REGISTRATION OPEN FROM 9AM

OPENING RALLY 10:30am

A Failed State In A Failed System: The Case For Independence

Aamer Anwar

Aamer is a leading human rights lawyer and a veteran anti-war campaigner. He is a longstanding activist in the anti-racist movement and prominent campaigner for Scottish independence and civil rights in Catalonia.

Clara Ponsati

Clara is a Catalan economist, appointed Councillor of Education of the Generaliat of Catalonia by former President Charles Puigdemont. She was the Head of the School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews. On 24 March 2018, Spain's Supreme Court issued an International and European Arrest Warrant for her.

Suki Sangha

Suki is a trade union activist and Radical Independence campaigner. She has previously represented Black Workers on the STUC General Council and is involved in trade union organising and anti-racism campaigning in Scotland.

Chris Stephens

Chris is SNP MP for Glasgow South West. He is a passionate advocate for workers’ rights, trade unionism and has taken part in numerous local and national campaigns. He is a member of the SNP Trade Union Group.

Robin McAlpine

Robin is Director of CommonWeal. He writes a regular column for CommonSpace, and speaks on independence throughout Scotland and across Europe.

BREAKOUT FORUMS 11:15am - 12:30pm

|1| A People’s Independence: Beyond The Growth Commission

Sarah Collins

Sarah is an active trade unionist who has been involved in numerous campaigns for workers’ rights and against austerity while working for the STUC. She is a co-founder of RIC and has written on the need for independence to come alongside social justice.

Stuart Fairweather

Stuart is Chair of Dundee TUC. He has been active in campaigns against austerity, and is a member of Democratic Left Scotland.

Adam Ramsay

Adam is editor of Open Democracy. As a journalist, he has been involved in crucial stories on corporate capture, dark money and democracy.

Frances Curran

Frances is a longstanding socialist campaigner. A former SSP MSP, she sits on the SSP Executive and is involved in a range of campaigns.

Chair: Mike Small (Editor, Bella Caledonia)

| 2 | Debate Self-Determination: What Should Scottish Democracy Look Like?

David Jamieson

David is a journalist for Common Space and edits the online magazine Conter.

Maggie Chapman

Maggie is Convenor of the Scottish Independence Convention and Rector of Aberdeen University. She is a prominent member of the Scottish Green Party.

Chair: Rhiannon Davies (Commonspace)

| 3 | Unite And Fight: Defending Migrants, Resisting Racism

Deborah Kayembe

Deborah is a leading human rights lawyer specialising in international law, linguistics, refugee resettlement, humanitarian law, human rights, foreign policy and diplomacy.

Akram Salhab

Akram is the Campaigns Officer at Migrants Organise and a coordinator of the Patients Not Passports campaign.

Pinar Aksu

Pinar works with an integration network in Glasgow, coordinating projects for welcoming asylum seekers and refugees in the community. She has been campaigning to end detention centres and is involved with anti-racism movements and is currently on the board of Right to Remain.

Chair: Allan Armstrong (RIC Edinburgh)

| 4 | Scotland’s For Peace: The New World Disorder

Nathalia Urban

Nathalia is founder of Resist Brasil, a Scottish based solidarity campaign in opposition to Bolsonaro.

Roza Salih

Roza is a campaigner and human rights advocate. Co-founder of Glasgow Girls and Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan.

Sarah Glynn

Sarah is an activist for the Scottish Unemployed Workers Association and has organised recent protests as part of the Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan campaign.

Pat Smith

Pat is a longstanding anti-war activist with the Stop the War Coalition. She has organised numerous demonstrations and public meetings on a range of subjects, from austerity to Palestine.

Chair: James Foley (RIC)

LUNCH MEET UP: BUILDING RIC GROUPS 12:30pm-1pm

MIDDLE PLENARY 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Scotland’s Right To Choose: How Mass Movements Can Win

Holly Rigby

Holly is an activist with Momentum and founder of the Abolish Eton Campaign. She writes regularly for Novara Media and the Guardian.

Cat Boyd

Cat is a co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign and author of Scottish Independence: A Feminist Response. She is an active trade unionist and presents Contercast - a new podcast covering national and international politics.

Ross Greer

Ross is a MSP for the Scottish Green Party representing the West of Scotland. He is the Parliament’s youngest ever MSP. He has been involved in a wide range of campaigns, including Yes Scotland in 2014. He recently took on Piers Morgan in a debate about Winston Churchill.

Cathy Milligan

Cathy is an activist based in Castlemilk and a founding member of Women Against Capitalism.

Ander Larrunbe

Ander is an activist with the Basque left party, EH Bildu.

Gerry Carroll

Gerry is an MLA for West Belfast with the People Before Profit party.

Chair: Sarah Collins

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BREAKOUT FORUMS 2:30pm - 3:45pm

| 1 | Debate Independence Strategy: What Way Forward?

Michael Gray

Michael is a founder of Skotia, a new Scottish media outlet. He is well known for his tweets on legal matters, and was a member of National Collective. He recently produced a video outlining his strategy for independence.

George Kerevan

George i a columnist for The National and a former SNP MP. He writes on a wide range of issues including economics, Catalonia and independence strategy.

Chair: Gail Lythgoe

| 2 | Brick By Brick: Winning In Communities And Workplaces

Facilitator: Sean Baillie

Sean is a community, tenant union and campaign organiser. He has created and delivered recruitment and campaign programmes for the STUC young workers project and for groups across Scotland and Ireland.

Note: This is a practical session, where we will share skills, build networks and learn best practice for building campaigns with real and lasting roots.

| 3 | Scotland's Green New Deal: A Plan For The Social And Planetary Emergency

Tiffany Kane

Tiffany worked for big corporations for years before returning to University to study sociology and social anthropology. Since April 2016 she has organised and campaigned for CommonWeal . She is passionate about grassroots activism to bring about social change. In this session, CommonWeal will present their latest campaign for a Green New Deal.

Emil Carr

Emil is an organiser of the Scottish Youth Climate Strike.

| 4 | People Get Ready: ConSCiousness Raising Through Art, Culture And Civil Disobedience

Henry Bell

Henry is Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, Poetry, 2019. He recently authored John Maclean: Hero Of Red Clydeside.

Isobel Lindsay

Isobel is a veteran independence activist who has been involved in non-violent civil disobedience campaigns around Trident.

Chair: Jane Logue (RIC SOuthside)

CLOSING RALLY 4pm

The Roadmap To Independence: Finishing What We Started in 2014

Lesley Riddoch

Lesley is a well known independence and democracy campaigner, writer and broadcaster.

Tariq Ali

Tariq has written numerous books on history, politics, the Middle East and imperialism. In 2014, he delivered two major Radical Independence lectures in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Jonathon Shafi

Jonathon is an anti-war campaigner and a co-founder of RIC. He writes on national and international politics for a range of outlets.

Chair: Tiffany Kane (Commonweal)

And reading the Artists’ Declaration of Independence…

Stuart Braithwaite

Stuart is the guitarist of post-rock band Mogwai, with whom he has recorded nine studio albums.