Marching today in Edinburgh for @oxfamscotland.bsky.social alongside thousands of others to say together #WeDemandBetter. On poverty, on care, on better work, on fair and fast climate action. We can do so much better.

I'm ready... are you? Tomorrow, I’ll march with thousands of others in Edinburgh to say: #ScotlandDemandsBetter 🏠 Affordable homes 💷 Fair wages 🚆 Green Transport 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 Dignified care 🧱 Stronger social security Change only happens when we demand it. ⏬⏬⏬

'People are struggling because the system is stacked against them. Life isn't shocking anymore, it's just relentlessly hard. People are scunnered' Heather from the STAR Project in Paisley tells #TaxJusticeScotland's conference. 'Inequality exhausts people and wears them down.'

Fairer, greener, more equal: @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social at the end of #TaxJusticeScotland's conference says it’s time to turn ideas into action and deliver real change for people, public services and the planet. Agree? Repost.

Great to see FM @johnswinney.bsky.social field Qs as part of Scotland's biggest ever climate lobby. Asked about a Private Jet Tax (which could be done with devolved powers)... says he's "very sympathetic". Time to deliver! ✈️ @sccscot.bsky.social @oxfamscotland.bsky.social #ActNowChangeForever

Scotland’s biggest-ever climate lobby is happening today and we're there with @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social 🌍 500+ people, including some of YOU, are urging MSPs to deliver fast, fair climate action. Time to make the biggest polluters & the better off pay and invest in a greener, fairer Scotland.

"This is about real people making impossible choices everyday" - says Maggie Chiwanza from MECOPP. Their report - Unpaid, Unseen and Unheard - on the experiences of minority ethic unpaid carers in Scotland is the first for 25 years. @oxfamscotland.bsky.social proud to have supported it.

A new report by the Scottish Fiscal Commission has highlighted deep uncertainties over the climate price tag and who’ll pay it. We need politicians, in Edinburgh & London, to work together to ensure the biggest polluters and the better off pay their fair share. Our full reaction ➡️ bit.ly/48llfGj

Scot Gov's tax conf moves on to whether to better tax wealth... Again, strong support for it. Key question: how? Plenty options at UK level. In Scotland, key step is better taxing property wealth by breaking the impasse on replacing Council Tax. #TaxJusticeScotland

At @ScotGov's 'first ever' tax conf in Edinburgh. With deep pressures on Scotland's public finances, the tax system here and across UK must do much more to help deliver the fairer, greener and more prosperous country the people of Scotland want. #TaxJusticeScotland

Two months today, people across Scotland will march for a better future🌍💪 Too many people are being left behind while the planet pays the price. On 25 Oct, we'll march for better jobs, homes, services and a greener future. Join the march for all of us scotland-demands-better.com

This #WorldHumanitarianDay we're spotlighting Scotland’s Humanitarian Emergency Fund: a lifeline in overlooked crises. In the DRC, HEF support has helped Oxfam/our partners provide emergency cash to families facing hunger and hardship. Watch our recap film on what's been happening in DRC 👇

Girls in Malawi are gaining skills & confidence at summer camps run by Oxfam and our partners thanks to Scottish Government Inclusive Education funding. These camps are part of a wider barrier breaking project helping thousands of learners in Malawi/Zambia/Rwanda access education and opportunity.

📢Big opportunity alert! 📢 Join Oxfam Scotland as our new Advocacy Advisor and help build a fairer Scotland. If you know the Scottish political landscape and want to drive lasting change on poverty & inequality, this is your chance. Apply by 7 Sept bit.ly/3UsLS41

New figures today have underlined what we've known for years: Scotland's wealth is far from fairly shared. As part of #TaxJusticeScotland we’re calling for bold tax reform via both UK & Scottish Govs so those with the most contribute their fair share. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

'No substantial Council Tax reform this decade' says the Scottish Government. As a member of #TaxJusticeScotland we say, unacceptable. We’ve set out a realistic path, but it needs bold commitments now. Revaluation/policy consultation must start after the 2026 election bit.ly/4oooUIU

After a blizzard of financial forecasts, strategies and plans in Scotland, one thing’s clear: tax justice must play a bigger role to deliver a fairer, greener country. Baby steps won’t fund a fairer future for all of us. Blog ➡️ bit.ly/3T9wOYu #TaxJusticeScotland

This funding will enable colleagues and their partners to provide critical cash support, along with much-needed help to survivors of Gender Based Violence. Amid major funding shortfalls for this deep humanitarian crisis, great to see Scotland stepping up.

