BIG BLOCKADE OF GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL POSTER BELOW PRESS RELEASE>
PRESS RELEASE … for immediate use (23rd April)
HUMAN BARRICADES CALL ON LABOUR COUNCILLORS TO REBEL AGAINST PURCELL
As Glasgow city councillors vote on school closures, they will encounter a mass blockade of people up in arms at this cost-cutting attack on kids and communities – who are demanding that enough Labour councillors rebel against the Labour leadership to overturn the closure package.
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:
“Labour councillors will today face the wrath of a mass of people forming a human blockade as they enter the city chambers. They cannot hide any longer.
“In the privacy of the Labour councillors’ Group meeting last week, they voted 31:6 for the closures.
“That means 6 of them think the package is a rotten, unacceptable deal. It also means a further 9 Labour councillors were absent – probably to hide from voting in favour of the closures in some cases.
“We call on them to stand up in public and vote against the closures at the Council meeting today.
“If they think the tens of thousands of people against the closures are right when they meet in private, they should act on that in public and prevent Purcell pushing the closures though. Otherwise they will be branded cowards who put their Labour party careers before kids’ needs and well-being.”
For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com
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Thursday, 23 April 2009
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
24 Hour vigil outside Glasgow City Chambers in progress leading up to a blockade of the Council.
Parents and carers of children who are being ousted from local schools due for closure and then packed into other schools far from their homes, are currently on a vigil outside Glasgow City Chambers. The Council meets tommorrow to rubber stamp the breaking up of communities and the disruption of children's education. Please lend your support - have a chat with them if you are wandering by!
DETAILS BELOW PHOTO ON THE BIG BLOCKADE. If you are free tommorrow to show/lend support for people who are trying to protect their communities from the Labour cuts, please join them outside Glasgow City Chambers at 12.00noon (details below).
DETAILS BELOW PHOTO ON THE BIG BLOCKADE. If you are free tommorrow to show/lend support for people who are trying to protect their communities from the Labour cuts, please join them outside Glasgow City Chambers at 12.00noon (details below).
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign
PRESS RELEASE … for immediate use (21st April)
RESISTANCE TO SCHOOL CLOSURES SPREADS – SUPPORT FROM TRADE UNIONS
As decision-day at the Glasgow city council looms, parents and carers have won fresh allies in the battle to save the schools and nurseries on Labour’s amended hit-list for closure. Parents staged sit-ins at two schools just two days after the 15-day sit-ins ended, and a delegation from the city-wide Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign won support from several trade unions at the STUC Congress in Perth.
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:
“Protests are breaking out like bush fires beneath the backsides of the Labour councillors on the eve of the Council meeting on Thursday.
“Those who staged the sit-in at Victoria school were applauded for their courage by a huge crowd of local people as the came out of the building.
“Parents on the roof-top protest at Our Lady of Assumption in Ruchill have shown immense determination in resisting the closure, and there is no excuse for the Council’s over-reaction, dumping kids in another school, because the protest in no way would interfere with the kids’ education – it’s the council’s planned closure that does that!
“A delegation of us travelled to meet delegates at the annual Congress of the Scottish Trade Union Congress. We won massive support from several trade unions who recognise that the cuts in staffing levels, rise in class sizes, threats to parents’ ability to hold down jobs, and assault on community facilities are all issues that trade unionists should take up.
“Given the historic link between Labour and the unions, they would do well to ponder the widespread support for the campaign to stop the closures that union leaders and delegates expressed
This campaign will not go away – we are finding fresh allies in the fight for local community schools with smaller class sizes.”
For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com
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RESISTANCE TO SCHOOL CLOSURES SPREADS – SUPPORT FROM TRADE UNIONS
As decision-day at the Glasgow city council looms, parents and carers have won fresh allies in the battle to save the schools and nurseries on Labour’s amended hit-list for closure. Parents staged sit-ins at two schools just two days after the 15-day sit-ins ended, and a delegation from the city-wide Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign won support from several trade unions at the STUC Congress in Perth.
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:
“Protests are breaking out like bush fires beneath the backsides of the Labour councillors on the eve of the Council meeting on Thursday.
“Those who staged the sit-in at Victoria school were applauded for their courage by a huge crowd of local people as the came out of the building.
“Parents on the roof-top protest at Our Lady of Assumption in Ruchill have shown immense determination in resisting the closure, and there is no excuse for the Council’s over-reaction, dumping kids in another school, because the protest in no way would interfere with the kids’ education – it’s the council’s planned closure that does that!
“A delegation of us travelled to meet delegates at the annual Congress of the Scottish Trade Union Congress. We won massive support from several trade unions who recognise that the cuts in staffing levels, rise in class sizes, threats to parents’ ability to hold down jobs, and assault on community facilities are all issues that trade unionists should take up.
“Given the historic link between Labour and the unions, they would do well to ponder the widespread support for the campaign to stop the closures that union leaders and delegates expressed
This campaign will not go away – we are finding fresh allies in the fight for local community schools with smaller class sizes.”
For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com
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