Poverty Alliance: This is just the start

SCOTLAND DEMANDS BETTER

Change for the better happens when people stand together and demand it. That is why thousands of people took to the streets of Edinburgh yesterday to say with one voice that we demand better – better than poverty, better than inequality and better than divisive, hateful narratives that seek to pit our communities against one another.

Trade unions, faith groups, community organisations and charities stood shoulder to shoulder with people from across Scotland to demand fair work, strong public services and dignified social security.

It was a showcase to our political decision makers at all levels that we are tired of waiting for change on the injustice of poverty, and we are standing together to demand action.

This isn’t the end. It is the start of a movement, together in hope and solidarity, for a better Scotland for all of us.

THE POVERTY ALLIANCE

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davepickering

Edinburgh reporter and photographer