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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Trade union representatives must be able to stand up for the people they represent without fear of victimisation. Professor David Anderson, a senior elected representative of Aberdeen UCU, has been dismissed after 27 years at the University of Aberdeen. 1/2

Graphic calling for the reinstatement of Professor David Anderson, featuring bold white text on a purple background with a bright pink border and repeated campaign badges in the background.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Big business shouldn’t be able to use corporate courts to challenge decisions made in the public interest. Whether protecting our environment, tackling the climate crisis or standing up for communities, democratic decisions must come first. Support @GlobalJusticeNow's campaign to put an end to it.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We need a proper plan that puts their skills to use, invests in a sustainable future and puts local people at the heart of decisions about their community. I spoke to The National about the plans, read more 👇 www.thenational.scot... 2/2

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UK 'putting Scotland at frontline of war economy' with Mossmorran munitions plan

PLANS for a munitions facility at Mossmorran are part of a “concerted effort to militarise the Scottish economy” ...

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Mossmorran should be about creating well-paid green jobs and giving workers a secure future, not building another weapons factory. The workers and community have already been badly let down. 1/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme closes to new applications on 20 November. In Aberdeenshire alone, 2,720 properties could still be eligible for up to £5,000 towards installation costs. Check your eligibility: digitalconnectivity....

Scottish Greens graphic from Maggie Chapman MSP highlighting the Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme closing to new applications on 20 November 2026. It states that 2,720 properties in Aberdeenshire could miss out on support, with eligible homes and businesses able to access up to £5,000 towards broadband connection costs. The graphic urges people to check eligibility and contact a registered supplier before the deadline.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

With a new Principal, Dundee University must do things differently. The planned redundancies need to stop, we need answers about the finances, and staff and students need to be part of finding a way forward. They shouldn’t be the ones paying the price for this crisis. Read more greens.scot/news

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Nobody should be punished for seeking sanctuary or denied safety because of where they were born. We should be standing up for human rights and dignity, not giving in to racism and authoritarianism. Read more at greens.scot/news 2/2

Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The right to seek asylum is a human right, not a privilege that governments can simply take away. Reform UK’s plan to halt asylum cases is cruel and would cause real harm to people and families fleeing terrible circumstances. 1/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’ve lodged a motion recognising the brilliant work of Penumbra’s peer practitioners and everyone involved in the service. Lived experience matters, and this is a powerful example of what compassionate, person-centred support can do. 2/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Penumbra Mental Health DBI Dundee has supported 3,195 people experiencing distress over the past five years. That’s 3,195 people who needed someone to listen and help them through a difficult time. 1/2

Graphic highlighting Maggie Chapman MSP’s motion celebrating five years of Penumbra’s Distress Brief Intervention (DBI) Dundee service, which has supported 3,195 people experiencing distress through compassionate, peer-led mental health support.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I also met with OneKind to discuss animal welfare, spoke about Scotland’s links with Malawi, and raised the importance of workers in building cyber resilience. Lots to get on with, and lots more still to do. 💚 The Poverty Alliance OneKind Independent Age 2/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Last week I challenged the First Minister on police involvement in mental health crises, met with the Poverty Alliance to discuss rural poverty, and sponsored an Independent Age exhibition on pensioner poverty. 1/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Great to be at Aberdeen Social Centre’s activist fair today. Lots of great conversations: about social care, Rosebank, renters’ rights, asylum rights, Palestine, green jobs, food, anti-racism, disability services and so much more. This is what community looks like! ✊❤️ @aberdeengreens.bsky.social

Maggie wearing a green hoodie with two other greens, at the Scottish Greens stall

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We need properly funded community crisis services, with trained professionals there when people need help most. Lived experience should shape what we do. 3/3

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ve heard from people who found having police arrive during a mental health crisis frightening and distressing, particularly those with difficult past experiences of policing. Police should not be the default response to mental health crisis. 2/3

