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Sailing for Freedom

Sailing for Freedom

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Sailing for Freedom : Ardrossan to Brodick

Sailing for Freedom is a new addition to the Yes Movement. It’s first outing was the other weekend with a sail from Ardrossan to Arran followed by a rally in Brodick. Organised by Chris Wilson with the help of Sean Mellon from All Under One Banner. And a big thank you to CalMac and their friendly deck staff.

A lovely day, perfect for a sail and sharing the message that independence is the best option for Scotland right across our beautiful country, including the Islands.

The Indypodcasters were there and they made a video! You’ll find more in their Grassroots Campaigning posts.

The Indypodcasters team produce a NEW podcast episode every Friday search for Scottish Independence Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts. Remember to like and subscribe!

Best ways to support Pensioners for Independence

Pensioners for Independence

We are passionate supporters of Scottish independence. Currently we are running twice weekly stalls in Glagow City centre, and a fortnightly stall in Milngavie. Our Glasgow and Edinburgh Groups organise regular meetings with guest speakers. Get in touch, we are always happy to see new folk at our stalls and meetings.

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Europe Day. Scotland Goes to Brussels. Yes4EU

Scotland Goes To Brussels!

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Scotland Goes to Brussels. This week a delegation of Independence supporters went over to the EU Parliament to talk to and lobby MEPs sympathetic to our campaign for independence.

Scotland Goes to Brussels. Scottish IndyPodcasters. Pensioners for Independence.

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The group included Yes4EU, Europe for Scotland, two former MEPs, and the Scottish IndyPodcasters. One of the IndyPodcasters is Marlene Halliday and she made sure she had our Pensioners for Indy T-shirt with her!

There will be much more to say about the outcome of this venture. For the moment let’s just was a very successful trip. So keep a look out in the press and on social media.

And obviously BBC Scotland will be asking Laura Kuennsberg to interview everyone who was there. Not!

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Europe Day, 9th May

But what will definitely happen is a free event in Edinburgh on Europe Day, 9th May, organised by Yes4EU. This year is special as it is the 75th Anniversary of the Schuman Declaration which ultimately led to the formation of the European Union.

The event is called Scotland in Europe: Good for Scotland, Good for the EU It will be an opportunity to hear how an Independent Scotland would be welcome back into the EU family of nations.

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We will hear messages of support from current MEPs and others, recorded during this week’s fact-finding mission. Former Scottish MEPs Heather Anderson and Alyn Smith joined that trip and they will also be at the Europe Day event.

Yes4EU is aiming for a lively discussion exploring the positive impact of Scotland’s presence in the European Union. And that positive impact is not just for Scotland itself, but for the wider European community. There are opportunities that being part of the EU will bring to Scotland. But let’s remember that will also contribute to the overall prosperity of Europe.

Until 9th May, here are some photos from the Brussels trip

Europe Day. Scotland Goes to Europe. Yes4EU
Europe Day. Scotland Goes to Europe. Yes4EU
Europe Day. Scotland Goes to Europe. Yes4EU
Europe Day. Scotland Goes to Europe. Yes4EU
Europe Day. Scotland Goes to Europe. Yes4EU

One of the people who was contacted for suggestions on how to approach the Scotland Goes to Brussels fact-finding mission over to Brussels was European commentator Kirsty Hughes. Kirsty has been a guest speaker at several our of Edinburgh Group’s meetings.

Best ways to support Pensioners for Independence

We are passionate supporters of Scottish independence. Currently we are running twice weekly stalls in Glagow City centre, and a fortnightly stall in Milngavie. Our Glasgow and Edinburgh Groups organise regular meetings with guest speakers. Get in touch, we are always happy to see new folk at our stalls and meetings.

Subscribe to our Newletter. You can sign up using the form at the rhs side of this page. And if you’ve enjoyed a post here on the website, please share it, tell your friends and family.

Follow us on Social Media. It all helps to extend our reach and be visible to more people. Just click on the buttons and join our on-line community.

If you can give us a donation, we will put it to good use. You can donate using our PayPal account. Use the button link at the rhs of this page. You don’t need to have a Paypal account yourself to use it.

SNP Independence Strategy Debate. Pensioner for Independence. Scottish independence Podcasts

SNP Independence Strategy Debate

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Posted with permission of Scottish Independence Podcasts.

Independence Strategy

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. Pensioners for Independence supports Scottish Independence but we are not party political. We will be dropping in on the various party conferences to see how they propose to get us there.

