I HAVEN’T spoken at an independence rally in Glasgow’s George Square for many years (which I’m doing this afternoon). Would I have chosen this…
rally in Glasgow’s George Square for many years . Would I have chosen this Saturday, with the benefit of hindsight?
There’s no point in clean electricity if it just fuels the same materially wasteful, status-obsessed, rampantly consumerist society that it always did. And we can try out social arrangements, like universal basic income or job guarantees, that begin to address what humans will do with their lives and purposes, under these transformative conditions.WHAT policies are we proudest of, under devolution? Those which raise the floor of entitlements and support for everyone – free tuition fees in university, free prescriptions, free personal services for the elderly, a more supportive welfare system.
Cosmolocal groups, citizen action networks and assemblies, urban commons … the world is currently brewing up a diversity of democratic innovations. Scotland has played its full part in industrial and imperial modernity. We bear considerable responsibility for a system that has brought us to the very precipice of the planet’s ecological boundaries. This system has also left billions in unbearable living conditions they will have to flee.
All the way through an independence process – before, during, and after – those supporting the outcome must “be the Scotland they wish to see”, to paraphrase Gandhi.
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