Today's 5 Topics:
1. wsm.ie: Remembering the Green Party betrayal while they held
power - why trust them again? by Dermot Freeman (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, anarchist collective parekura: Why fighting fot
Sanaa Taleb (must) is a struggle for all of us (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #257 (Jan) - Memory: The
turn of December 95 (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, class war: Bannergate: Cops bungle over wankers
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, glasgow anarchists: events from 22/02/2016
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
We are in the midst of another full on election cycle. Eamonn Ryan, leader of the Green
party, and former minister in the preceding government, was annoyed at not being one of
the leaders involved in the TV debate. But let us not forget what happens with the little
party in the coalition government. We can witness it in the performance of Labour in this
government, but the previous government, lest we forget, was a Fianna Fail and green
alliance, with the little party being the greens. ---- Bertie Ahern appointed on the 14th
of June, Eamon Ryan to the newly created portfolio, of Communications, Energy and Natural
Resources. This was a big test for the greens who had aligned themselves with the Rossport
campaign, and their leader, Trevor Sargent, at the time spoke at a Shell to Sea press
conference and said that the Greens “supported an independent commission” as proposed by
the campaign. The party were also aware of the great oil and gas giveaway, and said that
it needed to be reviewed.
But then, along came power, and things changed. Eamon Ryan was now in charge of sorting
this out. In power what did Eamon end up doing, he just switches sides, and became an
enforcer. It’s like he had to prove that he was never against it. A year later he is
talking on the other side about the benefits that will accrue in relation to the gas
pipeline - “Mr Ryan said it would give the State greater energy security, help bring down
gas prices and bring in €1.7bn in corporation taxes over the project's estimated 15-20
year lifespan."
That Government did not just bring in the pipeline. They supplied €14million in overtime
to the Gardaí in order to suppress resistance by the local community. They assumed all the
financial debts of the banks, a figure that turned out to be €67billon; they created NAMA
and left the country indebted until probably 2055. But let us not forget how the green
agenda progressed with energy efficient light bulbs, plastic bag levy, and bikes with
which to cycle to work, if you held onto a job in the depression.
Eamon Ryan, for being Minister will receive a lump sum of €110,000 and an annual pension
of €51,000 when he is 65, in 2028. He is seeking your no. 1 now, as he would dearly love
to progress the green agenda further with another shift as Minister.
Words: Dermot Freeman
http://www.wsm.ie/c/remembering-green-party-betrayal-power-ireland
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Message: 2
Let's get something straight. - Immigration is neither tourism nor attempt erosion of
"European cohesion" by Islam, nor seeking opportunities for education and career. - It is
an inherent phenomenon of capitalism and religions. - The exploitation of poor countries,
wars and national civil. People from Morocco, Syria, Bangladesh, Somalia and elsewhere
leaving their homes, they spend any of their property, risk their lives and endure the
state policy, exploitation and racism because they are forced to do so. - On their way
will find fences as he Evros why European countries and naturally Greece now have
fortified the enemy called immigrant. ---- So they will be forced, once again, to
plirosounta slave-trade circuits all Member naturally and Greek war but seems to be in
tandem with them and drown in the waves by themselves or with the help of the port in
Pharmakonisi before, near Lesbos longer.
This is the first step of the so-called immigration policy which fully unfolds when they
arrive on land. Then performed refugees separation and immigrants because if you leave
from the war in Yemen and the terrible conditions in Algeria should be called "illegal
immigrant" and turned back. The above pseudo-separation is a tool efficient management of
migration flows from the state that automatically reduces the number of those entitled to
the minimum rights (maybe free passage, maybe some documents) and excludes others.
Alongside this exclusion on who deserves and who is not humane treatment and solidarity
played through media and NGOs (the state-solidarity institutions) in the same society but
also a bit of movement that deliberately or not maintained in refugee-immigrant segregation.
