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We campaign in solidarity with social movements around the world to fight the causes of poverty and injustice. Join us: https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/receive-scottish-email-updates
TAKE ACTION - Write to the UK Government now and tell them to stand up to the demands of US big tech
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4610
Packed room in Edinburgh last week for our event with @aprscotland.bsky.social on the campaign to oppose the new data centres planned in Edinburgh ✊🏼
Do we really want to prioritise Scotland's future water and energy resources for use by American Big Tech via these massive AI data centres?
Happening today in #Edinburgh: Big Tech, Climate Change and Planning Law: Why we need to oppose new data centres in Edinburgh - and the Big Tech corporate monopoly behind them!
📆 Thursday 5 March, 6.30pm - 8pm
📍Augustine United Church, EH1 1EL
👉Book your place: buytickets.at/globaljustic...
THIS THURSDAY! Come join us to learn more, and help us build a campaign to stop these data centres 👇🏼
💥 WE RISE 💥
Thank you to everyone who joined us at We Rise in Leeds.
It’s always great to spend a day like this altogether – sharing ideas and excitement about our campaigns and movement.
📷: Troy Walker photography
Join @globaljusticenow.bsky.social for this free public meeting, which sounds like an eye-opening, must-attend event! We'll be there to learn how to contest the approval of massive AI data centres in Scotland – which would be at the huge expense of our climate change goals ...
Join us in Edinburgh to help us build a campaign to fight against data centers next month! 👇🏼
We need to reconsider whether deals with U.S. tech companies struck during Mandelson’s tenure as ambassador were in the British public interest.
Our campaigns and policy manager @timbierley.bsky.social spoke with @politico.com 👇
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
This is huge! 🙌🏼
Trump is not simply a puppet of capitalists.
He is trying to shape capitalism into a fascist economic model, our director @nickdearden.bsky.social argues on the latest episode of COUNTER•POWER 👇🏽
counterpower.uk
Come and hear why we need to oppose new data centres planned for Gyle and Currie in Edinburgh, and help us build a campaign to stop them!
📅 March 5, 2026 - 6:15 pm to 8:00pm
👉🏼 Augustine United Church
www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/big-te...
US Big Tech is increasing its lobbying of the Scottish parliament amidst concerns about new hyperscale data centres and the UK's over reliance on a few big companies with strong links to Trump's interests, to run the bulk of our infrastructure
www.thenational.scot/news/2585427...
#ScotlandTravelsTogether heading to London on March 28 for the #Together Against the Far Right demo!
Trains from Glasgow & Edinburgh. Pay what you can (min £30). Can’t go? Donate a ticket for someone else 👇🏼
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-t...
Foxglove Consultancy research shows that if all the hyperscale AI data centres in the Scottish planning system were approved, their energy usage would compare to 50-75% of Scotland's winter peak demand electricity use.
Come and find out about why these AI datacentres must be opposed: bit.ly/4bt29Qd
Join our joint event with @aprscotland.bsky.social to hear why we need to oppose new data centres planned in Edinburgh - and get involved in building a campaign to stop them.
Thu 5 Mar 2026, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 👇🏼
www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...
A win for our communities! 🙌🏼
Scotland's future water and energy resources cannot be prioritised for use by American Big Tech.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2582541...
Open letter to #Edinburgh councillors today calling on them to block planning permission for S. Gyle datacentre bit.ly/49WmjB4
Hear how the UK-US trade pact is encouraging Big Tech to build hyperscale AI datacentres in Scotland at our event with @aprscotland.bsky.social
👉https://bit.ly/4bt29Qd👈
Young people across the global south are rising up! ✊🏽
Join us at We Rise - our youth activism conference - in Leeds on 21 February to hear directly from organisers on the front lines, learn from youth-led resistance, and plan what comes next.
www.tickettailor.com/events/globa...
Gen Z has borne the brunt of corporate-led globalisation.
Now it is fighting to take the future into its own hands.
Brilliant blog from our intern Hugo 🙌🏽
www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2026/01...
“As it stands, this plan is woefully inadequate to deliver the positive changes needed." Becky Kenton-Lake from Stop Climate Chaos on why the Scottish government's draft Climate Change plan is just not good enough www.thenational.scot/news/2581401...
Rosebank would:
- Destroy our planet
- Risk assisting Israel’s war crimes
- Potentially breach international law
Climate justice 🤝 Palestinian justice
#StopRosebank #FreePalestine
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Please take some time to respond to the Scottish draft climate action plan before 29 January and ask them to add endorsement of a Fossil Fuel Treaty to the international section? Instructions on how to do that are here: bit.ly/4qVTCcW - plus more info on other things you might say about the plan.
Financial giant #BlackRock has made BILLIONS from countries in debt crisis 💸
At #Davos this week, they’re joining fellow billionaires to discuss “bold, collective action” in today’s economy.
BlackRock we can tell you what bold action looks like. #CanceltheDebt now!
#CancelDebtChooseHope
"Keir Starmer is clinging onto the shell of the so-called ‘special relationship’ with the US even as Trump threatens us yet again with tariffs...Trump is not invincible, but we need some backbone to end his bullying." Our Director Nick Dearden in The National www.thenational.scot/news/2577633...
🚨 BREAKING: at today’s #ScotBudget the Scottish Government announced a new tax on private jets, something we've been campaigning for.
The true test will be how tough the tax is: it must punitively punishes the pockets of private jet passengers raising millions for green projects.
The right to protest must be defended. We call on the British government to immediately drop its dangerous proposal and repeal the succession of anti-protest laws on which it builds.
Proud to be a signatory to this statement ✊🏼
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Lots of great speakers at our annual youth activist conference in Leeds. Travel and accommodation subsidies available for people coming from Scotland - see the ticket tailor link for more information!
@sccscot.bsky.social @intdevalliance.bsky.social @christianaiduk.bsky.social @ercscot.bsky.social
@sciaf.bsky.social @scotccan.bsky.social @quaker.org.uk Church of Scotland, Justice & Peace Scotland, Protect Our Winters
We've written to the First Minister - with civil society organisations in Scotland - to ask our government to endorse the Fossil Fuel Treaty and to include it in the final #ClimateChange Action Plan.
Scotland has lead the way in international solidarity before. We must do it again: bit.ly/4pBjKd1
BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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