Best Language Festival yet
On Saturday March 14, The Language in Community Festival brought together several hundred people to celebrate language diversity. Fantastic work by ViệtSpeak and Angliss Neighbourhood House, organising this yearly festival for the third time! Fighting for language diversity is vital. Without it, we become numb to the challenges and aspirations of others in our community. Reduced to food and dress-up days…
Language in Community Festival – celebrating the powers of multilingualism
From The Westsider, By Jorge Jorquera Many people in education describe multilingualism as a superpower, typically associated with enhanced logic, memory, problem-solving and multitasking skills. But without doubt its greatest power is in social connection. With additional languages we learn to see things the way other people do, not just through our own eyes and interests. It’s not a guarantee of…
People’s Plan for Footscray
Borderlands Cooperative, in partnership with Angliss Neighbourhood House & South Sudan Child First Education. The People’s Plan for Footscray is about bringing people back into public decision-making: going beyond token government consultation and building an example of how organised communities working together can build skills and capacities and public power, to make change. Footscray has been especially affected by market driven…
Maribyrnong Council program making Footscray less safe
Community research shows council’s security program is making Footscray community members less safe New research undertaken by Footscray Community Response, a grassroots organisation opposed to punitive and policing solutions to problems of safety and so-called ‘antisocial behaviour’, shows that Maribyrnong Council’s security patrols program is making Footscray residents less safe and involves serious breaches of human rights and anti-discrimination laws. The…
What future for the Old Footscray Hospital site
NEW HOSPITAL A WIN FOR THE WEST … BUT WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE OLD HOSPITAL SITE?!? Residents individually and collectively through Reimagining Old Footscray Hospital Community Group have been talking about the potential of the current Gordon / Eleanor Street Footscray Hospital Site for years – visioning a future precinct and seeking to engage meaningfully with the State and Local Government landowners on…