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GNN ISSUE 45: 2-July-2008 |
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 The Green News Network is free news update from the Gloucestershire
Green party of key stories and news items. See this month's issue.
However future editions will NOT BE monthly as we are reorganising
priorities. So for the updates please use the RSS feed: this will allow
you to receive an email when we add news releases to the website. It is
easy to join from the bottom left corner of our website and will give
you the info when it is published.
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NEWS
CANAL REALISM: Greens seek answers to key questions on Stroud's £million Regeneration project:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2114/126/
CALL FOR MORE STREET PARTIES: See Cllr Philip Booths appeal for more street parties:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2127/126/
GREEN MOVE TO CUT COUNCILLORS CO2 EMISSIONS AND COSTS: Greens sought to cut car allowances to councillors in a bid to save money and reduce CO2 emissions. They also sought an amendment to remove the cap on Dependants Carers Allowance:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2125/126/
ANGER AT PUSH FOR GM:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2123/127/
CALL FOR EU ACCOUNTABILITY: Following revelations about MEP expenses see Green party letter:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2120/127/
BUS SUBSIDIES ARE 'DOGS DINNER':
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2115/127/
NEXT COFFEE HOUSE DISCUSSION: Friday July 25th Sex Work - should it be legalised and taxed?
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
Plus stories on rainwater harvesting, a successful Green-supported motion to District for a Waste Advisory Panel and more.
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PLUS THE GLOS BLOGS
Read Molly Scott Cato's top Green UK blog - the Low Carbon High Life, the Commons, Gambling while others starve and more that brings economics to life:
http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/
Read Jonathan Porritt on Renewable Energy Strategy, Greenpeace and Unilever, rainforests and population:
http://www.jonathonporritt.com/pages/
Read Ruscombe Green's blogs this month includes flood art and other Open Studios, photos of the Bread Street, updates on Staverton street party, Water fluoridation, the US Missile shield, TB, the barrage, bees, phone boxes, 42 days and more:
See: http://ruscombegreen.blogspot.com/
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QUOTES OF THE MONTH
"Frightening people is a very good way to make them passive and supine. You can be terrified into an abject denial of everything and you don't want to know about it: you just shut your eyes and your ears. But the most useful, the most helpful and most energising thing is to say: 'You can do this, and this, and this, and you can press your Government to do that.'"
Philip Pullman
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
Albert Einstein
"The first...is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world."
Gary Snyder
"We still locate the psyche inside the skin. You go inside to locate the psyche, you examine your feelings and your dreams, they belong to you. Or it's interrelations, interpsyche, between your psyche and mine. That*s been extended a little bit into family systems and office groups – but the psyche, the soul, is still only within and between people. We’re working on our relationships constantly, and our feelings and reflections, but look what's left out of that… What's left out is a deteriorating world. So why hasn't therapy noticed that? Because psychotherapy is only working on that *inside* soul. By removing the soul from the world and not recognizing that the soul is also in the world, psychotherapy can't do its job anymore… the sickness is out there."
James Hillman
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment.. is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law"
Martin Luther King
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Details of Gloucestershire Green party meetings can be got from John Marjoram on 01453 751189. This Green news service first established on 13th November 2001. To subscribe or unsubscribe to GNN visit the Gloucestershire Green party website and to contribute to this news service contact the editor Philip Booth on press@glosgreenparty.org.uk
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