MAY 1st

 

 11am ARGYLE STREET, fun, music, stalls etc woop

 

News from the Front Line

Reel News ...present an evening of recent documentary films - films of inspirational struggles in the UK and round the world, as they continue to document and publicise the growing global movement for climate justice, and the growing workers’ resistance to cuts and the recession here. Is this the year where the struggles against the various crises of capitalism converge?

Reel News is an activist video collective, set up to publicise and share information on campaigns and struggles by producing a bi-monthly newsreel, made up of a number of videos short enough to use in union and campaign meetings. Reel News is completely independent and non-aligned.

More info about Reel News
http://www.reelnews.co.uk

 

part of RiB3
http://www.ribproject.org

 

Saturday 1st May

22:00-03:00

The Flying Duck

142 Renfield St

Orderly Disorder

Techno

Featuring Galoshins Live (22:30)

International Workers Day:

Free Entry: Suggested Donation £4

All Proceeds To Zapatista

Chiapas Education Projects

+ Chiapas Solidarity Merchandise Stall

For Health Clinics

Make Toast Not War

Book Reading 6.00pm - 9.00pm

Dave Douglass

Dave Douglass will read from his new book Ghost Dancers.

Ghost Dancers is the final volume in Dave Douglass’s mining trilogy Stardust and Coaldust, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike. A first-person, insider’s view of, probably, the last generation of miners and their union. Following on Cameron’s description of ‘a broken Britain’ this book comes close to describing who broke it and how.
David Douglass is a long-standing and well-known member of the National Union of Mineworkers in the Durham and Doncaster coalfields. He was a coalminer for 40-plus years and a branch official of the Union for 25 years, as well as a member of its Yorkshire Executive during its most testing and dynamic period. He remains a full member of the NUM and is still active in the internal affairs of the Union, as well as being one of its more public and well-known representatives and a published author and historian of the coal communities.

Published by Christie Books
http://www.christiebooks.com
 

RiB 3

3days 3stalls 3events

8th, 15th & 22nd May 2010
CCA - 350 Sauchiehall Street - Glasgow G2 3JD

FREE ENTRY

An RiB triple event...

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This ‘book-stall’ event will be spread over 3 consecutive saturdays. Although there will be fewer stalls than at some of our previous events, each week will focus on a distinct part of the stock we carry. Each saturday we will also have the ever expanding book swap boxes, DVD reference library, free stock and of course our cursory good humour!
Each evening we will co-host a dedicated event, entry as ever is free.

RiB 3

3days 3stalls 3events

8th, 15th & 22nd May 2010
CCA - 350 Sauchiehall Street - Glasgow G2 3JD

FREE ENTRY

An RiB triple event...

----

This ‘book-stall’ event will be spread over 3 consecutive saturdays. Although there will be fewer stalls than at some of our previous events, each week will focus on a distinct part of the stock we carry. Each saturday we will also have the ever expanding book swap boxes, DVD reference library, free stock and of course our cursory good humour!
Each evening we will co-host a dedicated event, entry as ever is free.

Panel Discussion 6.00pm - 9.00pm

What's Left in Feminism?

Maud Bracke, Catherine Eschle, Ailsa McKay and Marina Vishmidt
...respond to Nancy Fraser's 'Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History'

Nancy Fraser situates the feminist movement within the larger political context of its historical moment. She explains how some feminist demands for equality have been largely accepted, but, considering the process of feminism’s evolution in the changing social context of neoliberalism, this acceptance has come at the cost of decoupling feminism's emancipatory edge. Finally, she contemplates the possible reorientation of feminism in the present context of capitalist crises, which could start a shift to a new form of social organising...
The full text can be read at: Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History
http://www.newschool.edu/uploadedFiles/Faculty/NSSR/Fraser_NLR.pdf

Event co-ordinated by Variant
http://www.variant.org.uk/

3days 3stalls 3events

8th, 15th & 22nd May 2010
CCA - 350 Sauchiehall Street - Glasgow G2 3JD

FREE ENTRY

An RiB triple event...

----

This ‘book-stall’ event will be spread over 3 consecutive saturdays. Although there will be fewer stalls than at some of our previous events, each week will focus on a distinct part of the stock we carry. Each saturday we will also have the ever expanding book swap boxes, DVD reference library, free stock and of course our cursory good humour!
Each evening we will co-host a dedicated event, entry as ever is free.

 

SATURDAY 8th MAY

magazine, journal and pamphlet stall 11.00am - 7.00pm

Camcorder Guerillas brings you REEL NEWS with a special screening:

COPENHAGEN: SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE

In December 2009, the governments of the United Nations met in Copenhagen to discuss the threat of climate change and the need for drastic reductions in carbon emissions. They agreed to do nothing…

However the untold story of that meeting was that it was confronted on the streets of Copenhagen by mass mobilisations of activists from grassroots struggles from across the world demanding alternatives to the current system of economic and environmental crisis.

In December 2009, Copenhagen witnessed the birth of a global movement for climate justice.

Here is a chance to see and discuss the inspiring mobilizations that occurred in Copenhagen in a series of short films by London based video activist collective Reel News, including interviews with Naomi Klein (No Logo, The Shock doctrine), Vandana Shiva (world-renowned environmentalist & seed activist), and the Via Campesina farmer’s movement.

Screening followed by a discussion with Sean from Reel News, Pablo Routledge from Camcorder Guerillas and other local activists.

Friday 23rd April 2010 - 7:30 pm
CCA, Cinema 4, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

Free but ticketed (donation welcome) - CCA Box Office: 0141 352 4900

 

Programme: Copenhagen: System Change, Not Climate Change by Reel News (80 minutes)

Part 1 – Carbon trading: privatise the air! (17:57)
As the movements gather in Copenhagen, the talks are exposed as another attempt to save global capitalism.

Part 2: 100,000 march in Copenhagen (16:48)
The biggest march for climate justice ever, plus an intro to the mass movements of the global south.