Get involved
We're always on the look out for new people near Edinburgh opposed to ID cards and the database state.
We have a number of ways you can help us with our campaign. If you'd like to get more involved in our activities, please come and talk to us at one of our meetings or on Princes Street every Saturday afternoon.
You may also want to join the national NO2ID campaign, of which we are part.
Petition
Please sign our petition and demonstrate your anger and concern about the Government's plans. This is the same petition we have on the weekly campaign stall.
We, the undersigned residents of the United Kingdom, petition the Prime Minister and the government to immediately cease all further development of, and legislation for, national ID cards and the National Identity Register.
We believe the proposals constitute an attack on individual rights and freedoms.
We believe they will lead to institutional discrimination and to unfair and unlawful denial of benefits and services.
We believe the proposals will lead to an increase in state control and surveillance over the individual, and that they will create an unacceptable imposition on every citizen.
We believe the proposals are unlawful under the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights that guarantee every person the fundamental right to privacy.
We believe the identity scheme proposals will lead to an endemic loss of privacy and freedoms.
We believe they will present dangers to marginalised, disenfranchised and disadvantaged people. We also believe that an identity scheme will imperil the relations between citizen and state.
Furthermore, we believe that even if these principled concerns had been fully addressed, that the government's proposals would still constitute an enormous waste of financial resources and would achieve little or no tangible benefits.
For these reasons we urge the government to fully abandon the proposals.
Mailing list
You can join our announcements list, which carries details of upcoming meetings, demonstrations and activities. It typically sends out one message every month.
Announcements mailing list at Yahoo! groups
Campaign stall
We are always keen to hear from new volunteers to help run the weekly street stall on Princes Street.
Volunteers man the stall on a rota basis, typically covering one Saturday every four weeks. After a couple of hours of talking to the public, we then go for a hot drink nearby.
Get involved
Please contact Dr John Welford, NO2ID Edinburgh coordinator, if you would like to get involved in any way.