Sign the Petition Legalising assisted dying threatens domestic abuse victims

Legalising assisted dying creates more risk for Scottish domestic abuse victims. Please consider signing this petition
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There is no legislation currently in Scotland The debate is ongoing. I have expressed my concerns about the Bill here as it currently stands

Assisted dying legalisation could become a lethal weapon for abusive men Without expertise in identifying domestic abuse and coercion, health practitioners involved in the process may unwitting...

Assisted dying legalisation could become a lethal weapon for abusive men. @holyroodmag.bsky.social @forwomenscotland.bsky.social
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Assisted dying laws could be ‘lethal weapon’ for domestic abusers, MSPs warned Fears women who have been diagnosed with terminal illness and are living with abusive partners could be coerced

We wrote to MSPs Clare Haughey & PaulSweeney with our deep concerns about Liam McArthur's Assisted Dying Bill. Scottish women experiencing domestic abuse are being ignored & put at risk. Looking forward to their response... www.scotsman.com/news/scottis...

Assisted dying laws could be ‘lethal weapon’ for domestic abusers, MSPs warned Campaigners against domestic violence have warned proposed new assisted dying laws could provide a “potentially lethal weapon” for abusers.

We wrote to Clare Haughey & Paul Sweeney MSPs with our deep concerns about Liam McArthur's Assisted Dying Bill. Scottish women experiencing domestic abuse are being ignored & put at risk. Looking forward to their response...
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New podcast #EndDomesticAbuse

End this injustice! We all know that health and care services in Scotland and across the (dis)UK depend on the crucial efforts of workers who have come from elsewhere to make their contribution.We’re also probably aware ...

: @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social - do the right thing: www.democratic-left.scot/post/end-thi... / @johnswinney.bsky.social @actsascotland.bsky.social @runnymedetrust.bsky.social @annidonaldson.bsky.social @amendlocke.bsky.social @maggiechapman.bsky.social @crer-scotland.bsky.social

Sorry Mike, tiny print run, none left. I emailed you last week, let's talk!

Yes please do 🙏

This land is their land At the apex of social inequality in Scotland – as in the (dis)United Kingdom as whole - is King Charles and the rest of the people who make up ‘the monarchy’.The recent Dispatches film revealed some aspects of their finances but ignored the Scottish dimension.Ownership of land is one of the key dimensions of inequality closely associated with the monarch’s attachment to hunting estates, including the land around Balmoral.Andy Wightman’s updated report on landownership in Scotland contains some s

Who (for now) owns Scotland? www.democratic-left.scot/post/this-la... / @andywightman.bsky.social @balaitous.bsky.social @ross-greer.bsky.social @amendlocke.bsky.social @annidonaldson.bsky.social @niallchristie1.bsky.social @aigwilson.bsky.social @calumbairdsongs.bsky.social @balaitous.bsky.social

The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females was supposed to help vulnerable girls and women in the 19th century – instead it continued their abuse Established to diagnose and treat women and girls for venereal diseases, this hospital lay at the heart of the notorious Glasgow System.

The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females was supposed to help vulnerable girls and women in the 19th century – instead it continued their abuse

There is a connection to the local Magdalene laundry. Have a read...

The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females was supposed to help vulnerable girls and women in the 19th century – instead it continued their abuse Established to diagnose and treat women and girls for venereal diseases, this hospital lay at the heart of the notorious Glasgow System.

No Victorian Christmas cheer at The Glasgow Lock Hospital for Unfortunate Females theconversation.com/the-glasgow-... @theconversation.com @unistrathclyde.bsky.social

An Independent Labour Party...oh hang on....did that already

Not unrelated...a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding coy has just bought over Harland and Wolf. Scotland has a state-owned shipyard barely managing to stay afloat. Discuss.

Annie Lennox wore a t shirt saying 'global feminist' and described herself as one. @cathynewman.bsky.social introduced her as a 'political activist'. If French feminist commentators can be given that moniker why can't she? #feminist

Petition: Grant Scottish rivers, including the River Clyde, the legal right to personhood Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to grant the River Clyde, and potentially other rivers in Scotland, the legal right to personhood by: * adopting the Universal Decla...

Should rivers have rights? Pleased to see Who Owns the Clyde? expanding their citizens' investigation 🌊 @louisewelsh00.bsky.social @judebarber.bsky.social
petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

"To solve a problem, you have to understand the problem".

Extremely important discussion, answering questions most Glaswegians will have had on the severance, disconnected and under-used nature of much of the Clydeside.

Who owns the Clyde & how might things change?
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Image showing the front page of the article ‘Pity the poor independent scholar!’: The Lament of a Latecomer Historian, by John Sanders, published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.

In October, we published ‘"Pity the poor independent scholar!": The Lament of a Latecomer Historian', by John Sanders bit.ly/3NpBbf1.

What are the problems faced by historians who work independently outside a university and its access to online resources? 1/2

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BBC Scotland - Nae Pasaran Forty years on, Scottish factory workers discover the impact of their act of solidarity.

NAE PASARAN screens Saturday on BBC Scotland and will be available on iPlayer for a month after that! We'll worth the watch.
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Seven reparations, one reckoning: Farah Saleh’s embodied call for justice in Palestine — Greater Govanhill Balfour Reparations 2024-2044, a performance lecture by Farah Saleh, uses a mix of movement, spoken word, and participatory action to confront the UK’s colonial role in Palestine and explores our…

What would you do if you were handed a letter of apology from the UK government for the Balfour Declaration, complete with a promise of reparations to Palestine?

Read about artist Farah Saleh's performance lecture response here:

The bricklayer spy from Possilpark Anni Donaldson has written a piece for The Glasgow Wrap sharing the remarkable story of when her father, as a young bricklayer from Glasgow, was cast into world of Cold War espionage.Ned Donaldson was...

Great piece by @annidonaldson.bsky.social in @theglasgowwrap.bsky.social about how her father - a bricklayer, trade unionist and communist from Possilpark - got involved as a young man in Cold War intrigues in Yugoslavia! Well worth a read: www.democratic-left.scot/post/the-bri...

The bricklayer spy from Possilpark Anni Donaldson has written a piece for The Glasgow Wrap sharing the remarkable story of when her father, as a young bricklayer from Glasgow, was cast into world of Cold War espionage.Ned Donaldson was...

Thanks to @demleftscotland.bsky.social for running with Ned's spy story from @theglasgowwrap.bsky.social
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on X from January 20th

The organisation stated that it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

This week's 'Worsdall Wednesday' finds Frank way out west, in the former burgh of Hillhead. And, if you are a wealthy and up and coming burgh, you need your own burgh hall.

Pic/text: Frank Worsdall's 'The City that Disappeared - Glasgow's Demolished Architecture' (1981)

SNP unites with the rich on farm tax The super-rich falsely claim inheritance tax changes will devastate small farmers, while millionaire landowners continue enjoying numerous tax advantages — why is the SNP supporting this nonsense, ask...

The debate over ending 100% inheritance tax exemption for farms is a reminder that there is no class so militant as the old nobility and the new Establishment combining to defend their vested hereditary interests 👇

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