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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...

Has society turned its back on itself?
Initially, it was a little hard to figure out what lay behind the BBC decision to commission The White Season. But when taking on board the subsequent general air of BBC defensiveness, it is probably fair to assume it hasn’t worked out exactly as planned.
The Canongate Project
The Canongate Project Launches: 6 week long innovative programme
Take a day out in Edinburgh with the weans, or go for a walk around the old town. A full program of fun from May 3 to 14 June Canongate Community Doing it for Themselves

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

Given to the People
Friday 18th April - Sunday 20th April
GalGael Boatyard for Google Map

As part of the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Artist Simon Yuill explores the story of Pollok Free State through film combining original footage, interviews with Free State participants, and specially composed music by Glasgow band Foxface.
Friday 18th April 2008, 7pm.
Special launch event, showing the film
with live music from Foxface.
Saturday 19th April 2008
Screenings of film. 1pm to 5pm.
Sunday 20th April 2008
Screenings of film and public discussion.
1pm to 5pm, talk starts at 3pm.
All events FREE
Everyone's at it!
The Rentier Economy & the Morality of the Cultural Industries
17 April
Following a discussion of the problem of rent for capitalism - from Smith via Marx and Keynes to Buchanan - Valentine outlines the role of rent in contemporary neo-liberal capitalism and its links to practices of 'value capture'. A talk by Jeremy Valentine
(from Media, Communication & Sociology; QMU, Edinburgh)
Thurs 17 April, 6pm - all welcome
Venue:
STUC (Scottish Trades Union Congress)
333 Woodlands Road
Glasgow G3 6NG
On the subject of the rentier society
Gregory King cleans up
While the banks whine about the credit crunch, one Glasgow entrepreneur is making big money
Views From The Peak
27 April 2008 - Queens Park Allotment – Midday Onwards
Peak Oil and Glasgow Discs, bring instruments and bring food.
Thinking Transition

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

Even frogs get better consultation about parks than the public do (Botanic's)

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

Graham Meldrum Memorial Campaign
HARD WORK NEVER KILLED ANYONE..? Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of Graham Meldrum begins 17th March, Glasgow Sheriff Court
Greenspace Forum - Next Meeting-agenda
Saturday 29th March 2008, from 11am -
1pm, in Broomhill. Please meet at entrance to the Anniesland College Annexe at Balshagray Campus, 27 Broomhill Avenue, Glasgow, G11 7AE.
New links of interest - Urban regeneration and housing
The Public Interest Research Network

The network is not a think tank or a lobby group. It does not take corporate funding. Its members are committed to uncovering the truth behind the spin and evasion which clogs up much public debate. Also: Sarah Glynn page School of GeoSciences
Refugee Information Sessions (details)
Positive Action in Housing's New Migrants Action Project is organising information sessions for refugees recently granted leave to remain, particularly those granted status via the case resolution (legacy) programme.
Dead Frogs in the Botanics
Wildlife lovers say frogs are dying after pond axed

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.

Pink Elephants in the Botanic's.
(Avoid seeing what the council want's you to see
How To Start Your Own TV Channel
workshop at the Electron Club upstairs in the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Open workshop with basic guide on how to stream live video to large amounts of people on the internet with minimum cost. Date: Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Time: 19:00-21:00 All welcome Free

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

The disappearing bees Interesting research on bees (pdf)

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?

Local People Leading – Position Statement on Community Empowerment: Draft January 2008 LPLWebsite

January Reshuffle pictures. (More to come and video soon)

They will never tell us when we succeed
We need to break from the one dimensional thinking that money without meaning or accountability can fix our cities. People are the sustainable dynamic of city life - our most valuable and under used asset.

EDINBURGH NEEDS YOU
Wednesday the City of Edinburgh`s Planning Committee decided they want to go forward with the legacy they were left from the previous New Labour administration.

Friends of parks here...

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?

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