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NEWS

Here is a flavour of this months news plus below some interesting events planned and what's in the blogs this month - for the full stories, reports and background go to our website:

POST OFFICES: As Stroud Town offers to fund Uplands there are still hopes for some POs to be saved. Read Philip's letter condemning other three parties over their policies on POs:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2110/2/

NEW UNTESTED NUKE PLANNED FOR OLDBURY: Read Martin's letter to local press:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2098/2/

BEES: One in three die: if one out of every three cows were dying there would be alarm. See how SW Greens are leading campaign to call for more funding on research into Bee Colony Collapse and the Varroa mite. Read more and sign the petition at:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2107/126/

OIL PRICE RISES: Greens call for Stroud District to look at more measures to tackle fuel poverty:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2112/126/

GREENS GET SECOND HIGHEST VOTES IN DISTRICT: Read Sarah's letter to local press showing how we got more votes than both LIb Dems and Labour:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2099/2/

STAVERTON AIRPORT: Read why we can hopefully retire from campaigning:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2111/2/

PLUS: Call from Cirencester Green for Low Impact build, a carshare and public transport promotion opportunity as A40 faces major works, support for NUT and PCS actions, cycle path hypocrisy, a view on Nailsworth Housing development, West Glos Greens question barrage viability and how the EU is funding environmentally damaging projects.

NEXT COFFEE HOUSE DISCUSSION: Friday June 27th: What farming? What food? Vegan? Vegetarian? Carnivore? - what’s the best for our health, the planet and farm animals? What is biodynamic? Are farm animals necessary for our landscape and small farms? 7.30 to 9.30pm at Star Anise Arts Cafe at the Painswick Inn, Gloucester Street, Stroud. See more:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/coffeehouse

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PLUS THE GLOS BLOGS

Read Ruscombe Green's 60 plus blogs this month on the Czech hunger striker that sent Ruscombe Green a message, latest on Staverton, POs, the Sexy Green Car Show, prison treadmills, the tragic loss of local prison campaigner, 2m exploited Britons plus lots of local news like Randwick Wap and Purton Hulks.
See: http://ruscombegreen.blogspot.com/

Read Molly Scott Cato's top Green UK blog - on woven hats, timelessness (one for me to reread), vegetable virgins and how we have each recently spent £3000 per head on bankrupt banks.
See: http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/

Read Jonathan Porritt on Fuel Tax protests and food security.

See: http://www.jonathonporritt.com/pages/

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QUOTES OF THE MONTH

"Can we rely on it that a 'turning around' will be accomplished by enough people quickly enough to save the modern world? This question is often asked, but whatever answer is given to it will mislead. The answer "yes" would lead to complacency - the answer "no" to despair. It is desirable to leave these perplexities behind us and get down to work."
E.F.Schumacher

“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, of relationships, he then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”
Bruce Lee

"Addressing poverty eradication without tackling big business is a bit like addressing malaria without mentioning mosquitoes."
Curtis in 'Web of Deceit'

"Our complex global economy is built upon millions of small, private acts of psychological surrender, the willingness of people to acquiesce in playing their assigned parts as cogs in the great social machine that encompasses all other machines. They must shape themselves to the prefabricated identities that make efficient coordination possible... that capacity for self-enslavement must be broken.”
Theodore Roszak - The Voice Of The Earth

"If you think small things don't make a difference, try spending a night in a room with a mosquito!"
HH the Dalai Lama

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