"white beach cove"
Ardnamurchan, Scotland
#TravelCat #Photography #TravelPhotography #Scotland #Coast #Highlands #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Ardnamurchan #Beach #Cove #WhiteSand #BayOfThePledges
"white beach cove"
Ardnamurchan, Scotland
#TravelCat #Photography #TravelPhotography #Scotland #Coast #Highlands #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Ardnamurchan #Beach #Cove #WhiteSand #BayOfThePledges
"Falkirk anti-fascists building unity
The determined solidarity demonstrations against anti-refugee protests are under attack, but are building a Scotland-wide mobilisation that could be decisive, reports Lewis Akers
The aggression and threats of violence towards anti-racists continued to ramp up this week after over three months’ worth of anti-refugee protests from Save Our Futures, the local racist organisation.
On Wednesday evening, a number of anti-racists gathered outside the hotel to oppose the anti-refugee protest. Wednesday nights are well known by anti-racists as having flash points where anti-refugee protestors feel bolder and act more aggressively. After the usual barrage of racist bile and abuse, counter-protestors made an exit and were followed by masked racists. A group of them started squaring up to a young woman and her mum before an anti-racist counter-protestor stood between them and was met with a punch. This was reported to the police at the time and after but no arrests were made despite it happening in plain sight.
On Saturday, again anti-racists gathered to stand united against the racists. The day kicked off with songs sung by the choir Protest in Harmony who welcomed the refugees in the hotel via song. While the choir sung, they were met with a barrage of hate from racist protestors telling them to ‘go back to the church’ and to ‘shut up’, all for singing protest songs, so much for free speech!
At one point during the demonstration, anti-refugee protestors on the other side moved en masse to confront the police over the arrest of an attendee who was reported to be breaching bail conditions by being within the vicinity of the protests. Save Our Futures still insist, despite a number of arrests on their side, that they and their supporters are peaceful and law abiding, despite the fact that there have been more arrests associated with anti-refugee protestors than men housed in the Cladhan Hotel.
As the counter-demonstration came to an end, anti-racists moved out in a disciplined and peaceful way. A number of attempts were made by Save Our Futures protestors to intimidate anti-racists including by a key organiser. Stewards swiftly dealt with these attempts at intimidation by standing their ground and forcing the police to intervene and stop any possibility of an escalation by Save Our Futures. One anti-racist was told by a masked racist that he would be coming to her house because he knew where she lived."
https://www.counterfire.org/article/falkirk-anti-fascists-building-unity/
The Northern Scot has an article about the group planning a far right rally in Inverness this weekend.
"Falkirk anti-fascists building unity
The determined solidarity demonstrations against anti-refugee protests are under attack, but are building a Scotland-wide mobilisation that could be decisive, reports Lewis Akers
The aggression and threats of violence towards anti-racists continued to ramp up this week after over three months’ worth of anti-refugee protests from Save Our Futures, the local racist organisation.
On Wednesday evening, a number of anti-racists gathered outside the hotel to oppose the anti-refugee protest. Wednesday nights are well known by anti-racists as having flash points where anti-refugee protestors feel bolder and act more aggressively. After the usual barrage of racist bile and abuse, counter-protestors made an exit and were followed by masked racists. A group of them started squaring up to a young woman and her mum before an anti-racist counter-protestor stood between them and was met with a punch. This was reported to the police at the time and after but no arrests were made despite it happening in plain sight.
On Saturday, again anti-racists gathered to stand united against the racists. The day kicked off with songs sung by the choir Protest in Harmony who welcomed the refugees in the hotel via song. While the choir sung, they were met with a barrage of hate from racist protestors telling them to ‘go back to the church’ and to ‘shut up’, all for singing protest songs, so much for free speech!
At one point during the demonstration, anti-refugee protestors on the other side moved en masse to confront the police over the arrest of an attendee who was reported to be breaching bail conditions by being within the vicinity of the protests. Save Our Futures still insist, despite a number of arrests on their side, that they and their supporters are peaceful and law abiding, despite the fact that there have been more arrests associated with anti-refugee protestors than men housed in the Cladhan Hotel.
As the counter-demonstration came to an end, anti-racists moved out in a disciplined and peaceful way. A number of attempts were made by Save Our Futures protestors to intimidate anti-racists including by a key organiser. Stewards swiftly dealt with these attempts at intimidation by standing their ground and forcing the police to intervene and stop any possibility of an escalation by Save Our Futures. One anti-racist was told by a masked racist that he would be coming to her house because he knew where she lived."
https://www.counterfire.org/article/falkirk-anti-fascists-building-unity/
The Northern Scot has an article about the group planning a far right rally in Inverness this weekend.
Someone keeps taking our Activist Fair posters down so someone has recreated it as a drawing, it is better than the original.
Saturday 22n Nov, from 11am @ Dunbar Hall #Aberdeen #Scotland
More info https://aberdeensocialcentre.org/fair/
Someone keeps taking our Activist Fair posters down so someone has recreated it as a drawing, it is better than the original.
