Episode #198 - March For Scran

Episode 198 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast You can download the episode directly here . This week Craig talks to Heather from the direct action group This Is Rigged about their upcoming March for Scran - a protest on February 18th 2024 starting at 11am from Garnethill Park in Glasgow. They discuss the reasons for food insecurity in Scotland, the rise of foodbank demand coinciding with a drop in donations and funding to meet that demand and what the Scottish Government could do to alleviate the problem including ideas such as community-owned food hubs. If you'd like to learn more about the upcoming action, see: Craig mentioned a previous episode about our support for tool libraries, which can be listened to here: Common Weal's work is only possible thanks to our generous supporters who regularly donate an average of £10 per month. If you would like to help us build our vision of an All of Us First Scotland, you can do so here: The Policy Podcast would like to discuss all of Common Weal's policy papers in detail as well as other major policy stories in and around Scotland so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered or if you have an interesting policy story to tell and would like to be a guest on the show, please contact Craig at craig@common.scot You can also find us on iTunes , Spotify , Castbox , Stitcher, Tunein , iHeart Radio and other major podcast aggregators. You can also add the podcast to your RSS feed using this link: Theme Excerpts from "Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Support the show

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This episode is 23:51 long.

This episode was published on Feb 14, 2024.

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