Today's Topics:
1. anarkismo.net: Revolution in Rojava - Interview with Ercan
Ayboga, co-author of "Revolution in Rojava", Pluto Press, 2016 -
an insight into the liberation movement in the Western Kurdistan
by José Antonio Gutiérrez D. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. US, First of May Anarchist Alliance: Fighting the Far Right
by Benjamin (First of May Baltimore) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, class war: Anti-Tory street art appears on
boarded-up Brixton Arches business (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. wsm.ie: 9th Belfast anarchist bookfair - 14-16 October 2016
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, glasgow anarchists: Glasgow Events ~~Glasgow
Autonomy Update~~ (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Three activists (Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga) who carried solidarity actions
with the Kurdish people while based in Germany, decided to visit Rojava, one of the three
regions of Western Kurdistan, to learn in detail about the experience, its challenges,
difficulties, strengths and potential. It is thus how they ended up writing one of the
best accounts to date of the Kurdish experience in Western Kurdistan, a must-read to
anyone interested in helping to make the world a better place (Michael Knapp, Anja Flach,
Ercan Ayboga, "Revolution in Rojava. Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian
Kurdistan", Pluto Press, 2016). ---- While the world watched in shock the raise of ISIS in
late 2014, leaving a trail of destruction and unspeakable atrocities behind, Kurdish
guerrillas came to put a halt to their seemingly unstoppable expansion. They achieved this
after months of fierce resistance from the besieged town of Kobane.
Their heroic resistance and the determination in defending their own people soon put the
Kurdish liberation movement in the spotlight. Until that moment, few had noticed what was
going on in Western Kurdistan, the Kurdish territory within the boundaries of the Syrian
State. Then, all of a sudden, the world heard about the YPG, a guerrilla movement close to
the PKK in Northern Kurdistan (ie., Kurdish territories in the Turkish State), a movement
that in the highly sectarian environment of the last decade in the Middle East, respect
all creeds and gives an equal standing to women in its ranks. They also heard that since
2011 the Kurdish movement had started building, from the bottom up, a new society based on
the concepts of egalitarianism, direct democracy, communalism and respect for the
environment. They called this unique system -that clearly distanced itself from
State-centric political theories- democratic confederalism. The news about this movement
have been an oasis of excitement in the midst of the calamities of a perverse war,
capturing the imagination of millions around the world who see in this experience
important lessons to build viable alternatives to the current global mess.
It is in this context that three activists (Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga) who
carried solidarity actions with the Kurdish people while based in Germany, decided to
visit Rojava, one of the three regions of Western Kurdistan, to learn in detail about the
experience, its challenges, difficulties, strengths and potential. It is thus how they
ended up writing one of the best accounts to date of the Kurdish experience in Western
Kurdistan, a must-read to anyone interested in helping to make the world a better place
(Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga, "Revolution in Rojava. Democratic Autonomy and
Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan", Pluto Press, 2016). We had the chance to talk
with Ercan Ayboga, a Kurdish environmental activist who lived for many years in Germany
but who is now based in Northern Kurdistan, about this book which will be available
through Pluto Press at the end of October.
1. Please, tell us Ercan, how did the idea of doing such a book came about?
After the revolution started in Rojava - Western Kurdistan - in 2012 we, as the Tatort
Kurdistan Campaign in Germany, had many efforts to get as much information as possible
about the new political structures, projects and the characteristics of what was taking
place there. Because the information was not enough and in order to get our own picture of
the situation of this so important revolution, we decided to send a group of three
activists to Rojava. During the preparations of the trip, we discussed not to have
articles alone, but to rather produce a book. It was an ambitious project, that is why we
used effectively each day of the whole 3 to 5 weeks in Rojava to see everything we could
see, to talk with as much people as we could and to try to understand as much as possible
what was there in front of our eyes. The fieldtrip in May 2014 was very productive and
consequently in March 2015 the book had been published in German. Just afterwards the
translations into other languages started and by late 2016 the publishing of the book in
several other languages is expected, including Spanish and English.
2. What do you think are the main reasons why the story of what is going on in Rojava
needs to be known?
