pic by Duncan Brown

11 AM SATURDAY 13 MARCH 2010

STARTING AT RED ROAD FLATS, 63 PETERSHILL DRIVE, SPRINGBURN GLASGOW 

PLEASE BRING BANNERS AND FLOWERS

ALL WELCOME

(For more photographs by Duncan Brown of the Red Road vigil please click here) 

Please join residents of the Red Road flats, Charities, churches, faith groups, Quaker groups and trade unions at 11 am on Saturday 13th March from the Red Road flats in Springburn, Glasgow to a rally in George Square.

The march, organised by Red road Residents, the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees and the Unity Centre, will begin at the exact spot of upturned grass where a family of three asylum seekers, the Serykh family, fell to their deaths on Sunday 7 March.

The purpose of the march and rally is to:

a)      Remember the Serykh family and call for an immediate end to any further enforced removals of refugee families in the Red road area by the UK Borders Agency (UKBA) ;

and b)      Call for the immediate return of Stephanie Ovranah and her twin six year old sons, Joshua and Joel, to their friends, neighbours and local church in Glasgow’s Cranhill where they have lived for past five five years. (The family were detained at Brand Street reporting centre without warning last Friday with the children still in their school uniforms. They are currently in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre and the children are understood to be terrified of being returned to Africa which they do not know or remember). 

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Ayrshire Friends of Refugees 

Mother’s Day Gathering at Dungavel Removal Centre 

No more mothers in detention 

Sunday 14th March 1pm

All Welcome  

Bring voices, banners and friends

Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Public Meeting – Immediately following the PCS Strike Rally in Glasgow

1pm approx

Brunswick Cellars

239 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow

Speakers;

Tommy Sheridan (Co-Convenor Solidarity and STUSC candidate)

Derek Thompson (Chair of the PCS Scottish Committee in a personal capacity)

Plus a speaker from UNISON

pic by Duncan Brown

For more photographs by Duncan Brown of the PCS Strike please click here  

pic by Duncan Brown

EIS March and Rally Saturday 6th March 

For more photographs by Duncan Brown of the EIS Demonstration please click

here

MARCH & RALLY AGAINST THE SDL IN LOCKERBIE – SATURDAY 27th MARCH     

A tiny number of SDL were surrounded by police and anti fascist demonstraotors in Edinburgh on Feb 20th pic by Duncan Brown

Dumfries TUC has received the following information from Unite Against Fascism: “After the Edinburgh demo the SDL have turned their attention to Lockerbie.

This is on the Casuals United website:After the fiasco of the police abusing their powers and arresting and or/turning back innocent people trying to attend the Edinburgh demo, the Scottish Defence League will be holding a respectful vigil at Lockerbie on  March 27th 2010. Details of coaches/transport from your regional organisers or via the Inner Circle. This is also a protest against the Traitor Kenny MacAskill who  deny the SDL free speech and defended the release of the vermin responsible for the Lockerbie outrage.Kenny MacAskill told an emergency session of the Scottish parliament that it had been his “own decision” to free Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, adding that he stood by “the laws and values of Scotland”.  “my arse” 

The SDL seeks to promote Islamophobia – bigotry against Muslims just as Hitler's Nazis did by targeting Jews in the 1930s. Today the SDL threatens Muslims; tomorrow it could be Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, black people, lesbians & gay men, travellers or Eastern Europeans. They have chosen Lockerbie for their latest gathering of racist thugs on the pretext of a protest against the Justice Minister’s decision to release Ali Basset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds.

Whatever your views on that decision, the racist bigotry of the SDL has no place in Dumfries & Galloway. Dumfries TUC is outraged that the SDL should target Dumfries & Galloway for their latest attempt at racist intimidation. We are determined to oppose the racist thugs of the SDL in Lockerbie on March 27th. We are appealing to all political, religious and community organisations in the South West and elsewhere in Scotland and England to join us in a March and Rally in Lockerbie on that Saturday. We will proclaim that Scotland is united in rejecting racism and fascism as was shown in the recent rallies against the SDL in Glasgow and Edinburgh. 

DEMONSTRATE - NO RACISM IN EDINBURGH
NIE!!! NAZISTOM W EDYNBURGO

 SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY
SOBOTA 20 LUTY
11.30am, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh  

NO to racism, Fascism and Islamophobia

YES to a multicultural, multireligious, united Scotland

 The march is sponsored by the STUC, the Scottish Islamic Foundation, UNISON, the FBU, political parties, Unite Against Fascism, SACC and many others. For more information and to add your support to the Scotland United campaign against the racism of the SDL, see the Letter from Scotland United Download the Scotland United flyer

Download the Scotland United poster 

Also:
Street meeting at 10am, Saturday 20 February,
The Mound, Edinburgh
Organised by Unite Against Fascism Download the UAF flyer
Download the UAF poster
Zatrzmaj Rasistowski SDL Flyer in Polish

by Jimmy Ross

Alistair Hulett died suddenly last week after a short illness.

He was an acclaimed songwriter, guitarist and singer, and a committed socialist, anti-war campaigner and community activist.His songs demonstrate not only his passionate loathing of a system that kills and maims its way to profit but also his delight at the resistance that springs up in response.

One of his best known songs, recorded by June Tabor, Roy Bailey and Andy Irvine, is “He Fades Away”, about a former blue asbestos miner who is dying of asbestosis.In “Don’t Sign Up for War”, Alistair celebrated the anti-war stand of the Scottish revolutionary John Maclean with the lines “Betray your country. Serve your class. Don’t sign up for war my friend. Don’t sign up for war.”