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Protecting those who protest – Manchester Green & Black Cross on police bills, legal mutual aid and how we can protect our rights
Last week the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill passed the final legislative hurdle and will soon become law. The Bill will have wide and detrimental ramifications for our right to protest. And for marginalised groups such as Roma and Gypsy communities, it restricts the right to live their traditional lives. Manchester Green &…
The rising costs and lost life chances of living in temporary accommodation
The Meteor speaks to people living in the limbo land of temporary accommodation, and asks what is the alternative?
Placemaking Piccadilly – the community campaign challenging Manchester’s development agenda
The Placemaking Piccadilly campaign wants to create a more inclusive way of developing the city, which focuses on ‘participation not consultation’ to allow marginalised communities to be heard.
Urban gardeners – seizing the means of food production and loving it
Gary Roberts talks to urban gardeners in Manchester about the benefits growing your own food can bring.
We must declare a biodiversity emergency here in Greater Manchester
Universities in Manchester need to value their students more than their profit margins
ByBlocking the Green New Deal motion is a huge mistake for Labour
Eat out without selling out, at BOXCO
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STAND UP + FEEL GOOD: Contact Hostel addresses gender inequality in comedy
The Feel Good Club café in the Northern Quarter is packed with a diverse audience of male and female friends, couples, old and young, and the odd well behaved furry…
The Friends of The Meteor category contains articles that have been published elsewhere and selected by The Meteor team as worthy of sharing to our audience. They will generally have a Manchester or Greater Manchester focus and are from publications we trust and respect.
Work is not the way out of the cost-of-living crisis
The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs
The government would rather people starve or be homeless than create new money
Economist Richard Murphy argues the failure to help households in this crisis is a political decision, rather than an economic necessity.