for actual events see new page or see imc calander
Santo Caserio (local screamo types)
Jinn (fast + nasty, ex-Ebola & Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon)
The Pact (imagine a hardcore band playing the soundtrack to a gypsy funeral)
Kaddish (harsh emo)
Broken Oath (tbc) (mosh metal)
>From 2pm, there'll be workshops on zine making, stenciling, releasing and
distributing your own records, plus a debate/argument on the commodification
of hardcore. We should also manage to sort out some free food, plus there'll
be free zines too.
Also, we'll have a tape swap box- make a mix tape, and swap it for someone
else's- make what you'd hope to receive.
Weather permitting, there may be an outdoor art space.
Workshops will run from 2-6, then the bands will start at 7pm, and will be
over by 11pm. Admission will be £5. Buses- LRT 2 &21 (get off in Stevenson
Drive), or 3,33,34 or 25 (get off at Chesser roundabout).
The provisional timetable for workshops is
2-3pm zine making
3-4pm stencil making
4-5pm releasing & distributing your own records
5-6pm debate on the co-opting of hardcore by the music industry
We may add one or two on the day if there's sufficient demand...!
more info: xlordsummerislex@deathwishinc.net
On Wednesday, July 2nd, two activists from the Argentinian Unemployed Workers
Movement tour will be showing slide show 2pm at the Forest Art Space, 9 Westport,
Edinburgh, EH1 2JA, Tel. 0131 221 0237
A 7.30pm Wed 2nd July as well as giving a talk they are also showing their puppet show at the
Muirhouse Millenium Centre, 7 Muirhouse Medway EH4 4RW
(we encourage people to come this showing at this community centre in North Edinburgh in preference, but do look a map carefully as may not be easy to find if you have not before)
Repeated on Thursday, July 3rd at the CWU club, 15 Brunswick Street at 7.30pm on July 3rd
Two activists from Argentina are visiting
Scotland.
DIRECT FROM ARGENTINA
The Argentina Autonomist Project presents
THE PIQUETERA TOUR
Glasgow
7.30pm Tues 1st July
Alex.Thompson Hotel, 320 Argyle St
Edinburgh
2pm Wed 2nd July
Forest Cafe/ Art Space, West Port, off Grassmarket
7.30pm Wed 2nd July
Muirhouse Millenium Centre, 7
Muirhouse Medway EH4 4RW
7.30pm Thurs 3rd July
CWU Club, 15 Brunswick Street
THE PIQUETERA TOUR
Neka and Graciela are bringing a message of hope out of the economic catastrophe in Argentina.
Hear Graciela interviewed on woman's hour: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/23_06_03/thursday/info2.shtml
Neka belongs to the unemployed workers of the Anibal Veron Co-ordination, part of the Piqueteros movement - their name coming from their tactic of picketing or blockading roads and motorways. She is coming to share her experience of the vast movement of occupations and grass-roots organising and resistance that has swept Argentina.
Graciela will give a unique puppet show portraying how workers have gone from regular jobs to picking up cardboard from the streets of Buenos Aires every night to sell it for a few pence. The show - which has already toured the two Americas with great success - tells of the local social movements that have grown to create a near insurrection.
Over the last 2 years an incredible wave of social protest and action has engulfed Argentina. In the midst of the well-publicised economic collapse there have been massive street protests, numerous co-ordinated road blockades, over 200 factories under workers control, more than three hundred coordinated microenterprise cooperatives organized by unemployed women and men, countless neighborhood associations formed, and many other autonomous popular initiatives.
Yet, little is heard about this in this country.
The visit to Scotland is part of the Argentina Autonomista Project tour, bringing
news of the struggle in Argentina to Britain and Ireland, and aiming to make
connections with people struggling for social justice here.
