#VoteScottishGreens Jan 29th 🗳️✅

Dr Emma Sheppard is a local champion, with a long record of holding our elected representatives to account & pushing for better outcomes for Bearsden residents.

Emma firmly believes in the value of keeping decisions & resources as close to local people as possible.

Vote Dr Emma Sheppard #1 for better buses 🚌

Scottish Greens have already been involved in saving our local no.15 route, let's keep up the pressure and vote in East Dunbartonshire's first Green councillor 💚

Bearsden South by-election 29th January 🗳️✅
#VoteScottishGreens

Let's elect EDC's 1st Scottish Green councillor! 💚
Vote for a true local champion - Dr Emma Sheppard #1 on Jan 29th 🗳️✅
#VoteScottishGreens

Nothing says by-election more than two parties canvassing the same street while a third is leafleting it! Thankfully we got there first 💚

Voters in Bearsden South go to the polls this Thursday. If you can help @dungreens.bsky.social with our final push, let us know!

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

We were delighted Scottish Greens co-leader, @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social, joined us in Bearsden South on Monday night to meet local residents & encourage them to #VoteScottishGreens on 29th January 💚🗳️✅

Vote @scottishgreens.org in Bearsden South on Thursday 29th January. 💚

Our candidate Emma Sheppard has ran everything from the community council to the parent council to the gala day. She is a real community champion!

It was a pleasure to be out chapping doors with her and @ross-greer.bsky.social

Good luck Emma.

Andrew Polson has been jailed for two years, crossing the threshold for automatic disqualification. A by-election for East Dunbartonshire's Bearsden South ward will therefore now be held. This has been my most hotly anticipated by-election for genuinely three years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everybody deserves a safe place to live - and people seeking safety need dignity, not hostility.

The problem isn’t people. It’s the failed asylum system.
Hotels, barracks, barges - all dehumanising and unhelpful. About one in three people in asylum housing are survivors of torture.

Great piece here from Paul Shaw of Better Buses Strathclyde on why we need buses in public ownership to be able to deliver better, cheaper, joined up services across Strathclyde, and the rest of Scotland.
open.substack.com/pub/paulshaw...

This nasty piece of writing (archive.is/To1OA to avoid giving money to that rag) has been popular with the Scottish terven, which should come as no surprise because their bigotry extends into misogyny and they can't stand to see anyone outside their hateful bubble success.

Today I'm sharing a post on Substack on Ardrossan Harbour. The Scottish Government are close to re-nationalising the harbour. Great! The harbour needs fixed up and a good ferry service reinstated, and regular users should be compensated. Link to Substack in bio.

There is no escape from #Microplastic and #Nanoplastics, but there's #inequality in the impact of this, as all of the other impacts of the #FossilFuel profiteers

#PlasticsTreaty