@formerdecentIS

WOMEN AND CHILDREN OUT OF HOMELESS HOTELS! Organiser for Scottish Tenants Organisation

 Glasgow, Scotland
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In 3 years, 67 women died in homeless hotels and bnbs in Scotland. Women are preyed on, abused, and traumatised. We desperately need single-sex emergency accommodation and serious action to fix Scotland's collapsed homelessness system. Thank you @AshReganALBA for raising this!
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FiLiA Women's Assembly event: #NoMoreStripClubs Glasgow #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This Saturday 31st October, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., (with lunch included) join us for a Women-only organising day to plan action against strip club licensing in Glasgow. 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAFeministFriday With @DalgetySusan, Allison Graham, comms expert & #WomensRights campaigner, FiLiA & others.
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Public housing + functioning homeless services including safe emergency accommodation for women + families with children make women less vulnerable to violence and predation. The thugs targeting campaigners are linked to crime and exploitation and the State will make use of them.
مريم طارق@maryam_tariq77h
Tout le monde déteste les fascistes! My latest for @bellacaledonia bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/1…

Why the Far Right Fears Organised Women

Gaslight women, defund our escape, blame the migrant. That’s how institutions, the state and the far right work together. Fed by top down misogyny through Police Scotland to Cornell University alon…

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I spose the brave patriots commenting are equally confrontational standing up to organised crime, the real scourge of our city and source of violence, exploitation, and drug deaths...
Laura Jones@formerdecentISOct 24
Look at these kind gentlemen preventing violence in the streets... by violently attacking a meeting of students and pensioners. Such bravery. Such civic responsibility. I feel so safe.
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Not a single case of sexual violence or predation in homeless hotels has ever been recorded by any homeless service or women's organisation, according to the council. What about the women who have described being attacked in the press and at public meetings?
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Why is the council telling me that it is neither possible or advisable to create more of thus kind if service?
Laura Jones@formerdecentISOct 14
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Bethany Christian Trust opens Glasgow residential support for women

Grace House, a new supported residential community in Glasgow for women experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage, has welcomed its first resident. Opened by national homelessness charity...

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Is the far right a threat to the establishment? Or a convenient excuse? Council officials tell me it is not possible to create more safe specialist accommodation for homeless women because the far right would burn it down.
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Look at these kind gentlemen preventing violence in the streets... by violently attacking a meeting of students and pensioners. Such bravery. Such civic responsibility. I feel so safe.
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
@TRobinsonNewEraOct 23
More footage of Scottish locals disrupting an Antifa meeting where they're plotting Paris style riots.
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Along with a future FM who you and your New SNP crew sought to vilify and criminalize.
Ross Colquhoun@rosscolquhounOct 23
Here’s a Labour Chancellor hiding the truth from the people of Scotland. Not so much a “conspiracy” as a matter of recorded history. Yet there are still those who seek to deceive.
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Really distressing to view this as survivors and a campaign. We're fed up of the weaponisation of our pain in the name of "protecting women". If this is how they act on the streets, it horrifies us to think how they are behind closed doors.
Jade@JadeEckhausOct 23
I was there last night when 20 masked fascists tried to attack a socialist meeting in Glasgow. These aren’t concerned citizens. They’re thugs trying to silence political opposition through violence and intimidation. Unity on the left is essential to defeat the far right.
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Harvey Jeni@GappyTalesOct 22
A thread about antisemitism and Battle of Ideas: At the recent Battle of Ideas a far right bookshop called Oldspeak Books was listed as the official festival bookshop. 1/ bylinetimes.com/2026/10/14/f… – at Llandeilo, Wales
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Excited for the women's group tomorrow, Clydebank Library, 11am - 12.45pm. We have first in our celebrating women's contribution to our community. Liz Daly will to talking about her activism both locally community and with the Waspi women, fighting for women's pension rights.
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cieem.net/cieem-raises-conce… All of Scotland's environmental agencies are set to be merged costing jobs, funding, and vital conservation programmes. Will the @scottishgreens be mounting an opposition to this?

CIEEM raises concerns over proposed merger of Scotland’s environmental bodies | CIEEM

The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management promotes the highest standards of practice for the benefit of nature and society

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Scotland considers to stop publishing homeless death figures annually…

archived 22 Oct 2026 20:28:18 UTC

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I don't disagree that adults should model respect for consent re: physical contact with kids but institutional violence and neglect are normal. Women and children are trafficked and preyed on while think-tanks spend public money on campaigns like this. Class divisions are stark.
RTÉ News
@rtenewsOct 22
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has taken down three online video advertisements related to its 'We Consent' campaign, following criticism of one advert in particular rte.ie/news/2026/1022/159643…

Video on hugging consent taken down after criticism

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has taken down three online video advertisements related to its 'We Consent' campaign, following criticism of one advert in particular.

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Mahmod Hinawi@GazaRealityOct 22
A date instead of milk. In the same Gaza, a baby sucks on a date wrapped in cloth 💔 No formula. No breast milk - his mother is too starved to produce it. This is famine.
Mahmod Hinawi@GazaRealityOct 21
This is NOT a concert. This is NOT a festival. This is Gaza today. Tens of thousands of starving people running for a bag of flour 💔 This is what forced starvation looks like.
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@FiLiA_charityOct 22
Second day at @ScottishTUC Women’s Conference today – meeting Women and sharing our work with trade unions, #NoMoreStripClubs, FiLiA Women’s Assembly, Women First & more. If you are here, come find us next to @LWDScotland & say hello! @LabWomenDec #STUCWomen26 #UnionsForWomen
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@thisisgoradioOct 20
A former SNP Housing Minister is attacking his party colleagues in Holyrood and Glasgow over Scotland's housing crisis. As things stand the Scottish Government's on track to miss its 2032 housebuilding target by nearly a third. Meanwhile Glasgow City Council is this year expected to spend £82m on hotels and B&Bs for the homeless. That's as it tries to fill a £110m funding gap over two years. Alex Neil says funding should be moved from lower priorities - such as cycle lanes - to building houses. He's also calling for @hp_scotland's unauthorised night shelter to be allowed to stay open.
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