Saturday 22n Nov, from 11am @ Dunbar Hall #Aberdeen #Scotland
More info https://aberdeensocialcentre.org/fair/
Today (Saturday 8th Nov) we have another racist protest outside refugee accommodation in Aberdeen, at 3pm on Don Street.
Please share and come to the counter-protest to show racism and xenophobia is not welcome in Aberdeen
There is also a protest in Fraserburgh if you are near there please share and attend - https://kolektiva.social/@ASC/115498096228574147
Today (Saturday 8th Nov) we have another racist protest outside refugee accommodation in Aberdeen, at 3pm on Don Street.
Please share and come to the counter-protest to show racism and xenophobia is not welcome in Aberdeen
There is also a protest in Fraserburgh if you are near there please share and attend - https://kolektiva.social/@ASC/115498096228574147
Westhill Welcomes Refugees, not Racism!
Community groups and local residents are gathering on Saturday 23 August, from 5-7pm, for a peaceful event outside the Hampton Hotel on Straik Road, Westhill. There will be food, music, colourful banners and messages of hope for the refugees living there.
Why Now? Throughout August, angry protesters have targeted people seeking asylum across the UK, standing outside their homes and shouting threats and abuse. This has happened at two hotels in Aberdeen. Westhill is their next target.
These protesters - often bussed in from all over Scotland - say it’s about local concerns. So why are they targeting vulnerable people who have nothing to do with government cuts to public services? Protesters have zero evidence for their accusations about hotel residents, who are stuck here while the Home Office deals with a backlog of paperwork, and who volunteered to clear our parks after Storm Floris.
Imagine fleeing your home, leaving everything behind to escape war or persecution, and suddenly finding yourself not only alone in a new country, but unable to go outside because a terrifying mob is threatening your life.
This is our community and we cannot let our neighbours be treated this way.
If you’re thinking, “plenty of folk will be there, I’ll go if they turn up again,” please note: Saturday will be the fifth such demonstration in our area in just three weeks - it is vital we stand together NOW and reject this message of hate!
Please join us in a spirit of friendship and compassion to say “Our Community Cares.”
Westhill welcomes refugees, not racism!
For the last two weeks in Aberdeen we have had racists targeting the refugee hotel at the links, this weekend they have moved their target to the hotel at the Lang Stracht.
The people of Aberdeen need to stop this hate, they are cynically using 'women and children' as cover for their racism and xenophobia, and attacking the most vulnerable in the city.
Saturday 16th August at 5:30 pm at the Sure Hotel off the Lang Stracht, come by with friends and show that Aberdonians will not stand for this bigotry
GIVE RACISM TWO FINGERS.
Please share and boost the event.
EXCLUSIVE: #Labour warned library cuts on Scotland's largest local authority risked worsening the country's 'shameful attainment gap'.
Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor, 02 Aug 2025
Excerpt: "Glasgow Life, which manages the library service for the council, is proposing to take 16 librarians out of the city's education system. The plans would see the school service headed up by a principal librarian along with three area-based librarians, while an 'assistant' would be placed in high schools.
"An online petition against the cuts and shared among parents has since been signed more than 1,300 times.
"Joy McLean said she was concerned about how a decline in #LibraryServices would impact her daughter and other pupils. '#Librarians are essential #educators who foster a love of #reading, support research and #DigitalLiteracy, and help students thrive #academically and personally,' she added."
Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/librarian-cuts-glasgow-schools-rob-35659625
#LibrariesRule! #EducationCuts #ScotlandPol#LoveOfReading #BuildingCommunity#Literacy#SupportingResearch#CriticalThinkingSkills
EXCLUSIVE: #Labour warned library cuts on Scotland's largest local authority risked worsening the country's 'shameful attainment gap'.
Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor, 02 Aug 2025
Excerpt: "Glasgow Life, which manages the library service for the council, is proposing to take 16 librarians out of the city's education system. The plans would see the school service headed up by a principal librarian along with three area-based librarians, while an 'assistant' would be placed in high schools.
"An online petition against the cuts and shared among parents has since been signed more than 1,300 times.
"Joy McLean said she was concerned about how a decline in #LibraryServices would impact her daughter and other pupils. '#Librarians are essential #educators who foster a love of #reading, support research and #DigitalLiteracy, and help students thrive #academically and personally,' she added."
Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/librarian-cuts-glasgow-schools-rob-35659625
#LibrariesRule! #EducationCuts #ScotlandPol#LoveOfReading #BuildingCommunity#Literacy#SupportingResearch#CriticalThinkingSkills
Fascism in Scotland
Last Saturday a number of us were at an anti-fascist counter protest, off the back of the GB national strike protests, this was was at a refugee hotel in Aberdeen.
There was about 120 fash, 30 anti-fash and only 25 police. but they didn't get near the hotel.
So to any Aberdonians here, you need to pay attention, a lot of this stuff is being spread on other social media networks. This is what the first embers of fascism looks like, imagine what we could do if we outnumber them.
They are planning to be back this weekend We need Aberdonians out to make sure they get the message that racism is welcome in Aberdeen, please share.
7/25/25💡Meanwhile.. in #Scotland 🙏🏴🙏