We start with the 2023 SNP conference. The SNP independence strategy debate was a key – and lengthy – item on the agenda. Here a 1min summary of the proceedings. It might help before you listen to the debate.

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Key Points

Here are the key points from the debate with commentary from the IndyPodcasters. There’s a contents list below to help you navigate through the video. We think the speeches by Tommy Sheppard and Joanna Cherry are particularly interesting. But there are a lot of thoughtful contributions all the way through. And if you think we’ll end up engaging in civil disobedience then make sure you listen to David Buckley.

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Content List:

00:01:16    Humza Yousaf proposes the resolution, followed by Stephen Flynn, seconding.

Followed by key speeches in favour or against the various amendments:

00:17:22    Tommy Sheppard – proposing Amendment A

00:23:22    Tony Guiliano – proposing Amendments B and C

00:29:43    Joanna Cherry – proposing Amendment D

00:37:19     David Buckley – Remitting the resolution back, in other words go back and think again.

00:41:27     Graeme McCormick – Direct negative, vote the resolution down.

00:45:43     Chris Hanlon – proposing Amendment F

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

Followed by speeches summing up the amendments:

00:51:21     Tommy Sheppard summing up Amendment A

00:53:56      Joanna Cherry summing up Amendment D

00:57:03       Pete Wishart summing up Amendment G

00:59:37      Graeme McCormick  summing up the direct negative

And ending with the final summing up in favour of the resolution

01:02:11      Humza Yousaf summing up

The full SNP independence strategy debate can be watched on SNP’s Youtube channel.

You’ll find podcasts featuring other independence-supporting Parties on Scottish Independence podcast playlist of Scottish Party Politics.

Yes Bikers at Govan

Death of a Yes Biker

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Yes Biker Sandy McCracken

You may have heard about the tragic death of Sandy McCracken following a serious road traffic accident en route to the Kyle of Lochalsh Independence Rally.

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Sandy will be escorted by his friends…

Yesterday morning the Yes Bikers escorted Sandy’s body from Govan, Glasgow down the M74 to the England border. Yes supporters were on some of the M74 bridges to wave him off.

The Scottish Independence Podcast team went along to Govan as the Bikers were gathering and watched them set off. Here’s their video of them. They’ve included some video from M74. And at the end you’ll see the Yes Bikers as they rode over the Kyleakin Bridge last month.

Scottish Independence Podcasts. You’ll find us on our website or wherever you get your podcasts.

Scottish Independence Podcasts

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We have a good relationship with the Scottish Independence Podcasts team.

During the Covid lockdown when we moved to online meetings and talks, we asked them to take on producing podcasts from our events.

If you scroll down through our blog posts on this website you’ll find lots of really good talks and discussions from Glasgow and Edinburgh Groups. Those podcasts are also available on Google, Apple, Podbean and wherever else you get your podcasts. And if we recorded a video then the video is up on their YouTube channel. In all our talks and discussions have had over 5,000 downloads on these podcast channels.

All of that is down to the Scottish IndyPod team. So we thought we’d write this to say thank you and tell you a bit more about them. First thing to say is that they recently published their 800th podcast. And have just passed 250,000 downloads overall. Dedicated is the word that comes to mind!

This is a recent chat they had with Laura Pollock of The National

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You can sign up to their mail-list for advance notice of the podcasts. Click here.

Scottish Independence Podcast YouTube Channel

Although their main activity is creating audio podcasts, they have a YouTube channel called IndyPod Extra where they upload any video footage that they take. Recently they have been tackling the joys of outside recordings. If you go to the channel you’ll find footage from rallies in Skye (wet & windy), Ayr (windy & sunny) and most recently from Edinburgh (sunny and gorgeous). There is some great content and chats, eg two of their collaborators went to Loudoun in Ayrshire with the Saturday Saltire Group and our of that came a great chat about the Battle of Loudoun and Bruce’s victory of the Earl of Pembroke. Click on the image and you can tune into that one: 

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Scottish Independence Podcast Website

They publish a new podcast every Friday. It’s great being able to tune into their weekly podcasts. And as well as making sure those are available widely online, their website operates as a resource and archive. You can browse through the categories on the website. So say you’re interested in defence, you’ll find all the podcasts touching on that topic in one playlist. If you want to find out about ferries or freeports – cos let’s face it, Scottish ferries and freeports are touchy subjects in some quarters – then just click on their Infrastructure Category. Click on the image and have a look.

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Thanks again, IndyPodcasters!