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Starting a better conversation
about being SAFE
‘Secure Scotland’ is a network of people and organisations that is challenging prevailing ideas of security. In place of practices that increase inequality and make us less safe, we want to link up those who think Scotland could look after all its citizens and their environment by responding to basic needs and real threats, and make useful contributions to peace and security in the global community.
food security – wellbeing economy – peace and disarmament – violence reduction - land reform
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Freedom Come All Ye
Being Safe
Standing For Peace in Difficult Times
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The WandA Images
Visit our collective exhibition at 58 Ratcliffe Terrace! Image - 'Luana by the Lake', Phillit Wiona Sophie (available for purchase) After...
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Sep 24, 2024
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Responding to the UK Strategic Defence Review
“ Describe the strategic, threat, and operational context for UK Defence 2024- 2050” This first question in the online call for evidence ...
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Sep 18, 2024
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September Events at Scottish Parliament
There are two open events being held at the Scottish parliament in September. On the 12th and 18th September JOHN AINSLIE AND THE...
Secure Scotland
Sep 10, 2024
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SECURE SCOTLAND UPDATE
We are thrilled to share the positive news that we have secured additional funding from the Joesph Rowntree Charitable Trust, ensuring...
Martha Jones
Aug 23, 2024
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Post Election Update
The election has unseated the worst Tory Government of modern times, which is now replaced by an opposition that is committed to spending...
Secure Scotland
Jul 9, 2024
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For Refugee Week 2024
Espoir et Désespoir - Hope and Despair It's a gel image print on a small recycled plywood panel made in March at one of Secure Scotland's...
Secure Scotland
Jun 25, 2024
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For Refugee Week 2024
The Most Difficult Thing* Some Reflections on the Refugee Crisis in Calais and Dunkerque Margaret Ferguson Burns, July 2020 The most...
Secure Scotland
Jun 21, 2024
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A Guided Tour of the Unacceptable - arrange a local screening or check out when and where you can see it
A Guided Tour of the Unacceptable is a geographical and historical tour of the UK’s nuclear weapons on the Clyde and resistance to them,...
Secure Scotland
Jun 16, 2024
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Pluralism not Secularism
I have previous on this one as a secondary school teacher and a local authority education adviser. In the early nineties the then...
Secure Scotland
May 21, 2024
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Scotland, Nukes and NATO
In recent days there has been a flurry of attacks on the Scottish National Party about a mismatch between its No Nuclear Weapons stance...
Secure Scotland
Mar 27, 2024
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CREATIVE COMPASSION
The wonderful Karine Polwart has offered us a chanceto auction for you to host her at a house concert in your own home! Artists,...
Secure Scotland
Feb 25, 2024
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A TIME TO BUILD
There is really no need to list what makes these times so grim, so unbearable. Yet it might be worthwhile to point up a key point in all...
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Dec 28, 2023
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GAZA CEASEFIRE CALLS ARE NOT GESTURE POLITICS
Around the Gaza crisis there has been a lot of pushback talk to the effect that calls for a ceasefire are “gesture politics” - in other...
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Nov 15, 2023
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Standing for Peace in Difficult Times
In July we wrote: “The European war drags on. And this is not the mere passage of time – it is the death and destruction that each day...
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Oct 2, 2023
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The Poisoned Umbrella
Those engaged with the grim business of nuclear weapons are as prone as any other in-crowd to spout chunks of jargon that mystify the...
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Sep 13, 2023
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Standing For Peace In Difficult Times
The European war drags on. And this is not the mere passage of time – it is the death and destruction that each day brings, alongside the...
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Jul 14, 2023
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Summer Time News
As the summer goes on, Secure Scotland is feeling at home in Words and Actions at Ratcliffe Terrace and finding the practical...
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Jul 14, 2023
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OUR NEW HOME
2022, as the pandemic eased, Peace and Justice and Secure Scotland moved into Words and Actions for Peace , near to Summerhall and the...
Secure Scotland
Mar 15, 2023
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Standing for Peace in Difficult Times
A Secure Scotland panel event at Words and Actions for Peace Centre 58 Ratcliffe Terrace EDINBURGH EH9 1ST on 2nd March at 7 p.m. A year...
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Feb 21, 2023
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A Guided Tour of the Unacceptable
A Guided Tour of the Unacceptable is a geographical and historical tour of the UK’s nuclear weapons on the Clyde and resistance to them,...
