It's Our City, Let Us Shape It.

 

      All you good people who turned up last Monday for "These Streets Were Made For Walking" Perhaps you could all come together again for another matter of abuse in our city. The Accord Centre in the East End of our city, WAS, a day centre for more than 100 kids with learning difficulties, a place of fun and learning and a chance of respite for parents and carers. Our caring city council decided to demolish it to create a temporary bus park for the "Games". The families were promised a new centre, to date, nothing.

 
   

     The families and friends of those kids have been fighting a lone battle to get something to replace the centre that the council demolished, all to no avail. Perhaps if the thousands that turned up that Monday in Govanhill, threw their might behind those struggling kids and their families, the council might listen. This is a community matter that demands support from across our city, these are vulnerable kids, they and their families are being abused. Mass protests could change the picture, and end this abuse. It's our city, let's shape it the way we want it.

This from Vice:

        Grace Harrigan is an East End resident for whom the Games have not been a blessing. In early 2011, she learnt that the Accord – a day centre used by her son and 120 other adults with learning disabilities – was to be demolished. It was, to quote a clinical letter from a council official, “located in the area designated for the Games”, with their plot lined up to become a coach park. Unsurprisingly, knocking down a disability centre for the sake of a temporary parking facility, for an 11-day event, proved controversial. Carers at the centre found themselves thrown into a high profile campaign and even Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, mindful of an approaching election, waded in to remind Glasgow’s Council not to risk jeopardising the “reputation and integrity” of the Games.

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Care Of Those With Disabilities, Or A Bus Park?

       The Accord Centre in the East End of Glasgow was a day centre for people with severe learning difficulties and their carers, it satisfied a need in the area. Recently it was demolished to make way for a bus park to serve the Commonwealth Games. Their was a promise of an alternative centre, but to date--NOTHING.

     Those involved in the Accord Centre have written an 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 closure of The Accord day centre in Dalmarnock for people with severe learning disabilities. In the letter, you said you were “very concerned” about the closure of the centre, stressing that “no group should feel dispossessed” as a result of the Commonwealth Games. Previously, when you visited the users and carers at the Accord centre in May 2011, you emphasised the fact that the Scottish Government – “all of us […] every taxpayer in Scotland” – is paying 80% of the costs of the Games and you therefore have a “locus” on the issue. You also said that people in Scotland should have a “good feeling” about the Games. We assure you that we do not have a ‘good feeling’ about the Games at present.

Read the full letter HERE: 

There is also an open letter to Gordon matheson

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Glasgow's Dirty Washing.

      A reminder of the Glasgow Green event this Saturday at 11:00am. Shame the council, hang out the city's dirty washing for all to see, a chance to make public the dodgy dealings of the cabal in the Kremlin in George Square. Come along, bring the family bring your own piece of dirty regarding the council.

Rotten To The Core? Glasgow City Council: the campaign for a Public Inquiry Paint a slogan on a sheet and make the City Fathers' malpractice the talk of the steamie!

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*Glasgow City Council: 100 Promises - The Stories (scandals?) So Far.*

    Bette gives us the story so far. Glasgow City Council claim to have
enacted 30% of their 100 Promises. They are ignoring calls for them to
tell us which ones. Some things they have been up to however cannae be ignored.
 
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*HANG OUT GLASGOW'S DIRTY LAUNDRY!  EVENT: Saturday, 11am, on the Green.*
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By Glasgow Against-Atos

      Glasgow City Council has brought nothing but shame and dishonour to the City and its inhabitants. While portraying themselves as supporters of the Labour and Trade Union movement and champions of the working class, they have adopted the policies and corrupt practices of gangster capitalism.

     We condemn the dodgy dealings of Glasgow City Council who have
been involved in numerous scandals recently; from Steven Purcell’s  fall from grace over stories of drug taking in the City Chambers and concerns over his links with gangsters, - to Gordon Matheson’s antics and his part in the George Square fiasco.

     We condemn them for bulldozing the Accord Centre and their broken promise of a suitable replacement. We condemn them for the closure of Day Centres in Glasgow. We condemn the £500,000 pay out to Ronnie Saez Chief executive of G.E.R.A. - an “anti-poverty” charity!

    We condemn the dozens of other dirty deals they have been involved
with, and plan to hang out the Council’s dirty washing for all to see;
we want a proper Public Enquiry into the incompetent and possibly
criminal, mismanagement of the affairs of the Citizens of Glasgow.

     Join us to expose this corrupt council once and for all at the
People’s Palace Glasgow Green on Saturday 3rd August at 11.00am.
  — with Glasgow Against-Atos
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Showcase Glasgow, Hide The Learning Disabilities.

        We are on the final preparations from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 2014. We have been informed that this is an opportunity to showcase Glasgow. There will be journalists and TV cameras everywhere, well not exactly everywhere. Our lords and masters in the Kremlin in George Square will not want to showcase the demolition of the Accord Centre in the East End of Glasgow. This was a centre for young people with severe learning difficulties which has been demolished to make way for a bus park for the games. Hardly shows a caring attitude from the cabal called the Glasgow Council, certainly one that they will not want to showcase, but one that we, the ordinary people should certainly shout from the rooftops. 

     This is a transcript of an extensive Glasgow Games Monitor 2014 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 now been demolished to make way for a bus park for the Commonwealth Games 2014. No adequate replacement has since been made available. The East End of Glasgow currently has no stable and sustainable facilities for learning disabled people. Carers and users from the Accord centre describe in detail the history of their campaign, providing an important corrective to the misinformation produced by Glasgow City Council. They also voice the negative impact of ‘modernisation’ policies of ‘self-directed support’ (SDS) and personalisation on service users and their carers, and their personal thoughts on the supposed benefits of urban regeneration due to the Games and the Clyde Gateway development projects.

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POVERTY GAMES TORCH, GLASGOW

           Between the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics, billions of pounds of public money is being handed over to the corporate world, so that they can can have a bean feast at our expense, while at the same time councils are being forced by the government, to cut vital services, increase unemployment and are being party to a deepening housing crisis. We are supposed to get excited at the sight of “VIPs” being chauffeured around, wined and dine, while we are meant to stand at the roadside waving flags. Hooray for the council, they're having a party, and we are paying. Of course you might get a chance to see some of the sports on tele, and when the party's over we will still be sitting in crap houses, with no social services and facing unemployment, if you have a job, and fuel poverty if you don't or if you're a pensioner. Rise up Glaswegians and show your anger and disgust at a system that has all the money in the world for a 10 day party and overseas wars, but nothing for the ordinary people.

"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 public money is spent on a 10 day party, the city faces massive cuts in local services, increasing unemployment and a deepening housing crisis.

        The event is a mock ‘torch relay’, to take the Poverty Torch through the worst affected streets of Dalmarnock. Starting at the Velodrome on London Road, the torch will be ‘handed over’ to Glasgow by visitors from Vancouver and taken down Springfield Road to pass the sites of massive land speculation as well as brutal evictions of residents, shopkeepers and local service users from the Accord Centre.

         Meet at 12.45pm for a 1pm start outside the new Velodrome on London Road (opposite Celtic Park), finish by 2.30 at the Accord Centre.

All welcome, please circulate widely.

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