The revolution in Rovaja has been carried out in a period immediately after the failure of
the popular uprisings in Middle East and North Africa. Syria and several other regional
states drifted into new intensified wars and conflicts. While almost all regional and
international powers started to act in the most destructive way in order to get as much of
a strong role as possible in a new political in the Middle East and North Africa, in
Rojava a progressive movement has been fairly successful. Since summer 2012 Rojava is not
only alive, rather it is a great success story about how direct democracy can function,
how people of different ethnic and religious identities can live together and how the
patriarchal system can be weakened and the liberation of the women can be realized.
This book describes the contradictions, discussions and solutions developed by the
political structures in Rojava, which has faced war and embargo from all quarters. Based
on clever tactical and strategic approaches it could ensure a continuous social
development. Apart from geostrategic discussions, the book analyzes the different spheres
of the society including economy, education, justice, health and ecology as a whole. The
book is written also for an international audience and solidarity activists who want to
learn in detail what is happening in Rojava, the world's most important revolution at present.
After being published in German, the content of the book has been updated and reorganized
by the three authors and translators for each of the seven languages. When published in
late 2016 it will also consider the developments of summer 2016, so it will be very much
up to date.
There are several other publications on Rojava, of which some are very good, but they
focus on certain aspects and no one covers as a whole the different dimensions of this
revolutionary process.
3. What has been the reception to the book so far?
Up to date the reception for the book is quite good and we are very hopeful about the
reception to the translated versions. The third German edition was launched in September.
The book will be published within this year in seven languages. The translation, editing
and other work for each of the languages has been done mainly by volunteers. Furthermore,
different well known writers and activists have agreed to write a preface for each of the
languages. In the last two years the three authors have done in total more than a hundred
speeches in Europe and other parts of the world after their travel to Rojava.
Already dozens of requests exist for the publication in English which is also an indicator
for the expected success of the book. This is all important to contribute to the raising
the interest, debate and solidarity with the revolution in Rojava.
However, the book takes up its inspiration mainly from the ongoing revolutionary struggle
in Rojava, as well as in other parts of Kurdistan and the Middle East. This is the main
inspiration for us authors and for all of the volunteers helping with the translations.
The more fighters in the ranks of the YPG and the YPJ, the more activists in the cities
and villages and particularly the more women leading and deepening successfully the
revolution, the more the book will be a success.
4. Tell us, in a nutshell, which ones do you think are the most important lessons from
Rojava to progressive people elsewhere?
There are several lessons in our opinion. The first lesson is overcoming the nation-state
in practice while building an alternative, not only at a theoretical level. All cultural,
ethnic and religious identities can find themselves in the new political structures and
political dynamics developed after the revolution of Rojava. Here an important progress
could be made in reality. This aspect is crucial for any basic democratic development in
the Middle East, but also in other parts of the world. If this approach becomes stronger
in our world, we will have less conflicts and wars.
The second lesson is rejecting the state and strengthening society by building up direct
democratic and self-governing structures from the lowest levels of society. The challenge
is to give power to the communities which coordinate themselves on a voluntary basis. They
will build up a new political system, but from the bottom up. The difference to
parliamentarian systems is that the local communities - in Rojava they are called communes
in the residential streets, and people's councils on the neighborhood level - are the main
power holders and cannot be dominated by the upper structures. Here the revolution has
done some progress, but needs much more to be done. There are challenges and limitations
since other actors are not in favor of direct democracy. These the revolution must handle
too. Nevertheless the revolution does not give up and insists in its ideology.
The third and very crucial lesson is the liberation of women. Without the ongoing women's
liberation, the revolution never would have been successful. The liberation of women,
which is also the liberation of men and all other genders in the end- has started to be
taken seriously by all political, economic, social and cultural structures in Rojava.
People have started to criticize relentlessly the patriarchal ways of acting and thinking
in their lives. Social and cultural liberation has the pre-condition of the liberation of
women - this now we understand better thanks to the Rojava revolution.
Finally the revolution has given practical experience on how to develop an economy which
is as self-reliant as possible, which has been also a necessity because of the embargo.
