[imc-scotland-discussion] new edition indy scot news-sheet?

[Mike92@riseup.net]

wondered if people thought it was a good idea / feasible in terms of the 
work involved / to bring out a new edition of the indy scot news-sheet in time 
for the st andrews day anti racist march in Glasgow the coming saturday 
29th?

i would be happy to write something about Unity based on the info below on 
their website plus some uptodate info on recent cases they have fought, 
which is also on their site

Other poss major articles would be the one about the Scot Refugee Council

http://scotland.indymedia.org/node/11264

And the one about Edin Coalition Against Poverty disrupting the council 
meeting, one of current features

i suppose it mainly depends on

- can we write the articles in time?  ( i can sort the unity one and the 
ecap one)

- is anyone able to lay it out and print it in time?  I think that is prob 
down to Tom and/ or Jon?  Or Ben too?

- can a few folk put in a few quid to meet costs?  (am happy to give a 
fiver)

- are there at least a couple of folk can give it out at the demo on the 
day? (sorry cant make it to glasgow on sat)

I think we are getting the distro in edinburgh worked out better, with 
different folk taking different areas, and am happy to do distro for 
Broughton Street , where there are about a dozen venues take the news-sheet, 
and pilton / muirhouse / royston.

cheers mike, edinburgh






What Is Unity?


 The Unity Centre at 30 Ibrox Street, Glasgow opened on Saturday 11th March 
2006. Very quickly the Centre has grown to play an important and perhaps 
unique role providing support for asylum seekers in Glasgow.

Run completely by a collective of volunteers and funded entirely by 
donations from our supporters the Centre provides practical solidarity and 
support for asylum seekers especially when they face being locked up in 
detention centres or being forcibly removed.

Open five days a week from 10.00am to 6.00pm, we also operate a 24 hour 
emergency phone line.

Located less than 100 metres from the main entrance of the Home Office's 
reporting centre in Glasgow, asylum seekers sign in at the Unity Centre 
before they report and then call back into the Centre when they have 
finished reporting and are safe.

Since it has opened over 1200 families have registered with the Unity Centre 
and we have helped over one hundred families return to safety in Glasgow 
after they have been detained by the Home Office.



If someone is detained we help contact their lawyer, friends and family, 
arrange for their belongings to be looked after, provide emotional support 
and encouragement, contact the press and media about their case and run 
emergency campaigns and protests to stop them being forcibly removed.



* * *

The Unity Centre is also the support centre for 'UNITY' - the union of 
asylum seekers and sans papiers in Scotland.

CONTACT: The UNITY Centre, 30 Ibrox Street,Glasgow, G51 1A. Tel: 0141 427 
7992





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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom" <tomm at riseup.net>
To: "imcscotland discussion" <imc-scotland-discussion at lists.indymedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [imc-scotland-discussion] Reminder about upcoming Indymedia 
Scotland meeting, 7.30pm, 25th November at the Electron Club


> Ben wrote:
>> Next Glasgow meeting, 7.30pm, 25th November at the Electron Club
>>
>> Note I spoke to Jon and Tom recently and the future of Edinburgh meetings 
>> is
>> looking uncertain,
>
> Yes.
>
>> A new newssheet is still in production, as there were deemed to be too
>> little articles to get it do one at the beginning of the month,
>>
>> This email is also a reminder to Tom or Jon forward a template onwards 
>> for
>> working on a newssheet in Glasgow,
>
> http://tom.noflag.org.uk/misc/2008%2010.sla
>
> To open this you need scribus version 1.3.5: http://www.scribus.net/
>
> If you are using windows then this is the version you want:
> http://www.scribus.net/?q=node/152
>
> Scribus is being actively developed and it does crash now and again, so
> save often. One day it will be a fine program but at the moment it is an
> infuriating piece of crap. It does the job though.
>
> You will see in the template (actually it is the full october issue --
> just delete all the stuff under the banner) that we have defined a bunch
> of styles: styles for headlines, article first paragraphs, article
> bodies, image captions, etc etc. If you use styles rather than picking a
> style manually for each bit of text then your publication will have a
> more homogeneous appearance, and people will be very slightly less
> inclined to immediately discard it as lefty crap.
>
> We mostly tried to copy newspaper appearance, which is why despite being
> only A4 it has 4 columns.
>
> have fun,
>
> -- 
> Tom
> _______________________________________________
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