Tag: Radical Edinburgh
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Royal Bank of Scotland: 10 years of climate campaigning
Creativity and crises over the last 10 years of the publicly-owned polluter. “Make It Happen” was an RBS slogan that meant far more than they intended. In the mid-2000s activists had spent years of fighting oil spills, pipelines and mega coal mines and the damage they cause. When they began to look deeper into how…
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Campaign stories: Edinburgh University goes fossil free (finally!)
The successful five year campaign to divest Edinburgh University from fossil fuels should give heart to people everywhere who are campaigning for climate justice in their communities. By Ruby Kelman and People & Planet Society, with additional text by Ric Lander Edinburgh University People & Planet with supporters in the Old College quad, March 2016.…
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21 acts of defiance: Scottish people’s 10 year war against Trump and the politicians who backed him
Photo: Protestors march on Donald Trump’s half-built golf course at Menie, Aberdeenshire, 2010. Copyright Aaron Sneddon, used with permission. Scotland’s fight against Trump wasn’t about his bulging personality, but corporate power. Earlier this year Scotland was engaged, if not enthralled, in one of the more progressive parliamentary election campaigns in the wee Parliament’s short history.…
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Going on the offensive – A picture of Scotland’s anti-fracking movement
By Ellen Young and Ric Lander Community groups have led the way on the path to the moratorium on unconventional fossil-fuels in Scotland, and continue to do so in the ongoing struggle for a full ban. The effective grassroots campaigning of these communities, who have fought the Scottish government and unconventional gas companies, is an…
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Every Day’s Election Day: Referendum Blogs
10AM The spoils of 308 years of struggle Last night, referendum eve, I was at a local Greenpeace talk with Benny Wenda, exiled West Papuan leader, speaking to our little crowd of 15 or so about how he escaped his Indonesian Jail, ran for two weeks to the border, and escaped using a fake passport…
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From Facebook to the Streets: The Humble Spray Can Still Holds its Charm
Don’t just vote with a cross (seen in Hereford). The internet is a wonderful place to share ideas. It’s an even better place for sharing inane crap. Sometimes the two crash together to create something quite brilliant, like wikipedia and last month’s hilarious tory-advert meddling at Mydavidcameron.com. The net’s utterly anarchic structure, having something of…