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Scottish Independence supporter. Retired Civil Servant. Liberation.scot - Liberation / Salvo. Independence Forum Scotland - independenceforum.scot. Edinburgh and Florence

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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A showstopper edition of "Through a Scottish Prism" A must view, today. A game-changer. #Liberation4Scotland www.youtube.com/live/aOppY29...
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Liberation_Resignation & Collation
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In case you missed it... the full press release kit issued by Liberation Scotland about its initiation this week of the UN decolonization process. The die is cast... liberation.scot/hidd...
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
PRESS RELEASE - UN Decolonization process initiated by Liberation Scotland The Advance Notice of Petition and supporting papers can be viewed on the Liberation movement website: liberation.scot Join the #Liberation4Scotland campaign at Salvo.scot
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
On Friday a #Salvo Special: 'The UN Decolonisation Process' will be available on youtube.com/@indyscotnew... Sara Salyers, Alf Baird and I answer questions by Norrie Hunter on the Liberation Scotland international campaign. Don't miss it. #Liberation4Scotland Salvo.scot
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"What #Liberation #Scotland seeks is both internationally lawful & a fundamental, human right. It's simple justice for our nation and long overdue” We seek formal recognition of Scotland as a Non-Self-Governing Territory under the UN #decolonization framework #Liberation4Scotland = #Independence
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
What Route to Self-determination for #Scotland when our struggles for our political rights & economic, social & cultural development have been undermined, opposed & blocked by the UK. Formal recognition as a Non-Self-Governing Territory by the United Nations. #Decolonisation Liberation.scot
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William Thomson @williameconomist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What we have planned for the opening day at our Festival of Economics in Dundee (and online) 21-22 March. More info and tickets available here: scotonomics.scot/event/festiv... Covering MMT, Austerity, Unions, Social Security, Land and Infrastructure ownership.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 04/03/2025
“Keir Starmer tells SNP to reverse nuclear weapons opposition” They may if you’ll site them at Portsmouth.
Poster showing location of UK’s Trident site near Glasgow, with 3m people living within a 50 mile radius. Westminster wants to keep nukes, but only so long as they are safely far away from the south east of England.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Taking it into our own hands. Get involved, there is so much to play for. Lobby our law makers at every level of Gov to push for significant land reform, assist community energy production, own district heating systems. How a Scottish constitution would look? www.thenational.scot/news/2497478...
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'If politicians can't - can we?': Inside the convention on Scotland's future
PRIOR to independence-focused days of discussion, there is always a palpable hope something can be done, an answer can be found, a step can be taken…
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
'What does it mean to be in this body, with these people, standing on the solid ground of Scotland’s soil, right now?' Alastair McIntosh's inspiring opening address to yesterday's IFS Convention on Scotland's Future, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/01/t...
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The Roots and Vision of a Nation
The Opening Address to the Convention on Scotland’s Future Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh, 1 March 2025 Alastair McIntosh Good morning. What does it mean to be a human being?  What does it …
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Inside the convention on Scotland's future. Activists from across the movement, parties and sectors were in the room with several issues to tackle, all driven by the same question: “If the politicians can’t do it – can we?" A Convention on Scotland's Future www.thenational.scot/news/2497478...
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'If politicians can't - can we?': Inside the convention on Scotland's future
PRIOR to independence-focused days of discussion, there is always a palpable hope something can be done, an answer can be found, a step can be taken…
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A very thought provoking and inspiring speech. "The Charter of the United Nations rests itself upon “respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.” We alone can be the roots and branches of our self-determination." bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/01/t...
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The Roots and Vision of a Nation
The Opening Address to the Convention on Scotland’s Future Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh, 1 March 2025 Alastair McIntosh Good morning. What does it mean to be a human being?  What does it …
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Yes please
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Scotland's energy potential described as "enormous" archive.ph/gyQ2H Energy Week. www.thenational.scot/news/2334824...
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Wind, wave, and solar: The science behind why Scotland is so energy rich
WE often hear about how Scotland is responsible for a significant chunk of Europe’s renewable potential and how the country could lead an energy…
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
'We hope that everyone attending will find the Spring Convention not just informative, but inspiring and motivating. Let’s dare to dream that it will be the start of something big.' @williamduguid1.bsky.social, via @scotnational.bsky.social. www.thenational.scot/politics/249...
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Our convention on Scotland’s future takes place tomorrow. Join us
AFTER months of planning, we’re there at last. Our Spring Convention on Scotland’s Future will take place tomorrow Saturday 1 March, with more…
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Independence Live @independencelive.net · 26/02/2025
>>> LIVE ON BSKY - WED 26TH, 7PM <<< #TNTShow with Kenny MacAskill discussing #Grangemouth & host John Drummond @benarty.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SN-...
