Clann Albainn ("Children of Scotland" in Gaelic) is a non-violent organisation formed to promote Scottish self-determination - that is, the right of Scotland's people to choose their own government. A basic human right, you'd think...

Clann Albainn is the group who famously renamed Cumberland St on the 250th anniversary of the battle of Culloden in 1996 to raise the issue of Scotland's lack of self-determination by highlighting the impropriety of having Butcher Cumberland's name memorialised in a supposedly Scottish city.

Scotland has of course since been allowed it's own parliament - albeit sort of a jumped up nation-wide city council with some extra powers - so while they continue to be governed by a government not of their choosing, things are heading vaugely in the right direction.

Queen Vic showing some respect...

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For immediate release – Friday 17 June, 2005

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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT FLAG?
The Clann Strikes Again

Clann Albainn will today decorate Dunedin with in a revised Union-jack to welcome the UK Lions team.

Clann Albainn calls for a fair Union for Scotland with England, or no Union. To highlight this Clann Albainn have resurrected one of the original proposals for the Union-flag to welcome the touring UK Lions rugby team to the City. Clann Albainn considers it to be the correct version – with the St Andrew’s Cross of Scotland to the fore!

Why?

In 1606 King James of Scotland acceded to the Throne of England. History often deliberately ignores the fact it was a Scottish king that assumed the English Throne. Indeed, on the Union-jack flag the red St George Cross of England assumes position in the fore.

The 1707 Act of Union confirmed union of the two previously independent nations. However, the terms of the corrupt merger (in the words of the bard, Robbie Burns, “…bought and sold for English gold”) were effectively a takeover. Scotland’s people have not had control of their own destinies ever since.

Clann Albainn can be caught unfurling the corrected Union flag at the Railway Station by arrangement.

Clann Albainn ("Children of Scotland" in Gaelic) is a non-violent organisation formed to promote the Scottish Independence movement. Clann Albainn is the group who famously renamed Cumberland St in 1996 to raise the issue of Scotland's lack of self-determination by highlighting the impropriety of having Butcher Cumberland's name memorialised in a supposedly Scottish city.

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For immediate release – Saturday 18 June, 2005

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JUST STOP IT!
AT LEAST TILL AFTER TEA-TIME

Clann Albainn has today had to replace a number of corrected Union-jack flags it raised last night.

The Clann had expected a number of their corrected Union-jacks to be souvenired, but was not prepared for the number that was taken as mementos of the UK Lions tour last night.

Indeed the Clann welcomes people to souvenir the corrected Union-jack flags, and encourages the corrected flags to be taken back to flats and homes and displayed. But the Clann urges souvenir hunters to wait until after tonight’s Lions vs. Otago game.

Clann Albainn can be caught wrapping the statute of HM Queen Victoria in a corrected Union-jack by arrangement.

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For immediate release 15 April 2005

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Cross in Mourning for Ancient Scots Dead

Today the Celtic cross in Queen's Gardens was draped in black, by Clann Albainn, to bewail the innocent Celtic tribesmen who were brutally slain in the Battle of Culloden, on 16 April 1746 on Culloden Moor, near Inverness, Scotland.

"The cross itself celebrates Dunedin's Scottish pioneers," said Clann member Gregor Campbell, "and we're mourning the disaster which ultimately drove them from their homes. But for this final blow to Scottish independence at Culloden, the Highland Clearances could not have happened the way they did."

During the Highland Clearances of the nineteenth century many Highland farming families were brutally evicted to the slums of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Many sought new lives in Britain's overseas colonies, including New Zealand.

"Ironically, the Celtic cross stands on Cumberland St," said Clann member Daniel Copeland, "named for William, Duke of Cumberland, whose brutal crack-down on the Jacobites following the Battle earned him the nickname 'Butcher of Culloden'."

Twentieth-century independence movements such as the Red Clydeside and the Scottish National Party culminated in the 1997 opening of the Holyrood parliament, but many crucial political and economic decisions for Scotland continue to be decided in Westminster.

Clann Albainn ("Children of Scotland" in Gaelic) is a non-violent organisation formed to promote the Scottish Independence movement. Clann Albainn is the group who famously renamed Cumberland St in 1996 to raise the issue of Scotland's lack of self-determination by highlighting the impropriety of having Butcher Cumberland's name memorialised in a supposedly Scottish city.

Members of the public are invited to lay white flowers at the memorial on Saturday (16th), the 259th anniversary of the battle.

The lanuch of Clann Albainn