinburgh's Royal Mile, Sun 9 Nov, 2pm - the Scottish
>Palestine Solidarity Campaign will put up, and take down, a wall in
>Edinburgh's Royal Mile (near St Giles). Part of the International Day of
>Action Against Israel's apartheid Wall.
>
.Fill in Trenches and Take Down Walls
>Edinburgh Poetry for Peace - Remembrance Sunday
>>City Chambers, Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Sun 9 Nov, 2pm
8. ACE SOCIAL Grand Quiz Night cheap booze and good company Sun 9 Nov 7.30-
around midnight Admission Free. Raffle to raise funds for ACE . All
welcome
At CWU (posties) Club , 15 Brunswick St
9. MON 10 NOV GLASGOW CITY CENTRE
SOLIDARITY DEMO WITH REFUGEES AND THEN PUBLIC MEETING
DEMO 5PM GLASGOW COUNCIL CITY CHAMBERS, GEORGE SQUARE
Demonstration in solidarity with refugees facing eviction by Council
Immediately after the protest, there will be a public meeting, details
below.
10. EDINBURGH-CHIAPAS SOLIDARITY GROUP ORGANISING MEETING
Tues 11 Nov 7.30pm at ACE. All interested welcome
www.edinchiapas.org.uk
11. EDINBURGH CITY NETWORK (CHANGE IT YOURSELVES) WED 12 NOV 7.30pm at ACE
12. ADVANCE NOTICE
STOP BUSH DEMOS EDINBURGH WED 19 NOV 2pm Bristo Sq and 6pm Charlotte Sq,
marching to USA Consulate, there is a call for civil disobedience.
thurs 20 Nov stop Bush in London
ANNUAL NATIONAL ANTI RACIST DEMO SAT 29 NOV GLASGOW
10.30am for 11am Blythswood SQ
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1. ACE monthly meeting 7.30pm Wed 5 Nov at ACE. All interested are welcome.
Your self-managed resource centre needs YOU!
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2. ANTI NATO MEETING ACTIVITY IN EDINUBRGH THIS WEEK
NATO Chiefs meet in Edinburgh
>NATO generals and political leaders are meeting at the Edinburgh
>International Conference Centre next week to discuss the future of NATO.
>(More details below)
>
>Plans to protest at the NATO meeting have been announced by various groups
>including Trident Ploughshares, Faslane Peace Camp, CND and Edinburgh Stop
>the War and include:
>· Wednesday 5th November from 10am meet in Augustine Church to make
>banners
>and props. Picket Edinburgh International Conference Centre from 4pm for
>arrival of Supreme Allied Forces Commander Europe.
>· Thursday 6th November from 8am onwards, picket the arrival of arms
>dealers
>at EICC until 12.00am
>· Thursday 6th November 1pm picket the arrival of Geoff Hoon at EICC by
>Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition.
>· Attempts to award an alternative MTV award (“Maker of Thousands of
> Victims”) to Geoff Hoon by activists at any time
>
>Other actions are being planned and we urge everyone to use their initiative
>to organise things quickly.
>
>For more details / press enquiries David McKenzie from Trident Ploughshares
>has agreed to act as contact: 08454 588366 or 0787 659 3016
>
>A more detailed schedule for the event can be seen at:
>https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/2003/10/279719.html
>
>'After Iraq - a new transatlantic consensus? NATO at a crossroads!'
>As well as high ranking military chiefs and political leaders, the 49th
>meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Association will also be attended by
>top executives of the world’s largest arms manufacturers including BAe and
>Lockheed Martin. Among those attending will be Supreme Allied Commander of
>Europe: General James L Jones (USA); Geoff Hoon, MP Secretary of State for
>Defence (United Kingdom); US Ambassador to the UK: Ambassador Nicholas
>Burns; Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, PC, Secretary General, NATO and
>Russian Ambassador to the UK: Ambassador Yuri B. Kashlev.
>
>Events will also include a Royal reception at Holyrood Palace, an evening on
>the Royal Yacht Britannia, a trip to see the Scottish Crown Jewels and a
>visit to Stirling Castle
>
>This will be a crucial meeting for NATO after the invasion of Iraq. Most of
>Edinburgh will be snarled up by the fleets of ministerial limo’s making
>their way to and from the EICC. A call has gone out for all peace and
>anti-war groups to protest at and around the EICC whilst the NATO Conference
>is on.
>
>More details will be posted on the Indymedia Scotland site when they are
>arranged and we encourage anyone else wishing to organise public protests to
>use that forum to publicise them. There is also scope for creative responses
>that are best talked about elsewhere
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3. INDYMEDIA SCOTLAND MEETING IN GLASGOW THURS 6 NOV
It was decided at the last Indymedia Scotland meeting in Edinburgh to
alternate the meetings between Glasgow and Edinburgh, each month or so. So
this meeting is to discuss general Indymedia Scotland issues/ideas, but also
to focus on Glasgow plans.
