[ASC] Weekly Newsletter : Aberdeen Social Centre : Wed 13-Aug-2025

ASC WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ------------------------- News from Wed 13-Aug-2025 We have another week where hatred of immigrants is being stoked in Aberdeen. So lets get this straight, we are all aware that people are being squeezed. Real terms wages have not increased since 2005 yet inflation has ballooned, the cost of food, energy and the basic necessities, almost 3 times more expensive over the last 30 years. Average house prices 4.6 times more expensive, with most of that happening in the 2000s. We are all feeling it, but some of us want to blame the people who just got here, not the successive governments who have put private profit before the well-being of the people in the UK. We are calling on everyone to share this and get people out to the Lang Stacht this Saturday at 5:30 to send a message. Refugees are welcome here, we are all in the same boat, lets target the people with their hand on the tiller. The Radical Cafe will also be back this Saturday, we will not have Vegan Bay to provide us with delicious rowies, so please bring home bakes if you can. ------------------------- UPCOMING EVENTS: Events for the next two weeks, for more info check out our Website [1]. ------------------------- SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Meeting Room Online SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Thursday August 14th 18:00-19:00 BST Weekly meeting ABERDEEN BUTCH CLUB CANCELLED Meeting Room ABERDEEN BUTCH CLUB Friday August 15th 18:00-20:00 BST Build kinship and solidarity with other butch lesbians (age 18+) MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING! External HEALTH CARE WORKERS 4 PALESTINE Friday August 15th 18:00-19:00 BST Aberdeen HCW for Peace urge you to act NOW to save our colleagues in Gaza and the starving, homeless population they serve. Outside the Suttie Centre, Foresterhill Health Campus. Aberdeen, AB25 2ZN DEMONSTRATION FOR GAZA External SCOTTISH PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Saturday August 16th 11:00-13:00 BST Weekly Demonstration in Support of Palestine, fighting ethnic-cleansing, apartheid, genocide and colonialism. the location will be called in the week before each Saturday. RADICAL CAFE Meeting Room ABERDEEN SOCIAL CENTRE Saturday August 16th 13:00-15:00 BST Our weekly Radical Cafe, a space to meet and build those connections with local activists, come along for convivial chat, a look at the new books in the swap and shop, and meet other people active in the city. We are also Saddened to hear of the passing of Steven from the Vegan Bay Bakery who supported us so well with cakes every week, our hearts go out to his family, and we'll greatly miss the butteries. If you are attending. and can, please bring some homebakes, until we sort out a new cake and rowie supplier. REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE! External ABERDEEN ANTI-FASCIST ALLIANCE Saturday August 16th 17:30-21:00 BST For the past two weeks there has been racist hatred stoked up in this city with protests outside the refugee Hotel at the beech, this week they have moved their target to the Sure Hotel on the Lang Stracht. This is how fascism starts, cynically using 'protection of women and children' to attack the most vulnerable in our society, migrants who have no control over their life . Please share this, and be there. Show that Aberdonians will not tolerate bigotry or racism in our communities. ASC MONTHLY MEETING Meeting Room Online ABERDEEN SOCIAL CENTRE Sunday August 17th 14:00-16:00 BST Our monthly ASC organising meeting, where we discuss operations and any issues we need to collectively address. Open to anyone interested in participating in the community. RADICAL FILM CLUB Meeting Room RADICAL FILM CLUB Wednesday August 20th 18:30-21:00 BST We select and watch documentaries and films, mostly political and socially conscious. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Meeting Room Online SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Thursday August 21st 18:00-19:00 BST Weekly meeting MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING! External HEALTH CARE WORKERS 4 PALESTINE Friday August 22nd 18:00-19:00 BST Aberdeen HCW for Peace urge you to act NOW to save our colleagues in Gaza and the starving, homeless population they serve. Outside the Suttie Centre, Foresterhill Health Campus. Aberdeen, AB25 2ZN DEMONSTRATION FOR GAZA External SCOTTISH PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN Saturday August 23rd 11:00-13:00 BST Weekly Demonstration in Support of Palestine, fighting ethnic-cleansing, apartheid, genocide and colonialism. the location will be called in the week before each Saturday. RADICAL CAFE Meeting Room ABERDEEN SOCIAL CENTRE Saturday August 23rd 13:00-15:00 BST Our weekly Radical Cafe, a space to meet and build those connections with local activists, come along for convivial chat, a look at the new books in the swap and shop, and meet other people active in the city. We are also Saddened to hear of the passing of Steven from the Vegan Bay Bakery who supported us so well with cakes every week, our hearts go out to his family, and we'll greatly miss the butteries. ------------------------- Peace and Rowies, The Aberdeen Social Centre Links: ------ [1] https://aberdeensocialcentre.org/