Green Party national Conference week is at last about to get underway... My email account is buzzing with people talking about motions, finalising admin details...
And my thoughts are turning to a couple of speeches I plan to make, to some of the fascinating sessions planned at Conference (including major Venezualan and Ogoni speakers, for example), to the Policy motions session that I will be chairing, and to my big fringe event on the Friday with man-in-the-white-suit (I wonder what he will be wearing?) Martin Bell...
Roll on Thursday, in Reading!
Rupert.
[Cllr. Rupert Read, Norwich; Green Party lead candidate for Eastern Region in 2009 Euro-elections]
Check out my articles in the GUARDIAN online: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/rupert_read/index.html
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Goto www.oneworldcolumn.org to read my regular newspaper columns in the EASTERN DAILY PRESS newspaper, East Anglia's leading regional daily.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Blogging Green Party Conference
Hello there and welcome to Green Dispatches.
We're a small team of Green Party members who will be blogging the Green Party conference from Reading Town Hall (pictured) for Red Pepper. We'll be bringing you our personal views and experiences from conference - relating the highs and lows, the love ins and rough and tumbles in equal measure.
On the conference agenda there are motions including abortion, Palestine, energy, immigration, gender, poverty, housing, the economy, the armed forces, disability, sport, localism and a lot more - there will also be fringe debates on the media, anti-capitalism, animal rights, eco-socialism (I look forward to finally finding out what that is) and prostitution.
This will be the first conference after the leadership referendum that decided to change the party's structure to one with a recognisable leader and deputy leader (or co-leaders) so I'm sure there will be some interesting discussions around this and other controversial issues.
The blog "goes live" on the Monday before conference (the 11th of February), we're looking forward to it - hope you are too!
We're a small team of Green Party members who will be blogging the Green Party conference from Reading Town Hall (pictured) for Red Pepper. We'll be bringing you our personal views and experiences from conference - relating the highs and lows, the love ins and rough and tumbles in equal measure.On the conference agenda there are motions including abortion, Palestine, energy, immigration, gender, poverty, housing, the economy, the armed forces, disability, sport, localism and a lot more - there will also be fringe debates on the media, anti-capitalism, animal rights, eco-socialism (I look forward to finally finding out what that is) and prostitution.
This will be the first conference after the leadership referendum that decided to change the party's structure to one with a recognisable leader and deputy leader (or co-leaders) so I'm sure there will be some interesting discussions around this and other controversial issues.
The blog "goes live" on the Monday before conference (the 11th of February), we're looking forward to it - hope you are too!
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