Secure Scotland
Feb 15, 2023
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24th February - solidarity with the people of Ukraine
On the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Scottish CND, Peace & Justice Scotland and Secure Scotland are calling for a repeat of the...
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Feb 6, 2023
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THE COMMON SECURITY WARNING BELL
When exploring alternative ways of thinking about security – alternative, that is, to the standard references to military matters,...
Secure Scotland
Sep 19, 2022
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The Strong Grip of the Cold War Mentality
On 9th August, while folk across the world were commemorating the 1945 slaughter of the people of Nagasaki by a nuclear bomb, Dave Doogan...
Secure Scotland
Aug 12, 2022
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NO MORE THINKING IN BOXES
One thing jumps out of “Emu Field”, Elizabeth Tynan’s fine account of one location for the UK’s nuclear weapon tests in Australia, is the...
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Jul 18, 2022
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The Drums of War and Scottish Silence
It's not surprising that here in Scotland we are all heavily focussed on the stinking and entrenched clusterbourach that is Westminster....
Secure Scotland
Feb 5, 2022
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Why we need to stop talking about "Nature"
One of the big problems at the back of the serious pickle we are in with climate breakdown and the threat to bio-diversity is how we...
Secure Scotland
Jan 8, 2022
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Secure Scotland Welcomes Nicola Sturgeon/Douglas Ross Visit to Bluevale Community Club
Secure Scotland has written to the First Minister and to Douglas Ross MSP to commend them for their joint supportive visit to the...
Secure Scotland
Dec 8, 2021
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White poppies - Now More Than Ever
As the UK’s Remembrance Day approaches many of us will be wearing white poppies. The Peace Pledge Union points out that “the white poppy...
Secure Scotland
Oct 30, 2021
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The Trouble with Neighbourhood Watch
You live in a flat in a six-in-a-block, part of a scheme built by the council in the fifties, though now only two of the households are...
Secure Scotland
Sep 28, 2021
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A Minute's Silence
A poem by Iona Soper, Associate for Secure Scotland - https://www.securescotland.scot/people/iona-soper Our vigil was sheltered from...
Secure Scotland
Aug 9, 2021
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Judy Murray Is Talking Nonsense
Judy Murray, mother of the admirable tennis champions, has criticised the practice of non-competitive sports days in primary schools,...
Secure Scotland
Jul 5, 2021
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GLASGOW 13th MAY
13th May 2021 was a day of three connected events in Glasgow. Most folk are now familiar with what happened that day in Kenmure Street,...
Secure Scotland
May 29, 2021
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Open call for contributions - 'The Scottish Degrowth Commission
Open call for contributions - 'The Scottish Degrowth Commission: work, livelihoods and a just transition’ Supported by Enough!, Svenja...
Secure Scotland
May 17, 2021
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Human Security: It Starts Here!
By Iona Soper Associate for Secure Scotland: https://www.securescotland.scot/people/iona-soper I recently attended a panel exploring...
Secure Scotland
Mar 31, 2021
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Harm and Hunger: Funding Hunger
By Iona Soper Associate for Secure Scotland: https://www.securescotland.scot/people/iona-soper This blog was originally produced for...
Secure Scotland
Mar 31, 2021
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Harm and Hunger: Nuclear Famine
By Iona Soper Associate for Secure Scotland: https://www.securescotland.scot/people/iona-soper This blog was originally produced for...
Secure Scotland
Mar 31, 2021
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Harm and Hunger: Operation Starvation
By Iona Soper Associate for Secure Scotland: https://www.securescotland.scot/people/iona-soper This blog was originally produced for...
Secure Scotland
Mar 31, 2021
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The Anti-Nuclear Family
By Iona Soper Associate for Secure Scotland: https://www.securescotland.scot/people/iona-soper Last night I attended the launch of Ray...
Secure Scotland
Mar 30, 2021
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Plato and Play-Doh
There is a cartoon going round in which a young student turns up at the philosophy class with a pack of Play-Doh instead of a copy of...
Secure Scotland
Feb 21, 2021
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STAYING SAFE
In the pandemic the business of staying safe is top of the agenda. It's personal and social responsibility, it's the business of...
Secure Scotland
Jan 17, 2021
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