A message from Angus MacPhail of Skipinnish to the ALBA Spring Conference

Angus MacPhail from the band Skipinnish, who recently released the song The Clearances Again in protest to the current Scottish Government’s plans for Highly Protected Marine Areas, sent the message below to the ALBA Party Spring Conference following the passing of a motion opposing HPMAs. You can read the full motion here. Originally posted by Alba… Continue reading A message from Angus MacPhail of Skipinnish to the ALBA Spring Conference

It’s time to reframe current tribalism

A blog by Neal Hanvey, first published by the ALBA Party, 6th May. I’m not speaking at the All Under One Banner rally on Saturday 6th May. This will likely elicit a cheer, ambivalence or perhaps disappointment in your mind. Yet those feelings are unlikely to be stimulated by any direct personal knowledge of me as an… Continue reading It’s time to reframe current tribalism

A Choice Of Two Events

Excellent blog from ALBA’s Highland Organiser which pinpoints the choice facing Scots this weekend – bend the knee to a Southern Sovereign, or March for Scotland’s Sovereignty. This Saturday 6th May, two events are taking place, one in London spending millions of public money on an event a recent poll showed nearly 75% of people in… Continue reading A Choice Of Two Events

It all sounds so nice…

Highly Protected Marine Area – it has such a reassuring ring to it! But it will be devastating to the Fishing Communities who’ve depended on fishing since the Clearances. Now they feel they’re being Cleared again. Centuries of traditional skills, family history, local knowledge, centuries of living in harmony with nature, are all being piled… Continue reading It all sounds so nice…