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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Short Film: Scotland Votes No – What have we done?
A short film I made featuring the days before and after the Scottish referendum. Maybe No voters can contemplate for a few seconds before switching on BBC again, watching some irrelevant crap and hoping their lives can simply return to their … Continue reading
Posted in Independence, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged independent Scotland, poverty
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It’s not a Referendum, it’s a Revolution
“It’s not a Referendum, it’s a Revolution,” says Mark McGowan, the Artist Taxi Driver in one of his incredibly loud and passionate YouTube monologues. And he is completely correct. To think this question of whether Scotland should be independent or not … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, Ethics, Independence, Politics, Poverty, United Kingdom
Tagged Artist Taxi Driver, empire, Environment, equality, freedom, Neoliberal, poverty, Scotland, scottish independence, xenophobia
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An Open Letter to JK Rowling
Originally posted on Teachers for Yes:
by Allan Crosbie, PT English, Edinburgh Dear Joanne, You won’t remember me but nearly 20 years ago we worked together briefly in a school in Edinburgh. Your talents have since made you a lot…
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Austerity: Keeping Ratings Agencies Happy and Controlling People
Austerity. We heard a lot about that since the Masters of the Universe blew the bloody doors off the world economy in 2008. It’s sold to us minions, us majority of human beings as being the only solution to balancing the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Poverty, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged AAA, austerity, Moodys
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Independent Scotland is not about Nationalism
The new poll putting Yes ahead for the first time appears to have awoken many people down south. Maybe some people in the main stream media and elite of society do get it now and this panics them. And some … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Independence, Politics, United Kingdom
Tagged independence, neocon, Neoconservative, Neoliberal, Scotland, WMD
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Two weeks to save Scotland, UK and Europe
Just two weeks to go until the Scottish referendum. What more is there to say that has not already been said? Is there any use in pointing out more Unionist hypocrisy and bullshit? Probably not, even if it still flows … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Independence, United Kingdom
Tagged Common Weal, EU, Farage, Scotland, UKIP
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