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Partial to life on this planet. ๐ฒ ๐ณ ๐ฆฆ โง๏ธ ๐ ๐ โฌ ๏ธโพ๏ธ ๐ ๐ธ Resist fascism always. Scottish Greens. In Edinburgh with a bit of ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ / ๐ซ๐ฎ / ๐ช๐ฌ Opinions are my own
๐๏ธ This is tonight!
๐ฉ There are still tickets available to come and hear the first ever MP for the Green Party of England and Wales Caroline Lucas.
๐7pm at Pleasance Theatre (doors open at 6:30).
Yanar Mohammed, a leading Iraqi feminist and coโfounder of the Organisation of Womenโs Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated outside her home in Baghdad on March 2, 2026.
For more than two decades, Yanar was one of Iraqโs most courageous advocates for womenโs rights.
Gorgie / Dalry - St Martins Community Resource Centre, 232 Dalry Road, Saturday 7 March, 10:30am - 12:30pm. Musselburgh - Maggie's Bar and Cafรฉ at Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, Saturday 7 March, 10:45am - 12:45pm. South Edinburgh - Cuthbert's Cafรฉ, 2-6 Spottiswoode Road, Saturday 7 March, 11am - 1pm.
The Inch - Scotmid, 94-98 Walter Scott Avenue, Saturday 7 March, 12pm - 2pm. Forth - Pilton Community Health Project, 73 Boswall Parkway, Saturday 7 March, 2pm - 4pm. City Centre - Lovecrumbs, 155 West Port, Sunday 8 March, 11am - 1pm.
Sciennes - Summerhall, Sunday 8 March, 2pm - 4pm. Silverknowes - Meeting place and time to be confirmed, Tuesday 10 March. Gorgie-Dalry - St Martins Community Resource Centre, 232 Dalry Road, Tuesday 10 March, 6pm - 8pm.
Join the movement! We have lots more door-knocking opportunities this weekend:
Sat 7 Mar:
- Gorgie/Dalry: 10:30-12:30
- Musselburgh: 10:45-12:45
- South Edinburgh: 11-1
- The Inch: 12-2
- Forth: 2-4
Sun 8 Mar:
- City Centre: 11-2
- Sciennes: 2-4
Tue 10 Mar:
- Silverknowes: tbc
- Gorgie/Dalry: 6-8
Purple Spectre Logo Search Search... Boston Iran War/Peace Protests 2020 Photo Credit: Kai Medina via Wikimedia Who speaks for Iran?โand from where? Geopolitics, Representation, and Solidarity Nazanin Shahrokni March 2, 2026 doi.org/10.63478/3O220ECL Prefatory Note (March 2026) This article was completed several weeks before the ongoing US and Israeli military strikes on Iran, which began while nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States were still underway. Shortly before the attacks, the Omani foreign ministerโlong a trusted intermediaryโpublicly indicated that talks had reached an advanced stage, with major concessions under discussion. Military action thus began not after the exhaustion of diplomacy, but in its midst. The strikes immediately widened the confrontation: within hours, Iran launched missiles toward US bases in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, carrying out retaliatory actions it had repeatedly warned would follow any direct attack. The escalation did not remain confined to military installations but extended into densely inhabited urban centers. Coordinated US and Israeli aerial attacks struck Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and several other cities, bringing the war directly into the civilian landscapes in which everyday life unfolds. Officials in Washington and Tel Aviv justified the operation in the language of โhelpingโ the Iranian people even as bombs fell across major cities. Among the most widely mourned casualties are schoolgirls in the southern city of Minab, killed when a missile struck near their school. Their deaths exemplify a broader reality: wars described in military briefings as โtargetedโ or โpreciseโ nonetheless unfold across inhabited environments where civilian life cannot be disentangled from the objects of military force. What doctrine names precision often appears, from the ground, as the conversion of civilian life into what is bureaucratically termed โcollateral damage.โ The strikes culminated in the killing of Sโฆ
A torn-paper effect separates this from the bottom half, which features a green-tinted photograph of Scottish Green supporters. Overlaid in large, white, capital letters is the message: "HELP US FIGHT BACK BY SUPPORTING OUR CROWDFUNDER." The poster includes a QR code, the URL "edinburgh.greens.scot/fund-2026," and the Edinburgh Greens logo in the bottom right corner.