Thus the embargo could have the opposite effect to that intended by Turkey, the KDP, the
Syrian state and the jihadists-salafists. In developing such an economy, the ecological,
solidarity and anticapitalist components are fundamental. Each of them presuppose one
another. From this experience, progressive people and movements can learn too.
A continued successful revolution in Rojava will change and probably end in the middle
term the war in Syria and have a strong impact on Northern Kurdistan and Turkey. It will
affect directly the whole of the Middle East which is at the centre of the global
conflicts of our times.
5. Where and when will you be launching the book?
The book will be published by Pluto Press in UK in late October 2016. Between September
and October the book is being launched also in the other languages such as German,
Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Russian. So within a short time the book will be
accessible in many languages and in many countries.
6. What are your future projects after this?
We as authors will follow up the developments in Rojava and Syria as well as in all parts
of Kurdistan its neighbourhood. In the coming months we will very likely visit again
Rojava. We do this because of two reasons: we have constantly presentations and
discussions about the revolution in Rojava. And it is likely that the next editions of the
book in English and other languages may need an update as the developments in Rojava are
taking place very fast. Already now, after one year, the book may not be very up to date.
In short: we consider the book as a fluid document of the revolution in Rojava. It evolves
with the revolution in Rojava and therefore, actually, it is more than a book but a living
experience.
Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga, "Revolution in Rojava. Democratic Autonomy and
Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan", Pluto Press, 2016 -will be available from Octobre
20th.
http://www.anarkismo.net/cache/imagecache/local/attachments/oct2016/460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_ercan_anarchist_bookfair.jpg
Ercan Ayboga speaking at the 11th Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, 15th April 2016 (beside him
Janet Biehl and Ayse Gokkan)
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29680
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Message: 2
"This is the problem that we must solve. The Democrats and their allies will tell us that
defeating Trump is the answer, but it will not defeat the forces that brought us here. We
need to reject the politics of cooptation and failure, stand up and fight against the far
right". ---- A man walks into Latin night at a gay nightclub in Orlando during the city's
LGBT Pride weekend, murders dozens of young people, and injures dozens more. The FBI and
police cite nonexistent evidence that he is connected to ISIS, which is regurgitated by
the major media corporations despite being quickly disproved. The Republican presidential
candidate promises to end all Muslim immigration despite the shooter being American-born.
In Congress, Democrats stages a "sit-in" in defense of a gun control bill that hinges on
the government's "terror lists," which have been found to include thousands of innocent
Muslim people, as well as anti-war activists, black lives matter protesters, popular
musicians, and others. In cities across America, Muslims face increased harassment and
violence.
Amidst all this, there are increasing calls to focus on the election, on Trump. None of
them seem to state the obvious: that the far right is winning.
What I mean is this: whatever the outcome of the presidential election, the far
right-currently rallying around Trump and his anti-immigrant, white supremacist agenda-is
already driving major aspects of American politics and life and will continue to do so. We
see it in the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and the never-ending deaths in
the Arizona desert of migrants forced to take dangerous routes by border walls already
erected along safer crossings at the behest of anti-immigrant groups. Both are happening
more now than they ever have before, and Trump and Clinton both promise to escalate these
attacks even further.
We see it from the nearly-constant acts of right-wing terrorism against women, LGBT
people, and racial minorities to the regular state-sanctioned murder of young black men,
by police who frequently are sympathetic to white supremacist organizations, if they are
not outright members. Both Trump and Clinton have accepted these parts of our lives, and
will do nothing to stop them.
The only thing that will stop the far right is organized movements against white
supremacist, sexist, and homophobic violence and for solidarity and self-defense for
working people. But due to decades of repression by the state and cooptation by the
elites in the Democratic party, if you're poor and angry in America, there's a good chance
that the only people talking to you are saying it's because of immigrants, or minorities,
or feminists, or gays. Many people's choices are either the far right or to simply accept
the violence against them.
This is the problem that we must solve. The Democrats and their allies will tell us that
defeating Trump is the answer, but it will not defeat the forces that brought us here. We
need to reject the politics of cooptation and failure, stand up and fight against the far
right. It's not enough to defeat Trump. We need to defeat the far right's America.
http://m1aa.org/?p=1225
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Message: 3
"A caustic piece of street art has appeared on the front of the boarded up Ashok's store
on Brixton Station Road. The artwork features the faces of David Cameron, Boris Johnson
and Theresa May next to the caption, "Do One CancerVatives." In smaller writing can be
seen the words, ‘Together, we can beat this disease'..."
