By Barry DalgleishThis blog was originally produced in 2021 for the SANE Collective Glasgow City Council’s marketing department has been working overtime of late. The local authority has been producing some rather impressive presentation documents – impressive in appearance that …
GAINFUL OR GREENWASH? GLASGOW’S GREENPRINT FOR INVESTMENT
By Barry Dalgleish and Penny ColeThis blog was originally produced in 2021 for the SANE Collective In a flashy online report launched in September 2021, Susan Aitkin told us that COP26 would be “staged against a backdrop of unprecedented threats …
THE BATTLE FOR OUR BUSES
By Get Glasgow Moving Glasgow needs a world-class public transport network to make a just and green recovery from the pandemic. The Get Glasgow Moving campaign was set up in 2016 by a group of local people angry and frustrated …
CONTROL OF RENTS
By Bob Gillespie John Harris (February article in The Guardian): 13% of people in work in the UK are in poverty, but in Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, 34% are in poverty. 2 years ago, 2.4 million children were living in …
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
By Bob Gillespie And John Rogers Creating a People’s Plan for Glasgow means going for radical changes on a broad front. A catalyst for making these changes could be Universal Basic Income (UBI) because it can be part of …
“THIS THING OF CARING”
Excerpt from “This Thing Of Caring” written by Ailie Rutherford, Artistic Director of Feminist Exchange Network For the full article visit https://antipodeonline.org/2021/04/01/this-thing-of-caring/ A lot has been written about care this last year. As multiple crises unfold and we work out …