A conversation with J: Me: I’ve taken the lead on a campaign to negotiate with the Council to keep our local Park House open and in community use. J: That’s so good, to be involved in some form of activism. Me: Activism today is different to the past. There was a time that the activist …
Tag archives: community
bradford, the british and the camera
Make Bradford British is well worth watching. Initially I was very suspicious of it, imagining that it would develop into a form of Bradford Big Brother, be another reality TV show and no more. However it develops into a fascinating and at times shocking programme that offers us a raw insight into the problems, bigotry …
preparing a new paddock
There is land across the road that has been contested for many years, it is poisoned from earlier periods of mining and the dumping of various wastes and is heavily contaminated in places with arsenic amongst other things. It has also become home to a vast and expanding colony of Japanese knotweed. It was owned …
a consuming shame
There has been a Tesco Extra open near to us in Sheffield for a couple of months now. It is located just at the edge (the town side) of a vibrant, mixed and low income/high unemployment shopping area called Ellesmere Green or Spital Hill. There was a lot of discussion before the giant supermarket opened …