[ELECTRON] OPPOSE TUITION FEES Thursday 3.00PM at the Royal Concert Hall steps on Buchanan Street.

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This would be the same George Square that's been 'mortgaged' to Barclays Bank, please see: 

http://roominthecityconference.ning.com/profiles/blogs/george-square-mortgaged-to

The blog posts above stress the extent to which neoliberal restructuring affects all of us, solidarity is needed now as ever. 

All best,
Leigh




On 23 Nov 2010, at 13:25, David Kerr wrote:

> Hi Clive,
>  
> The organisers of these events would be more deserving recipients if you do decide to ram the Christmas tree somewhere.
>  
> GLASGOW’S GEORGE SQUARE TO HOST ‘GLAM IN THE CITY’ CONSUMER EVENT...
> http://www.britevents.com/whats-on/lanarkshire/glasgow/glam-in-the-city/117290/
>  
> Cadbury Spots v Stripes George Square 21/22nd August
> http://www.spotsvstripes.com/events_glasgow_overview.aspx
>  
> Kind regards,
>  
> David Kerr
>  
>  
> The ice rink and the art show.  I'm trying to think of other events
> that are held there during the year.  There was talk for a while of
> moving the central monument to the side to make it a more open space
> and also moving the cenotaph down to the other end (where it was
> supposed to be built in the first place) but they all petered out.
> The cost would have been enormous but just the central monument moving
> would have made a much larger open space for public activities.
> The Christmas activities in the square are popular and bring a bit of
> life to the square.  I'm not sure they're as profitable to the
> operators as they'd like.
> Yes, George Square IS classed as a park and maintained by the parks
> department.  You don't need to claim it back.  It's freely open most
> of the year for people to sit on and have their lunch as many do.
> It's planted areas are maintained regularly if anyone even bothers to
> look.  It makes sense to have at least a few events there during the
> year though, since it is a nice central location
> I should mention that it's me who puts up the Christmas lights on
> George Square (yes the battered old 20-year-old ones) so if you do
> hold a protest and anyone vandalises the lights at ground level then I
> will personally ram the entire George Square Christmas tree up their
> arse.  :)
> For the geeks amongst you (here's the actual electronic bit), the only
> Christmas lights on George Square that aren't now LED based are the
> swinging bells, nativity spots and the angel floodlights.  We've been
> gradually refitting the old frames with good quality LED tubelight
> with an immediate power reduction of 75% and a considerable increase
> in brightness over the old (and troublesome) tungsten tubelight.  The
> new stuff is so sensitive that the leakage through the dimmer snubber
> networks was enough to make them light dimly when they're supposed to
> be off!  We had to add small resistive packer loads to shunt the
> leakage enough to turn them off completely.  All the lights are
> controlled via dimmers on a DMX network to make everything operate in
> sync.
> Most significant new bit to look for this year is the column which is
> now lit entirely with warm white LED (top and base) with a few strings
> of xenon strobe caps to add some sparkle.  The sleigh and reindeer
> have also been converted to LED with a sudden resultant power drop
> from almost 40A to just 6A!  (made things a lot easier for me).
>  
> On 23 November 2010 02:09, M.Hersh <m.hersh at elec.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Slightly off-topic for this list, but there are also issues of reclaiming
> > George Square.  It used to be one of 3 places in Glasgow where there was an
> > automatic right to stage protests and you did not require police permission.
> >  It now seems to have been taken over by a range of commercial activities
> > and we have lost this community ownership of it.  Also tuition fee events
> > are Wednesday, not Thursday,
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