Cleaning up the city - Part 1
Del | 19.10.2003 02:00 | Analysis | Culture | Repression | Liverpool
Big Issues Banned
However Fay Selvan, chair of Big Issue in the North said: “We haven't had any indication from Liverpool City Council that they are taking legal action to prevent us selling Big Issues in Liverpool. If that was the case we would engage our lawyers immediately and fight it all the way”.
The city, in its attempts to gear up towards the City of culture 2008, the city council has wanted to get rid of all types of ‘undesirables’ from the city centre – whether stall holders, Big Issue sellers or political activists handing out leaflets. All have been the targets of the ‘clean up campaign’ codenamed ‘Sanitise’ – The affects of the latest arrests will mean people will not buy the Big Issue magazine from sellers because of the propaganda resulting from the arrests.
Liverpool City Council have spent large amounts of money on an advertising campaign which was aimed at stopping members of the public from giving money to homeless people.
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