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TNT Show. Ep194. With Kenny MacAskill discussing Grangemouth.
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William Thomson @williameconomist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The final programme for the Scotonomics Festival of Economics is done! Join us in person/online 21st to 22nd March. Almost 15 hours of sessions providing a huge amount of info for anyone looking to promote a better understanding of how the Scottish economy works. scotonomics.scot/event/festiv...
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Kairin van Sweeden @indyanatomist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Many fascinating speakers in attendance! Join us in March, in person or online. #economics #scotland
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Kairin van Sweeden @indyanatomist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Join us in March #economics #scotland
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
There is no union in the UK. It's a lie, a myth peddled by successive governments, the English establishment & the monarchy, since 1707, to disguise the fact that #Scotland is an annexed nation, and in all respects a colony of the Anglo-British state. #Liberation4Scotland #Salvo Join Liberation.scot
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#Liberation4Scotland SalvoScot & the Liberation Scotland Committee now have a partnership agreement with Justice Pour Tous Internationale, a human rights advocacy & consultancy NGO in Geneva who will present our submission & petition on decolonisation to the UN General Secretary & the C24 Committee.
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William Thomson @williameconomist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am giving a talk, mainly about the economy in an independent Scotland, on Tuesday 18th at the Amnesty Bookshop in Edinburgh from 8 pm. Drop me a DM or in the thread if you want to come along to the talk.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 14/02/2025
Scotland’s 2nd energy boom is being stolen whilst we pay the highest bills in the UK. #Indyclan #Scotland
Poster bearing the message 'The second great british energy heist', with a link to an online video
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Unity of Purpose - All parties and none #Liberation4Scotland #ScottishIndpendence
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Secrets Women Keep "Sandie Peggie speaks for every woman of Scotland, even for those who know not what they do. Scotland should stand by and beside Sandie Peggie. She is the best of us." #WomenWontWheesht oneleggedwomanspeaks.uk/2025/02/13/s...
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Secrets Women Keep
The Secrets Women Keep My Mum’s Mum died in 1953. I wear her wedding ring on my pinkie. She was 5 feet 4, born and brought up in Linlithgow and she married my Granda, a man from Lochee, a veteran o…
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Keep an eye out for this report coming out in March commissioned by Scotonomics. It should give some more idea what rejoining the EU would mean for Scotland, particularly in the short term after independence
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pictland @pictland.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is not a dream. This is the future. #ScottishIndependence
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#Liberation4Scotland is #decolonisation With decolonisation, we achieve #ScottishIndependence 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️ Liberation.scot Salvo.scot "....to defend and assert our rights and to end the abuses of a foreign government that now threatens our lives and very existence as a nation."
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"What we sow this year we will reap next year at the elections.….." Join us in Salvo.scot & Liberation.scot - sowing until the day comes when the dream has been realised and Scotland is in full bloom. joansjigsaw.uk/2025/02/09/w...
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A SPRING CONVENTION ON SCOTLAND'S FUTURE Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) confirm the programme for their event on 1st March 25 in Edinburgh. Alastair McIntosh will give an opening address on “The Roots & Vision of a Nation” Full programme at independenceforum.scot/national-con...
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I'm having salad for dinner. Actually, it's fruit salad. Well, mostly grapes. OK, all grapes. Fermented Grapes. Wine. I'm having wine for dinner.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 08/02/2025
Why would a country with such vast renewable resources - clean, safe, never ending - even consider building costly and dangerous nuclear power stations? www.heraldscotland.com/news/2491927...
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Is it time for the SNP to drop their opposition to nuclear power?
The SNP's opposition to nuclear power has remained firm for decades, but with global investment in small modular reactors surging, is the party's…
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Great TNT Show from @independencelive.net, featuring John Proctor and David Pearson of Energy Scotland talking to @benarty.bsky.social. Energy Scotland will play an important part in our Spring Convention on Scotland's Future in Edinburgh on Saturday 1 March. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGaw...
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TNT Show. Ep191. With John Proctor & Prof. David Pearson from Energy Scotland.
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John Brown @broonpot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
After the TNT show, join Energy Scotland in person at the IFS Spring Convention on 1st March at the Greyfriars Charteris Centre Edinburgh and make your views known on the challenges of Energy being a 'reserved power'. Some places still available. Check out - independenceforum.scot/2024/11/11/n...
