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Indypodcasters Fiona, Marlene and Lynne spent a day at the Festival for Survival in Glasgow which brought together an international group of experts and activists to discuss the twin crises of nuclear weapons and the climate emergency.

Our reflections of the day and highlights from a selection of the speakers are:

00:00:30 Intro and reflections

00:07:42 Lynn Jamieson (Scottish CND) opens with a poem

00:10:25 Jean Urqhart (activist) recalls heady days in Ullapool

00:13:33 Mark Ruskell MSP stopping the nuclear convoys

00:17:59 Melissa Parke (ICAN) never too small to make a difference

00:21:16 Bishop William Nolan (Archbishop of Glasgow) real peace

00:25:07 Laura Young (campaigner) engaging our young people

00:32:33 Bill Kidd MSP glimmers of hope

00:35:25 Dr Claire Duncanson (Uni. of Ed) a feminist approach

00:40:49 Dr Olamide Samuel (Inst Diplom) Scotland's power

00:45:00 Venessa Hanson (ICAN) climate effects

00:47:00 Tim Wallace - divest and call out polluters

00:49:22 Robin McAlpine (Commonweal) - how much to do?

00:58:00 Bill Ramsay (SNP TU Group) - reflection on the event.

Watch presentations by Linda Pentz Gunther and Philip Webber on our Youtube channel here: 

You can also watch the full day's livestream from the event on Scottish CND's Youtube channel here -

Scottish CND website is here

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) website : 

Beyond Nuclear International website 

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This is part 3 of our mini series examining the SNP's independence strategy, this time from the perspective of other independence parties.

Presenters Fiona and Marlene were joined by guests Colin Fox (National Spokesperson for the Scottish Socialist Party), Julie McAnulty (Deputy Leader of the Independence for Scotland Party) and Dave Thompson, Alba Party member and convenor of Christians for Independence.

General themes of our discussions are:

00:01:00 Patrick Harvie speaking at the Scottish Greens conference

00:02:16 Alex Salmond speaking at the Alba conference

00:03:00 Q1: What do you think of the SNP resolution?

00:08:33 Q2: How do we build support for independence?

00:19:26 Q3: Would you support a constitutional convention?

00:28:23 Q4: What should the strategy be for the GE?

00:40:00 Q5: What if Labour win the GE?

00:48:09 Q6: Where do we go from here?

You can listen to part 1 of this series, which covers the resolution, amendments and decision from the SNP conference here: 

In part 2 of the series, we chat with three SNP members who were at the conference about their reaction to the strategy that was agreed. Listen here: 

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Highlights from the RIC conference held in October 2023 on the theme of "Breaking the Impasse"

00:00:25 - Welcome from Chair Bob Gropilot, RIC

00:01:47  - speaker Kevin, Socialists for Independence

00:13:41  - speaker Kirsten Murray, Scottish Socialist Youth

00:23:15  - speaker David Buckley, SNP Socialists

00:34:13   - speaker Maggie Chapman, Scottish Green Party

00:44:00   -speaker Conor Beaton, Republican Socialist Party

00:53:35   - feedback from workshops

How to get involved an more information about Radical Independence Campaign  

You can listen to our previous podcast episode which from a RIC national forum meeting and gives the background to the conference is available on our website 

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Our Rising Clyde episode this month reports from COP28 in Dubai. 

Dubai is the seventh biggest exporter of oil in the world and the President of this COP is himself the President of the Abu Dhabi Oil Company. That in itself has raised a few eyebrows.

We look at what’s at stake, at the end of the hottest year ever recorded. If world leaders are doing so little, why should we continue to pay any attention at all to what happens at the COP?

Host Iain Bruce talks to Becky Kenton-Lake, the Coalition Manager at Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, and Nathan Thanki, of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.

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You can watch the video version of this podcast on Independence Live's Youtube channel

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Topical snippets from Scottish politics and activism in November:

00:01:08  Festival for Survival opening by Lynn Jamieson 

00:04:09  Jean Urquhart marches in Ullapool

00:06:07  Revive conference opening by Chris Packham

00:10:43  Lesley Riddoch speaking at the Breakup of Britain event

00:16:10   Our Star in Scotland - former MEP Julie Ward explains Erasmus

00:18:47   Holyrood -  Trams Enquiry 

00:21:34   Net Zero committee on the circular economy

00:27:21   Scotland's Census

00:29:04   Rwanda plan ruled unlawful

00:31:12   How others see us

00:35:45   Westminster - will Kemi Badenoch devolve employment law?