Anti-Tory street art appears on boarded-up Brixton Arches business
BY MIKE URBAN - OCTOBER 11, 2016
http://www.classwarparty.org.uk/anti-tory-street-art-appears-boarded-brixton-arches-business/#more-14537
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Message: 4
The 9th Belfast anarchist bookfair takes place this weekend 14 October - 16 October with
the main bookfair events being at the Black Box 19-22 Hill Street, on Saturday from
11.30am to 5pm. On Friday night there are events at Just Books 22 Berry Street, Belfast
---- Discussions/talks/panel: ---- Friday 14th October at Just Books ---- 5.30 - 6.00
Means and Ends: Against Borders, Against States, Against Capitalism. SolFed and working
class self organisaton. ---- 6.30 Cineforum: Year of the Beaver. A second chance to see
this inciteful film about the 1976-7 Grunwick strike, by low paid, predominantly Asian
women workers, supported by Trade Unionists across Britain in opposition to their employer
and the Labour government. ---- Saturday 15th October at the Black Box ---- 12.00 - 1.00
To the Daring Belongs the Future: Women, Anarchism, Feminism and Ireland. Panel discussion
chaired by Barbara Graham (Belfast SolFed)
1.15 - 2.15 Spotlight on Migration: a talk and discussion, led by activists Nomathamsanqa
Tholo and Sipho Sibanda, chaired by Luke Butterly.
2.30 - 3.30 The Rojava Revolution - Building Democracy in Spite of the State:
Activists with the Dublin-based solidarity groups Rojava Calling and Saoirse Jin will
discuss: some of the origins of the Kurdish struggle; its connection to contemporary
regional and international politics including the conflict in Syria and migration in
Europe; why solidarity with the Kurdish struggle is so important at this time and how you
can get involved in supporting one of the most inspiring democratic movements of our time.
3.45 - 4.45 Anarchism in Ireland: Past, Present, Future.
Discussion with:
Alan MacSimion, veteran Dublin anarchist, researcher and compiler of the irish anarchist
history website irishanarchisthistory.wordpress.com
Jason Brannigan, anarcho-syndicalist and longterm member of the Just Books collective,
Belfast.
Stalls from:
Active Distribution
AK Press
Dublin Anarchist Black Cross
Just Art
Just Books
Justice for the Craigavon Two
PM Press
Rojava Solidarity
Saoirse Jin
Solidarity Federation
Workers Solidarity Movement
More details linked from the Facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/1045582428824551/
http://www.wsm.ie/c/9th-belfast-anarchist-bookfair-2016
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Message: 5
Hey friends, ---- LOTS of events for you all! ---- Special attention to event tomorrow
(Saturday 15th) flyering in Paisley about Immigration Detention Centre, get down there if
you can! ---- Also we have a talk tomorrow at the CCA on Nationalism, Internationalism and
Solidarity - part of the Radical Independent Bookfair. We'd love to see you there! ----
Have fun out there! ---- Glasgow's Radical Independent Bookfair Project ---- 6th-23rd
October ---- Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall
Street, G2 3JD ---- FULL PROGRAMME and INFO here... ----
http://www.agitcollage.org/ribproject/ --------- Alana Apfel & Richard Parry - ---- Birth
Work as Care Work / The Bonnot Gang ---- Friday 14th 7pm. ---- CCA, 50 Sauchiehall Street,
G2 3JD ---- Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities
Like any human act, birth and all that goes before and after it, exists only in the social
context it takes place in. In this much contested sphere of reproductive labour, birth can
be the eye of the storm. Join Alana Apfel, author of Birth Work as Care Work to discuss
the medicalisation of birth and the politics of control of the female body and the
movement of women reclaiming knowledge and collective control over our bodies.