Reformโs billionaire backers want to fill Holyrood with MSPs that will do their bidding.
@scottishgreens.org are different.
Our MSPs are not for sale. We donโt have billionaires or oil and gas barons writing our policies. Our donations come from ordinary people like you.
BrewDog founder and 'world's worst boss' fails in ยฃ10million bid to rescue troubled brewer as its pubs close today
Look, I know itโs a screenshot of the Mail but I screenshotted someone elseโs screenshot so no clicks were given and we all need some good news.
Text reads: help elect Scottish Greens! Dalry - Meet outside the Co-op on 114 Dalry Road, Saturday 28 February at 10:30am. Sciennes - Meet outside Summerhall, Saturday 28 February at 1pm. Inverleith - Meet outside the Stockbridge Tap on Raeburn Place, Sunday 1 March at 11am.
Text reads: help elect Scottish Greens! Marchmont - Meet outside Cuthbertโs Cafe, 2-6 Spottiswoode Road, Sunday 1 March at 1pm. Silverknowes - Meet on Blackhall Path at Silverknowes Road, Sunday 1 March at 1pm. Abbeyhill - Meet at Safari Lounge, 21 Cadzow Place, Sunday 1 March at 2pm.
More door-knocking this weekend! We'll meet in Dalry (10:30am) and Sciennes (1pm) on Saturday 28 February, and Inverleith (11am), Marchmont (1pm), Silverknowes (1pm) and Abbeyhill (2pm) on Sunday 1 March.
Join us to help Scottish Greens get elected this May!
Please watch.
A reminder that the UK Government was willing to let some of these young people DIE rather than simply meet with them to discuss their unfair treatment in prison
They have been held for over a year and a half without trial, only to be acquitted and have โterror linksโ disproven.
National Day of Action. Letโs make history. Weโre on track to elect our first constituency MSP in Edinburgh Central - help us! Sunday 22 Feb meet up to go door-knocking 11am Pavilion Cafe on The Meadows, or 2pm Outside the Co-op on 114 Dalry Road.
Lorna forecast to win Edinburgh Central! Chart showing Green 29.8%, Labour 22.7%, SNP 21.3%, Reform 14.1%, Con 7.5%, LibDem 3%. (27/01/2026 Ballot Box Scotland). Both Votes Green on May 7th.
Join us this Sunday, 22 February, for a day of action! With @lornaslater.bsky.social on track to being elected as Edinburgh Central MSP, we'll be spreading the word in Central, South, and South East Edinburgh.
- 11am at the Pavilion Cafe on the Meadows or
- 2pm outside the Co-op at 114 Dalry Road.
Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum - Sign the Petition! c.org/ptDkGQLwgK via @UKChange
Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.
She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.
They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
Group of 15 people standing in a green outdoor space, smiling and holding signs that say: Vote Green. Text reads: Volunteer for the Edinburgh Greens. Help us elect more Green MSPs. Sign up via link in the post.
Help us elect candidates that care. Meet lovely people and gain great experiences.
We have a range of roles, so whatever your strengths are, your help would be very much appreciated.
Sign up here: edinburgh.greens.scot/elections/volunteer-form/
โ It is reprehensible that EU ministers have attacked the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, based on a deliberately truncated video to misrepresent & gravely misconstrue her messages โ as is clear from watching her original address in its entirety โ
Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders โ here are eight films that have changed politics
Group of Green Party members with posters and clipboards on Edinburgh street
We will be out door knocking again tomorrow (Saturday 14 February) 10.30-12.30. Meet outside the Co-op, 114 Dalry Road, Edinburgh.
