Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her)
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Scottish Greens MSP for North East Scotland | Eco-Socialist & Feminist | She/Her | Posts promoted by Maggie Chapman, Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street EH6 5QN
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Today is the Activist Fair in Aberdeen ✊
Pleased to be here with many folk working to create a better world.
Our shared struggle is for social, environmental & economic justice for all.
More info about the fair, including craft stalls, workshops:
aberdeensocialcentre...
Pleased to be here with many folk working to create a better world.
Our shared struggle is for social, environmental & economic justice for all.
More info about the fair, including craft stalls, workshops:
aberdeensocialcentre...
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Today is the Activist Fair in Aberdeen ✊
Pleased to be here with many folk working to create a better world.
Our shared struggle is for social, environmental & economic justice for all.
More info about the fair, including craft stalls, workshops:
aberdeensocialcentre...
Pleased to be here with many folk working to create a better world.
Our shared struggle is for social, environmental & economic justice for all.
More info about the fair, including craft stalls, workshops:
aberdeensocialcentre...
Delighted to join the North Sea Knitters outside of a very chilly Parliament today to protest #Rosebank.
In the week where the Parliament took evidence on the catastrophic impact of 4° warming, it is inspiring to join with innovative campaigners who can offer us all hope.
In the week where the Parliament took evidence on the catastrophic impact of 4° warming, it is inspiring to join with innovative campaigners who can offer us all hope.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Delighted to join the North Sea Knitters outside of a very chilly Parliament today to protest #Rosebank.
In the week where the Parliament took evidence on the catastrophic impact of 4° warming, it is inspiring to join with innovative campaigners who can offer us all hope.
In the week where the Parliament took evidence on the catastrophic impact of 4° warming, it is inspiring to join with innovative campaigners who can offer us all hope.
Today, on #TDOR, we honour and mourn all the trans people whose lives were taken by hatred, violence and neglect.
Their lives mattered. Their futures mattered.
With courage and solidarity, we will build a future where every trans person is free to thrive.
Their lives mattered. Their futures mattered.
With courage and solidarity, we will build a future where every trans person is free to thrive.
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Today, on #TDOR, we honour and mourn all the trans people whose lives were taken by hatred, violence and neglect.
Their lives mattered. Their futures mattered.
With courage and solidarity, we will build a future where every trans person is free to thrive.
Their lives mattered. Their futures mattered.
With courage and solidarity, we will build a future where every trans person is free to thrive.
Last week, @ducuuo.bsky.social staff were on strike, @scottishgreens.org called on Parliament to say no to fossil fuel extraction from the #Rosebank oil field, & thousands joined the climate march in Glasgow. I also heard from Generations Working Together & others promoting social justice.
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Last week, @ducuuo.bsky.social staff were on strike, @scottishgreens.org called on Parliament to say no to fossil fuel extraction from the #Rosebank oil field, & thousands joined the climate march in Glasgow. I also heard from Generations Working Together & others promoting social justice.
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I'm pretty old (71), so I remember clearly the National Front in the 1970s. They were pariahs that the main political parties wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. What is shocking is that the LABOUR party is now coming out with the same policies. What on earth would the likes of Benn, Foot etc. think?
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'm pretty old (71), so I remember clearly the National Front in the 1970s. They were pariahs that the main political parties wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole. What is shocking is that the LABOUR party is now coming out with the same policies. What on earth would the likes of Benn, Foot etc. think?
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is contemptible from Labour!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is contemptible from Labour!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society.
This scapegoating must stop!
Labour must stop pandering to the far right!
This report by @hrw.org is just as harrowing today as when it was published a year ago.
Perhaps even more so, because, despite the so-called ceasefire, Palestinians continue to be murdered by the apartheid Israeli regime.
War crimes must be challenged!
Free Palestine!
Perhaps even more so, because, despite the so-called ceasefire, Palestinians continue to be murdered by the apartheid Israeli regime.
War crimes must be challenged!
Free Palestine!
