Hull Friends of the Earth on the allotments
Hull Friends of the Earth allotment barbie this Sunday
off Newland Ave

WHEN
This Sunday, 21st Sept, 2-4pm
WHERE
Newland Av allotments (go to Sainsbury's, cross over down Edgecumbe St, continue down Manvers St to allotment entrance, look for fire. HU5 2HW). Please bring your own grub to share.
The ideal antidote to worrying about your shares in Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG.
Best wishes,

Martin Deane
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Wednesday, 3 September, 2008
Marine Conservation Society Beachwatch 2008 Event
I want to tell you about Beachwatch as you expressed an interest about the local FOE group getting involved. I have added your group to our Beachwatch volunteers mail out list, we hope to post out volunteer packs soon once all our local organisers have registered their beaches.
We also have the event details up on our website so I thought you may appreciate this information as soon as possible hence my e-mail today.

To see the Beachwatch 2008 events lists please go to http://www.adoptabeach.org.uk/
Please make sure you follow the links to the Beachwatch 2008 events lists on the home page just in case the link is also here:
http://www.adoptabeach.org.uk/BWBeaches.php and follow the instructions. If a beach is listed already please contact the local organisers to let them know you would like to come along. If a beach you would like to help out at isn't listed that's because we don't have a local organiser to run the event or they haven't registered yet so hopefully you may be able to find an alternative. The website is being updated regularly so please keep an eye on here as more and more events and beaches are added. I have also attached a copy of our volunteer guidelines for your information. These will also be in your posted pack. We will be in touch again soon but hope this helps for now in case you have lots of volunteers who may like to get involved. Look forward to speaking to you again soon.
Kind regards,

Emma Snowden
Litter Projects Co-ordinator
Marine Conservation Society
Tel (direct): 01989 561590
Pollution line: 01989 567807
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) is the UK charity dedicated to protecting our seas, shores and wildlife.

Please join us - visit our website at www.mcsuk.org and www.adoptabeach.org.uk Less than 0.002% of our coastal seas are fully protected. Please see our video and vote for more protection at www.marinereservesnow.org.uk
Take part in MCS Coastal Challenge. Run, hop or swim along the coast and burn off those Christmas calories www.mcsuk.org/support/how-to-help/coastal+challenge
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Friday, 22 August, 2008
York's Green Festival: August 31st 2008
YORK GREEN FESTIVAL
A celebration of ethical and sustainable lifestyles
AUGUST 31st 2008
Rowntree Park, York
Two stages of live music

• including Grinny Grandad, Fist Full of Yen, The Falling Spikes, Boss Caine
• and Holly Taymar
• DJ tent
• Talks and workshops
• Solar powered cinema
• Children's area
• Healing area
• Clothing swap shop and customisations
• Ethical traders and vegetarian food

And if anyone can help us out, we're really short on stewards! Could you spare a few hours to stand by a gate, flog programmes (for a donation) and generally keep the peace? If you could, please get in touch with stewards@yorkgreenfestival.org.uk.

York Green Party
Basement, 22a Fishergate
York YO10 4AB
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Thursday, 21 August, 2008
Re: WASTE new WRAP report - CO2 impacts of transporting the UK?s recovered paper and plastic bottles to China
The report is talking about the 1, 2 and 3 types [HDPE and PET bottles] being sent to China. British industry just can't use enough to take up what is collected, apparently, though it is growing.
Whats interesting is that most of it is occupying containers that would otherwise be returning to China empty [so the report says] because we import so much more from China than we export.
The report is worth reading.

Hilary Byers
Heritage Conservation
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
WASTE new WRAP report - CO2 impacts of transporting the UK?s >> recovered paper and plastic bottles to China
I know the UK doesn't have the facilities to recycle plastic that doesn't have 1, 2or 3 in the recycling triangle.
Are the latter processed in this country or do they have to be shipped abroad- though surely not all the way to China? Our local council collects 1,2,3 so they shouldn't end up in landfill anyway.