Immigration policy thus includes queues at registration centers, authentication centers,
"hotspot" and open "hospitality" centers (open detention camps) or stay on the road until
the continuation of the journey, providing a residence permit or violent epistrofi.Ta
borders of the European States are sometimes closed and sometimes partially closed (only
allow the passage of refugees) as a fully legalized ideological policy of the attacks in
France, ISIS and general anti-Muslim propaganda. Fences reflected plirosoi individual
capital needs for cheap labor eventually dynamikopou are the main causes together with the
quota many immigrants excluded in Ellada.Eidika for prosfygeskai because of the brutality
of a war in which supposedly Western judgmental forced to make discounts keep up
appearances humanitarian mask (without helping them enter drafted) although ultimately
follows a similar tactic when it considers not "fit others'. Eventually whoever / s remain
in Greece awaiting asylum papers or simply avoiding deportation experiencing one exception
condition, an unstable situation between legality and illegality in which labor
exploitation is the norm (the Manolada is the most striking example) and multiform
repression (trafficking, mafias) with the police and deportation to play a regulatory
role. The absence of papers is the tool for creating disciplined workforce in illegal
status can not claim anything except survival. For us the Greek government immigration
policy is not incomplete as they said years now the media and politicians but building
piece of modern totalitarianism, a permanent emergency regime manages parts of the
population are considered to be harmful as inferior to the continued imposition of
violence and incarceration.
One such typical example is in our neighborhood. Called Greek detention center and for
some time it is enclosed in this women immigrants with expired or no documents live in
this semi-clandestine institutional status. The Syriza in the "filometanasteftiki
'election rhetoric promised reduction of the maximum detention limit from 18 to six months
but it does in each case with three-month extensions. The former barracks now
einaiidiotypes prisons, detention centers for immigrants, since the confinement conditions
and living conditions are similar. The number and composition of the prisoners is not
stable. Other left free until the recapture of the same category (lack of documents) and
other forcibly deported. One of the prisoners, the Sanaa Taleb has entered the ninth month
detention. Struggling for months to human conditions of detention and freedom despite
persecution, threats and violence subject using any means available: parole requests,
complaints and the same tissoma having participated in scheduled abstention from prison
meals 31/10 and did not consent to attempt the violent expulsion of a few days after also
participating in a two-day hunger strike of all detainees in 14/12. The Taleb experiencing
all the vindictiveness of the Greek state and the port management implemented an upgraded
legal arsenal does not allow migrants to claim their free stay in the country. Once
adopted and kinematic means together with the inmates of the detention was prolonged, the
requests were rejected without explanation and now led to deportation because he raised
his voice in against a regime that wants invisible and submissive, in a condition not Mind
female migrant workers to react to injustice but only receive quantities of violence,
repression, incarceration and government-funded charity. Eventually Taleb brought to trial
because they resisted forcible deportation. All this is the time the meeting of the
"Solidarity prisoners in the south" and several solidarity and solidarity from the
surrounding area, Athens and other cities located next to Taleb and the other immigrants
in their struggle for better conditions until the abolition of detention centers.
It is essential that all and all to show practical class solidarity in struggling
immigrant Sanaa Taleb why the struggle for freedom is also a struggle of all immigrants /
twisted against exploitation and oppression and is a small example for future common
struggles locals and immigrants. It is necessary this struggle to connect with the wider
migration issue, management of the state and the social and class struggles against the
new modern totalitarianism. It is necessary to stand with immigrants and refugees
strengthening their struggles not through charity from a position of strength but equally
through self-organized structures that are competitive to the dictates of the state and
capital. Against states, wars, religions, borders, concentration and state devaluation
political camps.
* IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF SANAA TALEB
* AGAINST DETENTION CENTRES
* FREE TRANSPORTATION AND PAPER TO MIGRANTS AND MIGRANT
CONCENTRATION IN SOLIDARITY TALEB, TUESDAY 1/3, 9:00 COURTS EVELPIDON
anarchist collective parekura
http://parekura.espivblogs.net
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Message: 3
In 1993, the government lengthened the contribution period for retirement in the private
sector without opposition. 1995 was no different for the public. But this time, three
weeks of strikes will roll it back. ---- When Alain Juppé proposes his plan to "reform"
Social Security in the Assembly November 15, 1995, it is supported by almost all media.
