[ACE] A.C.E. news of upcoming events

Tue Jun 12 15:17:32 PDT 2007

hi folks, 
          It's another update of upcoming events from
A.C.E. the ONLY INDEPENDENT SOCIAL CENTRE IN
SCOTLAND!!!

We're open each Tuesday 1-4pm for advice and
solidarity from Edinburgh Claimants on debt, dole and
housing problems. The Leith Wholefood Co-op shop and
free internet access are open then too.

We're also open each Saturday from 10-6pm for Leith
Wholefood Co-op shop and free internet access.

Each Sunday we have a free film screening at 3pm.
You can check out which films are on when by logging
onto our new website at www.autonomous.org.uk and
going to events.

We have friendly open meetings the 1st Wednesday of
every month at 7:30 pm...come along!

Below is information on :

HAUDENOSAUNEE SPEAKING TOUR

HELPING A.C.E. AT THE WORKER'S BEER COMPANY

A CALL OUT FOR ANYONE INTERESTED GETTING INVOLVED IN
PRISONER SUPPORT IN SCOTLAND

UPCOMING EVENTS ORGANSISED BY UNITY - THE UNION OF
ASYLUM SEEKERS IN GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH

HAUDENOSAUNEE SPEAKING TOUR, EDINBURGH.

SAT 30th JUNE 7PM
The Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace.

Two representatives from the Haudenosaunee confederacy
(Iroquois)Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada will be
in England, Ireland and Scotland between June 13th
–30th. The speakers will be Mary Sandy (an Oneida
Nation Clan mother- a representative from the
traditional government)and Kathy Garlow, spokesperson
from an ongoing (since February 2006) land
reclamation. They will be speaking about the
experience of reclaiming and defending a piece of land
from development, about defending their community
against colonisation and the struggle for Indigenous
sovereignty. 

Below is more information and the other tour dates. 
For information about the Edinburgh date contact ACE 
on 0131 557 6242. For info about the rest of the tour
contact Ellie 07853 228 023 and
better_noir at yahoo.co.uk

SOME HISTORY.

The Haudenosaunee have been living as a Confederacy of
nations organised by direct consensual democracy since
1142, although there have been systematic attempts by
the colonial state to obliterate them as self-governed
sovereign people. Women have always had a leading and
equal role in Haudenosaunee government and community. 

Forty acres of land were reclaimed on the 28th of
February 2006 that had been sold by the Canadian
government to a housing development company. The land
is part of the Haldimand Tract (1784) granted by the
British in return for some of the Haudenosaunee
fighting against the soon to be United States, and
thereby losing their lands. Led by the Clan Mothers,
(their traditional female leadership) they set up camp
on the burial ground and stopped the bulldozers’ work.
A year later the land reclamation still stands and the
Six Nations community is asserting their sovereignty;
not only by taking back land that was sold by the
government without title to do so, but by practising
their right to govern themselves and their community.

The land reclamation has survived due to a massive
show of solidarity by a large part of the 20,000
strong Grand River indigenous community. 150-armed
police were walked back off the site when hundreds of
people
arrived in response to the dawn raid, indignant that
the police had arrested and beaten the handful of
people who were sleeping there. Blockades and
barricades were erected that protected the reclamation
land from further attack and also were a powerful tool
in forcing the Canadian government to take the
reclamation seriously. In June 2006 the government
bought the land back from Henco, the developer. The
site has also weathered many ongoing right wing
demonstrations that play on local, non – native
peoples’ fears and racism.

The success of the reclamation at Kanonhstaton (the
protected place)encourages indigenous sovereignty
struggles across Canada and the United States. The
Haudenosaunee are reasserting their traditional ways,
which include their surviving system of direct,
consensus based democracy (dating from 1142). On New
Years Day the Clan Mothers and Confederacy Council
reoccupied the traditional government meeting house
for the first time since its forced closure in 1924,
when the Band council system was imposed on the
reserve. The
colonial attack on Indigenous people has meant
systematic attempts to wipe out their languages,
government and identity as distinct peoples, as well
as taking their land base. However, these things,
though not undamaged still survive. Near and far to
Six Nations Onkwehonweh (original people) are taking
action to halt development, mining, and environmental
destruction on their land.

WEBSITES.

http://www.reclamationinfo.com/ (Confederacy council
official site)

http://sisis.nativeweb.org/actionalert/ (Settlers in
support of indigenous sovereignty- solidarity
organisation)

http://www.ocap.ca/taxonomy_menu/1/11 (ontario
colation against poverty's first nations section -
also see the ocap blog)

http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/2012 (autonomy and
solidarity - have videos uploaded, links and articles

also you can put in "kanonhstaton" in youtube and
theres lots of short videos and photo montages people
from the site have made.

HAUDENOSAUNEE SPEAKING TOUR DATES.

