'Going Global' for Manchester?
(This
is a personal comment and not representative of the views of Hulme or
Manchester Green Parties.)
Sunday
June 22nd 2014 is the annual Manchester
Day Parade. The theme this year is ‘Going
Global’, looking at Manchester ‘from Roman fort to Cottonopolis to world class
21C digital city… the original modern city Going Global!’
‘Cottonopolis’ was the
period of time when Manchester became a wealthy and powerful city on the back
of the cotton industry. The same cotton industry that was built on the backs of
slaves and the Transatlantic
Slave Trade.
While
Manchester is proud of many things that can...