Yet in this liberal unanimously facade, already smoldering. ---- In March 1994, a massive
youth movement had helped to push the draft employability Agreement (the "young-SMIC")
Prime Minister (RPR) Edouard Balladur. Despite violent repression that was reminiscent of
the student movement of 1986, hundreds of thousands of young people had demonstrated
throughout France, later joined by the unions. In March 1995, a student movement against
the Laurent resumed report and as from September to October 1995, for additional resources.
500 000 people mobilized
The unit public sector strike on October 10 is an unexpected success. A week after Juppe
presented his plan, more than 100,000 young people demonstrating for the university. Three
days later, they are 500 000 people who respond to the call intersyndical. Strikes then
start, mainly limited to the public sector, benefit from the dynamics of struggle of youth.
After two seven Mitterrand, the weakening of trade unions, the marginalization of the PCF,
the reorientation of part of the left on "societal" issues considered most promising, the
movement of November-December 1995 marked the comeback the social question. If this
movement devoted practice of the general assemblies of strikers, giving them real
decision-making role, it is not a novelty. The movements of 1986-1988 (facs, SNCF,
instits, nurses) had initiated the practice of self-organization [1]. It is no
coincidence: the inter-links, so strong in 1995, are the result of exchanges of previous
years, particularly between the student movement and wage earners' unions.
December 95 is an opportunity to rebuild a trade union struggle on these new foundations.
The betrayal of the CFDT, which supports the Juppé Plan against the advice of some of its
members, resulting in haemorrhage of staff to his left. By 1996, the railway workers union
teams impel SUD-Rail, as did the "black sheep" of the Post by creating SUD-PTT in 1988
[2]. This is the starting point for the expansion of SUD unions.
Narrative, analysis, interviews, photos ... find special feature of Alternative
Libertaire, "What has changed in December 95".
Renaud (AL Alsace)
[1] See "December 1986: The coordination of strikers open a new era", Alternative
Libertaire, in December 2006..
[2] See "1988: The black sheep based SUD-PTT", Alternative Libertaire, in October 2008.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Memoire-Le-tournant-de-decembre-95
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Message: 4
BREAKING NEWS: Cops don’t know… ---- This is getting dafter and dafter: (from the Police.
They typed it all by themselves). ---- Mr (x) ---- I have been asked to contact you to
explain that we will not be reporting the destruction of your banner as a crime. The
property store have mistakenly destroyed the banner, and so there is no criminal intent.
As has been explained to you by PC Reihill you can continue to make a complaint, and I
have included how to do this below. ---- Go on line and complete a form:
https://secure.met.police.uk/complaints/ ---- If you wish to write a letter, the correct
postal address is: Complaints, 22nd Floor, Empress State Building, Lillie Road, London SW6
1TR ---- You can also call 101 and ask to make a complaint. ---- Custody number
01HT/1355/15 refers. ---- Caroline HAYDEN 24HT ---- Police Sergeant | ERT 5 ---- Limehouse
Police Station
Statement via Class War, London Brigade:
begins:
The CPS were forced to drop a case against a demonstrator holding an allegedly offensive
Class War banner this week when it was revealed the police had destroyed the banner.
The banner containing the images of the four UK party leaders at the last election with an
offensive description had been held at Bethnal Green police station for almost a year.
After the case was dropped by the CPS days before going to court Class War were told by
the officer in charge Rory Reihill that the banner had been mistakenly destroyed in August.
A Class War spokesman said ‘the banner was out of date anyway as it had Clegg and
Milliband on it but we would appreciate the return of our Ramsey McDonald one’.
