Category Archives: Protests

Events we are supporting this session (to date!)

Future Events 7th Octo­ber: Edin­burgh Trades Coun­cil 1.30–2pm 11th Novem­ber Remem­brance Day 9th Decem­ber CAAT: Cam­paign Against the Arms Trade 

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Events we participated in over the past year

17th June:  Wom­en’s Inter­na­tion­al League for Peace and Free­dom  at the Mound 23–25th June : Street Choirs in Leices­ter 29th June: North Edin­burgh women singing at the City Cham­bers to protest ben­e­fit cuts 1st July: React Ceilidh to sup­port refugees 8th July: … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Scrap Trident March and Rally 27th February 2016

24 singers trav­eled to Lon­don to join oth­er cam­paign choirs, and many oth­ers from Scot­land and the rest of the UK, to encour­age the gov­ern­ment not to renew the Tri­dent mis­sile sys­tem. (Lat­est news appears to be that gov­ern­ment has … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Campaign Against the Arms Trade

  On 12 Decem­ber around 35 of us braved the cold to take part in our annu­al fundrais­ing sing for the Cam­paign against the Arms trade. Ably encour­aged by our inspi­ra­tional song lead­ers, we sang a very sat­is­fy­ing med­ley of … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Leave the oil in the ground, sing out now, sing out now’

Protest in Har­mo­ny sang with the ‘hun­dreds of peo­ple who joined hands along the Forth Road Bridge yes­ter­day to take a stand against new gas-drilling tac­tics in Scot­land. Join­ing hands from one side of the two-and-a-half kilo­me­tre bridge to the … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Buy Nothing Day video

Here’s a video of the singing for Buy Noth­ing Day: Thanks to Daniel Killeen for this!

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Rise up singing

The Rise up Singing week­end will be Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 15th — Mon­day Sep­tem­ber 17th 2012. Rise Up Singing info sheet Reg­is­tra­tion form Here is some more infor­ma­tion about the event: Rise Up Singing Sep­tem­ber 2012 song­sheet (words of mass songs and some oth­ers to sing) … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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