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GNN ISSUE 32: 20-April-2007 |
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The Green News Network is free monthly news update from the Gloucestershire Green party. For the full stories, blog updates and this months letters and news releases see this website.
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CONTENTS
1. NEWS
2. LETTERS
3. NEW ON STROUD BLOGS
4. NEW ON 'BIG ISSUES'
5. UPCOMING KEY EVENTS
6. QUOTES OF THE MONTH
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1. NEWS
Well the big news is that there is an election on Thursday. Under 'elections' on our website you'll see copies of some of our leaflets and info re candidates. Please if you have time to spare call John Marjoram: we still need help canvassing, telling, leafleting and more: 01453 755451. See new news items like:
- Saving trees in Stroud
- Oldbury start-up and werte workers organs removed in post-mortems?
- Top Green Derek Wall's visit to Stroud
- answers to election questions from the local PCS union, Defend Council Housing and Gloucester Small Businesses
- Greens backing lagoons rather than a Severn barrage
- the Top ten Tory Eco-Cons
- Party Conference in Swansea with Stroud-based Molly Scott Cato calling for Localisation
- the anti-slavery march in Stroud
- comment on the budget and Brown's complacency in a time of crisis.
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2. LETTERS include:
- our response to the claim that all parties are 'green' now.
- time for a 20 mph
- Staverton expansion
- Budget comment
- Challenge to letter supporting Ch4 programme re climate change 'swindle'
- Aston Down
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3. NEW ON STROUD BLOGS
On Ruscombe Green: http://ruscombegreen.blogspot.com/
Posts include:
- 'AIDS for the bee industry'
- Iranian Fish swims in Stroud - see extraordinary art work of Ahmad Nadalian: environmental artist from Iran
- The extraodinary mysteries of water
- Church initiative on green consumerism a distracti...
- Councillors talk 'Play' - and learn 'Karate Kid' move!
- Why go into politics?
- The Enuffometer: Stroud team into climate change competition final
- Slow Stroud: how to drive green
- William Morris Gallery
- Airport expansions
- Sad loss of local campaigner Edward Courtney
- Self-Management Courses for People Living with Long-Term Illness
- Friends of the Earth give Greens highest score
- Simultaneous Policy: a way forward on Climate Change? PLus a comment added by Aubrey Meyer himself!
- Stroud launch of safe water beer mat
- Gloucester bandstand campaign
- Slavery - should we apologise?
- Tories new logo
Plus plenty of local ward news, stuff on Council meetings and more.
Molly Scott Cato on Gaian economics: http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/
Loads of essential reading here on Green economics in language that makes it possible to understand - includes:
- private equity companies which profit by investing borrowed money.
- Call for the Abolition of Wage Slavery
- Tough on the causes of violence?
- Tracing our roots in space and time
- The Assumptions of Perfect Competition: Lessons 1 and 2
- House price boom: who benefits?
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4. NEW ON 'BIG ISSUES'
A selection of articles sent in by GNN readers over the last month. Find under Big Issues:
- Help poor by reducing poverty
- Scientists under pressure to water down science on climate change
- Wood pellets
- Grain to fuel US cars is driving up grain prices
- 9/11 Conspiracy Theory or not?
Plus visit these two websites:
- Money is Debt: a good 40 min film to understand the relationship between money and debt:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&q=money+as+debt
- Transition Towns Stroud:
http://transitiontownstroud.blogspot.com/
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5. UPCOMING KEY EVENTS
- Friday 27th April - The perils and possibilities of Nanotechnology. Whose afraid of the big grey goo? Is the grey goo scenario real? Do advanced technologies have a place in a greener world? What can nanotechnology do for you? Can nanotechnology make solar power affordable for all? New pollution, new health issues are the risks too high? Open to anyone - 7.30 to 9.30pm at Star Anise Arts Cafe at the Painswick Inn, Gloucester Street, Stroud.
- Saturday 28th April - Safe Water campaign for Gloucestershire invites all to attend a presentation featuring Rissa Mohabir, a local homeopath talking about the effects of fluoride and Bernard Seward, a long term campaigner against water fluoridation. Details: 10.45 a.m at the British School, Painswick Inn, Gloucester Street, Stroud. More info from Philip Booth on 01453 755451. See more: http://safewatercampaign.blogspot.com/
- Thursday 3rd May - elections.
- Saturday May 5th - One World Festival at the University of Gloucestershire at Park Campus. Read more about the previous coffee house discussions at:http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=606&Itemid=96
Details of other Gloucestershire Green party meetings can be got from John Marjoram on 01453 751189
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6. QUOTES OF THE MONTH
Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, you are ready to shout out, "You idiot! What's wrong with you? Are you blind?" But just before you can catch your breath to speak, you see that the person who bumped you is actually blind. He, too, is sprawled in the spilled groceries, and your anger vanishes in an instant, to be replaced by sympathetic concern: "Are you hurt? Can I help you up?" Our situation is like that. When we clearly realize that the source of disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion. Then we are in a position to heal ourselves and others.
B. Alan Wallace, Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”
Joseph Campbell
"Our strategy focuses on reducing the growth in car use"
Statement by BAA announcing the consultation on surface access to the airport needed for a second runway February 2007
"The idea that we live in something called *the environment* is utterly preposterous. . . . The world that environs us, that is around us, is also within us. We are made of it; we eat, drink, and breathe it; it is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh."
Wendell Berry
"My practice tells me that I can no longer distinguish clearly between neurosis of self and neurosis of world, psychopathology of self and psychopathology of world. Moreover, it tells me that to place neurosis and psychopathology solely in personal reality is a delusional repression of what is actually, realistically being experienced. This further implies that my theories of neurosis and categories of psychopathology must be radically extended if they are not to foster the very pathologies which my job is to ameliorate."
James Hillman
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More details about the Gloucestershire Green party, how to join and meeting times can be got from John Marjoram on 01453 751189.
This Green news service first established on 13th November 2001. To contribute to this news service (or to subscribe or unsubscribe) - contact the editor Philip Booth on press@glosgreenparty.org.uk
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