#I know for a fact that there is a similar informal group active in Uist grimsay and benbecula

[anarchotolkienist]

A few Sgitheanach comrades of mine are invovled with Iomairt an Eilein, trying to protect their own community, their own language and culture, from rural gentrification, which is driving all but the wealthiest out of their communities, out of the villages where they were born and raised, by incoming buyers of holiday homes. A signature is almost nothing, but there are good people involve, clever people, who will be able to do something with the energy unleashed by a significant campaign. So if you care about Gaelic language and culture, about rural peoples rights, about gentrification and fighting increasing centralisation, put a name to it, or share around what's happening. I'm sure that people in other parts of the Highlands, or diasporic Gaels looking to return, will be able to sympathise - it's a region-wide problem. I hope that other organisations of young people might be able to come together and co-operate, because you're going to need to struggle on a broad front, just like during the last clearances. A petition is a baby step, but it is a step, and it might help unite more people behind these demands for further campaigning. (Also, purely on a personal level, I'd appreciate it, as a Gaelic-speaker trying desperately to find a place where I could live full-time in a Gaelic community)