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Scotland must be guided by a clear and realistic assessment of the security challenges it might face as an independent state. This is not only important in choosing the basic structures and the resources required to address risks, it is also essential to have clarity on this for the process of negotiations with the rest of the UK (rUK) – England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Decisions about hardware, real estate, workforce/personnel capacity and cooperation could leave us with completely inappropriate resources for our needs if we are not strongly focused. We need to avoid being trapped in “inheritance”. We do not want a damaging andRead More →

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First part in a collection of papers being produced by SIC on the transition to independence. Full document and further reading here. “We must think of self-governing Scotland as an independent legal jurisdiction which has internationally recognised legal boundaries. A Customs officer at an immobile Customs Station, in an open-borders 21st Century European community, has very little impact and demonstrates how Unionists miss the point, whilst further; successfully confusing our electorate by claiming “hard borders” are a show-stopper when in fact they are very largely irrelevant.”   1 Introduction and Background This paper is written at the invitation of Scottish Independence Convention. The author’s practitionerRead More →

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Welcome to the latest news from the SIC. Every month, we will bring you updates from the SIC (what we’ve been up to, what we are planning, news from our members) and information from across the independence movement! We want to share your news and events too: please do get in touch and let us know what you would like to see in this newsletter.  Update from SIC Council The SIC had its regular monthly Council meeting on Thursday 26th November, our last meeting of the year. We recently launched Transitioning Scotland: building the institutions for our new country, a report that will include aRead More →

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Welcome to the latest news from the SIC. Every month, we will bring you updates from the SIC (what we’ve been up to, what we are planning, news from our members) and information from across the independence movement! We want to share your news and events too: please do get in touch and let us know what you would like to see in this newsletter.  Update from SIC Council The SIC had its regular monthly Council meeting on Thursday 29th October. We’ve been working on the production of Transitioning Scotland: building the institutions for our new country. This report will consist of a comprehensive setRead More →

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Welcome to the latest news from the SIC. Every month, we will bring you updates from the SIC (what we’ve been up to, what we are planning, news from our members) and information from across the independence movement! We want to share your news and events too: please do get in touch and let us know what you would like to see in this newsletter. And our apologies to those of you who might have received several copies of the August newsletter – we had a glitch with our email system, but that is hopefully all sorted now – thank you for your understanding! UpdateRead More →

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Welcome to the latest news from the SIC. Every month, we will bring you updates from the SIC (what we’ve been up to, what we are planning, news from our members) and information from across the independence movement! We want to share your news and events too: please do get in touch and let us know what you would like to see in this newsletter. Update from SIC AGM SIC’s AGM took place on Thursday 27th August. As part of the meeting, which took place online, the following people were confirmed as members of the Executive Committee, and will oversee the work of the SICRead More →

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Welcome to the latest news from the SIC. Every month, we will bring you updates from the SIC (what we’ve been up to, what we are planning, news from our members) and information from across the independence movement! We want to share your news and events too: please do get in touch and let us know what you would like to see in this newsletter. Scotland’s Right to Choose There have been lots of different discussions in different places about how we get another independence referendum, as well as when that should be. It seems clear that the UK Government has little interest in repeatingRead More →

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SIC’s campaign organisation, Voices for Scotland, is hosting weekly online discussions to get more people talking about Scotland’s future, and to give more people the space to voice their thoughts and opinions. As we move out of lockdown and into the post-COVID world, there are things that we might want to do differently. The online Get Togethers are spaces where people from all over the country can come together to chat about their experiences, thoughts, views and opinions in a safe space, free from judgment and party politics. The next discussion, this Thursday, 30th July, from 6pm, will focus on jobs, the economy, and planning forRead More →

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At our AGM last Thursday, we elected Elaine C Smith, Scottish actor and comedian, as the first President of the Convention. We created the position of President to allow the widening of the scope for the appointees to the position of Convener of the Convention. Elaine’s election to the role is in recognition of the significant work she has done for the Convention, and for the wider independence movement. She has been a pivotal figure in the work of the independence campaign since the Convention’s formation 14 years ago. Maggie Chapman, former Co-convener of the Scottish Greens, was elected to take over from Elaine asRead More →

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Salary: £27,500 Status: Full time / jobshare considered Contract: 6 months fixed term, with extension dependent on fundraising Location: Home-working, with a future possibility of an office probably in the central belt Closing date: 5pm, Friday 30 August 2019 Interviews: To be held in early September 2019 Voices for Scotland is the campaign organisation that seeks to plan, deliver and win the next campaign for Scottish Independence. It is the campaigning and fundraising arm of the Scottish Independence Convention, a coalition of independence supporting organisations. Its goal is to lift the support for Scottish Independence to about 60%, building on the independence movement that deliveredRead More →

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