Today's SSP conference in Maryhill

PARENTS RE-OCCUPY WYNDFORD PRIMARY IN OPPOSITION TO CLOSURE BY LABOUR COUNCIL

- Latest - Council plan to stop people geting in or out of Wyndford from 8pm! Urgently need supplies before then, and anyöne who can join the sit-in...
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Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign

PARENTS RE-OCCUPY WYNDFORD PRIMARY IN OPPOSITION TO CLOSURE BY LABOUR COUNCIL



Parents at Wyndford primary school have this afternoon occupied the school in fury at its closure by Glasgow labour council.



Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:



“Parents sacrificed their Easter holidays, occupying the buildings of schools facing closure. The Labour council ignored this community uprising and the mass opposition across the city to their butchery of primaries and nurseries.



“Parents who have re-occupied Wyndford primary as the council slammed the doors shut today are expressing the fury of a community at the damage done to their kids’ education – but also at the Council’s planned demolition of one of the few remaining community facilities in Wyndford.



“This school won numerous awards for high achievement, partly based on smaller class sizes. Now kids are being scattered to the four winds by the heartless Labour axe-wielders, who also hope to bulldoze the building. The parents staging the sit-in against Labour’s vandalism deserve massive public support.”



For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com

Or Nikki Rathmill 07894123721



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Video of the Rooftop protest in Our Lady of the Assumption Primary School in Glasgow

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We need to put in final efforts to get as many people to the Glasgow SOS BLOCKADE of the city Chambers,Geo Sq for 12noon on Thursday.We have decided to hold a 24hour vigil from 12noon Weds until the start of the Demo/BLOCKADE.This will add to the publicity around our resistance to butchery by New Labour.

Reply both by email and text/call to volunteer what times you can take part-and then contact others to enlist their help as well. Ring/text me on 07828278093
( but take the precaution of emailing as well,given the mob phone problems,which are causing delays).richieventon@hotmail.com

If you can fit in a visit to Ruchill,show your support to the parents staging the rooftop protest against closure of Our Lady of Assumption.They are showing tremendous courage and endurance, planning to stay there until the Thurs meeting of the Council-if you cant visit them but want any messages passed on to them just text me.

See you Weds and Thurs
Keep battling!
RichieVenton-Glasgow SOS Organiser

Occupation over! Parents leave in defiance of the bullying Glasgow City Council Labour Group...

Preparations for leaving, song, interviews and cleaning...



“The city council threatened that unless the sit-ins ended by Friday at 3pm they would punish the children of the entire Wyndford area on Monday morning, telling parents they could not even enter the playground, would have their kids snatched off them in the car park, stuck on buses, and dragged off to the schools the Council want to dump them in after their planned closure of Wyndford and St Gregory’s.

“This action is an abuse of the law, the actions of playground bullies, and an attempt to intimidate and above all divide the local community.

“They failed, as all cowards deserve to fail. The parents and carers in the sit-ins are responsible people. They refused to allow the Council to dictate to them, but also refused to allow the council to use their children as hostages in a dirty attempt to divide and defeat local people who want to save the schools.

!”So they are coming out at a time of the campaigners’ choosing, which leaves the Council with absolutely no excuse for barring young kids from entering the schools they are familiar with and want to return to on Monday morning.

“It is the Council which all along has sought to disrupt kids’ lives and education – not the people fighting to save the schools.

“Those who have sacrificed their family Easter to heroically do battle with a heartless Labour Council will be greeted as heroes by a crowd of campaigners and community members as they leave the buildings.

“And they have pledged to fight by all other means up to and well beyond the Council meeting on 23rd, unless the Council does the decent thing and reverses its closure plans.”



For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com

Parents Fightback!

Parents fightback over the decimation of their communities and children's education. Hundreds march through Glasgow to the City Chambers to let the councillors inside know that OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE COMES FIRST!

Video from inside the Occupied Schools!

The Occupiers Speak! Richie Venton, Glasgowe Save Our Schools Organiser, in discussion with the women occupying St Gregory's Primary and Wyndford Primary in Maryhill, Glasgow.