Interview with East End Carers/Save the Accord
This is a transcript of an extensive Glasgow Games Monitor 2020 interview with carers from the East End Carers group/Save the Accord campaign. The Accord centre was a day care centre for young adults with severe learning difficulties that has…
Disability Rights Activists Occupy the Chris Hoy Velodrome – Video Footage
Documentation of recent occupation of the Chris Hoy Velodrome by Disability Rights Campaigners protesting the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council’s decision to allow ATOS to sponsor the 2020 Commonwealth Games. While we think that some protestors in the video…
Chris Hoy Velodrome Occupied
Wednesday 26th June, Glasgow Against Atos occupied the Emirates Arena, Commonwealth Games venue, on London Road. The group were protesting against the French IT firm Atos sponsoring the games. The protestors, who occupied the Chris Hoy velodrome for well over…
Is Archie Graham fit to work for Glasgow CG 2020?
Today members of Black Triangle and Citizen’s United against Public Sector Cuts held a major street protest outside Councillor Archie Graham’s house to demand that he, as the executive member of Glasgow City Council responsible for the organisation of the…
ATOS Unfit for 2020
From Local Glasgow News:- January 24, 2013 by Grace Franklin The protesters outside the building where they occupied Scottish Office premises for an hour. Protesters invaded Scottish Government offices today in Glasgow to highlight their concerns that ATOS is…
A series of actions against ATOS
There were a number of actions against ATOS and it’s subsidiary ATOS Healthcare in 2012. 2013 looks set to be no different as today campaigners from Black Triangle, Citizens United Against Public Service Cuts and Glasgow Against ATOS joined forces…
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…
It’s not all fun and Games for Vulnerable: Aamer Anwar on Save the Accord
Protest … to save day care centre By AAMER ANWAR Published: 08th July 2012 AFTER last week’s column on the Olympics, I was contacted by families affected by the Commonwealth Games to be hosted in Glasgow in two years’ time….
Salmond in Accord? More Salmond Promises on the Accord Centre
In an interview with local activist, Sean Clerkin, for In The City magazine, the First Minister Alex Salmond has once again made verbal assurances that he will create a permanent legacy for Accord Centre users at the Tollcross Aquatic Centre: “I will…