The Bonnot Gang: The Story of the French Illegalists
Join Richard Parry and discover the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious
French anarchists ever, and as bank expropriators the inventors of the motorized
"getaway." It is the story of how the anarchist taste for illegality developed into
illegalism-the theory that theft is liberating in itself. And how a number of young
anarchists met in Paris in the years before the First World War, determined to live their
lives to the full, regardless of the consequences.
This event is part of RIB Project: not by the book.
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Flyering against new immigration detention centre
10am Saturday October 15th
Paisley Gilmore Street Station
THIS IS A CALL OUR FOR HELP TO FLYER PAISLEY THIS SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER against the new
proposed Detention Center
*****FORWARD WIDELY*******
The UK Home Office plans to build a new Immigration Detention Centre, next to Glasgow
airport, in Paisley, What's more, it is currently being processed as a simple council
"planning issue" without scrutiny of the wider human rights issues around detention.
There is a small window of opportunity to RESIST and encourage/facilitate locals to object
to the plan to Renfrewshire Council Planning Committee.
The deadline for objections is the 22nd of October.
So we are planning to flyer Paisley this Saturday and urge local folks to object and
RESIST DETENTION.
If anyone can help, that would be splendid!
The plan would be to meet at 10am at Paisley Gilmore Street train station, break off into
teams (with maps provided) and flyer our wee hearts out.
Please let us know if you can make it by emailingstopdetentionscotland@gmail.com or text
or call Leonna (co-ordinating flyering) 07850371035
Forward this through networks, friends, family and contacts.
Stop Detention Scotland
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Anarchy Rules!
Saturday October 15th 13:00-15:00
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Why bother with rules when non-dominating processes support anarchist organising? We think
that rules can help anarchists, to decide why some processes are better than others, to be
clear about the way we want to live and how we want to interact with others. We'll be
discussing:
(i) what principles anarchists do/should advocate.
(ii) how, if at all, these principles support the generation of rules.
(iii) how, if at all, the idea of anarchy helps give content to rules (what's distinctive
about the rules anarchists make?).
(iv) what rules anarchists can agree to, to help resolve disputes.
www.anarchyrules.info
The Anarchy Rules! workshop is part of the ‘not by the book' series of events celebrating
ten years of the Radical Independent Bookfair Project. For more info:
http://www.agitcollage.org/ribproject/
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Harvest Festival 2016
Saturday 15 October at 12:00-16:00
The Concrete Gardens, 200 Balmore Road, G22 6LJ
Come and help us celebrate another fantastic growing season! There'll be food, live music,
craft and science workshops and play in our new Natural Play Area. All welcome, so come
and join in the fun!
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Anarchist Federation: Nationalism, Internationalism and Solidarity
Sat 15 October 2016 4pm,
Intermedia Gallery, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Is Scottish nationalism progressive and different from other nationalisms? Can meaningful
change for the working class come out of Scottish Independence? Is Rosa Luxemburg's
analysis still valid that ending imperialism via national liberation struggles is
impossible within global capitalism? In the absence of a leftwing alternative, is the SNP
capitalising on working class frustration? AFed argue that electoral politics and
nationalism are used to divide the working class, poison radical politics, and secure the
position of the ruling class. Instead we propose internationalism, solidarity and
grass-roots community and workplace organising. The working class has no borders!
This event is part of RIB Project: not by the book
Anarchist Federation
Glasgow Anarchist Federation
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Benjamin Franks - Anarchist Engagement in State Elections
Wed 19th Oct 19:00
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
The formal rejection of, and refusal to participate in, state elections has been regarded
as a core feature distinguishing anarchism from other socialist groupings. Looking at
contemporary and classical anarchist positions this talk and discussion draws out many of
the core criticisms of parliamentary representationalism that have come to define
anarchism's general rejection of electoral politics, showing how electoral politics
recreates class hierarchies and inadequately identifies the locations of - and responses
to - oppressive power. However, there have been a number of occasions in the UK, Ireland
and Australia where anarchists have participated in constitutional politics: from standing
as candidates in elections, from participating in referendums.
This event explores the differences in and between various electoral strategies adopted by
anarchists and assesses the ways in which constitutionally-entwined anarchists use
electoralism to parody and undermine state democratic legitimacy.