Sue Jolliffe
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
WASTE new WRAP report - CO2 impacts of transporting the UK?s recovered paper and plastic bottles to China
PRESS RELEASE
Shipping our plastic bottles to China produces less CO2 than sending them to UK landfill, says WRAP New study shows carbon benefits of trade with the Dragon economy. You may view the full text of this press release at http://www.wrap.org.uk/go.rm?id=23742
The report 'CO2 impacts of transporting the UK?s recovered paper and plastic bottles to China' is here

Becky Slater
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Friday, 8 August, 2008
Greetings from Sierra Leone
Dear all,
I hope you are all doing fine.
I realise it is not easy these days out there to send container .Even though we need it for our Medical clinic.
Here these days the poor man finds it very difficult to get medical attandance because the amount the doctor charge can not be afford by the poor.Well what would happen to our members and communities working with us when we sick.Therefore our goals are the MDGs.
I know you realy want to help us. But we are not going to make decision.What you give us we will accept and thank God. Pray the God bless you for your support.
Congratulation for having stalls at FAIRS and EVENTS. We will make good use of this opportunity. We will share ideas and do what ever we are able to succeed.
Biofuel is also on of our main campaign.Therefore we are going to work with you.
My regards to you all and hope to hear from you soon.Good Luck you you all in your next meeting.
Solidarity.

Olatunde Johnson
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Thursday, 7 August, 2008
Clayoquot Sound, Canada's Ancient Temperate Rainforest under threat

I saw a TV documentary about the struggle against logging here in the 1990s. It was perhaps the most inspiring ecological campaign I've ever seen and led me to join Friends of the Earth. Clayoquot Sound is breathtakingly beautiful and teeming with wildlife. We must not let it be destroyed.Dave We really need increased participation! Please send and forward! This alert continues 15 years of successful EI activism on the matter.

ACTION ALERT UPDATE
Clayoquot Sound, Canada's Ancient Temperate Rainforest Valleys to Again Fall to Logging
By Forests.org, http://forests.org/ and EcoEarth.Info,http://www.ecoearth.info/

July 28, 2008
TAKE ACTION
These ancient forests must be fully protected and all industrial development ended to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem health, focusing upon employment from standing trees and fully intact ecosystems, and failure to do will lead to a renewed "War of the Woods" and global anti-B.C. markets campaign
http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=canada_clayoquot_logging
Canada's precious temperate rainforests are again threatened with industrial logging. Clayoquot Sound, which lies along the West coast of British Columbia (B.C.), is a spectacular mosaic of lush coastal rainforests, fjord-like inlets and islands covering 850,000 acres. Such intact coastal temperate rainforests are globally rare, covering only about one-fifth of one percent of the Earth's land area, half of which has already been destroyed. They are amongst the most biologically productive temperate ecosystems in the world. Clayoquot Sound is the most magnificent expression of temperate rainforest in North America.

There is no such thing as ecologically sustainable industrial logging or other industrial activities in a fully intact ancient forest ecosystem. Ancient forest logging must end worldwide to solve climate change, protect all biodiversity and achieve global ecological sustainability. Encourage all involved in British Columbia's forest policy to commit themselves fully to developing methods for employment and community advancement based upon standing forests and fully intact ecosystems. Or else promise you support a return to the blockades and protests that halted logging in Clayoquot in 1993, as well as a massive overseas campaign targeting B.C.'s markets. Surely rich Canada can find a way to spare these locally and globally vital ecosystems.

TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=canada_clayoquot_logging

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http://forests.org/blog/2008/07/alert-war-of-the-woods-ii-retu.asp
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Monday, 4 August, 2008
Green Party states road policy
Greens to scrap Road Tax
On Radio Humberside this morning, Martin Deane of Hull & East Riding Green Party called for the scrapping of Road Tax:
“The motorist deserves the bonus after all the recent oil hikes. Government plans will make the grossly unfair Road Tax more unfair again with some car taxes planned to double.
"The Green Party will scrap it altogether.
“Of course roads still have to be paid for, so we would transfer the cost to fuel. But we spread the costs and bin the Road Tax. And we use the taxes for the one thing that will future-proof transport: attractive, affordable public transport for all.
What about the decline of oil and alternative technologies?
“The problems of oil aren’t going away. Oil corporations are hugely powerful and are making a fortune. But a responsible government will seek to protect us from the problems of rising costs and increasing scarcity – not to dump them on us and make us pay through the nose!
“You can’t call this £2 billion tax ‘green taxes’ without spending them on Britain's number one transport priority: affordable, reliable public transport for everyone - as the Green Party has been saying for years!
“But there is no investment in that. Government plans for MORE road building, and MORE cars paying MORE taxes. But for these plans – like for oil – their days are numbered.
Points Mr Deane didn’t get to make include:
“People understand taxes – they approve of spending on education, on health, on welfare for the vulnerable. But they deplore government spending on many areas. Here government is choosing to make the oil companies even richer, standing by as oil goes through the roof while the oil majors make the biggest profits in human history.
“The Green Party stands for a transport focus on the need to future-proof the next generation by providing affordable, attractive public transport for all. This won't exploit people like the present rule of oil.
“Yes, alternative energies have a part to play, fascinating inventions like India’s Air Car or the Tesla Roadster electric. But there are major questions about taking this route wholesale. Do we really want a world built on the next level of inequality? Because there are not the resources across the planet to do all over again what we have done with the internal combustion engine.
“The major use for alternative energy isn’t individual transportation, it’s so we can safeguard what we use to heat with and cook with in the future.

Martin Deane
Sec, Hull & E.Riding Green Party

Notes:
Telegraph – 4.8.8 – Road Tax plans in disarray.
Click here for article

“The Government plans huge hikes in Road Tax which are unfair on the larger cars for larger families, up to £450 cost.
In May we saw 1000 trucks converge on London in protest at fuel prices – at least this will ease the burden.
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Saturday, 2 August, 2008
Policies not personalities
?It?s about policies not personalities!?
The Green Party?s Shan Oakes bashes fake Miliband leadership contest.
In David Miliband?s interview, Thursday, on BBC's Jeremy Vine Show, the focus was sadly on personality and not policy.
But Shan Oakes, who stood against David Davis in last month?s by-election for the Green Party, has different ideas.
?Whoever is in charge of the 'old' parties,? Ms Oakes says, ?we still get the same old policies - policies supporting profit, not policies promoting the welfare of people and planet.?
?We need an ethical policy at home and an ethical policy abroad - instead we?re served up with streams of smooth-sounding soundbites.
?Miliband wriggled out of the lack of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. People want it - and the people would have said no. So, we weren?t given the chance and instead government signed it anyway.
?On the Middle East, we were told Iran is not behaving like a ?normal country?! But David Miliband failed to remind us that there is only one nuclear armed state in the area - Israel - with an estimated 200 nuclear weapons. Iran is apparently not ?a normal player in the international nuclear game?. Presumably Israel is - with dozens of UN resolutions against it ? the state which bombed Syria in 2007 - the state which went to war on Lebanon in 2006.
?It?s heartening to hear on Iran that ?100 per cent of our effort is focused on the diplomatic track? - but we remember Blair wanting a ?diplomatic solution? on Iraq, 5 year ago.
?Today, an ethical policy on Iraq means ending the adventure and bringing our troops home. On Iran it means rejecting the option of starting a war, as we started a war on Iraq.
?Miliband is being talked about as Brown's successor, but whether someone sounds ?more confident? or 'smoother' - or more like Tony Blair - does not make them any better. The policies stay the same: profit, growth and empire building!?
?It?s time for proper political debate on the fundamental issues.?

Shan Oakes, Green Party
http://shanoakes.blogspot.com/ Shan Oakes is a candidate for Europe 2009 for Yorkshire and the Humber. Hull & E. Riding Green Party
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Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
Blog
Hi All
I'm pleased to announce that we now have a blog! It was confirmed at the meeting last night and the address is www.transitionhull.blogspot.com. Anyone is welcome to add posts to the blog. It it relatively new so we hope to add more material very soon. It was a very positive meeting last night, look forward to Sarah's minutes. What does anyone think about posting the minutes on the blog?

