[ELECTRON] Autonomous list Update

[Keith Fyans]

Hey,

I help put together the Autonomy Update. It is a weekly listing of
community-based, grassroots, anarchist, and DIY events in Glasgow. It isn't
fully comprehensive but we do our best. If you would like to be added to it
then either drop me a PM or follow this link and once on the main page hit
Subscribe on the left:

https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/glasgowautonomyupdates

Any events taking place at the Electron Club can be added if we get a weeks
notice.

Cheers.



On 22 February 2014 17:36, Bob Hamilton <bob at citystrolls.com> wrote:

> You can find events past present and future here all in one place.
> http://c8737287.myzen.co.uk/calendar/month.php
> Send details below as described. Non corporate local Events list.
> --
>
> PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT EVENTS HAPPENING IN AND AROUND GLASGOW SO THAT WE
> CAN INCLUDE THEM IN THE FUTURE UPDATES.
>
> Email events to:
> glasgowautonomyupdates at lists.riseup.net
>
> Preferred format is a short summary, with practical details of where &
> when, and any links to a web pages for more detail.
>
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>
>
>
> Mon 24th February
> Local Food Social Support Hub
> Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington St, G4 9AJ
> 1800 - 2000
>
> "LOVELY FOOD AND A REALLY FRIENDLY WELCOME"
>
> Feeling Isolated? Worried about Winter Bills? Affected by Welfare Cuts?
> Want tips on how to cook on a budget? Woodlands Community Garden's local
> food social support hub provides a friendly welcome and access to a hot and
> healthy meal for people experiencing hardship as well as access to
> training/volunteering opportunities. No referral or voucher needed, so if
> you are in need of a wee escape from your worries then come along.
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Mon 24th February
> Animal Intelligence? - Prof. Dick Byrne - Glasgow Skeptics
> The Admiral Bar, 72a Waterloo Street
> 1900 - 2130
>
> Although many of our everyday judgements of intelligence in other species
> can be shown to be dubious, the idea that some species have developed
> superior intelligence is a respectable one. The tricky part is measuring
> it! Brain size seems more 'objective' than intelligence, but it too is not
> easy to compare across species. Also, having a large brain is not
> necessarily a 'good thing'. Despite these difficulties, there's been real
> progress in understanding what sorts of animal have specialized in
> intelligence, and what ecological problems have pushed their evolution in
> that direction. But there's much less agreement about what their 'higher
> intelligence' actually is, perhaps because it can be several things. Purely
> quantitative differences in learning and memory may be responsible for a
> lot of what we notice and can measure. Yet human intelligence did not come
> from nowhere: and human intelligence includes the ability to understand how
> things work, whether those things are other people or systems of inanimate
> objects in the world. The big challenge will be discovering the precursors
> of this qualitative advance in other species.
>
> Dick Byrne studies the evolution of cognition, particularly the origins of
> distinctively human characteristics, using evidence from species as diverse
> as great apes, elephants and domestic pigs. In 1987, with three colleagues,
> he set up the Scottish Primate Research Group, which now links 17 faculty
> and their research teams in an informal collaboration spanning 5 Scottish
> universities. Professor Byrne has published 1298 refereed journal articles,
> 64 invited book chapters, and edited 3 books. He was awarded the British
> Psychology Society Book Award 1997 for his O.U.P. monograph The Thinking
> Ape, and appointed to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in
> 2002.
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Tue 25th February
> G.U.PalSoc Film Screening: Budrus
> Room 513, Boyd Orr Building, University Gardens
> 1805 - 1955
>
> Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that
> seeks to raise awareness about Israel's apartheid policies towards the
> Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and
> Sanctions (BDS) campaign. As part of Israeli Apartheid Week we'll be
> screening Budrus on Tuesday 25th February 2014.
>
> About Budrus: "Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a
> Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and
> Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save
> his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.
> Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a
> women's contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side
> by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known,
> movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining
> ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement
> from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to
> confront a threat." http://www.justvision.org/budrus Budrus Trailer:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqYR7OkqL4
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Tue 25th February
> CHE public talk: Burning the planet at both ends: how can we cool it? The
> struggle for the global commons- with Justin Kenrick
> The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, G51 3UU
> 1830
>
> What connects the torching of indigenous communities in Kenya and
> Osborne's 'Sermon on the Pound'?
>
> The Kenyan government is currently torching thousands of homes of
> indigenous Sengwer communities in the name of conservation. The global
> clearances continue despite the fact that the poor in Kenya do have lawyers
> - for the courts are simply ignored. Can aligning communities struggles,
> national concern and international campaigns counteract local, national and
> international elites attempts to capture resources from those who have
> maintained their resources for centuries? Can the independence debate
> enable us to focus on, rather than distract us from, responding to the
> state of the world? How?
>
> Justin Kenrick received a BA in Social Anthropology at Cambridge and his
> PhD in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh. He was a lecturer in social
> anthropology at Glasgow from 2001 to 2009. He left to work with the Forest
> Peoples Programme to support Central African Forest Peoples' rights, and to
> work on parallel processes of community resilience in Scotland (
> www.pedal-porty.org.uk and www.holyrood350.org).
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Wed 26th February
> CHE library chat: A Thousand Huts, the campaign to promote huts and
> hutting Feb with Karen Grant
> The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, G51 3UU
> 1830
> Space strictly limited: please email info at che.ac.uk to confirm attendance.
>
> Do you dream of a hut in the woods? Changes are afoot that could bring
> that dream a few steps closer. Karen Grant, from Reforesting Scotland's
> campaign for A Thousand Huts, will introduce the world of hutting, discuss
> the recent campaign developments, explore the current barriers to hutting
> and celebrate the many causes of hope for a new hutting movement in
> Scotland.
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Thu 27th February
> Opencast moratorium and public inquiry now!
> Online
> All day
>
> http://stopopencast.org.uk/opencast-moratorium-now/
>
> The Scottish Government are currently consulting on new regulation for
> what they hope will "regulate restoration effectively". But whilst they
> consult, Hargreaves are being allowed to mine under even less regulation
> and oversight than before the collapse of Scottish Coal and ATH Resources.
> Communities living next to opencast mines in Scotland don't need another
> CON-sultation - they need effective action to safeguard their health,
> well-being and local environment.
>
> It is not acceptable that this crisis is being used as yet another
> opportunity for yet another mining company to scrape what they can out of
> communities and the environment whilst taking no responsibility for their
> actions. It is is time to seek justice for communities living near opencast
> mines - please respond to the consultation by sending the response below
> (or write your own) and demand a moratorium and independent public inquiry
> now!
>
> Consultation ends Thursday 27th February - please tell tell you friends,
> family and colleagues to take part too!
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Fri 28th February
> Ibrox Writers: Meet Tom Leonard
> Upstairs Community Room, Ibrox Library, Midlock Street,
> 1030 - 1200
>
> Glasgow born Socialist poet & author, "radical Renfrew" etc. is giving a
> rare talk on his writing to Ibrox Writers at Ibrox Library Community room,
> Midlock St. (nearest U Cessnock). Open to public.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Leonard_(poet)
>
> *FREE* entry.
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Fri 7th  March
> Winter Warmers Film #5: ELEMENTAL - THE FILM
> Govanhill Baths, 99 Calder Street, G42 7RA
> 1930 - 2200
>
> Our final screening in the Winter Warmers - 5 Elements series. Note the