00:36:42    Deirdre Brock vs Penny Mordant

00:39:54    Scottish affairs committee science enquiry

00:41:54    Neale Hanvey responds to the King's Speech

00:45:40    Alex Salmond preaches forgiveness in Alba conference speech

00:53:50     Alex Salmond sues Scotgov

00:55:23      Protest choir sings for a cease-fire outside of Colonial HQ

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Protest choir footage by Mike Fenwick 

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00:00:16 What is Future Voices?

00:04:33 Health and Happiness

00:09:18 A Fair Society

00:17:07 Clean and Green

00:22:00 Prosperity

00:26:38 Our Democracy

00:36:55 Launch night

00:41:41 Community

00:49:09 Values

00:55:16 Back to the Future

Future Voices is an innovative and inspiring project that aims to address people who are still unsure of how an independent Scotland will be better than today's version. Founders Joyce and Ian Munro join Indypodcasters Fiona and Marlene in the studio to tell us more about the project and how it can be a valuable resource available to all.

We take a look at Future Voices 7 inspiring and thought provoking videos and take a glimpse into a possible future - we CAN make this happen.

Please subscribe to the  @FutureVoicesScotland  Youtube channel and share the clips widely.

You can contact Joyce and Ian by email on [email protected] and they would particularly appreciate hearing from Yes groups who would like to feature in future videos in the series.

Also mentioned in the discussion:

• Orkney Renewable Energy Forum

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Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie delivered a speech to the Autumn conference of the Scottish Green Party in October.  In both speeches they reflect on a year of Greens in Government and look forward to the second half of the parliamentary term, with announcements about forthcoming proposals for new legislation to support both people and planet.

00:00:45  Lorna slater Co-Leader speech

00:17:59  Patrick Harvie Co-Leader speech

Video version of these speeches is available on the Scottish Greens Youtube channel

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For the second in our mini series on the way forward for independence, Indypodcasters Fiona and Marlene invite three SNP members who were at the Autumn conference to share their thoughts on the independence strategy debate. 

Our guests are Liz Lowrey, Almond and Earn SNP Branch Secretary, Simon Barrow, National Secretary of the SNP Trade Union Group, and Jacqui Jensen, Perth SNP member and Yes Hub activist.

Topics covered:

00:01:26 First Reactions - Liz

00:07:59 First Reactions - Simon

00:11:54 First Reactions - Jacqui

00:14:27 Constitutional Convention - Intro

00:15:09 Constitutional Convention - Liz

00:19:32 Constitutional Convention - Simon

00:23:37 Constitutional Convention - Jacqui

00:33:57 A Draft Constitution - Jacqui

00:40:05 More Powers to Holyrood - Simon

00:45:12 Labour in power? - Liz

00:47:51 Labour in Power? - Simon

00:51:09 Optimistic for the future - Liz

00:52:16 Optimistic for the future - Simon

00:54:21 Optimistic for the future - Jacqui

Part 1 of the mini series is also available on our Youtube Channel and as an audio podcast here or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Scottish Independence Podcasts support Scottish Independence but we are not party political.  The route to independence concerns everyone in the Yes movement and there is by no means consensus on the path that will lead to success.  We will be dropping in on the various party conferences to see how they propose to get us there, starting with the 2023 SNP conference where the independence strategy was a key - and lengthy - debate.

People new to party conference procedures might be understandably confused about the difference between resolutions, proposers and seconders, remits back, direct negatives ... 

In this episode, Indypodcasters Fiona and Marlene attempt to navigate the key parts of the debate up to and including the vote at the end.  Key parts of the podcast are:

00:01:16    Humza Yousaf proposes the resolution

00:11:32    Stephen Flynn joint proposal

00:17:22    Tommy Sheppard Amendment A

00:23:22    Tony ~Guiliano Amendments B and C

00:29:43    Joanna Cherry Amendment D

00:37:19     David Buckley - Remit back

00:41:27     Graeme McCormick, Direct negative

00:45:43     Chris Hanlon  Amendment F

00:48:22     Mike Russell, speaking against amendments F and G

00:51:21     Tommy Sheppard summing up

00:53:56      Joanna Cherry summing up

00:57:03       Pete Wishart summing up

00:59:37      Graeme McCormick  summing up

01:02:11      Humza Yousaf summing up

The full debate can be watched on SNP's Youtube channel here 

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Welcome to this month's round up of topical clips from Scottish independence politics and activism.

Topics this month:

00:01:05   Future Voices 

00:04:41   Chain of Freedom -

00:07:06    Rutherglen by-election 

00:13:06    Holyrood debate on the Internal Market Act

00:25:47    SNP conference welcome address

00:42:41    Capping staple food prices proposal

00:44:16     Devolution of employment law 10 min rule bill

00:51:16      Scotland's Future

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

Chain of Freedom souvenir video 

UKICE Lunch Hour: Scotland's future 

Future Voices

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