Given to the People (2008) by Simon Yuill 7: 00 Free

Title: Given to the People (2008) by Simon Yuill 7: 00 Free

When: 30 Sep 2010

Venue: GalGael

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Given To The People is a film telling the story of the Pollok Free State. The Free State was initiated by the actions of local resident, Colin Macleod, who began a tree top protest against the building of the M77 motorway through Pollok Park in the early 1990s. Over several years this grew into a series of camps across Pollok. It sought not only to block an unwanted motorway cutting through one of Europe's largest inner city public commons, land that had been gifted to the people of Glasgow, but also raised issues over the rights of local people to determine the use and development of public space - rights that many felt were being denied.