Lee-Ann
Transition Hull
A positive vision of a sustainable future
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Saturday, 12 July, 2008
Hazel Blears and the Planning Bill
Re: a letter from Hazel Blears MP, addressing the points I made in an email letter to Alan Johnson MP re the Planning Bill:-
From the beginning it sounds like she is using a similar argument as that used for similar erosions of democracy and civil liberties; such as demographic change, changing energy sources and the implications for security of energy supply etc.as justification for the bill. She refers to "nationally significant infrasrtucture" which could of course mean nuclear power stations, airport extensions and so on. Suggesting that such developments will override local considerations. Addressing the FoE amendments, she says there is no need for them as they are already enshrined in the bill.
I guess it will be up to those with a more detailed knowledge of the bill to ascertain whether this is so or not. I'll leave it to you to decide whether to forward it to the group or not.
Perhaps others might wish to comment on it.

Dave Callaghan
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Friday, 11 July, 2008
Would scrapping Humber Bridge Tolls help the environment?
Well what to do you think???
Hull & Humber Chamber of Trade have asked CHEF to consider this point as they strive ahead with pressure to get rid of the bridge tolls! Let me know what you think so i can feed back.

Adam Fowler

Recycle your old mobile telephone for cash!
www.moneyforoldmobiles.co.uk
Donate now for a chance to win Return Tickets to London by Hull Trains The City of Hull & Humber Environment Forum
29 Anlaby Road
HULL
HU1 2PG
Tel (01482) 324223 Mobile: 07947565140
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Wednesday, 2 July, 2008
Routh wind farm
East Riding Council claims wind turbines could ruin Beverley's 'cherished landscape'
The views of two of Beverley's most iconic buildings could be ruined if plans to create a wind farm are given the go-ahead, according to East Riding Council.
The local authority warned stunning views of the Minster and St Mary's Church would be obscured ? especially from the Westwood ? if 12 huge turbines were allowed to be built at the village of Routh.
A public inquiry into the controversial plans by RidgeWind Ltd to site the 100m-high turbines at Hall Farm began at the council offices in Skirlaugh yesterday.
Megan Thomas, representing the council, maintains the visual impact would be significant and provides grounds for refusal.
She also argued the East Riding was already set to exceed its renewable energy targets.

Miss Thomas said: ?Views of the townscape and landscape from the Westwood are cherished views and are by no means ordinary. ?The turbines would contrast starkly with the pastoral, parkland nature of the Westwood.
?In light of the number of operational and consented wind turbine schemes in the area, the need for this particular one is not overwhelmingly compelling. ?The landscape and heritage harm can be justifiably avoided by refusing permission.?
Local residents have also voiced concerns, with 22 of the 26 nearby households objecting to the plans. Representative Barry Norton insisted the development would impact on their quality of life.
In a statement submitted to the inquiry, he said: ?The impact is significant and unacceptable to the historic landscape and views of Holderness Plain, which are protected by local development policies. ?The turbines will be a blot on the landscape, which need not, and should not, be there.?
But the developers claim the wind farm would bring a ?5m economic boost to the region.
David Goodman, representing RidgeWind Ltd, said any negatives would be outweighed by the positives and there was a need for greener forms of energy. He told the inquiry: ?It is clear the development will not have a significant harmful effect.
?Any effects that may be adverse must be weighed with the policy support for this form of development and the benefit it would bring. ?It is evident those benefits far outweigh any adverse effects.?
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has warned the plans could endanger aircraft flying over the region.
In the Ministry's statement to the inquiry, Squadron Leader Neal Henley said he believed the turbines could interfere with radars, which were vital in guiding aircraft and identifying potential threats.
He explained the Air Surveillance and Control System (ASACS), which uses the radars, helped avoid mid-air collisions.
Sqd Ldr Henley said: ?It is assessed the proposed wind farm developments at Hall Farm would have an unacceptable impact upon the operations controlled by the ASACS force.
?Therefore, the MoD strongly objects to the proposed wind farm as it will jeopardise both air surveillance and the safe control of aircraft.?
The public inquiry into the proposed wind farm at Routh continues.

