Eco toilets at the campwell the visit to the climate camp was great fun and really encouraging, I must admit I was a bit tetchy and tired because ironically the planes over my modest shack in Berkshire have been waking me early!
Everything look really organised and together, I was expecting a Glastonbury style sea of mud. Got extensively filmed by my old friends the Forward Intelligence Team (FIT) but no problems getting on to the site.
Recycling, eco toilets, good self-organised catering...impressed I was.
Did get chased by clowns shouting 'you are Derek Wall, Green Party Speaker' which was a bit scary!
The anti-capitalist economics workshop saw 60 people stuffed into a small tent, I looked at why capitalism demands ever increasing economic growth, flagged up commons regimes, open source, the exciting bits of Marx.....the level of discussion was steller with lots of different views on building a just and ecological economy.
All very exciting, so get down to the camp!
Over the weekend alas I am limbering for my great debate on Radio 4 Westminister Hour, she wants a leader for the Green Party and I of course don't, just think of the extra abuse from the clowns, who work hard to remind us that green politics is about more than personality.
Here are some thoughts from Aled Fisher:
Aled Dilwyn Fisher, SOC, LSE SU Green Party Male Co-Chair, Young Greens National Committee
"Personality politics is a gamble based not on the real personal qualities of leaders, but on their created PR personas. Green politics is about radical social change and cannot be contingent on PR skills and the vagaries of the media. The media will be able to focus on one personality, create sensationalist caricatures and then attack the whole party on that basis.
Leaders will not make this party successful - concerted grassroots activism in defence of those who face social and ecological injustice will. Our principles of grassroots, decentralised, participatory democracy are appealing to an increasinly disenfranchised and ignored public. That is where we will recruit activists, members and voters."
4 comments:
"she wants a leader for the Green Party and I of course don't"
Who is "she"?
Caroline Lucas, apologies!
Date and time of Radio prog????
You may also be interested in my blog on this subject??
Hi Weggis,
had a look at your comment which were interesting, a bit more competition for green party exec posts would make the party much stronger without having to have any consitutional change!
Westminister hour, 10pm this sunday on Radio 4.
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