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Manchesters Independent Media
Features with a focus on Manchester and the surrounding region.
Jim works for Caring and Sharing Rochdale, a community organisation which exists to support and empower vulnerable people of diverse ethnicities in Rochdale and surrounding areas. We first met Jim at Rochdale’s 7th Annual Black History Month Celebration event, hosted by Caring and Sharing Rochdale.
This conversation forms part of our generative inquiry into Greater Manchester’s shared heritage.
We are seeking generative conversations with people and community groups interested in our diverse heritage, to allow us to get to the heart of the story and understand what matters to real Mancunians.
Our reporter Emma spoke with Ben, a policy officer at ACORN the union, to find out more about ACORN’s work and what the future might hold for renters now that we have a new government.
Manchester has grown in size and wealth by extracting value from poor workers, both at home and abroad. How about the people get something in return?
An update on our project, A Just Greater Manchester
The best way to enjoy Salford is to leave the city, apparently. But you don’t have to go far to find green spaces and wildlife.
Our reporters will be out across all ten GM boroughs over the next two weeks, asking members of the public what they think about the idea of a just Greater Manchester.
A diverse group of citizens share their thoughts, and invite you to do the same
This month we are in Bury, where photographer Gary Roberts found a place brimming with history and social change – for better or worse.
Each month, photographer Gary Roberts is capturing life in one of the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester. This is Tameside.