With this in mind - all welcome to the monthly Indymedia Scotland meeting:
Next week - Thursday the 6th November at the G-Mac (Glasgow Media Access
Centre) 3rd Floor
34 Albion Street, at 7.00 - 9.00 p.m.
If you've not been before Albion Street is a short walk from Queen Street
station, near the Trongate.
More info here: http://www.g-mac.co.uk/
Agenda
Minutes
Indymedia Glasgow
Filmhouse Film Series Proposal
Camcorders Update
IMC Women Porposal
INDYMEDIA SCOTLAND
http://scotland.indymedia.org.uk
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4.FREEQUAL
Clubbing for Refugees
>Freequal (conscious clubbing) party being held in support of asylum
>seekers. If you know anyone who might be interested in coming along,
>please pass this on. Thurs 6 Nov 10:30 pm till 3 am Bongo Club,
>Holyrood Road, Edinburgh (former Moray House student union)
Music: Alpha (progressive trance), Jonny Faith
>(drum and bass), Sola Perplexus aka Morph (Obscene, Pillbox, Diverse
>Frequencies) - live drum and bass Tickets: £7
>
>If you want to print off posters and flyers and advertise this as widely as
>possible or if you can help out on the night, please contact:
>milind.campaign at refugee.co.uk or rob: rob at outoftheblue.org.uk
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5. LOST FILM FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 7 NOV
FOREST CAFE BRISTO PLACE
LOST FILM FEST comes to Edinburgh, next Friday, start 7.30pm, Forest Cafe,
Arts and Events Space
6.30pm Doors open! Event free, but donations expected to support the tour.
West Philadelphia's Lost Film Festival hits the Forest Cafe next Friday,
7th of november.
The Lost Film Fest is a traveling showcase of truly independent (read:
anti-corporate) film, presented by Scott Beibin, Festival Director/owner
Bloodlink Records.
The program features scathing and hilarious social commentary from North
America and beyond in the form of narrative shorts, documented
pranks, and hot amateur protest footage from around the world appropriately
called "Riot Porn" by the festival organizers.
The unique program is an action packed three hours long, and never drags.
Festival director Scott Beibin spins the films in the same way a
house DJ spins records, and narrates with amusing anecdotes and behind the
scenes information about the films. Lost Film Fest, sports a
strong guerrilla aesthetic. Its' indigenous environs are squats, clubs,
warehouses, & rooftops, but regularly appears at theaters and
universities
as it's gained enormous popularity throughout the years amongst young
people. Many of the iconoclastic filmmakers featured in the program
make use of Digital Video and Non-Linear editing, producing low to
no-budget masterpieces.
Their films intentionally fly under the radar of the mainstream.
Check the website for more details:
http://www.lostfilmfest.com
Tourdetails:
http://www.lostfilmfest.com/tourdates.html
Lineup of films:
http://www.lostfilmfest.com/lineup.html
More political films at the Forest,
3 Bristo Place,
Edinburgh,
telephone: 220 4538:
Wednesday, 5th of november, 8pm "Endless War"- Iraq and Middle East conflict
Wednesday 12th of november, 8pm "Iraq untitled".
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6.Old enough to Know Better
>Sat Nov 8 Pilton Video presents "OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER" "How the Youth
>Anti War Movement Took Edinburgh by Storm" In March 2003 thousands of
>schoolchildren organised mass school walkouts and took to the streets to
>protest against the war in Iraq. The film was made with and by a diverse
>group of teenagers in Edinburgh who were involved with the anti war
>movement earlier this year. Over 20 young people were given DV camcorders
>to document their experience of the unprecedented events of March 2003. At
>the Filmhouse Edinburgh 12.30 -2.30 in Cinema 1 (in programme) as part of
>an anti War Double bill with John Pilgers new film "Breaking the Silence"
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7. SUN 9 NOV PALESTINE SOLIDARITY AND ANTI WAR EVENTS
The Wall Must Fall Edinburgh's Royal Mile, Sun 9 Nov, 2pm - the Scottish
>Palestine Solidarity Campaign will put up, and take down, a wall in
>Edinburgh's Royal Mile (near St Giles). Part of the International Day of
>Action Against Israel's apartheid Wall.
>
.Fill in Trenches and Take Down Walls
>Edinburgh Poetry for Peace - Remembrance Sunday
>
>City Chambers, Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Sun 9 Nov, 2pm
>
>Reading their own poetry: Beth Junor has served 7 prison sentences for
>non-violent actions against the military; Ghazi Hussein, Palestinian
>refugee whose "wonderful, wise and richly sensual poetic text" (The
>Scotsman) made The Jasmine Road a great success at the Theatre Workshop;
>Jem Rolls, Big Word MC; Triona Scully, performance poet; Jim Aitken, author
>of 'Another Line of Terror';
>
>Susan Karim and Izhar Khan will bring Iraqi and Urdu poetry to an Edinburgh
>audience.
