Pre-conference meeting: Greening Latin America

Hope people will have a chance to come along to this meeting!

Greening Latin America

Conference Approaches

I am now post-exams (having passed!) and am gradually getting back into the loop again with things. Looking forward to the up-coming Green Party conference where two important Green Left motions are first and second on the agenda: one on trade union reps and another on a minimum/maximum wage (text of motions can be found here: http://www.greenparty.org.uk/files/conference/2008/Autumn_2008_final_agenda_webvsn.pdf).

On Saturday, Green Left is holding a general meeting at Headcorn in Kent (details: http://gptu.net/gleft/greenleft.shtml). The agenda is packed to discuss topics from the state of the Green Party today through to how we interact with the Left in the UK and Europe.  There will also be time to discuss the draft of the eco-socialist manifesto (http://www.ecosocialistnetwork.org/).

On the eve-of-conference there will be a Green Left organised event at Bolivar Hall:

‘Greening Latin America’   7pm to 9pm, Thursday 4th September,

Bolivar Hall: Embassy Of Venezuela
54 Grafton Way
W1 5AJ
Chair: Joseph Healy, Green Party of England and Wales International Secretary

Speakers

Roberto Perez, Cuban permaculturalist who launches his British tour .
Dr Diana Raby, Lecturer at the Institute of Latin American Studies (University of Liverpool)
Nestor Lopez,  from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Dr Derek Wall, Green Party Principal Speaker

‘This meeting will show case the progress being made in Latin America with an emphasis on Cuba and Venezuela in dealing with climate change, biodiversity and range of
environmental issues.  It will examine the lessons in terms of politics and environmental policy that both the Green Movement and the wider left in Britain can learn from the Latin American experience.’

Organised by Green Left

Another fringe I look forward to at conference include the GPTU fringe on Migration Rights, with Teresa Hayter and Bob Hughes from ‘Noone is Illegal’ speaking. I will be trying my best to blog in the lead up to and from conference this year, if only so I can look back on the blog in the future to remind myself of what went on! Hopefully it will make interesting reading for anyone who happens to read it too…

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