Article courtesy of Hull & East Riding Mail
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Monday, 30 June, 2008
Skidby campaign visit
Green Campaign to visit Skidby, Monday
"We have had a fantastic first few days talking to hundreds of people across the constituency, from Cottingham to Howden and from
North Cave to Little Weighton.
We've been so busy it's hard to do the housekeeping like keeping the blog up to date!"

Martin Deane, Green Party
01482 471467
Shan Oakes
01482 862085 / 07769 607710
Shan's blog (below) http://shanoakes.blogspot.com/

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Getting up steam in Little Weighton

We moved on to Little Weighton Steam Fair where, amidst clouds of smoke and tunes from Mary Poppins played on a steam organ , we chatted to people drinking tea or beer. One 5 year old asked, ?what party are you going to?? When I explained that a ?party? is a group of people who have ideas about how to make things better, he wanted to know where the others were. I pointed to Clive, Martin and Bill. He then asked, ? so what are your ideas?? I explained about oil running out and he suggested bikes and horses. What unerring logic kids have - particularly before they get old enough to get caught up in the mating game! My previous research with 100s of kids shows that the younger they are the greener they are.
Some people just feel fed up with politics in general and don?t want to vote at all, and who can blame them when they have been betrayed so often. When told that politicians are just in it for the money I explained that I?m definitely not. To prove it, if I am elected - about which I?m feeling more and more optimistic - I undertake to give half my salary to the Green Party. I?m in it because I can?t bear to think about what?s going to happen to people, and other species, in the future.

North Cave Car Boot? They want CHANGE!

Another fine day we?ve had! We zoomed off like the Trumpton Fire Brigade to North Cave car boot sale - where we found lots of Green-minded people. Women in particular seem to understand the dire situation the old parties have got us into and the desperate need for change. People want local decision making, they are sick of being conned by politicians who don?t practise what they preach, they know the Iraq war was about oil, they know we are all being exploited by government backing big business, and they want it to stop.
They can also see that with only one of the lame old parties standing in this election the Greens have a chance to make their ideas clear and to get plenty of votes, so lots of people said they would vote for us because THEY WANT CHANGE. Saturday, June 28, 2008 Canvassing in Cottingham

The regional gang joined us locals for some serious campaigning today. People in Cottingham were very welcoming ? as ever ? and everyone we talked to was very interested.
It was great having Green Party perennial Clive Lord around. As a founder member, he?s done every Green by-election since the last glaciation and is staying ten days. He even brought his tent! Local secretary, Martin Deane, spotted David Davis (yet again, 'by coincidence' in a constituency of about 120 square miles), and tackled him on detention and his vote for war on Iraq . Davis said he was a Privy Councillor. So that?s alright then. (One million dead, 176 British troops, a country destroyed). Davis honestly held that the war was to bring liberation and democracy to Iraq . ?It was about oil!? Martin came back, ?It was planned. The Americans wanted Iraq from day one.?
We did agree though to debate the issues sometime, so look out for an official hustings.
And hurrah! People were telling us that they had our leaflet already. The remainder will arrive by Monday - in time for the postal votes.
Feel like helping? Come on up!
shan@voice-international.net

?Oh there?s no bus from here!?

Friday 27th June, actually ? just catching up! I went to Howden today. I thought I?d garner votes on the train ? and found one! Once at ?Howden? you arrive a mile and a half from the town at a station that has seen better days. I asked someone about a bus to town: ?Oh there?s no bus from here!? So I had to plod into town! We clearly need a Green Party win to revamp public transport here! I spoke to people around Howden marketplace and had a very enjoyable time.
We are the only other serious party contending this election and many people were interested enough to talk about their views and local life.
It struck me that if you mix red and blue and yellow ? it makes brown! So, ?the brown parties?, as I?ll call them, now have great difficulty making policies appeal to most people. And it?s because they are committed to a system that no longer works. If it ever did. We just cannot have endless growth. Full stop.
Saturday, we are in Cottingham market place from 11am onwards. We have lots of inspired visitors from around Yorkshire coming to help us!
shan@voice-international.net