· Friday 15th June – Crossroads Women’s Centre,
230 A Kentish Town Rd
Kentish Town, London, 7.30pm

· Sunday 17th June - Dublin (tbc)

· Monday 18th June - Belfast: Cultúrlann
Centre, 216 Falls Road, 7pm
– 9pm

· Tuesday 19th June - Derry (tbc)

· Thursday 21st June - Rossport Solidarity
Camp, County Mayo.

· Saturday 23rd June – Cork (tbc)

· Sunday 24th June – Kebele Centre, Bristol

· Monday 25th June – Dale farm (Traveller
community), Essex, 2.30pm

· Wednesday 27th June – Sumac Centre,
Nottingham, 7.30 pm

· Friday 29th June- Seminar at Leeds
University, Masters in Activism
and Social Change course, 4pm

· Saturday 30th June- Edinburgh Forum,
Edinburgh.

HELPING A.C.E. AT THE WORKER'S BEER COMPANY

We have some dates coming up where we could use hands
pulling pints for da revolution!
We work and all our wages go to help keep A.C.E.
running- you get a free drink or two and a good crew
to slave alongside you! If you'd like to help mail
jaime at 
jaimeherer at hotmail.com

Indian Summer, Glasgow, 14/15 July ( need to asap for
this one)

Runrig, Loch Ness, 18 August (Travel from
Edinburgh/Glasgow provided)

A CALL OUT FOR ANYONE INTERESTED GETTING INVOLVED IN
PRISONER SUPPORT IN SCOTLAND

It was good to see how many people from ACE and it's
mailing list came along to the John Bowden demo.  Even
more impressive was how Leeds ABC got so many people
up from England.  I think that underlines the need for
a
prisoner-support network in Scotland.
I've started  http://abcscotland.wordpress.com that
anyone can edit if they register. There is an existing
ABCScotland mailing list on Riseup and some people in
Glasgow trying to do the same thing.  If anyone wants
to get involved, whether writing to prisoners,
letter-writing campaigns, prison visits, or attending
demonstrations they can join the wordpress blog or
email me criticalmess at riseup.net

UPCOMING EVENTS ORGANSISED BY UNITY - THE UNION OF
ASYLUM SEEKERS IN GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH

Next week is Refugee Week - from Monday 17th to
Saturday 23rd June
Come along to the Home Office at midday every day to
join  the protest!

Bring balloons, flowers, photographs and paper hands
with messages to hang on the fence of the Home Office
to remind the people working there that there are
6,000 people whose lives are in their hands.

We want thousands of hands, flowers and balloons tied
to the Home Office fence as a symbol of all the
families living in Glasgow who want Refugee status
NOW!

Too long we have been waiting for the Home Office to
give us Justice.
We want an amnesty now!

Come along from 12 - 2pm everyday during refugee week
to sing, dance, chant and protest!

UNITY!

More details from the UNITY Centre

(Don't forget the UNITY WORLD PARTY on Saturday 23rd
June - more details below.)

Other events for Refugee Week:

- Sunday 16th June - Edinburgh Union of Refugee
Families - 'Immigrants and the question of
integration' 2.30 - 4pm Theatre, 64 Niddrie Mains
Terrace and Monday 17th June Nehir Music Group, Folk
Dance and more at 11.30, 14-149 Portobello High Street

- Monday 17th June - The first day of Unity protests
outside of the Home Office

- Tuesday 19th June - Book Launch 'From Outside In –
Refugees and British Society' 6-8pm, The Lighthouse,
11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow (‘A collection of personal
and social history depicting the refugee experience in
the UK which adds a much needed personal dimension to
the ongoing debate on asylum.’)

- Thursday 21st June - Join the sleep-out in protest
at asylum seekers being left destitute and homeless in
Glasgow City centre from 8.00 pm onwards. Organised by
Positive Action in Housing - contact 0141 353 2220 for
more details.

- Thursday 21st June - Asylum Monologes 7pm
Gilmorehill G12, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel: 0141 330 3838

- Friday 22nd June - Cameroonian Association Scotland 
(CAMASS) is organising a food fiesta on Friday 22 June
'07 @ 6pm - midnight at St Mungo's RC Church Hall
(Parson Street, Townhead - near Royal Infirmary).
Tickets are £7 each - eat as much Cameroonian food as
you like with a complimentary drink followed by a
party night.

AND THEN:
- SATURDAY 23rd JUNE: 'UNITY WORLD PARTY' at Maryhill
Central Halls on Maryhill Road, with music, dancing,
food from 6pm - 11pm. Creche available.  Free to all -
everyone welcome!

--
The Unity Centre
30 Ibrox Street
Glasgow G51 1AQ

0141 427 7992

theunitycentre at btconnect.com
www.unitycentreglasgow.org

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