Olympics security firm G4S supplied an “intelligence analyst” familiar with legislation governing surveillance powers to Greater Manchester Police (GMP), according to a vacancy advertised on the website of the multinational company’s subsidiary “Policing Solutions” last January.
Activists from African trade unions and third world debt campaign groups will tomorrow speak at a meeting in Manchester held to debate how we can move past charity and connect with global struggles for justice.
Artworks protesting against the advertising industry have been pasted over eight billboards across Manchester as part of a subvertising campaign taking place throughout the UK.
Attendance at work-orientated courses in Manchester has fallen since the scrapping of the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA), according to figures from the city’s largest college.
Hundreds of protestors took to the streets against cuts at Trafford General Hospital on Saturday. Around 300 people attended to demonstrate against planned closures of the A&E and ICU unit. The cuts will also affect the remaining children’s services and end acute surgery.
Town hall bosses have admitted they “can’t guarantee” that some families will not be left worse off when the council scraps its childcare service. Universal daycare in 14 centres across Manchester will end as soon as September, in the first wave of £11.6m cuts over the next four years.
Oxfam will hold a one-off event at the Manchester Art Gallery this Thursday evening to give thanks to their supporters and draw attention to the food crisis in the West African Sahel.
