"Gaza has become a mass grave for Palestinians and those trying to provide assistance.
Over 1,500 health workers and hundreds of humanitarian workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, according to OCHA."
Doctors Without Borders
#stopthegenocide

Video from the Edinburgh protest.

Leonardo are the 13th largest manufacturer of weapons and weapon parts in the world, and they have a factory in Edinburgh funded by the Scottish Government.
#stopfundingisrael

It is a matter of public record that the Scottish Government, via Scottish Enterprise, has given the Leonardo arms firm over £1m in grants. They are funding a firm that makes the laser targeting system for the F35. Without this system the F35 aircraft being used to bomb Gaza would be inoperable.

Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Games has been accused by a trade union of sacking staff in the UK to stop them from unionising.
The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, which represents people working in the gaming sector, said 31 workers were fired from Rockstar's UK studios on 30 October.

GENOCIDE IN SUDAN.
The Rapid Support Forces militia is committing genocide in Darfur in western Sudan, in the course of its civil war with Sudan's military rulers. The RSF is armed by the United Arab Emirates, which receives huge arms supplies from France, the US, the UK and others.
#Sudan

Friends of Israel don't have friends.
Two members of the Building Bridges with Israel Group, Tory MSP Jackson Carlaw and the recently expelled SNP MSP John Mason, encounter Sudanese protesters outside the Scottish Parliament.
#sudan
#stopthegenocideingaza

The far right is the real threat to women's rights.
#transrightsarehumanrights

TERFS don't speak for teachers.
Penny: teacher, feminist and socialist speaks out for trade union solidarity against the transphobic bathroom ban.
#transrightsarehumanrights

Lesbians support our trans sisters.
Sigrid: “I’ve been a feminist for 50 years – and in that time I’ve seen lesbians and feminists change the world. Change means reaching out to others who are oppressed – people of colour, working-class people, queer people, trans people."
#transrightsarehumanrights

Our fight is against discrimination.
International Women's Day Edinburgh speak out in support of the trans and non-binary community.
@rtie.org
#transrightsarehumanrights

Mairi speaks out for a more inclusive feminism that supports trans rights and the intersectionality of struggle.
@lighthousebks.bsky.social
@rtie.org
#transrightsarehumanrights

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
The destruction of the village of al-Dawayima is considered to be one of the major massacres of the 1948 War. Unlike massacres carried out by Zionist paramilitary groups, the perpetrators were regular Israeli armed forces.
#StopTheGenocideInGaza

Scotland Demands Better was organised by the Scottish Trades Union Congress:
"demanding that politicians make the changes we need for a society where every household can thrive and prosper."
#scotlanddemandsbetter

Edinburgh today.
From Ceasefire to Liberation
#FreePalestine

At Bute House in Edinburgh with a message for John Swinney. You acknowledge that a genocide is happening in Gaza, it's time to take action.
#FreePalestine

We remember all the dead
#Manchester

Don't try to make a misogynist into a martyr.
40% of the far right men arrested during the 2024 riots had been reported to the police for domestic abuse. Violent misogynists on the streets claiming to "protect women and children", while blaming racialised communities, migrants and trans people.

Scotland needs Climate Action not Climate Chaos.
At the Stop Climate Chaos Lobby of the Scottish Parliament.
#climatechange