<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Hi Everybody,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>I'm a new member of the group and haven't had a chance to make it to one of the meetings yet but I wanted to ask your collective knowledge about a options for a space in Glasgow to build a wind turbine. I hope this is an appropriate use of the list and apologies in advance if it's not.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>As a background I'm part of a DIY renewable energy cooperative called <a href="http://www.v3power.co.uk/">V3 Power</a> who run courses teaching people how to build wind turbines. V3 are based in Nottingham but I've recently moved to Glasgow and am looking to run some courses up here.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Building a wind turbine involves carving wood from blades, welding the steel mounting and fabricating a permanent magnet alternator from component parts and
casting it in resin. To run a course we need a space for woodwork with sturdy benches, somewhere to do grinding and welding and desks for winding coils and casting the alternator.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>A course generally runs for 3- 5 days so we would need access to the space for all of that time, either over a weekend or during the week. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; ">We've been asked to run a course by a group of Students from Strathclyde University who are going to Malawi this summer to build similar turbines, however if there's enough interest there's the possibility of running a course for members of the public or
for electron club members.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent; ">Thanks in advance for any suggestions of spaces we could use, apologies again if this is a misuse of the list, and feel free to get in touch if anybody has any questions.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent; "><br></span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent; ">Cheers,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent; ">Aran Eales</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent;
">------------------</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yui_3_7_2_42_1393347925742_108"><span style="background-color: transparent; ">07985727925</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Keith Fyans <keith.fyans@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list for the Electron Club <members@electronclub.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, February 22, 2014 5:50 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[ELECTRON] Autonomous list Update<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Hey,<br><br>I help put together the Autonomy Update. It is a weekly listing of<br>community-based, grassroots, anarchist, and DIY events in Glasgow. It isn't<br>fully comprehensive but we do our best. If you would like to be added to it<br>then either drop me a PM or follow this link and once on the main page hit<br>Subscribe on the left:<br><br><a href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/glasgowautonomyupdates" target="_blank">https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/glasgowautonomyupdates</a><br><br>Any events taking place at the Electron Club can be added if we get a weeks<br>notice.<br><br>Cheers.<br><br><br><br>On 22 February 2014 17:36, Bob Hamilton <<a ymailto="mailto:bob@citystrolls.com" href="mailto:bob@citystrolls.com">bob@citystrolls.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> You can find events past present and future here all in one place.<br>> <a
href="http://c8737287.myzen.co.uk/calendar/month.php" target="_blank">http://c8737287.myzen.co.uk/calendar/month.php</a><br>> Send details below as described. Non corporate local Events list.<br>> --<br>><br>> PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT EVENTS HAPPENING IN AND AROUND GLASGOW SO THAT WE<br>> CAN INCLUDE THEM IN THE FUTURE UPDATES.<br>><br>> Email events to:<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net" href="mailto:glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net">glasgowautonomyupdates@lists.riseup.net</a><br>><br>> Preferred format is a short summary, with practical details of where &<br>> when, and any links to a web pages for more detail.<br>><br>> ---------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>><br>><br>> Mon 24th February<br>> Local Food Social Support Hub<br>> Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington St, G4 9AJ<br>> 1800 - 2000<br>><br>> "LOVELY FOOD AND A
REALLY FRIENDLY WELCOME"<br>><br>> Feeling Isolated? Worried about Winter Bills? Affected by Welfare Cuts?<br>> Want tips on how to cook on a budget? Woodlands Community Garden's local<br>> food social support hub provides a friendly welcome and access to a hot and<br>> healthy meal for people experiencing hardship as well as access to<br>> training/volunteering opportunities. No referral or voucher needed, so if<br>> you are in need of a wee escape from your worries then come along.<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Mon 24th February<br>> Animal Intelligence? - Prof. Dick Byrne - Glasgow Skeptics<br>> The Admiral Bar, 72a Waterloo Street<br>> 1900 - 2130<br>><br>> Although many of our everyday judgements of intelligence in other species<br>> can be shown to be dubious, the idea that some species have developed<br>> superior intelligence is a respectable one. The tricky part is
measuring<br>> it! Brain size seems more 'objective' than intelligence, but it too is not<br>> easy to compare across species. Also, having a large brain is not<br>> necessarily a 'good thing'. Despite these difficulties, there's been real<br>> progress in understanding what sorts of animal have specialized in<br>> intelligence, and what ecological problems have pushed their evolution in<br>> that direction. But there's much less agreement about what their 'higher<br>> intelligence' actually is, perhaps because it can be several things. Purely<br>> quantitative differences in learning and memory may be responsible for a<br>> lot of what we notice and can measure. Yet human intelligence did not come<br>> from nowhere: and human intelligence includes the ability to understand how<br>> things work, whether those things are other people or systems of inanimate<br>> objects in the world. The big challenge will be