“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged”
The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percent of the population of Gaza—1.9 million Palestinians—and the widespread destruction of much of Gaza over the last 13 months. Israeli forces have carried out deliberate, controlled demolitions of homes and civilian infrastructure, including in areas where they have apparent aims of creating “buffer zones” and security “corridors,” from which Palestinians are likely to be permanently displaced. Contrary to claims by Israeli officials, their actions do not comply with the laws of war.
www.hrw.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This report by @hrw.org is just as harrowing today as when it was published a year ago.
Perhaps even more so, because, despite the so-called ceasefire, Palestinians continue to be murdered by the apartheid Israeli regime.
War crimes must be challenged!
Free Palestine!
Perhaps even more so, because, despite the so-called ceasefire, Palestinians continue to be murdered by the apartheid Israeli regime.
War crimes must be challenged!
Free Palestine!
Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning.
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning.
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
As the UK Budget draws ever closer, many fear that public services we all rely on will be cut.
But the Chancellor could generate billions of ££ for our NHS, social care, education - just by ending the tax breaks Big Pharma gets now.
Make your voice heard:
But the Chancellor could generate billions of ££ for our NHS, social care, education - just by ending the tax breaks Big Pharma gets now.
Make your voice heard:
Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma:
38d.gs
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
As the UK Budget draws ever closer, many fear that public services we all rely on will be cut.
But the Chancellor could generate billions of ££ for our NHS, social care, education - just by ending the tax breaks Big Pharma gets now.
Make your voice heard:
But the Chancellor could generate billions of ££ for our NHS, social care, education - just by ending the tax breaks Big Pharma gets now.
Make your voice heard:
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Recently I talked to a woman who had been raped about cross examination. She went into a catatonic state for 15 mins, then asked me to hold her hand, and then began to cry. We discussed whether she should refuse to give evidence - even though it would mean he got off.
And now this 👇🏻
And now this 👇🏻
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Recently I talked to a woman who had been raped about cross examination. She went into a catatonic state for 15 mins, then asked me to hold her hand, and then began to cry. We discussed whether she should refuse to give evidence - even though it would mean he got off.
And now this 👇🏻
And now this 👇🏻
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How times change. Parliament celebrate the Suffragettes and their actions, while trying to ban ‘ordinary’ people protesting outside MPs offices and homes
#OtD 13 Nov 1909 suffragette Theresa Garnett attacked Winston Churchill with a horsewhip in Bristol, shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!" Learn more about this and hundreds of other stories in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
How times change. Parliament celebrate the Suffragettes and their actions, while trying to ban ‘ordinary’ people protesting outside MPs offices and homes
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Do you think staff at the University of Dundee were misled when we were told there would be no redundancies? Or when he told us they hadn’t said there would be no redundancies?
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Do you think staff at the University of Dundee were misled when we were told there would be no redundancies? Or when he told us they hadn’t said there would be no redundancies?
Last week I reaffirmed @scottishgreens.org' commitment to legal aid reform to ensure survivors of domestic abuse can access justice.
I was pleased to discuss animal welfare with the SSPCA & those seeking to ban greyhound racing in Scotland.
And talk inclusion with @includem.bsky.social
And more:
I was pleased to discuss animal welfare with the SSPCA & those seeking to ban greyhound racing in Scotland.
And talk inclusion with @includem.bsky.social
And more:
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Last week I reaffirmed @scottishgreens.org' commitment to legal aid reform to ensure survivors of domestic abuse can access justice.
I was pleased to discuss animal welfare with the SSPCA & those seeking to ban greyhound racing in Scotland.
And talk inclusion with @includem.bsky.social
And more:
I was pleased to discuss animal welfare with the SSPCA & those seeking to ban greyhound racing in Scotland.
And talk inclusion with @includem.bsky.social
And more:
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Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.
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Glasgow is getting a Nelson Mandela statue - and these are the shortlisted five options. What do you think?
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Glasgow is getting a Nelson Mandela statue - and these are the shortlisted five options. What do you think?
Last chance to save St Fittick's Park!
Today, Aberdeen's Planning Committee will be discussing the latest planning application for the development and industrialisation of St Fittick's Community Park - Torry's last remaining green space.
I strongly oppose the development. Read more in the thread
Today, Aberdeen's Planning Committee will be discussing the latest planning application for the development and industrialisation of St Fittick's Community Park - Torry's last remaining green space.
