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Ginger John is owed a retrospective apology. Ginger John had been/was/is a performance poet from the “punk wing” of what was a decade or two ago, a movement to politicise and popularise an art form that had, like a hat made from an ornamental chicken, become simultaneously effete, over elaborate and dead. I can only remember three or four things about Ginger John: he was big, he had cropped

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Recently I heard, within a few hours, three snippets from radio programs concerning food. Firstly a British farmer complained that he could not produce food without government subsidies because consumers would not pay the prices that he would charge, “They would rather spend money on computers than food” He alleged. Later the Radio told me that Africans were dying as they trekked across deserts

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Coalition of Resistance Against Cuts & Privatisation National Organising Conference - 10am-5pm, Saturday November 27th Camden Centre Bidborough St, London WC1H 9AU (opposite St Pancras station) Register here: http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/?p=317 Already several hundred people have registered for the conference. If you have and have not yet heard back from us please don't worry. We

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The Campaign Against Climate Change meeting about “climate scepticism” on 14 April 2010 was contentious, not least because the very term “climate scepticism” (or more accurately perhaps “climate change scepticism”), was one of the many subjects of disagreement. I liked the contentiousness, as one of the speakers (1) admitted, it is possible to be bored, or at least complacent when listening to

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A week ago, a walk around central Birmingham could have confirmed my many metropolitan prejudices, especially as spent a long time not finding an open photocpying shop, but finding many many closed chinese resturants instead. A week later a triple night bus ride across central London showed that it seems to be changing into a 24 hr city as jolly revellers mingled with the morose and knackered

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In the good old, bad old days, before flying away for foreign holidays became more immoral the more that you thought about it, I went to Bulgaria. This was in the very last days of Communism, at the time of the coup against Gorbachev in the USSR. Bulgaria was beautiful, or I saw the beautiful bits of it, but there was something a little boring about it and I couldn’t figure out what that was.

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When I turned the corner into the narrow Holborn back street which leads to the Dragon Hall, I saw a man kneeling on the pavement. He was silhouetted against the bright electric light coming through a plate glass door situated behind him. At first he knelt, then he went down onto all fours then he rose again. I can be sure how many times he repeated this movement as I slowly approached, trying

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The citizens of Cricklewood are being confronted with a frightful sight, as they stand in large grey meltwater slushpuppies at the northbound bus stop on the Broadway. The Conservative Party has seen fit to erect two vast, adjacent and almost identical billboards both depicting huge images of David Cameron’s head and shoulders, captioned with some implausible slogan about ‘cutting the deficit

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1. Socialism and Green as political terms have many things in common notably that they are and have been applied to a wide variety of things, from fascism to washing powder.2. Socialism is possibly the more coherent of the two, in terms of political movements, it usually refers to political movements and/or organisations that seek to replace and/or reform capitalism with a government which

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notes by p>murry This meeting was advertised to me by a handbill which came through my door, it was not immediately clear from this document that this was a Labour Party meeting but it was and it carried the legally required “printed & promoted by…” rubric. One speaker suggested a cross party campaign against the proposed Cricklewood development, so I asked why a one party slate with an MP

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HARD CORE GREEN LEFT ACTIVISTS 'CELEBRATE' GREEN PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTION 2008 IN BLOOMSBURY BEIRKELLER-STYLE SONG ORGY

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Brian Orr convenes Brent Green party summer picnic in the interval between two downpours on 31/8/2008.

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I got the ballot paper,But my hand stood stillShould I RON RON RON?Should I RON RON?I looked at the paperAnd saw what I gotShould I RON RON RON?Should I RON RON?A choice between a BlairiteAnd an aging trotShould I RON RON RON?Should I RON RON?Oh my hand stood stillNo I couldn’t use my quillOh where should I put my cross ?When I really think that they all are drossShould I RON RON RON?Should I RON

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Brent Green Party, has as one of its local campaigns, raising concern about the parking of large articulated delivery lorries outside the ASDA supermarket in Wembley.As my picture below shows the supermarket does have a large loading bay and it also has a huge car park on the other side of the building which could be used to accommodate waiting delivery lorries, nonetheless at busy times lorries

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I wrote this short piece for my local party newsletter"I joined GP for ecological reasons growing from a childhood fascination with wildlife and urban tourism into rurality. I had political reasons too, school and university studies led me to agree with Armenian radio that “Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man and under Communism the reverse is the case”. I was also politicised by work. I

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THE POLL RESULTSQuestion OneWhich of the following persons, whom might be in some way associated with other persons in the Green Party of England and Wales makes the most pies?The winner is .....Jim Killock!QUESTION 2When the "modernisers" of the Green Party of England and Wales realise that fudging, personality and spin cannot of themsleves produce an electoral breakthrough which political party

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This is the front page of a blog that I done recently for a Birkbeck course containing some Green politics some art stuff and various bollock, its at http://iveretired.blogspot.com/

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THE KRAKEN HAS INSOMNIA!in anIncredible tentacular spectacularP.R.Murry’s artwork:“The Big Squid”has re-emerged fromthe Dollis Hill Abyssto display itself in theBrent Artists Register Spring Show 2008at Willesden Library Gallery(Willesden Green Library Centre,95 High Rd, Willesden,London NW10 2SFtel:8298 1421,email info@brentartistsresource.org.uk).The show will be open to the publicfrom 13th May

