Archive - Jun 2012

June 28th

Two weeks to go: Take Back the Land! 12-18 July

In two weeks we’ll be setting up for 6 days of resistance to corporate rule in the Douglas Valley.

June 27th

End Sponsorship of animal cruelty "sports"!

The horrific practice of live hare coursing in Ireland is kept alive by THREE main financial sponsors: One of them is County Louth-based betting company, Boylesports, which also has an office in Douglas on the Isle of Man.

Student wins back his deposit

An Edinburgh student had his deposit illegally withheld by his letting agency for five years. However, following advice from EPTAG, he managed to get his money back. 

UNITY Gathering Glasgow Saturday 30th June

Unity Gathering
SATURDAY 30th JUNE

Kinning Park Complex
1-5pm
Party & Benefit gig
8.00-11.00pm
Over the last few years Unity has been getting bigger and bigger, doing more to help asylum seekers in Glasgow and more people are volunteering for it.
So Unity is changing – We want more people to be involved in helping run Unity!

Dirty Coal Plans Defeated: CONCH have won!

Yesterday evening Ayrshire Power withdrew their plans for a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston on Scotland’s west coast – a great victory against new coal.

Just Say No

By Mike Small The launch of the No campaign came after a month-long trail of visceral criticisms of the Yes Scotland launch.

Faslane Peace Camp banner drop in Helensburgh

“There won't be any jobs when the bomb goes off”

June 26th

Fear, Nostalgia and the British state

The Union has infantalised Scotland, its politics and its people, to the extent that the grievances of the many are rarely articulated and even less frequently heard...

June 25th

The Beautiful North

Someone much cleverer than I once said Edinburgh is not the Athens of the North, it is the Reykjavík of the south.

June 21st

Walking Away from North Britain

By Phil Mac Giolla Bhain When Rangers went into administration in February I wrote here that “a bastion of North Britain is terminally ill”.

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