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Rather than tear down, let’s supplement memorials with educational plaques and information sensitively giving a balanced view.
And let’s have more statues. We’ve recently gained Emmeline Pankhurst and there’s a wonderful bust of Dr Erinma Bell.
Would that the city had more commemorations of black heroes – what about Louise Da-Cocodia, Elouise Beresford and Chief Nana Bonsu/Beresford Edwards?
All people have faults and may be condemned by association with reprehensible institutions or attitudes of their time. But we need to see people and situations in their historical setting.
This should be obvious and we should rather be looking at the inequalities of life-chances brought about by our contemporaries who evidently think black lives don’t matter.
Name and address supplied declared a ‘climate emergency,’ saying that things would change. Very little has, unless you count the creation of a committee of council officers.
The council’s refusal to join neighbouring authorities in creating a network of pop-up bike lanes is merely the latest bad example set by those in charge.
Fortunately, all is not lost. The scrutiny committees of the council will start meeting again from June 23. Brave and principled councillors will speak out.
We at Climate Emergency
I WILL be doing what I’ve done from the beginning – stay home, stay safe, only go out for food, and facetime my family.
Carol Cooper
I STILL want to know how C-19 knows the difference between Friday and Saturday... Shyvonne Jackson
ONLY works perhaps if other households adhere to ‘do not mix with many other households’ rule. Asimah Ax
WHAT a joke. Clearly don’t understand the dangers of a
Manchester are holding an online meeting on Monday, June 22, from 7pm, to explain what the council has (not) been doing, how citizens can engage in the scrutiny process, and looking forward to what we all must to do to get some real action on the most important issues – climate change and the ecological crisis.
If anyone wants to take part, they can email us for the address and password – contact@ climateemergencymanchester.net. Calum McFarlane, Climate Emergency Manchester
second peak and how it would be much worse than the first. Laura Oldham
OR just go back to how it was in January because it’s massively overhyped.
Nathan Wynne