GO Torry - growing resilience one year after peoples' assembly

1000 Better Stories

Our Story Weaver, Kaska, revisits Torry in Aberdeen for a GO Torry event, celebrating community's growing resilience in the wake of People's Assembly and its Declaration last Spring. We hear of RAAC and retrofit, outdoor classrooms and stealthy resistance, poetry and community with a heart.

Credits

Production: Kaska Hempel

Resources

1000 Better Stories podcast episode about Torry Peoples’ Assembly of May 2023 – putting “just” back into “just transition” https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-5q33x-14be025

NEW! Torry Assembly website – with:

• Tullos poetry zine from GO Torry event https://www.torryassembly.net/tullos-poetry-zine-1
• Declaration of Torry Peoples’ Assembly 28th of May 2023 (PDF) https://www.torryassembly.net/s/Declaration-of-Torry-A6-booklet-v1-2.pdf
• Updates on the retrofit project https://www.torryassembly.net/about-retrofit

Information about Torry Peoples Assemblies on the Grassroots to Global website https://www.grassroots2global.org/torry-peoples-assemblies

Communities Assembly training by Grassroots to Global, early 2024 – SCCAN video series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL727H-1nm_P25ueYx18ikvYroPMTGZ91-&si=dfN-nYxvbbaKQ3Ra

Just Transition Communities Project (NESCAN Hub) https://www.nescan.org/just-transition-communities

Station House Media Unit https://www.shmu.org.uk/

Friends of St Fittick’s Park https://saintfittickstorry.com/

Aberdeen Ethnic Minority Women’s Group https://www.abdn-emwomen.org.uk/

North East Scotland Mammal Network (FB group)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/335588875705435/

The Bridge Centre, Torry FB page https://www.facebook.com/thebridgecentretorry/

Social Juice https://www.social-juice-cic.co.uk/

St Fittick’s Park court appeal fails https://hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/aberdeen/news/st-fitticks-lose-legal-challenge-over-park-development/