We will give full briefing and notes at the start and we will team up experienced hands with those of us coming newer to it. So no experience is required.
100%, messy bits include how to show effective solidarity with people whose reality has been so violent and dehumanising for several generations, and how many anti-imperialists are apologists for brutal regimes and groups that lack popular support, just because they purport to support Palestinians.
The big change is that people are recognising these things. The main motivation of anti-Israel organising has never stemmed primarily from antisemitism. It's just had much more coverage now with a live streamed genocide that people can't help but see through the propaganda.
BREAKING - WE HAVE WON!
Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 โterrorโ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.
Help elect Scottish Greens this weekend February 14-15. Saturday: Marchmont - meet at Cuthbert's Cafรฉ at 10:30 am. Saturday: Livingston - Meet outside Morrison in Deans at 11:30 am.
Sunday: Forth - meet at 10 Pier Place at 2 pm. Sunday: Silverknowes - meet at Silverknowes Court at 1 pm.
Sunday: Inverleith - meet at The Stockbridge Tap at 11 am. Sunday: Willowbrae - meet at Baronscourt Park at 2 pm. Sunday: Southside - meet at Nelson Hall at 2 pm.
We'll be out knocking doors again this weekend to get Lorna, Kate and Q elected!
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Come along and join the campaign for an opportunity to speak with folks about how we are bringing hope back to Holyrood!
Details and any updates will be in our events calendar:
edinburgh.greens.scot/events-calen...
A small link I should say. Which is effectively challenged. There is always a minority with dubious tendencies in every movement and while they need to be called out, I don't think we should spend all day getting absorbed by focusing the discussion around them.
OK that is concerning, I'm not so much on the pulse with FB fora. In Edinburgh we may be in a bit of a bubble but a link to transphobia has been there, though I feel there have been wins around that.
I just don't see them gaining traction on the left in the UK in this century, outside of very small circles.
That does crop up online but hard to say how widespread it is. With the likes of Epstein, Maxwell and Mandelson being covered extensively in the media I can see the far right waiting for an opportunity to start platforming anti-Semitic conspiracy theories again and that's something to look out for.
The anti-Zionism I've come across would also see Jewish people as a victim of Zionism. I get that the branding as "anti-Zionist" is alienating. I'm not here to defend that as effective messaging per se, but I'd be extremely careful about labelling the intentions as anti-Semitic.
I would disagree with that. The article completely misses out that Zionism would never have been possible without white colonialist enablers. Whatever it may mean to a Jew as a means of escaping persecution, taking stolen land as a way of finding security is a solution only made possible by racism.
Yesterday Green councillors called for the city to support the Filton 24 hunger strikers who have been held without trial for months.
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Others blocked this as too risky to even talk about, in an eye opening moment for the state of human rights under Labour.
@cllrcmiller.bsky.social writes:
The latest Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least 21 Palestinian according to Gazaโs health ministry
The Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has not stopped. On Saturday, Israeli military airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians, including six children, in one of its worst assaults during the so-called ceasefire.
3 Green party door knockers with candidates Lorna Slater, Kate Nevens and Jo Philips standing in front of a wrought iron fence with some tree branches in the background. Kate has her dog with her.
11 South West Edinburgh green door knockers holding up signs with "Vote Green" and the Scottish Greens logo. Councillors Dan Heap and Ross McKenzie are there with big smiles.
6 North Edinburgh Green door knockers with a stall in front of the Stockbridge Tap pub. They've got a sign reading "Vote Green" and clipboards.
5 West Edinburgh Green door knockers with candidate Astri Kvassnes and her wee dog in front of a row of local shops and a yoga studio.
What a weekend! A huge heartfelt thanks to everyone who came out to knock on doors and chat with residents about the Scottish parliamentary election on 7 May.
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Vote Green - our future depends on it!
