CCA film night for the Dear Green Place
Communities, the Common Good and Climate Change - a film night for the Dear Green Place, at 7pm, Wednesday, 14th May 2008, CCA cinema (CCA 4) Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Admission free
Rent Wars of East Harlem: It Takes a Village to Raise Hell
Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB), who are fighting off efforts by their new landlord to evict tenants from 47 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled buildings in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio. Since the 47 buildings were bought by Dawnay, Day Group, a privately owned British bank
Common Good Day Scotland Saturday 24th May 10am-4pm
Common Good is the name given to the inherited property of the former burghs of Scotland. This land and assets still exist and still belong to the people and could be a significant resource for regenerating local communities. Come and spend the day with all those involved in reclaiming our Common Good.

May 17 th Reshuffle at the Pearce Institute. If you want to participate, stalls, events, help out. Bob@citystrolls.com
More info soon... What's happening so far...

The Tesco Public Local Inquiry (PLI)
is starting on Tuesday 22 April at 10 am on City council premises ie Cafe George at 266 George St.
Stop Tesco owning Partick
All tomorrows Particks

The Question
School anyone (Answer)
Glasgow City Council is selling off a package of primary schools for private sector development. LPL campaigns for `community right to buy` legislation to be extended to urban areas so that these precious facilities can be retained by the communities they were built to serve...more Local people leading

Reshuffle May 17th.
The Radical Independent Bookfair will be setting up stall along with a whole host of activities, talks, films, groups and who knows. You can be part of it - help make the day as good or better than the last one. That's the challenge. Make community work - be part of it. Look out for updates here soon.

See what happened Jan. Here: (Video)
January Programme here

Deadly Cargo - New Camcorder Guerillas Film (flier)
Nuclear weapons are regularly transported in secret convoys on ordinary roads in Britain. How close do they come to you? Find out the chilling truth about these lethal convoys, how they are tracked by people in the NukeWatch network and how you can help stop them.
The Scottish launch will be in the Glasgow Film Theatre on 29th March, 12.30 -2pm. Admission free. The film scrfeeening will be followed by guest speakers and a Q & A.

The common Good in Scotland Film
Scottish land reform researcher Andy Wightman explaining the basics of Common Good assets in Scotland. Common Good are land, buildings and artefacts that have been given to the people of a burgh or town as common property and for benefit of their common wellbeing. For more information see: http://www.scottishcommons.org

A council answerable to no one?
This proves that not only have the owners of the common good land (the people of the Glasgow area) been ignored by the City of Glasgow Council but the Pollok Advisory Committee (a sub-committee of the National Trust) who were formed to look at matters affecting the park as part of a Conservation Agreement have been kept in the dark—where is the openness and accountability claimed by the council in all of this?

Shopping Town USA: Victor Gruen, the Cold War, and the shopping mall
These so-called ‘shopping towns' were supposed to strengthen civic life and structure the amorphous, mono-functional agglomerations of suburban sprawl. Yet within a decade, Gruen's designs had become the architectural extension of the policies of racial and gender segregation underlying the US postwar consumer utopia

Is it time for a Save our Parks, city wide campaign with a remit of zero tolerance to any form of private business in any of our parks?