He added ‘Willful destruction of their own evidence is unusual but nevertheless a serious
criminal offence and we understand an enquiry is underway which we hope will result in the
full majesty of the law being invoked. The police are acting like property is theft’.
ends
Background on this shambles here
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/is-this-the-most-dangerous-banner-in-britain/
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/1064-2/
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Message: 5
Plenty of events in this week’s listing, starting this afternoon with a demo outside the
UKBA offices on Brand Street. Also, our monthly discussion group is on tomorrow evening,
looking to discuss the idea that all cops are bastards. Along with that there are some
changes to the We Will Rise / End Detention meeting we previously advertised, as well as a
lot of other things going on. ***** Death In Colnbrook Detention Centre – Break The Media
Silence – Solidarity ---- Monday, 22 February at 4:00 PM ---- UKBA offices, Festival
Court, 200 Brand Street, G51 1DH (near Cessnock Underground) ---- Last Wednesday,
17.02.2016, Amir Siman-Tov died as a detainee at Colnbrook Detention Centre. He was known
to other detainees as a “quiet and intelligent person” and as “a very gentle man.”
Detainees report that when he came into the centre last month he was fit and healthy but
died on Wednesday under suicide watch. An anonymous detention centre guard, said: "For it
to happen on a constant watch is absolutely unheard of, completely unheard of."
Amir Siman-Tov’s death comes a month after the long-awaited Shaw review into detention
centres concluded that the process of indefinite detention with heavily-restricted access
to a lawyer was mentally traumatic for many detainees, and that detention in and of itself
undermines welfare and contributes to vulnerability".
We Will Rise / End Detention Now call an emergency demo at the Glasgow Home Office this
Monday. Meet at 4pm to send a clear message, at workers’ “home-time”, that we know the
Home Office is covering up deaths in detention centres, driving people to suicide, ruining
the physical health of thousands, and denying adequate access to healthcare to the
thousands of people wrongfully detained by the UK’s racist immigration system and the
mutlinational private security corporations profiteering from these violations.
We Will Rise / End Detention Now demands the abolition of all
detention and the closure of all Immigration Detention Centres.
It’s not time for a time limit, it’s time to shut them all down!
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Seminar Series 12: Lecture 4 – Geoffrey Pleyers: Mobilising Dissent: Social Activism in a
Global Age
Tuesday, February 23 at 4:30pm – 6:00pm
The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, G1 3NU
If you would like to register for the seminar, please do so via GCPH website:
http://www.gcph.co.uk/events/164
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Why All Cops Are Bastards
Tuesday, February 23 at 6:45 PM – 9:00 PM
Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington Street, G4 9AJ
The police are presented as an emergency service that are here to look after us. However a
casual look shows that not only do they fail in this task, but that they are an actively
harmful institution. The police use violence to prevent social change, enforce poverty,
and control the working class. These problems are not a result of accident, mismanagement,
or a few ‘bad apples’ in the force, but instead reveal the intended role of police in society.
This month’s discussions group will open with a short presentation on the historic reasons
for the creation of the police, their current role in society, and a brief look at the
social alternatives to the police. We will then follow this with an open discussion on the
points raised.
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This event is hosted by Glasgow AF. We ask that all those attending this event read the
brief introduction to our safer spaces policy here: https://afed.org.uk/about/safer-spaces/
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Sworn Virgin – An evening with translator Clarissa Botsford
Thursday, February 25 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM
Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP
February 25 at 6:00 pm – 7:30pm- Free
Sworn virgins are women who take a vow of chastity and wear male clothing in order to live
as men in the patriarchal northern Albanian society. Translated to English by Clarissa
Botsford, the novel Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones, explores this cultural practice and has
recently been made into a film and new English edition was published in October 2015.
Clarissa will read excerpts from the book, discuss the challenges of translating it, and
introduce the Sworn Virgin tradition, while exploring some of the themes inherent in the
book such as cultural and sexual disorientation and transitions, gender identity and
uncertainty, intercultural misunderstanding, emigration, and language as appropriation of
identity.