Missed our Advocacy Adviser @lewisryderjones.bsky.social talking all sorts of common sense on BBC Radio Scotland about why we need to tax pollution-spewing private jets? We've calculated it could raise millions to invest in green initiatives, like making public transport cheaper. Listen ⬇️

🚨 A 32% surge in private jet flights at Glasgow Prestwick – a Scottish Government-owned airport. While the super-rich fly in for golf + luxury, emissions climb and the climate cost falls on everyone else. Time for the First Minister to land a Private Jet Tax. ✈️💸 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢 This is a big moment. Launching the Scotland Demands Better campaign. @oxfamscotland.bsky.social is proud to back the call for action to deliver a fairer, greener future for all of us. Join us: scotland-demands-better.com #WeDemandBetter @povertyalliance.org

As ever, cross-party solidarity at the Scottish Parliament during #CarersWeek. But will it lead to much stronger action now and in the next Parliament to properly value & invest in care and carers? Too many face poverty and deep impacts on their own health and wellbeing. #CaringAboutEquality

A robust and fully transparent review of Scottish Government public grants to arms firms in Scotland that manufacturer weapons used in Gaza is essential. Great to see @caatuk.bsky.social at the @ScotParl. Scotland must be in no way complicit. @amnestyuk.bsky.social @oxfamscotland.bsky.social

Exhausted. Isolated. Invisible. Trapped in poverty and left without support. A powerful new report we're proud to support by MECOPP + @heriotwattuni.bsky.social lifts the lid on the crisis facing BME unpaid carers in Scotland and the failure to act on it ⏬ news.stv.tv/scotland/new...

This powerful piece from MECOPP in @heraldscotland.bsky.social lays bare the injustice facing BME unpaid carers in Scotland. Poverty. Isolation. Exhaustion. And a system that keeps failing them. We’re proud to have supported the research behind it 📖 www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Good to see the return ticket for peak rail fares in Scotland being cancelled. @ScotGovFM says they'll be scrapped "for good". But, overall, this #PFG feels like treading water with 12 months to go of this Parliament. @OxfamScotland's key takeaways 👇 #ProgrammeforGovernment

⏳ Time's nearly up. In @heraldscotland.bsky.social @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social writes why the Scottish Government's final Programme for Government must deliver real action in the next 12 months – not vague promises for the future ⬇️ www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Child poverty has fallen in Scotland. That's encouraging. But we're off track to deliver the legal target that all parties claim to back. Getting people into (good quality) work will help, but more investment in social security is also essential 👇 @heraldscotland.bsky.social

'When Scotland set ambitious climate targets all parties backed them. We can’t afford for that cross-party consensus to crumble now just because a few politicians think there are easy votes in rolling back progress' @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social in @scotsman.com⬇️ www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Seven days on from the massive earthquake in Myanmar, we’re ramping up our emergency response. But the level of need is huge. Survivors need the very basics - shelter, clean water, food and medical care. Please, if you can, donate: dec.org.uk @decscotland.bsky.social

The Scottish Government has just announced it's chucking cold water on its clean heat bill. Decarbonising buildings is essential to meeting Scotland’s 2045 climate target. We can get this done in a way that's fair and affordable. Read how: ➡️ bit.ly/3RvPVef

People are scared, injured, and in urgent need of food, clean water and medical care. Please give if you can. Every donation, no matter the size, will help us scale up our response and deliver aid to those who need it most. Donate now: www.dec.org.uk

“We can't address huge societal problems without the money to invest, and the way to do that is tax.” Millionaire Julia Davies says a fair wealth tax can be done... if we have the political will. A poll for @oxfamscotland.bsky.social shows that 79% of people in Scotland back it. ➡️ bit.ly/4j1SGQw

Fewer children in poverty in Scotland is positive, but this LEGAL target was missed due to insufficient investment. The Scottish Child Payment shows that policy choices do make a real difference. But political leaders continue to shield the wealthiest from paying their fair share of tax.

