Spaces.

 

         We live in a society where control is the main pillar of its existence. The society whose yoke we live under can't function without control of the population, by what ever means they deem necessary. We are surrounded by surveillance equipment, we have undercover police, embedded in our personal lives, we have technology gathering and sifting through our personal details, creating profiles to be used against us if need be. Hence the reason that social centres, autonomous spaces, squats are necessary boltholes where we can meet, act and communicate in a free and safe environment. Spaces outwith the control of the state, that function on libertarian socialist principles are a wrecking ball to this type of society, so should be built and supported by all free thinking individuals. However these spaces at present, function in the midst of the capitalist system and do require funding, we should support them in the best way we can and whenever we can. 

The following extract from Enough is Enough.

 

         In 2016, after the self-dissolution of the “Self-managed social centre” collectivity, which had the political responsibility for 18 years of the space that had the same name with the collectivity, people and groups who had developed political and social relations within the “Self-managed social centre” during its years of operation decided to establish a new public space of the leftish movement with the name “Self-managed Social Center Perasma“. In this social center political/social collectivities with references to social anarchy and libertarian communism, collectivities around gender, patriarchy and anti-sexism, self-education groups, group for art from below and structures, meet together (radio, lending library, bookstore, space for the distribution of cooperative products and basic goods without mediators, in direct contact and communication with producers who do not work in the opposite direction to our basic principles).

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A NEW GARDEN IN THE CITY.

          A city is a desert unless the people cultivate it, one way to cultivate your city is for the people to come together  and create those spaces that allow us to be who we are. Spaces where we can be creative, relax and communicate with each other, speak of our desires and hopes, free from the constraints placed upon us by the rigorous structures of our economic system. In other words, we need "social centres".

Social Centres

      Social Centres, at their best, are at once spaces of disruption and creation. They disrupt the everyday, everywhere, ‘canny get the feck away from it,insidious nature of both capitalist and state relations, by creating alternatives to them. You know the process: say the right things; wear the right clothes; tick the right boxes. All life made knowable: our ideas, our aspirations, our communities inscribed, made stable, mobile, comparable, combinable and ultimately sellable. Social centres are about imperfect experimentations in de-commodifying our lives through listening, learning, agitating, laughing and so much more.

The Glasgow Social Centre

      The Glasgow Social Centre (GSC) is a non-profit volunteer run cooperative, which brings together a diversity of groups and individuals in the creation of a safe, comfortable space, open to all members of the community for the purpose of community education, action and creativity on issues of social and environmental justice and the arts. We endeavor to support and enhance groups taking action to protect and improve our environment and communities by providing a hub of activity in the form of workshops, performance and general meeting space. We strive to benefit the lives of people in Glasgow through our commitment to community education, nutrition and the arts. In short, as active Glaswegians, we wish to take a proactive role in creating a positive, healthy and sustainable city.

Achievements thus far

    The GSC came together in December 2008 as a group of people from a wide range of backgrounds wanting to make a positive impact on their urban landscapes. From the beginning we envisaged a space in the city which would act as a hub for all manner of community group activities: A place where a variety of social, cultural, political and environmental bodies might congregate to share and galvanize existing ideas as well as create new possibilities.

     From August 2009 to January 2010 we ran a pilot project in a space we shared with the African and Caribbean Network (A&CN) in Glasgow city centre for an agreed six months period. This allowed us to gain some purchase on our limitations and plan our project more effectively, based on real experiences. We completely renovated the space from an abandoned factory building to an operational community space in little over one month with few funds other than small personal contributions. For the next five months we hosted and ran workshops, fundraisers, artist and performance events and galleries. In addition we raised funds and promoted awareness on issues such as the Haiti Earthquake and sustainable city living.

    Over the last two years we’ve been doing much of the same in various locations around the city. We call these ‘Pop-Up Centres’. Events have included a Direct Action workshop; a Common Land and Resources Awareness Workshop; a Roller skating Disco and the odd gig or two.

Today

     Beginning this October we embark on a series of workshops and socials in the Basement of the Garnethill Multicultural centre (Rose St) every Tuesday (6-10pm).

  These include a fortnightly film club showing a range of documentaries and movies and a monthly women’s group. We will also be organizing a few wee socials on Fridays at the same venue (we’ll keep u posted).

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EVICTION OF DELTA SQUAT.

        Delta Squat in Thessaloníki was a large social centre run by the local people and offered opportunities for all manner of social functions, workshops, art, music, dance and discussions. it was a meeting place where people could come together to support one and other, it served the local people well. Disregarding its usefulness to the local people and their desire to keep it functioning, the Greek state brutally closed it down. So you have to ask yourself, why would they want to shut down that which served the people well? Obviously the the state can't let people organise their own lives, if that happened we wouldn't need the state. So it will come down hard on those who choose to organise their own lives outside the repressive system under which we live. The state's life blood is control, autonomy and liberty are its death knell.

 This from Void Mirror:

       letter from the imprisoned comrades before the trial takes part. The trial finished today. 9 comrades released with accusations and 1 probably will be deported from Greece... please send us translations in your languages or links with actions of solidarity.

        We all live in an economic politic system, tightly closed and illiberal, which defends with every way the interests of the bosses, every kind, of overhead.

       On the other side of the scale, there are the oppressed, all who face daily the problem of survival. The biggest part of the society, a few hundred million, are on the limits of poverty, receives daily attack from the small class of the bosses, with their protectors of their wealth, their command applicators, the state and the authority. Especially the last years, with the new economic crisis invented by the bosses, which is nothing but an obvious restructuring and re-accumulation of wealth for their benefit, and an attempt of total control of every aspect of society, more and more people find themselves in a desperate situation and they decide to take their lives in their hands.

      So they decide to create unmediated social structures, away from the coercive logic of capitalism and the relationships which defined by money.

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