Gangrene brigade change Glasgow street names

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CELTIC fan group the Green Brigade have plastered alternative street names around Glasgow - honouring George Floyd and Sheku Bayo.

Campaigns have been launched to change the names of some of the streets in the city centre - as they currently depict 'tobacco lords' who benefited from slavery.


And yesterday, activists from the Hoops supporters' group put up some new signs.

It comes as the Black Lives Matter movement has become more prominent in the last week following the death of George Floyd.

Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police in Minneapolis on May 25.

He was seen handcuffed on the ground as police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, knelt on his neck.


Glasgow's famous Buchanan Street is named after Andrew Buchanan - a tobacco merchant who served as the city's Lord Provost in 1740.

He was one of the first Scots to have tobacco plantations in the USA - setting up in Virginia. He later created Virginia Street in Glasgow.

Activists placed a George Floyd Street sign underneath one of the Buchanan Street signs - but this has since been removed.

Cochrane Street was named after three-time Lord Provost Andrew Cochrane, who was also a 'tobacco lord' who set up in Virginia.

It was 'renamed' Sheku Bayoh Street by activists after the 31-year-old gas engineer who died in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in May 2015 in police custody.

Nine cops responding to reports of a man with a knife restrained Sheku. They used CS spray and batons amid claims he hit out.

His partner Collette Bell said: “George Floyd was kneeled upon until he took his last breath. So was Sheku, only more weight and more officers kneeled upon him.

“George Floyd stated, ‘I can’t breathe’. So did Sheku.”

Brothers-in-law John Glassford and Archibald Ingram are two more 18th century 'tobacco lords' with streets in their name in the city centre.


A portrait of Glassford and his family is on display in Glasgow's People's Palace - and includes a black servant at the edge of the painting. It is understood there have been attempts to try and remove the servant from the portrait.



Activists have placed signs 'renaming' Glassford Street and Ingram Street after American activists Fred Hampton and Harriet Tubman, respectively.

Hampton was the chairman of the Black Panther Party in Illinios in the late 1960s and was killed aged 21 during a raid on his home by authorities.

Hey there's a bandwagon, lets jump on it -- sad people, never saw a cause they failed to exploit.
 
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The reality is they are a shower of fascists. They openly support an organisation that tried and failed to ethnically cleanse Protestants out of Northern Ireland.
Also what happened to the street sign for Kris Donald ? Which is probably the worst racist murder in Glasgow ! They are a shower of cun ts playing student politics.
 
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Just madness do these people really have nothing better to do than change street signs. Pointless hardly anyone would even know anything about the names.
 
Fck sake, this is getting ridiculous now. Way beyond parody or virtue signalling.

If I were younger I'd get to hell out of this city and country but that's what they want.

We have to fight this plague which is destroying our once proud city and country.

Only solid unionism can beat them.
 
CELTIC fan group the Green Brigade have plastered alternative street names around Glasgow - honouring George Floyd and Sheku Bayo.

Campaigns have been launched to change the names of some of the streets in the city centre - as they currently depict 'tobacco lords' who benefited from slavery.


And yesterday, activists from the Hoops supporters' group put up some new signs.

It comes as the Black Lives Matter movement has become more prominent in the last week following the death of George Floyd.

Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police in Minneapolis on May 25.

He was seen handcuffed on the ground as police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, knelt on his neck.


Glasgow's famous Buchanan Street is named after Andrew Buchanan - a tobacco merchant who served as the city's Lord Provost in 1740.

He was one of the first Scots to have tobacco plantations in the USA - setting up in Virginia. He later created Virginia Street in Glasgow.

Activists placed a George Floyd Street sign underneath one of the Buchanan Street signs - but this has since been removed.

Cochrane Street was named after three-time Lord Provost Andrew Cochrane, who was also a 'tobacco lord' who set up in Virginia.

It was 'renamed' Sheku Bayoh Street by activists after the 31-year-old gas engineer who died in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in May 2015 in police custody.

Nine cops responding to reports of a man with a knife restrained Sheku. They used CS spray and batons amid claims he hit out.

His partner Collette Bell said: “George Floyd was kneeled upon until he took his last breath. So was Sheku, only more weight and more officers kneeled upon him.

“George Floyd stated, ‘I can’t breathe’. So did Sheku.”

Brothers-in-law John Glassford and Archibald Ingram are two more 18th century 'tobacco lords' with streets in their name in the city centre.


A portrait of Glassford and his family is on display in Glasgow's People's Palace - and includes a black servant at the edge of the painting. It is understood there have been attempts to try and remove the servant from the portrait.



Activists have placed signs 'renaming' Glassford Street and Ingram Street after American activists Fred Hampton and Harriet Tubman, respectively.

Hampton was the chairman of the Black Panther Party in Illinios in the late 1960s and was killed aged 21 during a raid on his home by authorities.

Hey there's a bandwagon, lets jump on it -- sad people, never saw a cause they failed to exploit.

must be feeling guilty about Mark Walters
 
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