Join Us on a Sponsored Cycle Ride to raise money for RAWA!

From Edinburgh to North Berwick

On the 20th of March

Assemble outside the Forest Cafe (3 Bristo Square, Edinburgh) at 10:30am

Refreshments will be provided! Collect your sponsorship form from Solidarity Goods (35 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh.)

For more information on the bike ride see www.rawascotland.org.uk

All money raised by the cycle ride will go straight to RAWA in Afghanistan.
RAWA recieve no governmental support, and they need funds to maintain the hospitals that they have established, open schools for women & girls, and support Afghan refugees. They need our help to keep doing the amazing work they do.

What is RAWA?

RAWA is the oldest political/social organisation of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women’s rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1997.

"If you are freedom loving and anti-fundamentalist, you are with RAWA!"

For more information go to: www.rawa.org

What is RAWA Solidarity Scotland?

RAWA Solidarity Scotland is a grassroots group based in Edinburgh that actively supports RAWA by raising awareness and much needed funds.

Check out our website: www.rawascotland.org.uk

Contact us by emailing: rawasolidarityscotland@noflag.org.uk
 

Basque Solidarity Campaign invites everybody to come to the event organized for the 20th of March at the Tollcross Community Centre at 15:00pm.

There will be a film "itsasoaren alaba"( The sea daughter) and a talk on the current situation in the Basque Country and a free buffet at the end.

If you are interested in what is happening with this small country in Europe that is striving for self determination and real democracy come along and help us raise awareness.

CUT TRIDENT - NOT JOBS

March and Rally
Saturday 13th March 2010 Edinburgh

Assemble Scottish Parliament 11 am
March off 11.30 am
Rally Grassmarket 12.30 pm

Speakers

Alex Salmond MSP (SNP)
John Barrett MP (Lib Dem)
Mark Lazarowicz MP (Labour)
Alis Ballance (Greens)
Rev Ian Galloway (Church of Scotland)
Kate Hudson (CND)
Mike Kirby (UNISON)
Lesley Riddoch
Chaired by actor David Hayman

Leaflet (pdf) A4 poster (pdf)

Please help to publicise the rally by circulating leaflets by email or ordering copies - phone 0141 433 2821 or email john.ainslie@banthebomb.org

There is a Cut Trident demonstration group on Facebook. Share this with your Facebook friends.

Practical Arrangements:

Map

Glasgow:

Buses leave Botanic Gardens, Queen Margaret Drive
9.30 am and City Chambers, George Square 9.30 am. Returning to Glasgow for around 4 pm. Full fare £5, concessions £2. Please book by phoning 0141 423 1222 or email scnd@banthebomb.org

The buses will drop off near the Parliament and pick up from Kings Stables Road, near the Grassmarket.

Aberdeen & Dundee:

Aberdeen CND will be arranging transport phone 07879 046779 or email aberdeencndgroup@yahoogroups.com

Trains:

RMT are currently proposing a series of one day strikes and the 13 March has been listed as one day on which there may be a strike.

Public transport Buses to Edinburgh:

Get to parliament by exiting bus station to Princes Street, turn left into Leith Street, left again into Calton Road, turn right when you get to the end of Calton Road and you will see the Parliament at th bottom of the Royal Mile..

Parking:

The Welcoming and the Adult Learning Project Association are hosting a Spanish style ‘Wee Gaitherin’ or La Cena de Mendigos on Friday 26th March from 7pm till 9.30pm. It will be a Latin-style evening of songs, music, poetry and story-telling with our guests and friends from Spain and Latin America. Please bring along food and drinks to contribute to the event.

117 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

more info: beatriz_herreromengod@hotmail.com

Come along and practise your spansh watching the movie: "Te doy mis ojos" (Take my eyes)

"There are for sure many other films dealing with domestic violence, but I bet no one is better than this one. This is something that is said to happen quite often in Spain and the movie was shot in order to sensitize people for this issue and to bring to talk about it. It is the story of an ill jealous man, full of complex of inferiority, terrorizing his wife and son.This was as well an excellent performance of Laia Marull and Luis Tosar.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350193/)

Don't worry there will be english subtitles and it is FREE!

It will be on Friday 12th March at 6.00pm in ALP/Tollcross Community Centre: 117 Fountaibridge

More details: beatriz_herreromengod@hotmail.com

11th March at 6.30pm
Whisky is an Argentine-German-Spanish-Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004. The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It has very sparse dialogue and the three principal actors play very straight roles showing little emotion. It was premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it won a Regard Original Award.
117 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

More details: beatriz_herreromengod@hotmail.com

EDUARDO GALEANO
“Rescuing the kidnapped memory of Latin America”

A celebration in words, music and pictures of the great Uruguayan journalist, historian and storyteller, who will be 70 this year.

“Does writing have any meaning?...The question lies heavily in my hand.
“... perhaps writing is no more than an attempt to save, in times of
infamy, the voices that will testify to the fact that we were here and this
is how we were...
“How can those who don’t know where they come from find out where they’re going?” (Eduardo Galeano, Days and Nights of Love and War)

Wednesday, 24th March, 7.00pm
FREE EVENT
Presentation by Alastair Hulbert
Alastair Hulbert is a member of the ALP Nicaragua Learning Exchange. A practical theologian and internationalist, he has been involved for many years in ecumenical solidarity work in Europe and has travelled widely, including in Latin America.

For more details: beatriz_herreromengod@hotmail.com or phone 01312215800
 

Sat 13th, 7.30pm, St Johns Church. Princess Street.

To help raise money for the communities and families that have recently been affected by the earthquake and tsunamis in Chile. The night will be full of music and dance from Scotland and Chile, and will end with an offering of Chilean empanadas and wine.

Artists involved so far are Phamie Gow, Niki King, Carlos Arredondo, Eddie McGuire, Jim Sutherland, Martin Aelred, Tom Coyopa, Stuart Mitchell, Stuart Eydmann, Norman Mackay and Emma Pethybridge, and many more to come.....

All donations will be sent to the Chilean Red Cross and Victor Jara Foundation who will distribute the proceeds to the people that need it most now.

Recommended donation: £10/£5 concession.

Hi folks This is an invitation to be part of the first

Climate Cafe

Sunday 14th March,

2pm-4:30pm,

@The Forest
The climate cafe will be an open and informal space where people who share concern can come together to:

• Discuss social and environmental issues
• Watch short political films/documentaries
• Meet up to socialise and network with others
• Organise and plan action

Find out about how to get involved in existing and upcoming campaigns

So if you are already active or wanting to get involved this will be a good place to plug into what's going on. If you are already part of a campaign it would be great if you could come and tell others about it. This first climate cafe will be an experiment in how an informal monthly gathering can provide the space for people to come together with others outside of the usual group meetings. If you like the idea come along and make it work. See you there.

Please forward this invitation.

THE LONG MARCH BACK. 11-30am, The Bridge Hotel, Castle Garth, Newcastle.

"the Working Class bookfair is heading to Newcastle on Saturday, March 6th 2010, to the Bridge Hotel, upstairs. This traditional working class movement venue is having an important Labour movement event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the Miners strike. Several NUM speakers, including President Ian Lavery, North East area NUM President and general secretary, Davy Guy and Davy Hopper, and many more. I think Matt Wrack from the FBU is speaking too.
For details and a stall call 07931301901

This event is part of efforts to build a working class movement for the 21st century in these credit crunched times. There is a tremendous need to spread good ideas and the Working Class Bookfair has spawned another event taking place in one of the historically important parts of the working class and labour movement. "