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.
