Friends look to a more equal Scotland
Friends in Scotland organise a symposium called 'Creating a Just Scotland: Transforming our land and taxation policies'
Scottish Quakers are organising a symposium to address the growing inequality and injustice in society.
The event is a response to the challenge presented by Minute 36 from Britain Yearly Meeting in 2015 when Friends were urged to ‘take corporate action to change the unequal, unjust world in which we live.’
The symposium is entitled ‘Creating a Just Scotland: Transforming our land and taxation policies’ and is part of the annual Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair. It will be held in the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Leith, on Saturday 29 October.
The speakers include Richard Murphy, founder of the Tax Justice Network, director of Tax Research UK and author of The joy of tax; Lesley Riddoch, commentator, broadcaster and author of Blossom: What Scotland needs to flourish; and Andy Wightman, green MSP, campaigner on land rights, democracy and the economy, whose books include The poor had no lawyers. The symposium, which is free, will be chaired by Sally Foster-Fulton, head of Christian Aid in Scotland, and is being organised through the General Meeting for Scotland Parliamentary Liaison Function Group. Mairi Campbell-Jack, Scottish parliamentary engagement officer with General Meeting for Scotland, is one of the organisers.
The organisers hope the event will attract a range of concerned parties that include members of other churches, faith communities and secular groups and the general public interested in working for economic justice and a radical transformation of Scottish society.
