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Cathy McCormack's family came from Glasgow's Gorbals. They later moved to one of Europe's largest public housing schemes. The Wee Yellow Butterfly is Cathy McCormack's inspiring story of how, from unpromising beginnings, she has spent her life committed to seeking justice and finding fulfillment. For those 'trapped in a toxic mixture of economic circumstance and bad politics'*, life can be hard. Yet, as Cathy McCormack's story shows, a strong spirit and a refusal to accept what is given can release energy and creativity for individuals and their communities. * World Health Organisation report 2008
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Cathy McCormack is a campaigner who lives in Easterhouse, Glasgow. She is widely known as a conference speaker in the spheres of housing and inequality. Marian Pallister worked on Glasgow's Evening Times and The Herald for many years. She is the author of several books including the only biography of Marion Campbell of Kilberry.
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The wee Yellow Butterfly,
By Jane Jones (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wee Yellow Butterfly (Paperback)
The title of this book betrays the depth and breadth of the author's story - this is no fluttery flight through life. I couldn't put this down once I had started. It details a life journey from Easterhouse in Glasgow to the UN via Nicaragua and South Africa (with a hilarious stop- off in the Vatican on the way!. An antidote to worthy or dry academic analyses of poverty and the ecological and humanitarian crisis that affect us all.Cathy McCormack is an inspiration and deftly sketches a striking picture of the social apartheid and the broken spirits that have been created in our society over the last twenty years. Send a copy now to your MSP or MP - they need to know.
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local woman global story,
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I have just finished reading this book and found it thought provoking, insightful, hopeful and uproariously funny, while dealing with some of the most serious issues we face as a species today.The author shares her life with us throughout which she has tried to understand why she, and others like her, live in poverty. The narrative analysis moves with consumate ease from Easterhouse, a peripheral housing estate in Glasgow, Scotland, to the barrios of Nicaragua, to the townships of South Africa, through Paris and Rome. The perspective on power is acute and the breath of humanity rises from each page like sweet scented morning air. A rare book, in which an authentic local voice attempts to understand the connection between the local and the global, finding similarity rather than difference with the "underclass" in other countries, unflinchingly seeking the truth as only one who has nothing to fear from it can. Read it! I understand there is also a Facebook site where the discussion continues. I'm off to see if I can find it and join in.
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An excellent book by Cathy Mc Cormack which just proves what ordinary people can achieve.Well done Cathy and whens the next book
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