For more information and booking, please see:
http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/sworn-virgin-an-evening-with-translator-clarissa-botsford/
If you’re interested in having a peek at our current events programme, please do check our
events calendar for further information: http://womenslibrary.org.uk/events/
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David Rovics & The Wakes
Friday, February 26 at 7:30 PM
Govanhill Baths Community Trust, 99 Calder Street, G42 7RA
David Rovics world tour brings him back to Glasgow! David, The Wakes & Special guests TBC.
The venue is the historic Govanhill baths in Glasgow.
TICKETS – £8
https://thewakes.bandcamp.com/merch/david-rovics-the-wakes-concert-ticket
The gig is open to 14s and over (Under 16s to be accompanied by an Adult).
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Demonstrate Against Nuclear Weapons
Saturday, 27 February at 12 PM
Faslane Naval Base, North gate
To co-incide with demonstrations in London, the Faslane Peace Camp will be holding a
demonstration at Faslane Naval Base, home to the Trident nuclear programme. Feel free to
arrive early and stay at the camp, travel up and stay overnight, or arrive early and make
your stay!
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Capital Reading Group
Saturday, February 27 at 1 PM
The Electron Club, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, G2 3JD
An open group reading Marx’s Capital: Volume I. For each meeting we will discuss the set
chapters and we will watch the relevant lecture by David Harvey. The reading plan is here:
http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/
Turning up to later sessions for the first time is welcomed. Changed to the dates and
readings will be posted in advance. You can also email glasgow if you need more information.
*Provisional* dates and readings:
27th February – Chapters 1 & 2
12th March – Chapter 3
26th March – Chapters 4, 5 & 6
9th April – Chapters 7, 8 & 9
23rd April – Chapters 10 & 11
7th May – Chapters 12, 13 & 14
21st May – Chapter 15 (first half)
4th June – Chapter 15 (second half)
18th June – Chapters 16-24
2nd July – Chapter 25
16th July – Chapter 26-33
30th July – Conclusion
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This event is hosted by Glasgow AF. We ask that all those attending this event read the
brief introduction to our safer spaces policy here: https://afed.org.uk/about/safer-spaces/
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Safe Passage Now – Movement of People is Not the Problem – Speak Out
Saturday, February 27 at 2 PM – 4PM
Buchanan Street Steps, G1
On the 27th of February, so far 80 cities across Europe will be holding marches to stand
for the rights of refugees, and demand safe passages for people traveling across Europe.
Join us on the steps in front of the Concert Hall to stand and speak aloud against the
difficulties and deaths of people travelling dangerous routes to and across Europe, as
well as government’s responses to people who arrive in European countries, and to address
the causes of this displacement – why are these wars happening and who is profiting?
Movement of people is not the crisis – conflict is the crisis, the response of governments
is the crisis. We must fight the demonisation of refugees.
Millions of people are already fleeing, and denying them rights to safety will not make
them disappear!
It is NOT our supposed welfare system that is encouraging people to make this dangerous
journey; it is the persecution happening in their homes: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and
Syria where Britain has been directly involved and carrying out airstrikes, totalitarian
regime in Eritrea, civil war in Sudan to name some.
The number of refugees that we have accommodated pales in insignificance compared to
Jordan and Lebanon – we can do more!
Anyone who wants to join us, speak, or contribute ideas please do!
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Fedge workshop!
Sunday, February 28 at 10 AM
Killearn Woodland Cemetery
Do you want to learn to make a Fedge? Otherwise known as a willow hedge? Come, join us and
learn how for just £10! Please email us (hello) to let us know you’re interested or to
find out more (and get details of how to pay):)
Hoping to see lots of you there!
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Hidden Architectures- sharing of work in progress
Friday, March 4 at 3 PM – 4 PM
SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place, G3 8QG
Hidden Architectures is a new interdisciplinary performance collaboration between
choreographer Saffy Setohy and sound artist Jan Hendrickse.
