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SCOTLAND’S first community-based housing association is going gold to mark its 50th anniversary. Govan Housing Association was formed in 1971 in a trail-blazing move that led the way for others to follow. Now the association is poised to mark the milestone with a series of events putting the community at the heart of celebrations. The pandemic has understandably changed the association’s celebration plans but there is increasing confidence that with restrictions being eased, celebratory events will go ahead. Chief Executive Fiona McTaggart said: “This is a momentous year for Govan Housing Association and one we are confident the community can join us in celebrating. ....
Yesterday, the people of Glasgow made a tremendous show of solidarity with their neighbours. The number of people on the streets cheering the release of the two individuals detained by the Home Office was truly moving. Glasgow showed the Home Office that they messed with the wrong city. My colleagues and I were shaken and angry to see the heavy handed and inhumane enforcement tactics from the Home Office in Pollokshields yesterday. Home Office enforced removals are not pretty. They are intimidating, disorientating and utterly disempowering for the individuals affected. As the families of Kenmure Street were trying to honour the first day of Eid in peace, Home Office Immigration Enforcement Officers conducted an aggressive and intrusive raid. To behave in this cruel way on this special day for so many people shows – at best – a serious lack of cultural sensitivity and awareness from the Home Office. ....
Alison Phipps, ambassador for the Scottish Refugee Council, writes about the Kenmure Street protest for National Extra IT S easy and not wrong to focus on the crowd, the images, the thronging that began as a trickle and built to flood. The crowd tells a story. The centrally organised crowd is one thing, but the one that just, flows together from many, many tributaries is quite another. You don’t get to place where people overcome their fear of crowds and of protests spontaneously. Not least when the practice of the pandemic has been giving each other space. It’s a romantic seduction, like the belief that a virtuous violinist can just play. The crowd was, in the main, community educated, well-practiced, and the tip of the iceberg. ....
Mardi, 4 Mai, 2021 - 08:46 The country’s leader asks voters which kind of society they prefer to live in: Brexit Britain or a social-democratic Scotland. On a sharp morning on the southern edge of Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland and the leader of the Scottish National Party, arrived at a dentist’s office for a photo opportunity. Scotland has had its own government since the late nineties, when certain powers were devolved to the country, almost three hundred years after it formed a political union with England. The S.N.P., which has run Scotland since 2007, wants the country to secede from the United Kingdom altogether. On May 6th, Scottish voters will decide whether to reëlect the Party and back Sturgeon’s demand for the second independence referendum in a decade, which polls suggest that she might win. The previous day, announcing her party’s election manifesto, Sturgeon had promised to abolish the dentistry fees charged by the Scottish ....
Save this story for later. On a sharp morning on the southern edge of Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland and the leader of the Scottish National Party, arrived at a dentistâs office for a photo opportunity. Scotland has had its own government since the late nineties, when certain powers were devolved to the country, almost three hundred years after it formed a political union with England. The S.N.P., which has run Scotland since 2007, wants the country to secede from the United Kingdom altogether. On May 6th, Scottish voters will decide whether to reëlect the Party and back Sturgeonâs demand for the second independence referendum in a decade, which polls suggest that she might win. The previous day, announcing her partyâs election manifesto, Sturgeon had promised to abolish the dentistry fees charged by the Scottish National Health Service. This was a typical S.N.P. policy: populist yet incremental, hinting at the broader, egalitaria ....