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Thursday, 30 April 2009
PARENTS PROTEST AS GLASGOW COUNCIL HOLDS SECRET MEETING WITH HEAD-TEACHERS
At Education Offices, Wheatley House, Cochrane St (off George Sq)
9am, Friday 1st May
Parents from closure-threatened schools and nurseries are staging an angry protest outside a secret meeting between the Labour Council and head-teachers from the schools affected, demanding entrance to the meeting and for the Council to stop trying to rail-road through their closures.
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:
“This meeting is typical of the Labour Council’s methods.
“It is secretive; parents discovered it by pure chance.
“It is exclusive; parents and carers whose kids are threatened with traumatic moves were not even informed, let alone invited to it.
“And it is another attempt to rail-road through the closures; the Labour council knows full well that we are mounting legal challenges to their immoral closure procedures, and taking our case to the Scottish parliament, yet they want to bamboozle and browbeat people by making it appear the closures are done and dusted.
“Parents are demanding an invitation to the meeting. We condemn the Labour council for excluding the very people whose families are at risk from their education cuts.
“The people of Glasgow will not be denied their voice by Labour’s dictatorship – the fight to obstruct and prevent these closures continues; the schools are still there; and the will to resist closures has hardened in the face of the Labour Council’s obscene disregard for kids and communities.”
For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com
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9am, Friday 1st May
Parents from closure-threatened schools and nurseries are staging an angry protest outside a secret meeting between the Labour Council and head-teachers from the schools affected, demanding entrance to the meeting and for the Council to stop trying to rail-road through their closures.
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:
“This meeting is typical of the Labour Council’s methods.
“It is secretive; parents discovered it by pure chance.
“It is exclusive; parents and carers whose kids are threatened with traumatic moves were not even informed, let alone invited to it.
“And it is another attempt to rail-road through the closures; the Labour council knows full well that we are mounting legal challenges to their immoral closure procedures, and taking our case to the Scottish parliament, yet they want to bamboozle and browbeat people by making it appear the closures are done and dusted.
“Parents are demanding an invitation to the meeting. We condemn the Labour council for excluding the very people whose families are at risk from their education cuts.
“The people of Glasgow will not be denied their voice by Labour’s dictatorship – the fight to obstruct and prevent these closures continues; the schools are still there; and the will to resist closures has hardened in the face of the Labour Council’s obscene disregard for kids and communities.”
For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com
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Sunday, 26 April 2009
Save Our Schools - the fight is only beginning!
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign
PRESS RELEASE … for immediate use (26th April)
RENEWED PROTESTS AS GLASGOW SCHOOL CLOSURE LIST LENGTHENS
Hands around our schools – we shall not be moved!
3pm Monday 27th April
The Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign has called city-wide protests outside the schools and nurseries threatened with closure, at 3pm on Monday 27th April – as reports confirm that Labour plans further school closures.
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:
“Spineless Labour councillors voted to close down 22 schools and nurseries last week, but they won’t find it so easy to implement their scandalous decision!
“Far from being defeated, we are defiant. The Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign has a whole raft of protests planned, starting with a city-wide series of human rings around the schools and nurseries they want to shut. Our defiant message is: ‘Labour can vote to ignore the public, to shut our schools, but we shall not be moved’.
“And as reports confirm what we have warned of since January – that anything up to 34 more Glasgow schools could face closure in the next year or two – we appeal to parents from those schools and communities to join our protests, to add power to our battle to defy, obstruct and reverse the closures.
“This show of continued defiance is only one strand to our struggle.
“We are pursuing legal challenges to a brutally flawed procedure.
“And we are taking our case to the Scottish parliament. The Scottish government should come out clearly in opposition to these closures, wield its political power to demand they be reversed, and side with the people of Glasgow against the Labour council’s vandalism. The Glasgow SOS Campaign plans a lobby of the parliament to seek support in the next few weeks.”
For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com
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PRESS RELEASE … for immediate use (26th April)
RENEWED PROTESTS AS GLASGOW SCHOOL CLOSURE LIST LENGTHENS
Hands around our schools – we shall not be moved!
3pm Monday 27th April
The Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign has called city-wide protests outside the schools and nurseries threatened with closure, at 3pm on Monday 27th April – as reports confirm that Labour plans further school closures.
Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign organiser, Richie Venton, today said:
“Spineless Labour councillors voted to close down 22 schools and nurseries last week, but they won’t find it so easy to implement their scandalous decision!
“Far from being defeated, we are defiant. The Glasgow Save Our Schools Campaign has a whole raft of protests planned, starting with a city-wide series of human rings around the schools and nurseries they want to shut. Our defiant message is: ‘Labour can vote to ignore the public, to shut our schools, but we shall not be moved’.
“And as reports confirm what we have warned of since January – that anything up to 34 more Glasgow schools could face closure in the next year or two – we appeal to parents from those schools and communities to join our protests, to add power to our battle to defy, obstruct and reverse the closures.
“This show of continued defiance is only one strand to our struggle.
“We are pursuing legal challenges to a brutally flawed procedure.
“And we are taking our case to the Scottish parliament. The Scottish government should come out clearly in opposition to these closures, wield its political power to demand they be reversed, and side with the people of Glasgow against the Labour council’s vandalism. The Glasgow SOS Campaign plans a lobby of the parliament to seek support in the next few weeks.”
For more info contact Richie Venton on 07828 278 093 or at richieventon@hotmail.com
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Saturday, 18 April 2009
Triumphant end of occupations...
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
Monday, 6 April 2009
Inside the Schools!... and support from Football boss
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.
Football boss Jim Duffy has added his weight to the campaign to save two Maryhill primary schools from closure. Wyndford Primary and St Gregory's Primary have been included in the list of 25 schools targeted for closure by Glasgow City Council due to falling rolls and increased maintenance costs. Here's what ex-Hibs and Dundee boss Duffy had to say.
Football boss Jim Duffy has added his weight to the campaign to save two Maryhill primary schools from closure. Wyndford Primary and St Gregory's Primary have been included in the list of 25 schools targeted for closure by Glasgow City Council due to falling rolls and increased maintenance costs. Here's what ex-Hibs and Dundee boss Duffy had to say.
Sunday, 5 April 2009
St Gregory's and the Wyndford Primary Schools are under occupation!
Support our campaign to save our school!
The Labour run Glasgow City Council have proposed to close 25 Glasgow schools. We are determined to keep our schools open!
The Labour run Glasgow City Council have proposed to close 25 Glasgow schools. We are determined to keep our schools open!
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