discovering the precursors<br>> of this qualitative advance in other species.<br>><br>> Dick Byrne studies the evolution of cognition, particularly the origins of<br>> distinctively human characteristics, using evidence from species as diverse<br>> as great apes, elephants and domestic pigs. In 1987, with three colleagues,<br>> he set up the Scottish Primate Research Group, which now links 17 faculty<br>> and their research teams in an informal collaboration spanning 5 Scottish<br>> universities. Professor Byrne has published 1298 refereed journal articles,<br>> 64 invited book chapters, and edited 3 books. He was awarded the British<br>> Psychology Society Book Award 1997 for his O.U.P. monograph The Thinking<br>> Ape, and appointed to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in<br>> 2002.<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Tue 25th February<br>> G.U.PalSoc Film Screening:
Budrus<br>> Room 513, Boyd Orr Building, University Gardens<br>> 1805 - 1955<br>><br>> Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that<br>> seeks to raise awareness about Israel's apartheid policies towards the<br>> Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and<br>> Sanctions (BDS) campaign. As part of Israeli Apartheid Week we'll be<br>> screening Budrus on Tuesday 25th February 2014.<br>><br>> About Budrus: "Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a<br>> Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and<br>> Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save<br>> his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.<br>> Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a<br>> women's contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling
side<br>> by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known,<br>> movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining<br>> ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement<br>> from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to<br>> confront a threat." <a href="http://www.justvision.org/budrus" target="_blank">http://www.justvision.org/budrus</a> Budrus Trailer:<br>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqYR7OkqL4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqYR7OkqL4</a><br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Tue 25th February<br>> CHE public talk: Burning the planet at both ends: how can we cool it? The<br>> struggle for the global commons- with Justin Kenrick<br>> The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, G51 3UU<br>> 1830<br>><br>> What connects the torching of indigenous communities in Kenya
and<br>> Osborne's 'Sermon on the Pound'?<br>><br>> The Kenyan government is currently torching thousands of homes of<br>> indigenous Sengwer communities in the name of conservation. The global<br>> clearances continue despite the fact that the poor in Kenya do have lawyers<br>> - for the courts are simply ignored. Can aligning communities struggles,<br>> national concern and international campaigns counteract local, national and<br>> international elites attempts to capture resources from those who have<br>> maintained their resources for centuries? Can the independence debate<br>> enable us to focus on, rather than distract us from, responding to the<br>> state of the world? How?<br>><br>> Justin Kenrick received a BA in Social Anthropology at Cambridge and his<br>> PhD in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh. He was a lecturer in social<br>> anthropology at Glasgow from 2001 to 2009. He left to work with the
Forest<br>> Peoples Programme to support Central African Forest Peoples' rights, and to<br>> work on parallel processes of community resilience in Scotland (<br>> www.pedal-porty.org.uk and www.holyrood350.org).<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Wed 26th February<br>> CHE library chat: A Thousand Huts, the campaign to promote huts and<br>> hutting Feb with Karen Grant<br>> The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, G51 3UU<br>> 1830<br>> Space strictly limited: please email <a ymailto="mailto:info@che.ac.uk" href="mailto:info@che.ac.uk">info@che.ac.uk</a> to confirm attendance.<br>><br>> Do you dream of a hut in the woods? Changes are afoot that could bring<br>> that dream a few steps closer. Karen Grant, from Reforesting Scotland's<br>> campaign for A Thousand Huts, will introduce the world of hutting, discuss<br>> the recent campaign developments, explore the current barriers to
hutting<br>> and celebrate the many causes of hope for a new hutting movement in<br>> Scotland.<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Thu 27th February<br>> Opencast moratorium and public inquiry now!<br>> Online<br>> All day<br>><br>> <a href="http://stopopencast.org.uk/opencast-moratorium-now/" target="_blank">http://stopopencast.org.uk/opencast-moratorium-now/</a><br>><br>> The Scottish Government are currently consulting on new regulation for<br>> what they hope will "regulate restoration effectively". But whilst they<br>> consult, Hargreaves are being allowed to mine under even less regulation<br>> and oversight than before the collapse of Scottish Coal and ATH Resources.<br>> Communities living next to opencast mines in Scotland don't need another<br>> CON-sultation - they need effective action to safeguard their health,<br>> well-being and local environment.<br>><br>> It is
