East End Eye Issue 5
The new issue of the East End Eye - a ‘Housing Special’ written for us by Glasgow Housing Action – is now available online. In a context of deepening attacks on welfare and the seemingly terminal reduction of social housing, we ask…
‘The Golden Tenement’ Free Talk
The Golden Tenement Talk 17 November 2012, 2 – 4pm, FREE Education Room, The People’s Palace This talk will explore the material and social legacy of mega-events such as the Olympic and Commonwealth Games with a focus on our buildings…
John Swinney Grilled in Dalmarnock Athletes Village
John Swinney, the SNP Cabinet secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, had a bit of a surprise when he went to visit the flats for the new Athletes Village at the site where the Jaconelli family were evicted by Compulsory…
Evicted Gran’s shock at Scottish Sun Scoop!
Margaret Jaconelli was surprised today (26.07.2012) to find herself on the front page of the Scottish Sun. She was even more surprised to see how what she’d said had been twisted by the Sun to cook up a typically fabricated story…
Fun and Games, Part 1: In The City of Willies, The Powerless Always Come Last
Fun and Games: Part 1: In the city of Willies, the powerless always come last Kenneth Roy, Scottish Review Glossy corporate image at the front, bit of work still to do at the back: the Tontine Building being made ready…
Olympic Satire Rings True – Social Engineering on a Grand Scale
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/olympics-doing-exactly-what-they-were-supposed-to-201204245154/ Olympics doing exactly what they were supposed to 24-04-12 THE 2012 Olympics have been declared a resounding success as the first busload of undesirables was banished from East London. Organisers said the event was at least four…
Vancouver Hands ‘Poverty Games’ Torch to Glasgow
Below is the press release we sent out to the media today. Apart from a BBC crew making a long-term documentary about the Games, none of them deigned to turn up – even after we’d done all the research they…
‘Poverty Games’ Torch March – Flyer
Download a flyer and spread the word… Glasgow Games Monitor is hosting visitors from the Vancouver Poverty Olympics campaign here next week,…
London Landlords Evict Tenants to Cash in on ‘Olympic Lets’
LONDON — Landlords in Britain’s capital are evicting tenants so they can cash in on this summer’s Olympic Games by charging tourists many times the usual rent. Homes in the east London boroughs where many events are to be held…
Whose Legacy Discussion Event Online
Documentation of the Whose Legacy Discussion that took place at the CCA as part of the Document 9 Human Rights Film Festival. The first two parts feature Neil Gray and Libby Porter discussing the Legacy of Mega-Events, and large-scale urban…