Resonance
Mouths
Lines
Connections
Listening
Hidden Architectures explores the body as a living instrument.
Interconnectedness through sound, movement and material drive the work; which is performed
by pairs of people connected mouth to mouth by almost invisible, taught threads.
Hidden Architectures is being developed in collaboration with dance artists Luke Birch,
Gabi Sanchez, Elizabeth Rawes, Misa Brzezicki, Ian Spink, Brigid McCarthy, Chrissie Ardil,
with producing support from Sam Eccles.
This FREE event will share some of the ideas we are working with, and invite discussion
around it, at the end of our third week of research.
All welcome, just turn up- there will be tea and biscuits!
The ‘TV studio'(main club space), which we will present in, is fully accessible.
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Disarmament or death! Faslane Peace Camp Solidarity Night
Friday, March 4 at 7:30 PM – 3:00 AM
Ivory Blacks, 56 Oswald Street, G1 4PL
A Night of bands, Dj’s and Infotainment, with the intention of raising funds, awareness,
support and solidarity for Faslane peace camp.
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We Will Rise PUBLIC MEETING
Saturday, March 5 at 4:30 PM – 8 PM
Garnethill Multicultural centre , 21 rose street glasgow g3 6rq
* Please note the change of time & venue. Many apologies that this venue does not have
step free access. This is a temporary venue choice and all future meetings will be held at
accessible venues. Please get in touch on 07448871696 with access needs *
Join us to expand the movement to End Detention Now!
Build towards a NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST DETENTION this spring…
#SHUTTHEMDOWN
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Women of the East End Heritage Walk
Sunday, March 6 at 12 PM
Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP
The women of the East End have always had to be industrious and resourceful simply to
survive. This walking tour focuses on some of their achievements and struggles, and the
radical nature of the area which gave birth to them. Find out about the women of the
Templeton factory, the Suffragettes held in Duke Street Prison, the woman who set up the
Barras and much, much more! For more information and booking, please see:
http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/women-of-the-east-end-heritage-walk-spring/
£6/£10
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SHRAPNEL air Cuairt / Scottish Tour
Thursday, March 10 at 8 PM
Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, G1 5HB
SHRAPNEL
(14+)
Ath-sgrìobhachadh le Catriona Lexy Chaimbeul
Bon nobhail le Tormod Caimbeul
Stiùireadh le Muireann Kelly
“perceptive, poetic and comedic … set in Edinburgh, in areas not unlike those featured in
Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting”
– Scottish Review of Books
Air a’ stèidheachadh ann an dorchadas dubh Dhùn Eideann, tha sinn a’ leantainn aithrisear
neo-aithnichte ’s e air teicheadh bho chasaid murt. Le fealla-dhà, tha sinn a’ leantainn
an aithrisear ’s e a’ siubhail air feadh Dhùn Eideann a’ coinneachadh ri iomadach
charactar annasach agus a’ seachnadh a’ phoileis bhrùideil, Walter Shrapnel. Tha an
dealbh-chluich stèidhte air an nobhail leis an sàr sgrìobhaiche, Tormod Caimbeul le
dealbhachadh, fo-thiotalan agus ceòl, tha Shrapnel freagarrach airson fìleantaich agus
luchd-ionnsachaidh.
Co-produced by Tron Theatre and An Lanntair and supported by Creative Scotland, Bòrd na
Gàidhlig, NTS, Comhairle nan Leabhraichean, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, Leabhraichean
Beaga and Glasgow Life
SHRAPNEL
(14+)
Adapted by Catriona Lexy Chaimbeul
From the novel by Tormod Caimbeul
Directed by Muireann Kelly
“perceptive, poetic and comedic … set in Edinburgh, in areas not unlike those featured in
Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting”
– Scottish Review of Books
Set in the underbelly of Edinburgh, ‘Shrapnel’ follows the journey of a man on the run for
a crime he did not commit. With brilliantly anarchic humour, we follow our enigmatic
narrator’s ever step through the streets of Edinburgh, as he meets an array of
extraordinary misfits,whilst avoiding the psychopathic former detective, Walter Shrapnel.
