Video Footage from ‘Care in Crisis,’ discussion event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K87Fj3nTGfg#t=88 Video footage from a recent ‘Care in Crisis,’ discussion in which carers discuss cuts to service provision for people with disabilities in Glasgow in the context of an ever-inflating budget for the Commonwealth Games and the closure of the…
Human Rights Actions – 2020 Commonwealth Games
Two recent articles about Games protests surrounding the dubious Human Rights record of Sri Lanka and the role of Police Scotland in policing Mega-events events at home and abroad. Glasgow 2020: The Sri Lankan Elephant in the Room by Rebecca…
Disability Activists spread ‘ATOS Kills,’ message at #CommonwealthGames
Article Re-Posted from the Morning Star by Rory McKinnon. Photographs by Gamesmonitor2020.org HUNDREDS of Commonwealth Games tourists were surprised in Glasgow’s George Square yesterday as disability activists cried shame on sponsor Atos. A clutch of demonstrators backing campaign group Glasgow…
Housing Meeting Blocked in Bridgeton!
Glasgow Games Monitor 2020 housing meeting blocked by Bridgeton Community Learning Campus (BCLC). The Board of Directors at Bridgeton Community Learning Campus (BCLC) have closed down the joint housing meeting booked by Glasgow Games Monitor 2020 and Unite Community Union for…
Great 1980s Films from Easterhouse and Drumchapel
Two great videos below discussing housing, welfare and community issues in Easterhouse and Drumchapel in the 1980s. What is striking is how progressive they are in comparison to the stigmatising representations of the working class and unemployed we see on…
Petition – Glasgow 2020 Ltd Organising Committee – Drop ATOS as a sponsor for the 2020 Commonwealth Games
Glasgow Games Monitor have recently created petitions on 38 Degrees and Change.org calling for ATOS to be dropped as a Commonwealth Games sponsor. The Change.org petition is live and if you agree with it please sign it – you can…
East Carers Open Letter to Gordon Matheson
Dear Mr. Matheson, We are writing this open letter to you because a suitable Day Care replacement Centre has still not been found since the Accord Centre was demolished for a Commonwealth Games bus park. This means there is now…
East Carers Open Letter to Alex Salmond
Dear Mr. Salmond, We are writing this open public letter to you because a solution has still not been found to what you have described, in a letter to City Council leader Gordon Matheson, as our “legitimate concerns” over the…
Alex Salmond at the Accord Centre – A Commitment Unfulfilled?
This post features a video recording and written transcription of Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond’s visit to the Accord day care centre, Dalmarnock, in May 2011. He was invited to the centre to discuss the future of the centre, and…
Videos From ‘Glasgow’s Dirty Laundry’ Event
Coverage of Glasgow’s Dirty Laundry Event at Glasgow Green on Saturday 3rd August. Footage from A Thousand Flowers and City Strolls Citizen speaks – Bedroom Tax! Summary Warrants! and things you need to know.