October 8, 2009
Hamiltonhill Action Group Programme
* No to forcing people out of their homes. Yes to investment.
* A dry warm home for all.
* A safe, secure community.
* Facilities for children and families must be kept and improved.
* Our homes and our surroundings should be a pleasant place to be.
* Our rents must be affordable, for all of us.
* This is our community. We demand respect!
September 24, 2009
September 24, 2009
September 4, 2009
Having publicised their situation throughout and beyond Glasgow, Hamiltonhill Action Group have now gained the support of the Scottish Tenants Organisation as well as neighbouring estates giving further signs of solidarity and support. The Action Group are holding a weekly stall immediately outside GHA headquarters and have made contact with several other resident’s groups in Glasgow. There have also been a large
number of unaffiliated social housing residents coming up to the stall to share stories and generally showing GHA that Glasgow is supporting the campaign for better social housing, whether it is in Possil, Parkhead or Pollokshields.
August 25, 2009
(syndicated from Scottish Tenants Organisation)
By scottishtenant
Houses await demolition: a neighbourhood in limbo.Backed by the Scottish Tenants Organisation.
In support of tenants in Hamiltonhill fighting for investment in their community.
National Demonstration. Thurs, 24th Sept.
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The story was broken to the public at large by the Burgh Angel community newspaper in Glasgow this week, that tenants in Hamiltonhill have been fighting for investment to improve security and safety in the scheme. The Hamiltonhill Action Group is demanding that the GHA fit steel doors to closes in the scheme, as a means of improving the safety and security on the scheme.
Burgh Angel Story: Drawing Steel From Granite; Hamiltonhill Hits Back
[Pdf file]
July 7, 2009
The Creativity Fix is most insidious when it assumes that every city can win in the battle for talent and growth. Creativity scripts, however, are better understood as “zero-sum” urban strategies constituted within the context of uneven urban growth patterns in an increasingly polarized framework of inter-city competition.
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Glasgow’s adherence to the creativity script is merely another soft policy option for compliant forms of corporate welfare, regressive social redistribution and ‘trickle-up’ economics. In fact, precisely the same forms of compliance that has allowed neoliberal forms of capitalism to lead us into the deepest global recession since the 1930s.
More at: http://variant.org.uk/34texts/mechantcity34.html
PDF (from magazine): http://variant.org.uk/pdfs/issue34/merchant34.pdf
November 14, 2008
Maryhill Burgh Meeting: The financial crisis – how’s it going to affect us in Maryhill.
A public meeting for Maryhill and beyond: Woodside Halls, 7:30PM, Wednesday the 26th of November
Tenants, Homeowners, Ratespayers, Claimants, Refugees, Migrants: ALL WELCOME
PUBLIC MEETING: for the whole community
MAP: Woodside Halls
YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE A SAY!
How a crisis in the world’s financial markets is going to hurt Maryhill, is going to hurt our services, raise our rents, hurt our pockets, and damage our community, and what we can do together in Maryhill to stop this happening.
A public meeting for Maryhill and beyond: Woodside Halls, 7:30PM, Wednesday the 26th of November
Come along, and hear what can be done. Have your say!
Meeting organised by:-
The Burgh Angel – community newspaper
The IWW – independent trade union
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Speakers include: IWW, Burgh Angel, London Coalition Against Poverty, and independent economists
November 14, 2008
Friends of Glasgow Parks? [Citystrolls Update]
“City parks to invite private companies to join in shake-up” "625 car parking spaces on football grounds in Victoria Park" "Nightclub in Botanical Gardens" "Expensive adventure playground in Pollok Park & more car parks" "Park toilets turned into chic cafe Kelvingrove" "Building school in park" "Save our schools" "Community Bandstand ignored Kelvingrove" "Park creeping" "Consulted Remember?" Read... http://commongoodwatch.wordpress.com/ "Mr Booth admitted that during the review, the possibility of the parks being run by an external organisation was considered. However, the option was dismissed amid fears that private contractors may charge for some of the facilities which are currently free"... --------------------------- -- www.citystrolls.com While we all watch television business gets organised. To subscribe sub@citystrolls.com ----------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mailing list please send a BLANK e-mail with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the header to: unsub@citystrolls.com
November 14, 2008
Sally Wainman Says [in comment]:
The Scottish Parliament is currently conducting a Pathways into Sport inquiry and anyone may submit evidence for the committee to consider.
The deadline for submissions is November 21st 2008
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/hs/inquiries/pathwaysintosport/call.htm
See also: Govanhill Baths Community Trust and Govanhill Baths Variant Article
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Save Broomhill Pool! – www.savebroomhillpool.org
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