Celebrating the National Yes Registry

We’re delighted to be a part of the National Yes Registry launch. Jason Baird and his team have done an amazing job (re) connecting the Yes groups and beginning to chart a way forward. There’s a bigger and more difficult political challenge ahead, but this organisational effort is a crucial part of the rebuilding. Here’s the film with the declaration of support below.

Declaration of Support

Following our first National Yes Registry conference of grass-root, pro-independence autonomous groups held in Largs on the 5th of December 2015, we the undersigned groups declare our intention to collectively provide the grass-root authority and vanguard leadership necessary to instigate the creation of an open, non-party political, mutually supportive campaigning network around which all willing pro-independence grass-root organisations can coalesce to democratically maximise our social leverage for change and thereby systematically advance the cause for Scottish Independence.
This has been decided.

We intend to deliver on this decision through the creation of a collectively owned and run National Yes Registry ‘Forum mechanism’, as outlined in the NYR film and further developed through feedback gained during the ‘face to face tour of the groups’, undertaken in the five weeks prior to conference. This ‘Forum mechanism’ will continuously adapt and develop to practically address the social and campaigning needs of all the participating groups, as they grow over time.

We, the autonomous groups, fully understand that the ‘Forum mechanism’ which we are sanctioning the creation of, is only a tool. We are creating it in order to help anchor and actively develop, once again, the inspirational campaigning culture of pro-active self-help and powerful social networking that made the Scottish grass-root independence movement a joy to belong to and such a formidable non-party political force to be reckoned with.

It is this, our culture of mutual support, which will ensure the success of our proposed ‘forum mechanism’: A tool of the groups with which to build an effective grass-root social, cultural and campaigning network, nationwide. This is key to understanding the importance of our timetable to ‘launch’ and the ‘stages of group readiness’ which we the undersigned groups commit to delivering upon internally, in preparation to the ‘forum mechanisms’ launch nationally.

We, the undersigned, collectively urge all other likeminded groups and individuals with a belief in the need for a powerful non-party political grass-root voice in the campaigning direction and timing of Scotland’s next strides toward full Independence, to join us in creating this collectively owned, self-organised re-formation and continuation of Yes’s urgent grass-root driven demand for a return to full Scottish Independence.

End of declaration.

Signatories

Yes Annandale [email protected]
Aye2Aye Hub, Fort William [email protected]
Yes Clydesdale [email protected]
Yes Dunfermline & West Fife [email protected]
Yes East Kilbride [email protected]
Yes Edinburgh North & Leith [email protected]
Yes Edinburgh West [email protected]
Yes Forres Area [email protected]
Yes2Inverness [email protected]
Yes Jedburgh [email protected]
Yes Kelty [email protected]
Lochaber Women for Indy [email protected]
Yes Marchmont & Morningside [email protected]
Common Weal Moray [email protected]
Yes North East Fife [email protected]
Yes Orkney [email protected]
Yes Edinburgh Pentlands [email protected]
Yes Rutherglen [email protected]
Yes Alliance Skye [email protected]
Yes Troon [email protected]

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  1. Onwards says:

    Good job with this.
    It seems like there is already a huge resource that can be re-utilised with a bit of adaptation. The official YES Scotland facebook page still has 358,000 followers, and has been at a standstill since September 2014.
    I don’t know who the administrators are, but does anyone know if there is any way the page could be adapted to an ongoing YES campaign ?

    1. John says:

      Hope there is , I have a nasty feeling things are slipping away !

  2. Eric Blair says:

    Wow. A list of names. Seriously. Scottish Nationalism just got a little bit more sinister.

  3. Colin McNair says:

    Opeeative word and then sentence are:

    ‘Unite’ ‘behind the SNP to secure Scotland’s independence!’

    Splitting the vote will always divide and see continued rule from London no matter how admirable greens are, don’t take your eye off the goal!

    The latest instruction from London via the bbc is that Scots voting to leave the EU would help the independence cause for a second independence referendum.

    Think about this, it’s utter nonsense, Scots voting to stay in the EU and England voting to leave is the only way the EU vote can support our cause!

  4. twathater says:

    I am beginning to seriously doubt the intelligence required to work and make decisions within the EU, this morning on daily politics it was announced that further to the success of the agreement between the EU and Turkey to stop or stem the influx of migrants and refugees to the EU at the TINY amount of 5 Billion Euros and visa free travel for Turks within the Schengen zone. The EU intelligentsia have decided in their ultimate wisdom, to extend this fantastic ( working or not ) idea to more Middle Eastern countries and African countries.
    They are proposing to GIVE ( Or Bribe ) African and ME countries with money and visa free travel within Schengen to dissuade and stem migrants attempts to get to Europe . Their belief is that if they give the money to these countries, and the relevant governments spend it on infrastructure and making the places better ( aye right ) the migrants will be happy with their new things ( provided that the dough will not end up in somebody’s bank account ) and they will not seek the promised land or the streets paved with gold.
    WTF the Turkey deal hasn’t worked, they are just finding and using different routes, we will never stop this onslaught until politicians realise that we cannot accept everyone, multi culturism and integration are creating massive problems. STOP BOMBING THESE COUNTRIES AND CONTRIBUTING TO THIS PROBLEM, MIND YOUR OWN F****** BUSINESS , LET THEM DEAL WITH ISIS IN THEIR OWN WAY

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