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today is World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme is about listening to people with lived experience and turning their voices into real change. 1/3

World Mental Health Day graphic from Maggie Chapman MSP. A police officer is visible behind a frosted glass door. Large text reads, “Mental health crisis needs care, not police.” A speech bubble reads, “The right support. From the right professionals. When people need it most.” Maggie Chapman’s photograph and Scottish Greens branding appear at the bottom.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That means less reliance on a handful of Big Tech companies, secure-by-design systems, and starting work now on a Scottish digital sovereignty strategy. 2/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cyber resilience is about much more than protecting computers and data. It’s about protecting our public services, supporting the workers who keep them running, and making sure we have control over the technology we increasingly depend on. 1/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It matters for the First Minister's review of the role of Scotland's Law Officers. Whatever changes are proposed, it must be this Parliament that has the final say. Devolution is about putting power closer to people. I’ll keep standing up for that. 2/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There’s a lot of talk this week about the Tories wanting to roll back devolution and take powers back to Westminster. That should concern all of us who believe decisions about Scotland should be made here in Scotland. 1/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Workers should have a meaningful voice in decisions affecting their livelihoods, and I stand with those fighting to protect their hard-won rights and secure a fair resolution to this dispute. 2/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve lodged a motion in Parliament in solidarity with Wood Group workers and their unions taking strike action to defend their pay, terms and conditions. The reported threat of fire and rehire is deeply concerning. 1/2

Graphic from Maggie Chapman MSP highlighting her Scottish Parliament motion in solidarity with Wood Group offshore workers taking strike action. The motion recognises the role of trade unions in defending workers’ jobs, pay and conditions, references concerns over proposed changes including fire and rehire, and expresses solidarity with the striking workers and their unions.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We need a properly funded specialist service that can respond to these calls and give people the right support when they need it. That would be better for people experiencing crisis, and better for our police officers too. This is something I’ll keep pushing the Scottish Government on. 3/3

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When someone is already in extreme distress, sending the police can make a difficult situation even worse. Police officers are being asked to deal with situations that require specialist mental health support. 2/3

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People experiencing a mental health crisis deserve care and support, not a police response by default. At FMQs I challenged the First Minister on the use of police officers for mental health welfare checks. 1/3

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 05/10/2026

In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive through violence, the deliberate blockade of essential supplies, and the destruction of healthcare and vital infrastructure.

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Three years on: Israel is asphyxiating Gaza and dismantling the means of survival | MSF

In Gaza, Palestine, Israel continues to systematically destroy the conditions people need to survive.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The people who teach, research, support students and keep the university running are at the heart of what makes Dundee University what it is. I stand with UCU in fighting for secure jobs, fair conditions and a real voice for staff in the future of their university. 2/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve lodged this motion in Parliament in solidarity with UCU members at Dundee University. I’m clear that compulsory redundancies are not the answer. Staff shouldn’t be expected to pay the price for financial failures at their university by losing their jobs. 1/2

Maggie Chapman MSP’s motion lodged in the Scottish Parliament expressing solidarity with UCU members at the University of Dundee, supporting their strike action and opposition to compulsory redundancies, and calling for secure jobs, fair working conditions and a strong workers’ voice.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Short prison sentences often do little to address the causes of offending. We need a justice system that actually helps people change their lives, rather than simply cycling people in and out of prison 2/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We need to stop treating prison as the default answer to offending I pressed Neil Gray on the huge cost of HMP Glasgow and the high levels of reoffending If we want safer communities, we need to reduce reoffending. That means investing in community justice, rehabilitation, housing and support 1/2

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Protecting nature is also about protecting our communities. We need to be doing much more to protect and restore our woodlands. 🌳 3/3

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We had a really useful conversation about why we need more trees in the places people need them most, and the role they can play in helping us deal with the climate shocks we’re already seeing, from flooding and drought to extreme heat. 2/3

