Poverty Games Torch Relay Comes to Glasgow: Full Story!
Should we tolerate our Council pouring millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money into a bottomless bucket for spending on a 10-day party while people face rising unemployment, welfare cuts, homelessness and poverty? Yesterday, 15 March 2012, local people and supporters…
East End Eye 4 – Out Now!
Issue 4 of the East End Eye – a ‘Dalmarnock special’ – is now available as a PDF online. The Eye is the paper voice of Glasgow Games Monitor 2020. We distribute the paper widely in the East End and across the city….
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,…
Alex Salmond Claims He Will “Ensure” Modern Facility for Accord Users
In his recent letter to the East Carers Group, Mr Salmond said: “There is a real opportunity in the medium and long term to influence the shape of the new Aquatic Centre when it is adapted for community use following the…
Accord Carers Vow to Fight on After ‘Promise’ of New Facility in 2020
from: http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/ The Accord Centre in Dalmarnock is set to be demolished as carers continue their fight. Carers at an East End day centre earmarked for demolition have said that the First Minister’s pledge of a new facility in 2020…
“Poverty Games” torch comes to Glasgow – Thurs 15 March, 1pm Dalmarnock
Glasgow Games Monitor is hosting visitors from the Vancouver Poverty Olympics campaign here next week, to ‘hand over’ their Poverty Olympics Torch. The purpose of the event is to highlight the gross inequity produced by Games events: while millions in…
East End Carer ‘Booted by the Suited’ at Glasgow City Chambers
‘Booted by the Suited’ for opposing Glasgow Centre Closure Full story copied below and at the ‘World to Win’ site here (photos added by Glasgow Games Monitor 2020). Grace Harrington was sitting quietly in the public gallery of Glasgow City Chambers listening…
Budget Cuts and Bankers’ Bonuses
As reported in Glasgow Local News protestors from Citizens United Against the Cuts and supporters of the Save the Accord Centre campaign joined forces to occupy and hold a people’s assembly in front of a branch of the Royal Bank…
The ‘Golden Tenement’
The ‘Golden Tenement’ art project will investigate urban regeneration and displacement in Dalmarnock. A collaboration between graphic designer Neil McGuire and jeweller/goldsmith Marianne Anderson, the project will investigate urban regeneration and displacement by exploring how ideas of a city and a…