> change of venue / starting time! ELEMENTAL - THE FILM 2012, 93mins.
> Director: Gayatri Roshan
>
> Summary: Elemental tells the story of three individuals united by their
> deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most
> pressing ecological challenges of our time. The film follows Rajendra
> Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue, on a 40-day pilgrimage
> down India's once pristine Ganges river, now polluted and dying. Facing
> community opposition and personal doubts, Singh works to shut down
> factories, halt construction of dams, and rouse the Indian public to treat
> their sacred "Mother Ganga" with respect. Across the globe in northern
> Canada, Eriel Deranger mounts her own "David and Goliath" struggle against
> the world's largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil deposit
> larger than the state of Florida. A young mother and native Denè, Deranger
> struggles with family challenges while campaigning tirelessly against the
> Tar Sands and its proposed 2,000-mile Keystone XL Pipeline, which are
> destroying Indigenous communities and threatening an entire continent. And
> in Australia, inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman searches for investors
> willing to risk millions on his conviction that nature's own systems hold
> the key to our world's ecological problems. Harman finds his inspiration in
> the natural world's profound architecture and creates a revolutionary
> device that he believes can slow down global warming, but will it work?
> Separated by continents yet sharing an unwavering commitment to protecting
> nature, the characters in this story are complex, flawed, postmodern heroes
> for whom stemming the tide of environmental destruction fades in and out of
> view - part mirage, part miracle.
>
> Watch the trailer here: http://elementalthefilm.com/trailer/
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Sat 8th March
> Grow Your Own Course
> Battlefield Community Garden, Ledard Road
> 1330
>
> This course is spread across two, four hour sessions.
>
> The course is FREE but places must be booked in advance.
>
> Please contact projects at urbanroots.org.uk or tel:0141 613 2766 to reserve
> a place
>
> Saturday March 8th at Battlefield Community Garden, Ledard Road, 1:30pm
> -5:30pm Saturday March 15th at Langside Parish Church, 167 Ledard Rd,
> 1:30pm -5:30pm
>
> Whether you have a spare window ledge for a window box, or an allotment
> plot, this course will help you to get started growing your own food. The
> course will cover the basics of seed sowing, planting, composting, and
> harvesting, and there will also be help to design your own space for
> growing fruit and veg.
>
> There will be lots of practical activities, help and advice, and visits to
> gardens in the area.
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Wed 13th March
> Sites of Love & Cannibalism: Excess and Dependencies in City Music Spaces
> The Art School, 20  Scott Street, G3 6RQ
> 1800 - 2300
>
> Thu 14th March
> Sites of Love & Cannibalism: Excess and Dependencies in City Music Spaces
> Stereo Cafe, 20 - 28 Renfield Lane, G2 6PH
> 1800 - 2300
>
> The Art School and Stereo present a free two-day investigation into music,
> economy and space, involving performances, presentations and panel
> discussions with musicians, industry workers and DIY crews.
>
> Q: What is excess? Can there be too much music? Too many people with
> nothing to do apart from sound out what could've of been?
>
> Q: What's the difference between art and music, commercial and not
> commercial, DIY and entrepreneurialism? What's new music? Why are you not
> getting paid enough? What kinds of spaces do we want to gather in? What
> musics do we make, how and why do we make them?
>
> FREE ENTRY
>
>
> **********
>
>
> Sat 15th March
> Bring & Buy Sale / Coffee Morning
> Croftfoot Parish Church, Croftpark Ave, Glasgow, G44 5NR
> 1000
>
> WestGAP is an anti-poverty community group run by and for people who have
> first - hand experience of living in poverty. We are holding a fundraising
> event at Croftfoot Parish Church. If you've done your spring clean early,
> we would love donations of clothes you no longer wear, books you've finish
> with etc.
>
> The Church is reached by taking the nos. 34 or 75 First buses from town to
> Castlemilk Drive at Croftpark Ave. The no. 5 First bus from opposite the St
> Enoch Centre goes to Carmunnock Rd at Croftpark Ave (the other end). If you
> get off at the Co-op supermarket just before a roundabout you just only
> need to walk a tiny bit back down the hill to Croftpark Ave.
>
>
>
>
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