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Members of Brent Artists Register hanging the Spring Show at Willesden Library Gallery (Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Rd, Willesden, London NW10 2SF tel:8298 1421, email info@brentartistsresource.org.uk). The show will be open to the public from 13th May until 5th june 2008. Private View 22nd May 6.00-8.30 pm.gallery

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Wordsworth, (the Urban Fox) lays down after his Laudanum to seek inspiration from Daffs and stone statue of Octopus.Wordsworth digesting second hand Kentucky Fried Chicken

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Winter Sunlight in an old townwinter sunlight on vinesAlarming side effect of French nuclear programNorman Foster bridge and winter treeBridge pillar

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Now that I’ve stopped being an alcohol dispensing machine, I can stop to reflect on recent events for this blog. I work as a barman in Birkbeck College, and I do day shifts which are usually quite light on custom, except in the first week of May 2008. When exams finish people want to piss it up big time, and on a couple of days this week I was the only Bar Associate, (my distinguished official

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It's frightfully nice here The discreetly dirty parsnips of the bourgeoisieSian Berry and Shahrar Ali position themselves at a window of opportunitySian and Shahrar spring into action oblivious of Tory spy behind them Shahrar telling supporters where to stick their Green election posters El Sincero leaps into action as potential voter clutches Tory leaflet Yes! It's green for go for the Greens in

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Suggestions for a speech§ The main purpose of Trades Unions is to improve and defend their members’ pay and conditions in the workplace§ The Green Party has consistently supported Trades Unions in this role; it has a detailed Workers’ Rights policy and an active Trades Union group.§ Sadly or the past 20-30 years Trades Unions’ have been forced more and more onto the defensive against the

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I was a little surprised that Gramsci’s statement about combining pessimism of the intellect with optimism of the heart was not quoted in Jonathon Porritt’s “Capitalism As If The World Mattered”(Earthscan 2007), which offers a wide ranging review of political, economic and ecological writings mustered to construct a blueprint for a society that could survive the potentially cataclysmic impact of

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I woke up on New Years Day with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I had just survived an medical emergency, so I was mightily pleased to be waking up at all. On the other, the situation facing the Left in Britain has seldom seemed bleaker. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue, the erosion of civil liberties grinds on relentlessly, the privatisation of our education and health services gathers

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Darren Johnson has replied to a recent posting on this blog that, he alleges, accuses him of being a ‘Blairite’. He is probably partially right that right that it does, but this and all other postings on this blog (unless stated) are the personal views of Peter Murry, not a collective view of Green Left. (an updated official Green Left blog should appear soon but Greenleftwindfarm is not it).

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In the 1980's Green politics arrived on the British electoral scene with the emergence of the Green Party of England and Wales [GPEW]. Since then there has been an increasing recognition of 'green' issues, and, an acknowledgement that there is an urgent need to deal with climate change by almost all UK political parties. However GPEW itself has not advanced with the causes that it advocates. The

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“Green-ness”, politically speaking, could be called “the new black”, if that weren’t an insult to anarchists. All across the political spectrum ideas originating from fringe Green organisations are recycled into the policies of mainstream political parties, and wind turbines sprout from all sorts of unlikely places. Other explicitly apolitical organisations ranging from Brent Cross Shopping

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The East London Line is a mighty fine line,The East London Line is the line to ride,The East London Line will all be mine,‘Cause I’m gonna buy it when it’s privatised. (CHORUS)The East London Line got bright shining rails,The East London Line got fast moving trains,And when the passengers pay their fares,Money’s gonna fall into my pockets like rain.(CHORUS)I’m gonna spend a little cash to keep

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Environmentally friendly printing Organic and Biodynamic Wine Club case £86.25Floras dress £195Leopard print scarf £8Vegan leather bag £45Tiffany Dress £150Bapti Dress £222Recycled wooden-box and leather on gold necklace £35Fairly made cotton dress £125Polka dot tights £8Tutti Fruity roundabout bag £84Empire waist dress £140Alpaca cache Coeur £190Organic cotton Celia dress £195Shattered star

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The paved area behind my house is getting really cold,The cold is eating through and seeping through right into my bones,This is also true and very true in my favourite pubs and restaurantsI’m getting cold and the paving’s getting cold in all my favourite outdoor haunts.CHORUSI need patio heatersI want patio heatersGive me patio heatersGwan to keep my patio warmNow I can sit out here in my patio

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In March this year, Jim Jepps summarised his impressions of the Swansea Conference on his excellent blog:”...I'm more than ever convinced that the Green Party is unequivocally progressive, democratically organised and punching well below its weight. That lack of traction between the leadership and the members, and the different views on what the Party is actually for really need addressing.”In

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Every below thing in crinkly brackets {} is the original first post on the blog which I am keeping on the blog because it is of historical interest and perhaps related to notion of the 'tyranny of structurelessness'.Green left decided that it did not want a team blog if it was run on the basis of open access to its codes and has probably set up a committee to set up its blog and edit posts to it

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