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…
SCREWED OVER BY THE ‘NEW GLASGOW’
Re-posted from Vice. Article by Liam Turbett: This July, the Commonwealth Games are coming to Glasgow. The event may be essentially a knockdown Olympics only open to countries that were lucky enough to be colonised by Britain in their recent…
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.
‘Save The Accord’ Letters
Letters received by the ‘Save the Accord’ Campaign from various politicians and councillors, including Alex Salmond.
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…
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…
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….