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Our Spring Convention on Scotland's Future at Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh, is just over four weeks away on Saturday 1 March. Here's IFS Convener Ian Grant discussing the Convention, the state of the independence movement, and more on the Indy Live TNT Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuHB...
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TNT Show. Ep190. With Ian Grant, Independence Forum Scotland.
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Independence Live @independencelive.net · 30/01/2025
Catchup with last nights TNT Show
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jmg1007.bsky.social @jmg1007.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If you're interested in attending the Spring Convention, some places are still available - check out independenceforum.scot/national-con... or simply email us at convention@independenceforum.scot
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National Convention - Independence Forum Scotland
Independence Forum Scotland Uniting the independence movement Envelope Youtube Icon-twitter-x National Convention ***NEW DATE (1 March 2025) FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION ON SCOTLAND’S FUTURE*** 11 November...
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
'The decision on whether to fully implement ICCPR throughout Scottish legislation, with or without reference to devolved or reserved powers, now lies with Holyrood MSPs, not with Westminster.' Open letter to Angus Robertson by Henry Ferguson of Respect Scottish Sovereignty. dearscotland.substac...
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Respect Scottish Sovereignty delivers letter to Angus Robertson, MSP
Asking him to support putting internationally recognised Civil and Political Rights into Scots law
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Independence Live @independencelive.net · 29/01/2025
We will be interviewing Ian Grant from IFS tonight at 7pm, live on the TNT Show about their Spring Conference. Live on BSky, YouTube, TikTok and other platforms. Tune in and post comments & your questions for panel. @indyforumscot.bsky.social @benarty.bsky.social
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
SCG will be sending 3 representatives to work on the IFS (Independence Forum Scotland) joint effort to progress the independence prospectus
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Kairin van Sweeden @indyanatomist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
SCOTONOMICS EP 121: Busting the Degrowth Myths Join us with John 'the' Duncan tonight at 8.05pm #economics #degrowth youtube.com/live/MZkADHN...
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SCOTONOMICS EP 121: Busting the Degrowth Myths
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Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
'There’s an emerging consensus that now is the time to be talking about Scotland’s future, the “how” and “why” of independence, and the sort of Scotland it could create. Our Spring Convention fits very neatly into that framework.' William Duguid via The National www.thenational.scot/politics/248...
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Can Scotland do democracy differently? Our convention will map out how
Preparations are now well under way for the inaugural meeting of Independence Forum Scotland’s Convention on Scotland’s Future.
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Independence Live @independencelive.net · 28/01/2025
I ask for 2 seconds of your time to read this. 2232 have signed this petition. It’s been posted here and other social media platforms. Don’t leave it to others. Have a read and please sign.
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Dick Winchester.. @dickwinchester.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
How ironic for Scots that @RachelReevesMP is giving her speech at a German MRI magnet factory when the first practical working MRI system was developed at Aberdeen university but the UK financial sector wouldn't support the plan to build an MRI factory there. @StephenFlynnSNP
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Dee the KittyServant @mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We are, effectively, an economically and politically occupied country.
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Colin Armstrong @rantinscot.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Your government is trapped by devolution. It's a very laudable ambition to end child poverty, but until the Scottish Parliament and government control all the levers of power, then that ambition is dependent on Westminster and therefore unattainable. Independence is the only way.
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Dick Winchester.. @dickwinchester.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You can't eradicate child poverty without growing the economy & we'll never grow the economy enough whilst still subject to Westminster economic rules, strategy & ideology
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 27/01/2025
Found my Yes posters & banner designs useful over the years? Want some FREE banners to help you campaign? @meidasscotland.bsky.social is running a crowdfunder to print and share dozens of large FREE banners of my designs. Please promote, share and donate - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/funding-fo...
Poster design of Lesley Riddoch with quote - “Why are we waiting
around? Westminster behaves as if Scotland does not exist. So what’s the point in Scotland’s political leaders politely continuing to request, demand and explain? No-one’s listening. No-one has ever been listening.”Poster comparing Scotlands restricted power in UK vs 100% powers in EU, and with the quite - The EU couldn’t set Scotland’s income tax rate. It couldn’t control our economic, defence & foreign policies. It couldn’t control our welfare system. It couldn’t seize devolved powers. And if we chose to leave, it couldn’t ever tell us “now is not the time”.Poster of Labour's Ian Murray, currently the UK Government's Governor General of Scotland, with hypocritical quote: “A democracy fails to be a democracy if the public are not allowed to change their mind.” No, not you Scotland. Sit down.Poster detailing Scotlands huge natural resources, and with the message - If Scotland is really the drain on England that is claimed, why isn’t a single one of England’s 533 MPs demanding the end the Union?
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