This event is part of RIB Project: not by the book
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Document 2016
20 October - 23 October
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Document returns for its 14th year, bringing to Glasgow the best in award-winning
documentaries which will challenge everyone to consider how they see the world, and the
people in it.
We open with Kings of Nowhere (Los Reyes Del Pueblo Que No Existe), and close with Plaza
de la Soledad. In between we screen features, shorts, teach you how to make your own doc,
and welcome visiting directors, performers, inviting you to join us for the discussion.
Book via the CCA, where the large majority of our events will take
place:https://ccaglasgow.ticketsolve.com/ 0141 352 4900
Tickets:
Screenings £4 (£3) + £1 booking fee; Day pass available.
Document is FREE to Asylum Seekers, Refugees and those on income support.
Visit our website for more information: http://www.documentfilmfestival.org/
We are delighted to be collaborating with the following organisations, and thank Creative
Scotland, BFI, Alliance Française Glasgow and CCA Glasgow for their support.
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Fri 21 - Sun 23 October - Tramway & The Art School, Glasgow
Check out full programme at www.arika.org.uk
The Workshop, Social and Episode 8 are friendly spaces where Arika's local friends (from
Unity, WestGAP, SWOU and We Will Rise) can come together and meet with international
friends and allies who have been involved in important Prison Abolition, LGBT, Queer and
Sex Worker struggles, and the artforms that have come out of them.
There will be Bus Pass Money Available to those who couldn't attend otherwise. If you'd
like to come but something makes that difficult for you, we would love to hear from you.
Please get in touch with Arika and we will try to help - info@arika.org.uk or 0131 556 0878.
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EPISODE 8: REFUSE POWERS' GRASP: DISCUSSION, DINNER and SOCIAL
Thursday 20 October
Kinning Park Complex
Chatting, Food & Music & Dancing
A chance to chat with all the great guests at the Episode, food by Soul Food Sisters, and
then party with Unity DJ's Alieu and Christelle
Discussion & Food 6:00 - 7:00pm
Social 7:00 - 11:00pm
A friendly social space! Dinner for all! Dancing and Music! Bring the Kids!
Child Care available for whole event except during dinner.
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EPISODE 8: REFUSE POWERS' GRASP
Friday 21 - Sunday 23 October
Tramway and The Art School
Is there a link between how we're divided into populations that can be caged and exiled by
the prison-industrial complex, and the ways people's bodies are violently categorised and
segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we refuse to be defined by such violence, escape
attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
3 days of performances, discussions, screenings, workshop and a club with gender
non-conforming rebels, students of blackness, lawyers, archivists, anarca-feminist street
artists and witches, party hosts, filmmakers, prison abolitionists, poets, DJ's,
ex-prisoners and multi-media artists including:
Joshua Allen | boychild | Kai Lumumba Barrow | English Collective of Prostitutes | Elysia
Crampton | Glasgow Open Dance School | Che Gossett | Reina Gossett | Juliana Huxtable |
CeCe McDonald | Miss Major | Mujeres Creando | Sondra Perry | Scot-Pep | Dean Spade | Eric
A Stanley | Umbrella Lane | We Will Rise
Tramway
25 Albert Drive
Glasgow, G41 2PE
The Art School
20 Scott Street
Glasgow, G3 6PE
Kinning Park Complex
43 Cornwall St,
Glasgow, G41 1BA
All events are free for friends in the asylum system / in the struggle for papers. If you
want to come to the Club in the Art School, just mention this at the Box Office. All other
events don't require you to mention this anywhere.
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BSL
Check out our Introduction and Overview video in BSL to get a taster of what to expect -
http://bit.ly/Epi8BSL. The following events will be British Sign Language (BSL)
interpreted by Jo Ross and others.
Fri 21 - Life in Flight from Every Prison, Sat 22 - Miss Major and CeCe McDonald in
Coversation, Sun 23 - Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Work-Station, Sun 23 - Juliana Huxtable
If you would like to attend other events, and require BSL interpretation we will try to
make that happen. Please contact us, with as much notice as possible, and we will do our
best - info@arika.org.uk to arrange.
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Subtitling
The following events will have Stage to Text Subtitling, provided by Stage Text.