I strongly oppose the development. Read more in the thread
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Last chance to save St Fittick's Park!
Today, Aberdeen's Planning Committee will be discussing the latest planning application for the development and industrialisation of St Fittick's Community Park - Torry's last remaining green space.
I strongly oppose the development. Read more in the thread
Today, Aberdeen's Planning Committee will be discussing the latest planning application for the development and industrialisation of St Fittick's Community Park - Torry's last remaining green space.
I strongly oppose the development. Read more in the thread
The job of the radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing!
Mamdani shows:
- you don't have to pander to the right to win
- solidarity with trans people is popular
- people want leaders to speak out against genocide
- we must tax wealth
Scottish politics must learn from this.
Mamdani shows:
- you don't have to pander to the right to win
- solidarity with trans people is popular
- people want leaders to speak out against genocide
- we must tax wealth
Scottish politics must learn from this.
In a fiery speech after his win, NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani warned President Trump that the city will stand united: "To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
'New York will be the light': Zohran Mamdani vows city will lead the Trump opposition
In a fiery speech after his win, the next mayor of New York warned Trump that the city will stand united: "To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The job of the radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing!
Mamdani shows:
- you don't have to pander to the right to win
- solidarity with trans people is popular
- people want leaders to speak out against genocide
- we must tax wealth
Scottish politics must learn from this.
Mamdani shows:
- you don't have to pander to the right to win
- solidarity with trans people is popular
- people want leaders to speak out against genocide
- we must tax wealth
Scottish politics must learn from this.
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Mamdani:
▫️won more than a million votes
▫️1st candidate to do so since 1969
▫️more than 2 million New Yorkers cast their ballots
▫️almost double that of the last election 4 yrs ago
▫️first Muslim mayor
▫️youngest person in over a century to lead the largest city in the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
▫️won more than a million votes
▫️1st candidate to do so since 1969
▫️more than 2 million New Yorkers cast their ballots
▫️almost double that of the last election 4 yrs ago
▫️first Muslim mayor
▫️youngest person in over a century to lead the largest city in the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Election day live updates: Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral race
Democrats are also projected to win governor races in Virginia and New Jersey as Californians vote to redraw election maps.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Mamdani:
▫️won more than a million votes
▫️1st candidate to do so since 1969
▫️more than 2 million New Yorkers cast their ballots
▫️almost double that of the last election 4 yrs ago
▫️first Muslim mayor
▫️youngest person in over a century to lead the largest city in the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
▫️won more than a million votes
▫️1st candidate to do so since 1969
▫️more than 2 million New Yorkers cast their ballots
▫️almost double that of the last election 4 yrs ago
▫️first Muslim mayor
▫️youngest person in over a century to lead the largest city in the US
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
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Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇
75 years ago today, the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR, was created. The UK played a key role in shaping it.
We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life.
We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!
We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life.
We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
75 years ago today, the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR, was created. The UK played a key role in shaping it.
We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life.
We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!
We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life.
We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!
Rights not rescue!
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Rights not rescue!
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
Join Scotland for Decrim & others rallying for sex workers' rights, & against the Nordic Model that puts them at risk of harm, violence, poverty & exploitation.
Driving sex workers underground will not keep them safe!
Tues 18 Nov, 6pm, Scottish Parliament
Last week went by in a whirl, with lots of chat in the Scottish Parliament about the Land Reform Bill.
I also managed to get out & about, standing with the community in Banff against racism & hate, and meeting up with regional organisations & people demanding a #JustTransition.
I also managed to get out & about, standing with the community in Banff against racism & hate, and meeting up with regional organisations & people demanding a #JustTransition.
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Last week went by in a whirl, with lots of chat in the Scottish Parliament about the Land Reform Bill.
I also managed to get out & about, standing with the community in Banff against racism & hate, and meeting up with regional organisations & people demanding a #JustTransition.
I also managed to get out & about, standing with the community in Banff against racism & hate, and meeting up with regional organisations & people demanding a #JustTransition.
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New report details the harm caused by EHRC interim guidance
New report details the harm caused by EHRC interim guidance
TransActual will be taking copies of their findings to meet with MPs
diva-magazine.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
New report details the harm caused by EHRC interim guidance