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July update.

Welcome to the Green Party July update.
 
It is early in the month, but for an important reason, for it gives notice
that nominations for the party executive, including the leader and deputy
leader or co-leaders, are now open.
 

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Parking problems?

Environmentalists have been sounding the alarm for decades, and now at last the call has been heard. It is not too late to save the planet, it's not even too late to save us a pleasant way of life in it. But it is far too late to do it without making painful choices.

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Fund Raising Fair Saturday 10th May

SPRING GREENS Green Fair Saturday 10th May 2008

ALL HALLOWS CHURCH HALL Pierrepont Road, Lady Bay 10am-2pm

Went very well thank you - more help would have been nice though.

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Protest against the BNP's party political broadcast
Taken from 'Media Workers Against the War      www.mwaw.net'
Phone the BBC on 08700 100 222 to complain

 

 
 
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Transition Towns

Some of you may have heard of the Transition Towns movement http://www.transiti ontowns.org/
dedicated to helping communities respond to CLimate Change and Peak Oil.
 
A group has been set up in Nottingham and will hold a couple of meetings in the next couple of months, see below & attached flyers (1) and (2) for more details.
 
Councillor G. Richard Mallender
Lady Bay ward, Rushcliffe Borough Council
Chair, Nottingham Green Party
H: 0115 914 0529  M: 07976 775619

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The Green Party delivers.
For those of you who haven't so far seen them, you can watch a few short videos made about the sterling work done by Green councillors in 3 Green Party strongholds - Norwich, Oxford and Kirklees.




They're pretty good videos, and the more people who watch them, the more voters will realise just what Green councillors can deliver.  
 
London Assembly & Mayoral elections.

Dear all, 
Although we don't have elections in Nottinghamshire this year other part of the country do, including the London Assembly & Mayoral elections.
 
We had an election broadcast on Tuesday the 15th  at 6.30 pm and on ITV, 6.55 pm on the BBC.
The broadcasts can be viewed at www.sianformayor.org.uk and www.votegreenparty.org.uk.

The latter website also includes information on the main issues we are campaigning on for these elections.

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Tim Beaumont

You may have seen on the Green Party web site the sad news about Tim Beaumont.
also at the BBC.

Tim Beaumont, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, had been our lone Green Party peer since defecting from the old Liberal Party in 1999.  Although he had been quite frail for some time he was still working up until the start of this month and was taking answers in the House of Lords to questions he'd put on Biofuels, Public Sector Information and energy efficiency in Building Regulations.

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Green Jobs

Dear All

A bit of a plug! If are not interested in these opportunities please forward them onto networks and individuals that you think may be.

 

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First Noel Street, now Victoria Baths threatened with Closure.
The city council, not content with proposals to shut down Noel Street Baths (they are proposing to build a new swimming pool at the Djanogly City Academy) are now threatening Victoria Baths with closure.  Coun David Trimble [culture, leisure, and community] presented a report to recommend closure of the facilities supported by Councillor Jon Collins, Leader of the Labour group. Essentially, the city's case is that the building is well past its 'sell by' date [being over 150 years old], and that it is a case of spending increasingly larger amounts of cash on the upkeep of the building.  
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Support Hockerton Housing Project wind turbine.
Some of you may know of or have visited Hockerton Housing Project.  Well they have just written to me asking us to urgently support their application for a 225kw wind turbine.  The turbine will be community owned and will generate enough energy to supply the whole village of Hockerton.

 

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World Against War Conference report December 2007

A delegation from Nottingham Green Party attended the 'Stop The War Coalition's' international 'World Against War' Conference  in London on December 1st 2007 - the World Against War Conference. The event was very well attended, very well run and extraordinarily rewarding occasion. Jean Lambert joined Tony Benn and many high profile speakers on the platform.

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Quiz 2007

 

This was a fun event, well attended. We shall do it again next year! Thanks to everyone who came.