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Grey meets Green in by-election showdown

We had an enjoyable day in Cottingham market today. Cottingham has the distinction of being the largest village in England . Very positive responses from public in general once we had collared them.
A BBC Look North camera crew turned up and asked loads of questions. The interview went well, but of course they chose to show the one bit with a hesitation in it! They also got us talking with a group of people sitting nearby having cuppa. So, we got on the box with 2 other ?small parties? so that?s a plus!
We had a stall set out most of the day and gave out some mini-manifestos and all the leaflets we had and had to print up more! People talked to us very easily and the majority seemed interested in what we stood for once they got to know. David Davis appeared there too and he and I and the team had a little chat where we asked him why he?s a Tory and told him we want to open up the issues. He told us he would invite us to any events he holds and that he sees us as the only serious challenger to him. We said we certainly did intend to challenge him.
Judging by the reaction overall of the people we spoke to there was a lot of support for us just waiting to be tapped.

All papers duly in!

Wow!?fantastic support and brilliant ideas from everyone ? yes its looking really exciting now our nomination papers are accepted and the freepost leaflet is printed and on its way. We will follow up on all suggestions.
We?ll be talking with BBC Look North tomorrow . The East Riding Youth Council would like us to visit with David Davis too. Need to work on a press release now?.
11 candidates so far? more tomorrow - watch this space!
Very best
Shan, Bill and Martin

Donating to our campaign
We've had a lot of very kind people volunteer to give donations to the campaign to show-up the Tories' real record on civil liberties.
Cheques can be made out to Hull & East Riding Green Party at the address below, or using the bank details which follow:
Co-op Bank, Alfred Gelder St, Hull

Please let bill@voice-international.net know that you have made a donation, as it's important that we track these.

Many thanks, Shan

Green Party Candidate for Haltemprice and Howden
3 Norwood
Beverley
East Yorkshire
HU17 9ET, UK
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Thursday, 12 June 2008
Various
Dear Friends,
We though we would hold a ...
SATURDAY STALL - 14 Jun, 12-1pm, Queen Victoria Square, Hull
The weekend Bush visits London, Stop the War Hull marks the death of the 100th British soldier in Afghanistan.
And the continued occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine.
With petitions and flyers.

Also, Fri 20 Jun, Hull Screen, Crude Awakening, ?5/ ?4
7.30pm, how the end of oil will affect civilisation within decades.Followed by a discussion: Transition Town HullHow can we adapt as a city?

Not forgetting... Sat 21 Jun - Beverley Folk Festival
Tony Benn & Roy Bailey
Click here for more inforamtion
Saturday 21st June
Roy Bailey & Tony Benn '
The Writing on the Wall'
Beverley Leisure Complex Main Hall, 12.00pm, ?12.00, ?9.00 (conc), Children FREE. (also weekend tickets)

Cheers,
Martin Deane
PS - Meanwhile, across the pond...
Congress' Dennis Kucinich five-hour floor speech to impeach Bush !!! 'Dennis Kucinich takes the call to impeach Bush beyond bumper-sticker slogans, laying out 35 articles of impeachment in Congress.

Kucinich's latest gambit is his introduction of articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush -- 35 of them, to be exact -- laid out in a five-hour floor speech that was likely heard by no one save the C-SPAN technicians and perhaps a few hundred viewers at home. The charges have no chance of being taken seriously in Congress, where Democratic leaders will dispose of them quickly in a parliamentary move. There is no benefit in throwing the country onto the pyre of partisan flames with Bush set to go quietly away to Crawford, Texas, in just seven more months, they reason. And this is certainly sensible.

Nonetheless, you cannot find a more complete and compelling indictment of the Bush administration than Kucinich has presented in his articles. They range from the exceedingly obvious, such as those detailed in his Article III: "Misleading the American people and members of Congress to believe Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, so as to manufacture a false case for war," to the specious, presented in Article XII: "Initiating a war against Iraq for control of that nation's natural resources."

