Archive - Jun 4, 2008

Waiting for (social) Change!

Today in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow a group of waiters invited passers-by to ‘Taste the waste’ and sample their free food. The menu was made up entirely out of skipped goods from supermarket bins and included such delights as: homemade vegan frequent flyer banana cake, skipped chip, rescued roast veg. and binned beans. This was part of the call to action on Food and Climate Change by the Network for Climate Action (http://networkforclimateaction.org.uk).

 

 

 

 

Trump: Nevermind the dunes, look at the castle

Is Donny Trump worried about the prospects for his housing-estate-on-nature-reserve plan? This article implies that he might be dropping another million or two to restore a castle near Stornoway. Not that it has anything to do with the imminent Inquiry, he's a busy man on a tight schedule, you know...

Third Dawn Raid in Glasgow in a month

Tracy and Ericka Andrew were detained this morning at their home in Maryhill. Tracy is from Nigeria and arrived in the UK in May 2004. She was only 22 and 7 months pregnant. She had fled Nigeria because of problems with her Christian parents following her relationship with a Muslim man. The man's parents were also angry about him having a relationship with a Christian women. [ Dawn Raids Continue | Unity Centre Glasgow ]

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