Fri 21 - Life in Flight from Every Prison, Sat 22 - Captive Genders - Criminalisation, Sat
22 - Miss Major and CeCe McDonald in Coversation, Sun 23 - Against Inclusion
This involves the verbatim transcription of dialogue into text form as it is spoken live.
Text is displayed as captions on a screen within the space.
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Kiki - Screening
22 October - 17:45-19:45
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD
Kiki | Dir. Sara Jordenö | USA | 2016 | 1hr 34mins
Co-written with one of the main subjects Twiggy Pucci Garçon who will be present for Q&A.
We are pleased to be partnering with Document Film Festival ? & this screening is part of
their programme.
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixeDKdMLRHw
Follows young members of the predominantly black contemporary ballroom scene in NYC.
Dancing! On the pier, the subway, community halls and culminating in the large scale ball
nights where different houses come together to compete and celebrate. Against formidable
odds queer youth create their own communities and family and organise to have each other's
backs.
Often whilst still teenagers themselves young people become house mothers and fathers,
guiding all their group members not only to excel on the dance floor but to gain self love
and become conscious community members. In a significant break from the approach of Paris
is Burning this film, whilst still directed by a white director, gives greater scope for
understanding by centering the political insights of the films subjects.
This film is fully subtitled and the CCA is a fully wheelchair accessible venue.
Because this event is part of Document Film Festival the tickets follows their pricing system:
£5/4 and FREE for anyone in receipt of any kind of benefits (no proof required) - there
will also be bargain weekend passes available.
The following information will soon be available from Document Film Festival:
* Ticketing links
* Whether BSL will be available
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Investigating the Impossible: 30 Years of Paranormal Research
24 October at 19:00-22:00
The Admiral Bar, 72A Waterloo Street, G2 7DA
Join Professor Caroline Watt for a whistlestop tour of the highs and lows of three decades
of research into paranormal claims. From the Indian Rope Trick, to precognitive dreams, to
controlled laboratory research testing the ESP hypothesis, discover the challenges and
unexpected scientific rewards of investigating the impossible.
Caroline Watt holds the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology, and is a founder member (in
1986) of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh. Prof Watt is
passionate about helping the public to think critically about paranormal claims, and in
2015 presented a workshop on the topic at science festivals around the UK, culminating
with a week of full-houses at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival. She is a former President of
the Parapsychological Association, has published numerous journal articles about her
research, and her latest book is Parapsychology: A Beginner's Guide. She runs a
parapsychological study registry, the KPU website, Twitter @KPUNews, as well as a popular
online course. Find out more at the KPU website:
https://koestlerunit.wordpress.com/
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This is event is free to attend, although we will be asking for donations at the end of
the talk. Participants are under no obligation whatsoever to donate, however please rest
assured that the money we collect doesn't end up in anyone's pocket - it is used to fund
our overhead costs, and travel/accommodation for our speakers who come from further afield.
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Accessibility: As per the policy of the Admiral Bar, access to the venue "can only be
provided to patrons who are sufficiently mobile and capable of independently evacuating
premises, or with the minimum of assistance". Unfortunately, this leaves the basement
inaccessible to most wheelchair users.
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Cultivate Event - What to do in Winter
28 October at 12:00-15:00
The Concrete Gardens, 200 Balmore Road, G22 6LJ
As part of the Cultivate programme the Concrete Garden are putting on a series of training
and networking sessions targeted at community groups who have a small growing space.
This session will cover what can you still plant at this time, how to protect your crops
and some indoor activities for when it is too cold and dark.
We will also look at risk assessment of different garden activities.
Lunch will be served at 12pm followed by a practical session with Abi in the garden and
finishing up with a hot drink and chat
To book your place email wilde.alex@gmail.com
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Free Pride Queer Horror Cabaret
28 October at 19:00-22:00
The Spoon Cafe, 46 Trongate, G1 5
There's something Queer in the air this halloween and that can only mean one thing - it's
the Free Pride Queer Horror Cabaret! Join us in celebrating the gayest holiday of the
year, with an unforgettable evening of blood, magic, glitter and ghouls.
