Tameside Green Party are inviting people to meet Ruth Bergan the Green Party’s Parliamentary candidate for Stalybridge and Hyde in Mossley on Friday February 5th. Read the rest of this entry »
Meet Ruth Bergan the Green Party Parliamentary candidate for Stalybridge and Hyde in Mossley
February 1st, 2010The economic crisis and the Green New Deal
February 1st, 2010Ruth bergan recently spoke at the Green Left Conference held in Manchester on the subject of the economic crisis and the Green vision for the future
Economic Crisis
I think everyone here has been shocked and stunned by the scale of the heist that we’ve witnessed. We’ve incurred £850 billion of bank bailout costs, that’s 13,000 for every person in this country. We’ve got a public debt of £800 billion.
We were told for years that measures to improve public services, tackle climate change, reduce class sizes, provide better care for the elderly were too expensive, there just wasn’t the money in the pot – free insulation to tackle CO2 emissions and reduce people’s heating bills? It can’t be done. And politicians stood by and watched as levels of inequality reached unprecedented levels, with 4 million children in the UK, that’s one in three, living in poverty, and that’s before the economic crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
GREEN PARTY LEADER WELCOMES NEW EU FOCUS ON GENDER VIOLENCE
January 12th, 2010Green Party leader and Euro MP Caroline Lucas has praised the Spanish government for its solid commitment to tackling violence against women across the European Union as it prepares to take on the EU presidency. Read the rest of this entry »
Swallows Wood walk on Saturday 16th January
January 7th, 2010You are invited to join Tameside Green Party on Saturday 16th January when we will be walking around Swallows Wood which is a nature reserve near Hollingworth, north Derbyshire. The 60 acre reserve, contains semi-natural woodlands, meadows, ponds and marsh areas.
We will be meeting at midday on Saturday 16th January at the entrance to the Arnfield Reservoir on Crossgate Lane, off Manchester Road, Tintwistle
Bus service 237 from Manchester/ Ashton/Stalybridge or Glossop
OS Co-ordinates 53°28′N 1°58′W
Find it on google map here
For more information about Swallows Wood visit the Save Swallows Wood Campaign website
New Year message from Caroline Lucas MEP
January 7th, 2010
2010 looks set to be an exciting year for us Greens and I am hopeful that with everyone working incredibly hard it will be the year in which we show that a smaller party can win in a general election despite the current electoral system. We are polling well in our target constituencies but more than ever we need to concentrate our efforts on these seats – we have a unique opportunity to breakthrough into Westminster and this must take priority.
As far as the other parties and the media are concerned, the general election campaign is already under way. Yet, in some constituencies we do not have candidates selected – something I would urge you to resolve urgently. The Green Party is committed to standing as many women candidates as possible too, so that we lead by example when it comes to fairness and equality. In terms of total numbers, we have the opportunity of being able to beat our previous record of fielding 253 candidates in 1992 – let’s go for 300!
But please use your real time and energy to work in the places we can win. Nothing beats knocking on doors in Brighton Pavilion, Norwich South and Lewisham Deptford, and I want 2010 to be the year when we elect MPs – not the year we increase our share of the vote by a percentage point or two, but with no-one elected.
The dismal failure of talks in Copenhagen was not the way I hoped 2009 would end. World leaders produced an empty accord which was not fair, not ambitious and not legally binding. More than anything, we need to change the discourse around acting to prevent climate chaos, by highlighting the huge number of benefits which action will bring – the millions of new jobs in energy efficiency and renewables, the warmer homes and better transport. This year and the forthcoming election is an opportunity to do just that, so I look forward to us seizing this moment in history and making it ours.
Happy New Year everyone.
Green deal to tackle recession
January 7th, 2010How can we address the serious and immediate problems of recession – unemployment and low pay – and cut carbon emissions at the same time? Councillor Maya de Souza believes a local green ‘new deal’ is the answer. Add your thoughts in the comment box at the end. Read the rest of this entry »
Green Party wish list for 2010 (compiled at the Tameside GP Christmas Party)
December 31st, 2009- We should stop wasting so much food.
- Wish for a banking system that works for the many not for the few and in the interests of an environmentally and socially sustainable world and world peace.
- Peace and happiness throughout the world.
- I wish that blue and red made Green.
- All war to be completely outlawed – “no more WAR”.
- Reduce our arms spending starting with scrapping Trident.
- All banks to be mutual societies.
- More public transport investment.
- Re-open the Woodhead tunnel for goods and passenger trains.
- Legislate for an individual carbon footprint of 3 tons per year max.
- All to campaign to reduce CO2 use by 10% per year.
- Peace in the world and green areas to be preserved.
- Landlords and housing associations to be obliged to make their properties more sustainable.
- Get out of your ***ing cars please).
- That the failure in Copenhagen be repaired by a binding treaty.
- More people to realise that we cannot keep using the Earth’s resources without dire consequences.
- More people to recycle and not to keep buying new things.
- People to be community driven in place of consumerism.
- Peace and understanding.
- That we all campaign successfully so that Ruth saves the deposit in the General Election and, also, beats the BNP.
Greens select candidate for General Election
December 3rd, 2009Tameside Green Party have selected Ruth Bergan as their candidate for the General election to contest the Stalybridge and Hyde Parliamentary Constituency. Ruth stood as a Green Party candidate for Longdendale Ward in the 2008 local elections and in June 2009 Ruth was a Green Party candidate for the North West Region in the European elections. Ruth works in the voluntary sector in areas such as training, project management and campaigning for workers’ rights and sustainable food issues.