I have posted images of the evening here - because I didn't hear from Broxtowe Green Party!

 

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Ready for a Snap/Spin election?

         Gordon isn't !  The Green Party was!

Even though it's all off for the time being we still need as much money as we can get- the more money we have the better we can serve the voters of Nottingham. We selected our candidates and when an election is eventually called they shall be announced on this site. See if you can help us select some more!

A better way to send us money is by cheque, Paypal charge us 3.4% + 20 pence flat rate. We are working on Democracy Bonds -a gift we return (at your request) if we keep the deposit.  Until then the best way to support the party is with a Standing Order. Please display this form, print it out, fill it in and send it to your bank.
                                                                                                                   Thank you.
 
Are we causing climate change - poll - BBC web news item

Today (25th September, the BBC news pages carried an article which says that 'A sizable majority of people agreed that major steps needed to be taken soon to address global warming.'

Are you one of that majority? If so, you can do something about it by joining the Nottingham Green Party. If not, why not?

 

 
Sub prime problems - and opportunities

Since writing the following article, Northern Rock has suffered a 30% or more fall on the stock market. The instability is getting worse by the minute. Today also the Government is saying it will bribe local councils to build on land against the wishes of local residents. Now read on...

We hear a lot these days about the American Sub Prime mortgage situation. Why should we in Nottingham care? It's a complex and long chain but each link in it is strong one. It could result in us losing not only our green open spaces but also lower the re-sale value of our own homes.

This comment now published as an article in the NEP

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Lindhurst Wind Farm, Approved !
A huge thank you to all that came out on cold days to get letters of support signed and Young Greens who organised a couple of stalls to support The Lindhurst Wind Farm, Nottingham's first wind farm. We had our first wind farm approved which means good, clean energy for 5,000 homes for at least 25 years. Hopefully this will mean that Eakring wind farm may be approved too which is now going to appeal.
 
I have no doubt that without the 3,200 letters (including one from Caroline Lucas, Green MEP) of support that this would have been another of the 2 out of 3 wind farms that are rejected in the U.K.
 
It was a high drama and tense committee meeting but common sense prevailed... ......... ........for once the Tories came through on the Green agenda (not unanimously though as one of them was hell bent that there should be a nuclear power station instead!!)
 
Beth.
 
 
The Green Standard,

 
You might have heard on the news today about an initiative launched by environmentally based charities called the Green Standard, http://www.thegreen standard. org.uk/

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Three Nottingham Young Greens arrested at nuclear blockades

Three local Green students have been arrested and charged with ‘breach of the peace’ for their involvement in peaceful blockades of Faslane naval base, where the UK’s nuclear submarines are docked.  The blockades were part of the week long Strident tent state, an initiative to gather students from across the UK together to work towards nuclear disarmament.  Andy Black was arrested whilst providing legal support for a blockade to the South entrance of the base on June 29th.  Dan Casey and Andy Birkby were arrested the following day blockading North entrance.  The two had cycled up from Nottingham, clocking up 375 miles along the way through the gruelling weather. 

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NOTTINGHAM YOUNG GREENS CYCLE 300 MILES TO BLOCKADE NUCLEAR BASE

Two members of Nottingham Young Greens, the youth wing of the Green Party, will be cycling from Nottingham to Helensburgh (near Glasgow) to take part in a peaceful blockade of Faslane nuclear base.  Andy Birkby and Dan Casey are both students and members of the Young Greens Society at the University of Nottingham, bucking the trend of apathy seen among people.  They will be joined by more Nottingham students and Young Greens in Helensburgh.

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Green Festival

A big thank you to all who contributed to the Green Festival stall, and who helped on the day. Despite raining for the whole day we still had fun and helped replenish our funds!

It was wonderful to see so many people committed to the Green cause, whether that be the Green Party itself or the many other groups with stalls there.  Thanks especially to the Broxtowe Green Party and to the Young Greens for their help, and to our ace cake seller Amy!

 
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