With performances from:
Grey Glitterpunk
AB Silvera
Elaine Gallagher
Caitlin Buchanan
Gayle Smith
Liz Seddon
Age-Otori
James Kirkpatrick
More TBC!
Hosted by Freya!
And that's not all! There's an open stage throughout the night, so if you'd like to
perform, then drop a message to the Free Pride page, or simply turn up on the night.
Plus!
Free Tarot and Spells from our resident witch Izzie
Prizes for the best costume
Zines from Artificial Womb
**** FREE ENTRY ****
Meet us at the Spoon Cafe on Friday the 28th of October, 6.30PM, if you dare...
Please note: This event is open to all ages, and is an alcohol free event.
ACCESSIBILITY:
The Spoon Cafe is a wheelchair accessible venue, with a level entrance and a lift to
wheelchair accessible toilets. There are some small stairs to the stage area. Gender
neutral toilets will be available. If you have any access needs or anything that may
prevent you coming along and enjoying our event, please get in touch & we'll see what we
can do.
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Africa in Motion Film Festival: Time
28th October to 6th November
Various locations across Glasgow and Edinburgh -
see http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/programme/glasgow/ for Glasgow events
Welcome to the 11th edition of the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival! We are back and
ready to present a packed programme of screenings, discussions, Q&A sessions with
filmmakers, pop-up screenings, workshops, exhibitions, live performances and more, across
Edinburgh and Glasgow. Artistically innovative and thought-provoking, the programme takes
on bold narratives through a range of features, documentaries and shorts.
This year we have taken a unique collaborative approach to curating the festival, with a
number of different groups and organisations taking part in choosing what they want to see
on screen. Residents from East Lothian and Paisley have programmed two pop-up film
festivals taking place within their home regions. We have engaged young programmers to
curate a package of events inspired by taking part in our ‘Reviving Scotland's Black
History' summer school. Postgraduate students from the University of Glasgow made up the
selection committee for the Short Film and Documentary Competitions.
This year our festival theme is ‘Time', through which we explore the past, present and
future of Africa, looking at different eras of African history including slavery,
colonisation, globalisation and future concepts of Africa. We will also look at cultural
notions of time including a focus on Swahili time, the Amharic calendar, and the place of
tradition in a modern world. By looking at different political, cultural and social epochs
we aim to show how Africa has never been a place bound in past tradition separated from
the rest of the world, but has always been influenced by and connected to global movements.
Our festival theme of ‘Time' is illustrated through our cover design and trailer created
by South African artist, Diek Grobler, who in his own words, drew inspiration from ‘The
way in which rock artists have been telling stories with pictures in the flickering light
of fires on cave walls for centuries. Cinema in Africa is ancient!'
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CHARITEA - With Haifa Zangana
30 November at 18:30
Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington Street, G4 9AJ
We've all seen the news reels and sensational headlines, and we've all heard first hand
accounts from friends and family still caught up in the ongoing conflict in Iraq.
What we don't hear enough about is all the positive humanitarian work that is currently
ongoing inside the country to help rebuild valuable infrastructures which help the people
that are most in need.
Join us to raise awareness and much needed funds to help this work to continue! £15 a
ticket and in return you will be served delicious Iraqi food, live Iraqi Oud and poetry as
well as helping Iraqi Refugeeshttp://theiair.co.uk/en/about/
With us to give a talk on the evening will be Haifa Zangana who is a novelist, political
commentator and currently has a weekly column in Al-Quds newspaper as well as being a
regular contributor for The Guardian, Red Pepper, and Al-Ahram.
This is a ticketed event limted to 120 seats. Please reserve your seating through one of
the following hosts by texting IRAQ2016 with the number of seats to be reserved. £15 per
ticket free for kids under 8
Supported by Scottish Action for Refugees (SAFR)
All funds go to International Action for Iraqi Refugees
Vivian - 07540706747
Fayrouz - 07828310433
Wesun - 07545035341
Doors open 6.30pm.
SUPPORT REFUGEES. SUPPORT IRAQ. SUPPORT HUMANITY.
https://glasgowanarchists.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/glasgow-events-glasgow-autonomy-update-2/
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