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Caroline Hoffmann: a Tribute
Posted on December 6, 2011 by Mark Ballard | 10 Comments
Dr Caroline Hoffmann (1964-2011) was a member of the Scottish Green Party and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, an ecologist, a sailor and an LGBT rights campaigner. She died on the 4th December 2011 after a long struggle with leukaemia. In 1998 the Scottish Green Party hadn’t got much in the way of assets. Most of the [...]
DUP Minister Under Pressure As Anti-Fracking Campaign Grows
Posted on November 27, 2011 by Adam McGibbon | No Comments
The issue of hydraulic fracturing – fracking – has been catapulted into mainstream attention in Northern Ireland over the last few weeks. For those not yet in the know, fracking involves pumping high-pressure chemicals (many of them extremely dangerous) into the ground in order to extract natural gas. The 2010 film ‘Gasland’ documents the devastation [...]
Scottish Green Party Conference Review 2011
Posted on November 14, 2011 by Peter McColl | 2 Comments
Scottish Green Party conference 2011 was a pretty subdued affair as might be expected after the poor election result in May. There were some real highlights, though. The speakers gave very interesting presentations on what it’s like to run a Green Council and how the Aberdeen By-pass can best be opposed. One thing that was [...]
Northern Ireland Green Party Conference 2011
Posted on November 4, 2011 by Adam McGibbon | No Comments
The Green Party in Northern Ireland’s conference took place in the Ramada Encore Hotel in Belfast’s trendy Cathedral Quarter last weekend – five minutes’ walk away is Writer’s Square, where Belfast’s fledgling local chapter of the Occupy Movement have set up their tents. Delegates, of course, went down to show support. Conference can tend to [...]
Scottish Green Party Conference Preview 2011
Posted on October 29, 2011 by Peter McColl | 2 Comments
Scottish Green Party conference kicks off today in Aberdeen. Many party members will be hoping to regroup after the disappointment of May’s election. Having failed to pick up the masses of voters abandoning the Liberal Democrats, the Greens have serious thinking to do. Our strategy for the 8 years that I’ve been involved with the [...]
Barbarism With and Without a Human Face: Dale Farm, Brighton and Liberal Racism.
Posted on October 21, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 5 Comments
“Leaving with supporters today is about our own dignity and our appreciation of the support we’ve received. We’re leaving together as one family, and we are proud of that- you can’t take away our dignity.” – Dale Farm resident Mary Sheridan Two days ago bailiffs and police moved into Dale Farm to brutally remove residents [...]
Greens and growth
Posted on September 20, 2011 by Jonathan Kent | 7 Comments
Greens don’t like growth. It’s the mantra. We like to talk about a ‘stable’ economy; one that neither grows nor shrinks. The trouble with maintaining a zero growth economy is that you have to maintain zero population growth alongside it. Have zero economic growth and twenty percent population growth and it means you have the [...]
Boundary review – Greens do pretty well
Posted on September 13, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 7 Comments
Boundary reviews are always a frighting time for MPs. You can fight for years to win a constituency, then have it dissolved in the blink of a commission. For the Green Party, whose work to win Brighton Pavilion has gone on for years, it was a potentially terrifying time. But today’s results of the first [...]
Adrian Ramsay conference speech: “we are proud of the NHS”
Posted on September 11, 2011 by Admin | No Comments
This was the speech Green Party deputy leader Adrian Ramsay gave to the Green Party conference in Sheffield I’m delighted we’re meeting here in Sheffield. Did you know that Green Councillors have held seats in this city centre ward for seven years now? Yesterday I was given a tour of the area and visited two [...]
“Unrestrained capitalism eats away at the fabric of our society” – Caroline Lucas’ conference speech
Posted on September 9, 2011 by Admin | 2 Comments
The full text of Caroline Lucas’ keynote speech to the 2011 Green Party Autumn Conference at Sheffield Hallam University.
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