Adapted from Tormod a Bhocsair’s seminal Gaelic novel with animation, subtitles and live
music, Shrapnel is for Gaelic and non-Gaelic speakers alike and not to be missed.
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The Gruffalo
Saturday, March 19 from 1 PM
The Children’s Wood, Kelbourne/Sanda/Clouston Street, G20
A mouse took a stroll in the deep dark wood…..
Come and join us in the Children’s Wood and North Kelvin Meadow for the Gruffalo. Tam Dean
Burn will read The Gruffalo. There will be an opportunity to meet the Gruffalo and join in
with a gruffalo easter hunt.
Given the level of interest in this event we have created an eventbrite page. The tickets
are still FREE ( though you can make a donation – all of our activities are led by
volunteers and any money raised will help towards a paid position and other free events)
You can chose from one of three slots 1:30pm, 2:30pm or 3:30pm.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-grufflalo-tickets-22035555941
Hope to see you then!
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Gladstone’s Bag presents: Silent Comedy Movies
Saturday, March 19 at 2 PM
The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 113-117 Trongate, G1 5HD
Gladstones Bag proudly present another selection of Silent Films, with live score and
sound effects! This month we have some classic comedy films as part of Glasgow’s comedy
festival!
Doors 1:30pm, showtime 2pm. Suggested donation £5
To reserve seats please email us on info or call us on 0141 553 0840. We do not at this
time sell tickets on line, you just reserve seats in advance and pay on the door.
Please be aware that it is our policy to hold reservations until 10 mins before the start
of the show, at which point they will be passed on to the next people in the walk-up queue.
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Women of the Necropolis Heritage Walk
Sunday, March 20 at 12 PM
Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP
Experience our fantastic women’s history walking tour which digs the dirt on Victorian
society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the histories of women buried in
Glasgow’s Necropolis, as featured in Clare Balding’s book Walking Home. For more
information and booking, please see:
http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/women-of-the-necropolis-heritage-walk/
£6/£10
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PLAYIN’ OOT!
Sunday, March 20 at 1 PM – 3 PM
Battlefield Avenue, G42
Reclaiming our streets for play! After a bit of a break, we’re having another street-play
session, like last time closing the middle part of Battlefield Ave (between Craigmillar Rd
and Ledard Rd) to through traffic (residents will have access) so our children can play
safely in the street for a couple of hours. Please bring your children along for a play
and to help make our third ‘Playin’ Oot’ session another success! We’re also looking for
volunteers to help organise or just help on the day, e.g. to steward, help evaluate the
day, or just to help teach our children some of the street games you played as a child.
Parents and non-parents welcome! For more info on how this has been done elsewhere, click
here:
http://playingout.net/
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The Hunger Games & Revolution
Tuesday, March 22 at 6:45 PM – 9:00 PM
Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington Street, G4 9AJ
A discussion on the revolutionary themes of The Hunger Games. This evening will contain
spoilers! Full blurb to follow.
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This event is hosted by Glasgow AF. We ask that all those attending this event read the
brief introduction to our safer spaces policy here: https://afed.org.uk/about/safer-spaces/
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Tangerine
Saturday, March 26 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM
CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Join us for Sean Baker’s ‘Tangerine’, screening as part of Cinema For All’s ‘Reaching
Communities’ project.
You’ll also have the chance to win a GIANT promotional poster!!
FREE! LGBT Unity Group Fundraiser – donations taken
Plot:
"Transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella, who has just finished a 28-day prison sentence,
meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on
Christmas Eve. Alexandra accidentally reveals that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend and pimp Chester
has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Sin-Dee storms out to search the
neighborhood for Chester and the woman."
Starring transgender actresses, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor….who should win
awards for their great performances.
Famously shot using an iphone 5 for $100,000, using this lens:
http://www.moondoglabs.com/
Tangerine also has a *fabulous soundtrack.
Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/128253391
Accessibility:
*The film will be subtitled
*The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue with accessible toilets on the ground floor.
*For more information please see: http://www.digitaldesperados.org/glitch/accessibility/
Tickets:
*Free/Donation, first come first serve!
*This is also a fundraiser for LGBT Unity Scotland.
*Rated 18
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GSFF16 Opening Event: Lost Treasure
Wednesday, March 16 at 9 PM
GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2016 opens with a major new audio-visual commission. In 1956,
Glasgow-based socialist filmmaking collective the Dawn Cine Group embarked on their most
ambitious project to date. Intending to tell the story of the Scottish Highlands and its
people, Lost Treasure was never completed. Musicians Drew Wright (Wounded Knee) and Hamish
Brown (Swimmer One), alongside filmmaker Minttu Mäntynen, have devised a live performance
responding to the 60 year old unfinished film, weaving together the existing footage with
traditional songs, field recordings and archival recordings of oral history.
All tickets £10
Lost Treasure is supported by PRS for Music Foundation. With thanks to National Library of
Scotland Moving Image Archive.
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RADICAL FOOD SOLIDARITY PROJECTS
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All things Yellow!
Saturday, March 5 at 12 PM – 6 PM
There’s no such thing as a Free Lunch Cafe, 257 London Road, G40 1PE
We will be serving up a feast of yellow delights and getting in the mood for the
Barrowland extravaganza later in the evening. Come meet old pals and new, get your yellow
on as well as a grin….See you soon x
The cafe is ‘pay as you feel’ and we want to make you feel good!
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Govanhill Free Dinner
Every Monday at 5:30pm – 8:00pm
Govanhill Trinity Church, 28 Daisy Street, G42 8JZ
Join your neighbours for a free dinner. All welcome.
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The UNITY World Café
Every Tuesday at 11:00am – 1:00pm
140-142 Nelson Street, G5 8EJ
UNITY is still distributing free food to destitute asylum seekers.
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RADICAL SPORTS & OUTDOORS SECTION
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Critical Mass: Night Ride
Friday, 26th of February at 7 PM
George Square
Light up your bike and dress bright for this Night Ride ‘Critical Mass’. We will be riding
around the City Centre, East End and ending up back at the West End for refreshments at
The 78. Meet us at George Square, ready to leave at 7pm!
INVITE YOUR PALS!
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Seahorses Swimming: Transgender Swimming sessions
Sunday, February 28 at 3 PM – 4PM
Whitehill Pool, 240 Onslow Drive, G31 3QE
A closed pool session for transgender people. The pool we have access to is Whitehill Pool
which is located in the Dennistoun area of Glasgow.
It’s easily accessible via train via Duke Street or Alexandra Parade.
There is a small fee for the group which is currently £5 until we gauge regular numbers.
Hopefully we can bring this down over time.
There is no requirement in regards to traditional swimwear however loose clothing (jeans
t-shirts etc) are not allowed in the pool.
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Roller Derby: British Champs Tier 1 Triple Header
Saturday, March 26 at 11:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Glasgow Caledonian ARC, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA
4 EPIC TEAMS COME TO GLASGOW TO PLAY FOR THE TITLE OF BRITISH CHAMPION!
ROYAL WINDSOR RG v GRD
NEWC v ROYAL WINDSOR RG
LEEDS v GRD
4 GREAT TEAMS – 3 HIGH LEVEL GAMES – LOTS OF STALLS
WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR!!
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United Glasgow
The club operates under dual core principles of anti-discrimination and financial inclusion.
www.unitedglasgowfc.eu
www.clubwebsite.co.uk/unitedglasgowfc
Women (trans* inclusive)
5-a-side Drop-In – Monday Nights (Firhill Complex, Hopehill Road) – 7.30pm-8.30pm
11-a-side Training – Wednesday Nights (Firhill Complex, Hopehill Road) – 9pm-10.30pm
Contact the Club for men’s training times.
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