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Glasgow event sponsored by Cailleach Collective and Anarchist Federation
Alba
Edinburgh events sponsored by
The Forest Art Space / Cafe ( http://www.theforest.org.uk
)
Indymedia Scotland http://www.imcscotland.org
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh 0131 557 6242
Background:
http://www.argentina.indymedia.org/ http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_arg.html http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/argentina/txt/2003/index.htm
For a more up to date info on tour dates round British Isles see: http://www.londonarc.org/Autonomista.html
THE ZAPATISTAS TODAY
public events in Edinburgh and Glasgow
First hand reports from the front line in Chiapas
plus 2 new videos -
WE SPEAK AGAINST INJUSTICE
(2002, 45 mins)
- Plan Puebla Panama and paramilitary murders in Chiapas in 2002
LONG LIVE LIFE, DEATH TO DEATH
(2003, 15 mins)
- 1st Jan 2003 : 20,000 Zapatistas take over the city of San Cristobal de Las
Casas
8pm Mon 16 June
Communication Workers Union, 15 Brunswick Street, Edinburgh
1pm Tues 17 June
Mono, 12 Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow G1
2 speakers from the Kiptik drinking water project, just returned from months working in the Zapatista communities in resistance. Direct news of confrontations in Montes Azules between Zapatista villagers resisting eviction and the Mexican army and paramilitaries.
Info Edinburgh-Chiapas Solidarity Group 0131 557 6242
edinchiapas @ yahoo.co.uk
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Help welcome for publicising and assisting with the Glasgow meeting in particular - if you contact me at mike77@macunlimited.net or ring me, I will give you the phone no of the woman organising it. Thanks.
If anyone wants to come to the Edinburgh meeting from outside the city and needs accomodation I am sure we could arrange it - please contact me in advance.
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More info on the events
The 2 speakers have both been involved over a period of years working with the Zapatistas installing drinking water systems in the communities of resistance. Kiptik works with the Zapatista autonomous municipalities to provide good drinking water, improving health and improving the lives of all, especially the women.
Both speakers have only just returned from Chiapas within the last few days, and so can provide up to date first hand information on what is happening right now. They will be able to report on what the international observers saw when the Mexican armed forces and armed civilian Lacandones arrived to try and evict the Zapatista village of Nuevo San Rafael in Montes Azules.
The speakers will describe the work of Kiptik, and how we can help and get
involved.
Kiptik can be contacted at kiptik@eudoramail.com
and see http://www.kiptik.buz.org
I think it is worth saying that Kiptik is not a conventional NGO. It works directly with the Zapatista autonomous municipalities, who are creating their own self-managed communities independent of and in opposition to the state. The autonomnous municipalities decide where Kiptik's resources are most needed. The actual work is carried out by international volunteers and Zapatista villagers working together. I know both the speakers, and they are not coming from a liberal reformist perspective, but from a revolutionary one.
Details of the films to be shown
1. We speak against injustice (about 45 mins) covers the link between the latest
paramilitary violence (in the second half of 2002) and the Plan Puebla Panama.
During 2002 there was an upsurge in paramilitary violence in Chiapas, including
several murders of Zapatista activists in the Montes Azules area.
The film shows the link between this and the plans of the Governments and multinationals
to plunder southern Mexico and Central America through the Plan Puebla Panama.
2. Long live life, death to death (about 15 mins) covers the amazing march
of 20,000 Zapatista villagers into San Cristobal de las Casas on Jan 1st 2003.
This dramatic mobilisation by the Zapatistas showed the Mexican state and the
world that they are far from the spent force that their detractors allege. Arriving
after long journeys from the remote jungle and the highlands, thousands of dirt-poor
indigenous peasant villagers achieved an incredible feat by peacefully taking
over the major tourist and commercial city of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.
Banging their machetes and sticks, holding up burning torches, as the black
smoke from the multiple bonfires engulfed the town centre,the masked insurgents
packed the expansive centre plaza and still thousands more were left chanting
in the surrounding streets.
"We came to say that here we are still stronger than ever and we resist,"
said Comandante Mister. "In the face of a globalization of death imposed
by the powerful, we proclaim a globalization of freedom..."