not acceptable that this crisis is being used as yet another<br>> opportunity for yet another mining company to scrape what they can out of<br>> communities and the environment whilst taking no responsibility for their<br>> actions. It is is time to seek justice for communities living near opencast<br>> mines - please respond to the consultation by sending the response below<br>> (or write your own) and demand a moratorium and independent public inquiry<br>> now!<br>><br>> Consultation ends Thursday 27th February - please tell tell you friends,<br>> family and colleagues to take part too!<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Fri 28th February<br>> Ibrox Writers: Meet Tom Leonard<br>> Upstairs Community Room, Ibrox Library, Midlock Street,<br>> 1030 - 1200<br>><br>> Glasgow born Socialist poet & author, "radical Renfrew" etc. is giving a<br>> rare talk on his writing to Ibrox Writers
at Ibrox Library Community room,<br>> Midlock St. (nearest U Cessnock). Open to public.<br>><br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Leonard_" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Leonard_</a>(poet)<br>><br>> *FREE* entry.<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Fri 7th March<br>> Winter Warmers Film #5: ELEMENTAL - THE FILM<br>> Govanhill Baths, 99 Calder Street, G42 7RA<br>> 1930 - 2200<br>><br>> Our final screening in the Winter Warmers - 5 Elements series. Note the<br>> change of venue / starting time! ELEMENTAL - THE FILM 2012, 93mins.<br>> Director: Gayatri Roshan<br>><br>> Summary: Elemental tells the story of three individuals united by their<br>> deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most<br>> pressing ecological challenges of our time. The film follows Rajendra<br>> Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue, on a 40-day
pilgrimage<br>> down India's once pristine Ganges river, now polluted and dying. Facing<br>> community opposition and personal doubts, Singh works to shut down<br>> factories, halt construction of dams, and rouse the Indian public to treat<br>> their sacred "Mother Ganga" with respect. Across the globe in northern<br>> Canada, Eriel Deranger mounts her own "David and Goliath" struggle against<br>> the world's largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil deposit<br>> larger than the state of Florida. A young mother and native Denč, Deranger<br>> struggles with family challenges while campaigning tirelessly against the<br>> Tar Sands and its proposed 2,000-mile Keystone XL Pipeline, which are<br>> destroying Indigenous communities and threatening an entire continent. And<br>> in Australia, inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman searches for investors<br>> willing to risk millions on his conviction that nature's
own systems hold<br>> the key to our world's ecological problems. Harman finds his inspiration in<br>> the natural world's profound architecture and creates a revolutionary<br>> device that he believes can slow down global warming, but will it work?<br>> Separated by continents yet sharing an unwavering commitment to protecting<br>> nature, the characters in this story are complex, flawed, postmodern heroes<br>> for whom stemming the tide of environmental destruction fades in and out of<br>> view - part mirage, part miracle.<br>><br>> Watch the trailer here: <a href="http://elementalthefilm.com/trailer/" target="_blank">http://elementalthefilm.com/trailer/</a><br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Sat 8th March<br>> Grow Your Own Course<br>> Battlefield Community Garden, Ledard Road<br>> 1330<br>><br>> This course is spread across two, four hour sessions.<br>><br>> The course is FREE
but places must be booked in advance.<br>><br>> Please contact <a ymailto="mailto:projects@urbanroots.org.uk" href="mailto:projects@urbanroots.org.uk">projects@urbanroots.org.uk</a> or tel:0141 613 2766 to reserve<br>> a place<br>><br>> Saturday March 8th at Battlefield Community Garden, Ledard Road, 1:30pm<br>> -5:30pm Saturday March 15th at Langside Parish Church, 167 Ledard Rd,<br>> 1:30pm -5:30pm<br>><br>> Whether you have a spare window ledge for a window box, or an allotment<br>> plot, this course will help you to get started growing your own food. The<br>> course will cover the basics of seed sowing, planting, composting, and<br>> harvesting, and there will also be help to design your own space for<br>> growing fruit and veg.<br>><br>> There will be lots of practical activities, help and advice, and visits to<br>> gardens in the area.<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Wed
13th March<br>> Sites of Love & Cannibalism: Excess and Dependencies in City Music Spaces<br>> The Art School, 20 Scott Street, G3 6RQ<br>> 1800 - 2300<br>><br>> Thu 14th March<br>> Sites of Love & Cannibalism: Excess and Dependencies in City Music Spaces<br>> Stereo Cafe, 20 - 28 Renfield Lane, G2 6PH<br>> 1800 - 2300<br>><br>> The Art School and Stereo present a free two-day investigation into music,<br>> economy and space, involving performances, presentations and panel<br>> discussions with musicians, industry workers and DIY crews.<br>><br>> Q: What is excess? Can there be too much music? Too many people with<br>> nothing to do apart from sound out what could've of been?<br>><br>> Q: What's the difference between art and music, commercial and not<br>> commercial, DIY and entrepreneurialism? What's new music? Why are you not<br>> getting paid enough? What kinds of spaces do we
want to gather in? What<br>> musics do we make, how and why do we make them?<br>><br>> FREE ENTRY<br>><br>><br>> **********<br>><br>><br>> Sat 15th March<br>> Bring & Buy Sale / Coffee Morning<br>> Croftfoot Parish Church, Croftpark Ave, Glasgow, G44 5NR<br>> 1000<br>><br>> WestGAP is an anti-poverty community group run by and for people who have<br>> first - hand experience of living in poverty. We are holding a fundraising<br>> event at Croftfoot Parish Church. If you've done your spring clean early,<br>> we would love donations of clothes you no longer wear, books you've finish<br>> with etc.<br>><br>> The Church is reached by taking the nos. 34 or 75 First buses from town to<br>> Castlemilk Drive at Croftpark Ave. The no. 5 First bus from opposite the St<br>> Enoch Centre goes to Carmunnock Rd at Croftpark Ave (the other end). If you<br>> get off at the Co-op supermarket just
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