“These cuts are a choice: after all, there is no shortage of fair tax options to raise more resources at UK level” – say @gerrymccartney1 & David Walsh @UofGlasgow. They say tax justice is the "obvious option" to protect people's health from spending cuts. #TaxJusticeScotland

Our @ruthboyler.bsky.social on @STV.News talking about today's unjust social security cuts from Liz Kendall and the UK Government. Read more below. www.povertyalliance.org/news-campaig...

After slashing international aid, now cuts to vital support for those living with illness and disabilities in the UK. Thanks @scotsman.com for sharing @oxfamscotland.bsky.social's call for political leaders to choose to fairly tax wealth not cut support to those who need it most.

The conflict in #Sudan rarely gets the attention it should... Amid aid cuts and freezes elsewhere, very welcome solidarity from Scotland for those fleeing the conflict. ⏬ Grateful for any contributions to Oxfam's emergency response work here: www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam-in-act...

'Scotland must reject Keir Starmer's back-sliding on foreign aid' - my article in @heraldscotland.bsky.social. It's wrong to treat the aid budget as a piggy bank that can be raided. When aid is cut, lives are lost. Contact your MP: bit.ly/4h3EnJR heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

'We shouldn't be balancing the books on the lives of the poorest people. The Prime Minister said this was a decision he didn't want to make, and the truth is, he didn't need to make it' @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social speaks to Radio Scotland about today's aid cuts/where the £ could've come from ⬇️

REACTION: Oxfam response to the UK Government’s decision to cut the aid budget Full reaction here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/manvna/

'Cutting the already lean aid budget is a false economy and a betrayal of the world’s most vulnerable people' @lewisryderjones.bsky.social and our colleague Najla, from Gaza, told the UK's International Development Committee today. We're calling for real leadership/a UK that’s a force for good 🌍

Welcome to hear @AnasSarwar pledge to "fight structural #poverty on all fronts" ✅ Promised "fair funding" for councils (but no detail on how) & "fundamental" reform of busines rates. Pledged to scrap peak rail fares, but v. light on the #ClimateCrisis.

How can climate and nature be issues that generate votes in 2026 is the topic under discussion at @scotlink.bsky.social and @sccscot.bsky.social fringe at @scottishlabour.bsky.social conference with @sarahboyack.bsky.social @langbanks.bsky.social and @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social

Good to hear @ScotGovFM voice support for a Private Jet Tax while giving his personal commitment to climate leadership. But we've been here before and words don't cut emissions. A fair tax on private jets would show his commitment to fairness, and raise new £ for climate action.

"We're talking about 18 years with no change in a system that's unfit for purpose". @ruthboyler.bsky.social of @povertyalliance.org backs #TaxJusticeScotland's call for an immediate property revaluation en route to replacing the Council Tax. taxjustice.scot

“We need all those in power across the UK to deliver a fairer tax system. So, what more could the UK Government do to deliver tax justice?” @sara_hall from @TaxJusticeUK blogs for #TaxJusticeScotland. ➡️ bit.ly/TaxJusticeUK

👏 We need to address the systemic problems so local councils are able to tax wealth much more effectively/fairly. Otherwise we're going to find ourselves in this situation year after year, with council tax bills only going in one direction. ⏲️ for change #TaxJusticeScotland

Agreed. The 'strategy' lacks concrete proposals or timelines for much-needed reforms. It also utterly fails to offer us any tangible vision for what our devolved and local tax (and spend) systems could achieve in future. More ➡️ bit.ly/3PT33tr #TaxJusticeScotland

Scotland’s story isn’t one of extreme billionaire wealth, but it IS one of growing disparity. The wealthiest 10% of households have 217 times more wealth than the poorest 10% 🤯 Fair tax reforms will benefit us all - @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social ⬇️ www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...