>
>Voces del Sur, progressive Chilean/Latin American musicians.
>
.
>
TICKETS £5 / £3 edinpoetryforpeace at yahoo.co.uk
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8. ACE SOCIAL SUN 9 NOV
Grand Quiz Night at the ACE Social
plus the usual good company and cheap beer.
This sunday 9th November at the Posties Club (communication workers Union),
15 Brunswick Street
(go down Elm Row, at the top of Leith Walk, go right along Montgomery St,
then right onto Brunswick Street - only 3 mins walk from ACE)
7.30pm till around midnight
What football team did Bakunin support?
How many different species of spiders live in the back room at ACE?
Pit your wits against the anarcho quiz maestro!!!!!
All welcome, please tell your friends.
Admission Free, there will be a raffle to raise funds for ACE
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9. MON 10 NOV GLASGOW CITY CENTRE
SOLIDARITY DEMO WITH REFUGEES AND THEN PUBLIC MEETING
DEMO 5PM GLASGOW COUNCIL CITY CHAMBERS, GEORGE SQUARE
Demonstration in solidarity with refugees facing eviction by Council
Immediately after the protest, there will be a public meeting, details
below.
Public meeting:
Monday 10th November at 90 John Street, GLASGOW
7 - 9pm
at Strathclyde Student Union
Debating Chamber
90 John Street, level 6
Speakers will be: Kath Sainsbury from the Coalition of Anti Deportation
Campaigns; the MSP's Rosie Kane, Elaine Smith, Patrick Harvie and Sandra
White; Aamar Anwar a Human Rights lawyer; Mohammed Asif of Glasgow Refugees
Action Group and Robina Qureshi of Positive Action in Housing
We have a great opportunity here to show that we
are willing to hit the streets to protest the racist policies of this
government. .....
The asylum seeker issue is being used to push a right wing agenda of
social control that is quite frightening. Refugees are not only the latest
scapegoats in the fine old divide and rule tradition of empire, they are
being used in social control experiments such as automatic fingerprinting,
compulsory ID cards, no-choice housing, no access to working legally (and
so forced into unprotected employment), no access to welfare benefits or
social
services support, unlimited detention without charge, exemptions from
race equality and human rights legislation, used for the creation of
Fortress Europe as means to exploit the "developing world" and consolidate and
centralise EU power structures...the list goes on.
A whole new class of people has been made illegal, and being illegal they
are dangerous and their numbers and movements must be controlled.
The attacks on refugees are attacks on us all, and we must show
solidarity. I'd love to see a few red and black flags on this demo, on
the STUC organised annual anti-racism demo in Glasgow on Saturday 29th
November, and at the upcoming Edinburgh close-down-Dungavel demo, date
to be announced (probably January or February).
Background:
Glasgow City Council is being forced by the Home Office to evict scores
of asylum seekers from their homes. There is a backlog of around 160
refused asylum seekers housed by the Council through the NASS contract .
Some had their financial support stopped several months ago, and have
been surviving on charity handouts, donations from their local
communities and from other asylum seekers and refugees. 20 have been
evicted in the last fortnight. A further 21 people are facing eviction for
being in breech of theri NASS contract, which basically means being caught,
or even suspected of, working. (NASS pays just over £30.00 per week,
so it's hardly surprising)
None of these people will have no access to any housing or support in
Glasgow
whatsoever. They have been refused asylum, but many are unable to be
returned to their
home countries. Others are unwilling to return to face the oppressive
regimes they have fled.
Some are pursuing a Judicial Review of their case, and may yet be
granted leave to remain. Others have the support of their local
communities who are fighting deportation campaigns.
Some are entitled to claim "Hard Case" support from NASS, but this
would mean being uprooted from their communities and moving to
full-board only (no financial support) hostel accommodation in the
south of England, cutting them off from support networks, friends and
family in Glasgow, and making anti-deportation campaigning much more
difficult. (Most anti-deportation campaigns rely on established community
links)
At the same time, under Section 55 of the Nationality Immigration &
Asylum Act 2002, most newly arrived asylum seekers - who are banned
from working - are barred from housing and denied any kind of support
while their asylum applications are considered.
The City Council has so far tried to ignore the situation, and has
refused to even try to help find a way of protecting the people it
brought to Glasgow under the NASS contract.
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10. EDINBURGH-CHIAPAS SOLIDARITY GROUP ORGANISING MEETING
Tues 11 Nov 7.30pm at ACE. All interested welcome
www.edinchiapas.org.uk
Solidarity with the Zapatista communities in resistance, helping bring
together social struggles in Scotland and Chiapas, practical support for
the Kiptik drinking water project...
e mail edinchiapas at yahoo.co.uk to go on our mailing list
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11. EDINBURGH CITY NETWORK (CHANGE IT YOURSELVES) WED 12 NOV 7.30pm at ACE
An independent network for social change, share info and ideas, all welcome
www.edinburghcity.org.uk
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