Kucinich gives us a bleak road map through seven years of deceptions and misjudgments, incompetence and malevolence. click here
The whole document on the Congressional Record is here:
click here
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Thursday, 5 June, 2008
Crude climate cats
Dear Friends,
1. Bush in London!!! June 15th - Sunday week
Protest 1pm, Parliament Square, 15 June
Tickets ?25 / ?20, minibus return. Tell us by Sunday if you'd like to go!

2. Crude Awakening, film
Friday , 20 June 2008 Hull Screen, George Street
Hull Screen programme Friends of Hull Screen website

3. Hull Climate Crisis Prevention
Hull's team do their thing on Fossil Fools Day, 2008
Protest on Google Video.

ok, ok, more pictures of cats doing crazy stuff!
http://www.picturesofcats4you.com/pictures-of-cats/cute-cats-acting-crazy/>Click here
Best swishes,

Martin Deane
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Wednesday, 4 June
I Spy a Spy on 4th July!

Dear friends,
Friday 4th July is only one month away!
You are invited to an evening do, from 5pm, to show your opposition to all things American military especially the base at Menwith Hill, the other dozen bases around the UK, the whole "Star Wars" missile system, with crucial Menwith Hill involvement - and against the continued occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan where the Americans still claim they are winning (even longer than Hillary).
Various news continues to bubble away that George W Bush could still bomb Iran despite mere months left of his rule - and Menwith Hill would once again be crucial.
Support us if you can! Best wishes,

Martin Deane pp. Lindis Percy and Laila Packer
Coordinators
CAMPAIGN FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF AMERICAN BASES - CAAB
www.caab.org.uk ( relaunch coming soon!)
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Monday, 18 May, 2008
Big Killers

Dear Friends, I've been looking through some statistics on the big global killers and produced this chart.There are huge numbers of deaths from all manner of preventable causes. On this site all you have to do is click! This website is sponsored to provide a free mammogram a day.
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
(you also can click for the hungry, the rainforest, etc..)
Regards,

Martin Deane
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Tuesday, 13 May, 2008
Amazon Boo Boo and next meeting.Transition towns
Dear Transitioners
I hope you are all very well and have had chance to surf around the transition websites and maybe read the primer.
I attended the FoE meeting last week and spoke about the approach we intend to take. There were some very encouraging ideas and some people wishing to engage with the initial steering group! So sue could I ask you to circulate my contact details including my mobile (07946220086) to FoE members and let them know about the below meeting?
I have received an email from Amazon telling me I did not input my card details correctly and therefore have not had my films dispatched (end of suburbia etc). So I will order them from an independent distributor this week and have them next.
Before then however I am cordially inviting anyone interested in the steering group that could not attend last time and everyone else to ZEST AT 7:30 ON THURSDAY THE 22ND. Zest is usually a bit quieter so we can talk, swap some ideas and generally get to know each other.
Again it would be really useful to read the transition primer to begin with but if not that's ok.
Please let me know who will be coming, Chris and I will be there but it would be good to know what size table to snag.

Stephen Hall
Senior Sustainable Environment Officer
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Tel: 01482 391752
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Thursday, 24 April, 2008
Green Party Campaign
Green Party Campaign
Lots of leaflets should be coming through doormats near you!. Here is roughly where we have leafleted so far. http://www.sokuto12.karoo.net/leafleting/
All volunteers welcome! And the actual leaflets are here -
http://www.sokuto12.karoo.net/green.htm
The NUT are having a rally tomorrow in town, striking over pay. I hope to be there. I hear there has been lots on Soapbox (R.Humberside) on local politics and no-one canvassing anymore.The BBC did not invite us to take part, which is a shame as we have given them lots of comments previously on all manner of issues.We did some canvassing on Marlborough Ave and were very well received.It would be a good thing to do a lot more... Meanwhile, here is a graphic on the energy cost of nucelar power.
Cheers

Martin Deane
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Tuesday, 22 April, 2008
World Ocean Day
World Ocean Day ? Sunday the 8th of June
Join our naked photo shoot in support of marine reserves.
A recent report, published in the journal Science, identified the seas around the UK as amongst the most overexploited in the world and the marine environment around our coasts as amongst the most degraded by human activities. Many fish species are on the verge of commercial, or even actual extinction and a recent Royal Commission report recommended a total ban on all commercial fishing and other extractive activities, covering a minimum of 30% of UK waters out to 200 nautical miles. They concluded that the provision of such havens, where stocks can recover and repopulate surrounding waters, is the only way of ensuring the long-term survival of both fish stocks and of a fishing industry.

