Solidarity MSP Tommy Sheridan's proposed bill to ban the private sale and ownership of air guns has received a major boost from the news that the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and the parents of Andrew Morton, who was killed by an airgun, have joined the campaign.
Councils across Scotland have taken up the bill and a recent opinion poll showed that 82% of scots support the move.
The mother of Andrew Morton, Sharon MacMillan, his father and sister Cheryl will join Tommy Sheridan and the FBU at a press conference in Glasgow at 10.30am tomorrow where she will present a petition of 10,000 names calling for a ban on airguns.
“The campaign to ban airguns in Scotland is gathering pace. The family of toddler Andrew Morton know more than anyone the tragic consequences of misuse of these deadly weapons. Their courage and resolve to support the campaign is admired and welcomed. The support of the FBU is powerful and when added to the recent opinion poll showing 82% support for a ban across Scotland amounts to an unassailable case.”
Sheridan Attacks Edinburgh City Council
Saturday, 10 February 2007
Solidarity MSP, Tommy Sheridan, has lambasted Edinburgh City Council for refusing to answer questions from Craigmillar Child Services over the withholding of funds needed to keep the service running.
Patsy King, who runs the facility in Craigmillar, will be a guest on Sheridan's radio phone in show on www.talk107.co.uk this Sunday to talk about the crisis facing the facility, which is now in danger of going under due to the council's actions. Over 200 people are reliant on the service, which employs 26 people, in one of Scotland's most deprived communities.
Sheridan said:
"Patsy approached Solidarity for help and I immediately arranged to have her on the show this week. However, both Edinburgh City Council leader, Ewan Aitken, and his deputy, Ian Perry, have declined an invitation to come on and explain their actions in withholding money from what is obviously a vital service in Craigmillar."
SIR CHARLES WILSON BUILDING, GIBSON STREET, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
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J HUTTO (Appeal for Redress) TOMMY SHERIDAN (Solidarity MSP) AAMER ANWAR (human rights lawyer) KATE HUDSON (chair of CND) CRAIG MURRAY (ex UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan) YVONNE RIDLEY (Islam Channel) ANAS AL-TIKRITI (BNI) WALTER WOLFGANG (Labour Party NEC) JEREMY CORBYN (Labour MP) LINDSEY GERMAN (Stop the War Coalition) MOAZZAM BEGG (ex-Guantanano prisoner) ROSE GENTLE (Military Families Against the War) MIKE BRIDER (TGWU Regional Sec) KENNY ROSS (FBU Scottish Sec) DR AZZAM TAMIMIINI (IIPT) JOHN MCDONNELL ( Labour MP) SUMIYA HEMSI (DundeeUniversity student)
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Solid With Simclar Workers
Thursday, 08 February 2007
Solidarity MSPs Tommy Sheridan and Rosemary Byrne pledged their continued support for the sacked workers from the Simclar International Plants in Kilwinning and Irvine Riverside when they visited the Scottish Parliament.
The workers, 420 of whom were sacked without notice or proper redundancy payments, met with politicians from all parties to outline their grievances and call for support for their campaign for fair treatment.
Speaking at a reception in the parliament hosted by MSPs Rosemary Byrne and Irene Oldfather, the workers called for action to be taken against unscrupulous employers like Sam Russell, the multi-millionaire owner of Simclar International, who has exploited some of the weakest employment laws in Europe to leave the workforce and their families high and dry.
Abu Bakr, who was falsely accused of being part of an alleged terror plot has launched an attack on the UK Government claiming that the UK has become a police state for Muslims. Mr Bakr was released without charge after being detained and questioned as part of a supposed kidnap plot. He said:
"It's a police state for Muslims. It's not a police state for everybody else because these terror laws are designed specifically for Muslims and that's quite an open fact."
Solidarity candidate for the Lothians region, Pat Smith, backed Abu's claims:
"Everytime the government comes under pressure we see a so called terrorist plot hitting the headlines and mostly it is innocent muslims who are accused. Muslims in this country have become the scapegoats and are held without charge and often without evidence. We see it all across the UK where muslim populations and communities exist. The terror laws are racist and the war on terror is an assault on muslims in this country and across the world."
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