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good to meet with the Woodland Trust Scotland at Holyrood for their Trees for All campaign. 1/3

Maggie Chapman MSP standing beside a Woodland Trust Scotland “Trees for All” display, holding a “Mair Trees” sign promoting more trees for Scotland’s people and nature.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Three years of genocide is three years too long. People in Dundee will be coming together on Saturday 10 October to march for a free Palestine and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. 📍 Dundee Central Mosque, 1.30pm ✊ March to City Square, 2pm If you can, please join them. 🇵🇸

Poster promoting the Palestine March Dundee on Saturday 10 October, commemorating three years of genocide. It calls for a free Palestine and asks people to assemble at Dundee Central Mosque at 1.30pm before marching to City Square at 2pm. The poster features Palestinian flags, an image of Dundee and messages of solidarity and justice for Palestine.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A busy week, with lots going on. Making sure workers aren’t left behind as we move away from oil and gas, pushing for stronger animal welfare and standing with UCU Scotland fighting university cuts. And it was great to celebrate Southesk Primary's work around outdoor play and learning

Graphic featuring Maggie Chapman MSP with the heading “Last Week, I…” and four highlights: calling for workers to be put first as Scotland shifts away from oil and gas; discussing how to improve animal welfare 20 years after the Animal Health & Welfare Act; standing with UCU members and students facing university cuts; and celebrating Southesk Primary School’s work on outdoor play and learning.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

pays tribute to all those who have resisted fascism and racism, past and present, and affirms that, when communities stand together against fascism, "They shall not pass."

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

further believes that defeating the far right also means challenging the poverty, inequality and insecurity on which it feeds, and building communities rooted in solidarity, strong public services, workers’ rights, climate justice and welcome for refugees;

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

rejects the normalisation or accommodation of fascism and believes that it must be confronted through organised, democratic and peaceful community resistance;

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

believes that this lesson remains urgent as the far right again organises, intimidates and scapegoats migrants, refugees and minority communities across Scotland and the UK;

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

notes that the police were deployed not to protect the anti-fascist community but to facilitate the march of the British Union of Fascists; celebrates the mass resistance of ordinary people who stopped that march and remembers their cry, “They shall not pass”;

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

recalls that, on 4 October 1936, tens of thousands of people, including Jewish residents, trade unionists, socialists, communists and Irish workers, united to prevent Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists marching through London’s East End;

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The full text of the motion: Marking the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street: That the Parliament commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 2026;

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

90 years ago today, anti-fascists and anti-racists defeated Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts in what became known as the Battle of Cable Street. Fascism is not inevitable. We can - and must - defeat it. They shall not pass! "¡No pasarán!" ✊

Image shows the text of a motion Maggie has submitted to the Scottish Parliament - the text of which is here: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/votes-and-motions/S7M-01364

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Those who start wars to make money while polluting the planet are the WORST of humanity. Despicable. They don’t just spill blood,they spill poison into the very Earth that feeds us all. Humans are the ONLY animals on Earth that will shit on its own dinner.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is not a dying planet. This is a planet being killed. There is a difference. And there are killers. #ClimateJustice

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 03/10/2026

“There’s no money. What they really mean is there’s no money for you.” Green Party deputy leader @mothinali.bsky.social speaking at UCU’s Wages Not Weapons fringe at Green Party Conference. It’s time to invest in our communities, in education and in people not war.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking to get involved in local campaigns? Join the Activist Fair at Dunbar Hall on Saturday 10 October, 11am-5pm. It's a great chance to meet inspiring groups from across Aberdeen, including SPSC Aberdeen. Free entry, donations welcome. Hope to see you there!

Black-and-white poster advertising the Activist Fair at Dunbar Hall on Saturday 10 October from 11am to 5pm. The free event, organised by Aberdeen Social Centre, features local activist groups, talks, skill shares, a radical café, a book sale and swap, and refreshments. A small map shows the venue location.

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