{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e4985872dfbf737267c781a/5f6817525cc0a27b82e63d28?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Independence as Freedom","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e4985872dfbf737267c781a/1600657177050-608e1b8df927ccc0c3e4daa550bc857a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Scotland has been subjected to the worldview of colonialism; a process in which we have been culturally dominated, in a racialised class system to be subservient to the will of England to the end that we have become complicit in our own oppression and in the extraction of our own resources to the benefit of the English state. This too is <em>colonialism</em>, and this is what we have experienced in Scotland. No colonised society is a free society, by definition. And thus to be free we must seek to end the colonial exploitation of our country.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This is independence as freedom.</strong></p>","author_name":"Jason Michael McCann"}