The Government has just published a draft Marine Bill, which includes some proposals for protecting the marine environment, but the measures being proposed fall far short of the minimum recommended by the Royal Commission. The Marine Conservation Society, Greenpeace, WWF, the RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts and MARINET, Friends of the Earth's marine network, are all campaigning to get the bill strengthened.

Sunday the 8th of June is World Ocean Day. To mark the day and to promote the campaign to get real protection for the UK marine environment, the MARINET Marine Reserves Campaign is organizing a naked photo shoot/media photo opportunity. We will be assembling at 1.00pm on Black Rock naturist beach, in Brighton. The theme of the action will be "they are stripping the oceans bare". Please come and join us and help to really raise this issue's profile.

The annual World Naked Bike Ride is also taking place the same weekend, on Saturday the 7th of June, including a ride in Brighton and some people might like to make a weekend of it and also take part in this.

If Brighton is too far to travel, why not join one of the other World Naked Bike Ride events and/or organize something for World Ocean Day on a beach closer to home, then let your local media know what you are doing. In addition, we will also be organizing other actions later on the summer, if you let me know that you are interested in these.

You can contact me for more information on the World Ocean Day action and on other things that you can do to help the campaign, or see the marine page of the Leicester Friends of the Earth website.
Best Wishes

Malcolm Hunter
MARINET Marine Reserves Campaign, Activism Lead& Leicester Friends of the Earth

P.S. We are also encouraging people to write to their MP, to urge them to sign EDM 1141, in support of our campaign's demands. You can use this link to do so.
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Tue, 1 Apr 2008
GREEN HERE presents A Climate Question Time
A Climate Change Question Time
Friday 4th April, 7.30pm - 9pm
Endsleigh Centre, Beverley Rd. HU6 7LJ

The 1st week of April is a week of action organised by CAFOD, Christian Aid, Tearfund, Oxfam etc, part of a coalition forming the I Count Campaign.

I Count will be lobbying MPs and holding public meetings on concerns re climate change.

I Count calls on Government to strengthen the proposed Climate Change Bill with:

• at least a 80% rather than 60% cut in emissions by 2050.
• Annual milestones to make sure cuts in emissions are on track.
• Emissions from international aviation and shipping to be included in targets.

• Bishop of Hull, Richard Frith will chair.
• Professor Dave Raffaelli from York University, Dept. of Environmental Science
• Dr. Mike Edwards from CAFOD, Climate Change Programme Development Officer.
• Martin Deane, MSc, Green Party, Secretary, Hull & East Riding.

Martin Deane
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Sun, 30 Mar 2008
Is death of bees GM related?
Dear Friends,
the death of bees epidemic is presented here as a propaganda exercise to obscure the real culprit of GMOs.
See what you think!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8436
Regards,

Martin Deane
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Fri, 28 Mar 2008
WASTE Training day on 26th April: Getting waste out of the bin - phasing out residual waste
Hello,
Friends of the Earth is holding a training day for local group members on 26th April, at NCVO in Kings Cross. We have commissioned research looking at what?s in residual waste, left over after recycling and composting, and what needs to be done to reduce the amount we create. This training day will explain how our research can help you to get your councils to improve local recycling and composting rates and decrease the amount of waste left over. We'll also explain what work we?ve planned for the next five years. To register, please email me at becky.slater@foe.co.uk.
Best wishes,

Becky Slater
Campaign Assistant
Reduce Resource Use
Friends of the Earth
becky.slater@foe.co.uk
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Mon, 17 Mar 2008
40,000 strong London anti-war demo

Hi All,
if any Hullies are disappointed at the coverage of the 40,000 strong London antiwar demo. There is a Yorkshire Post article here -
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/latest-national-news/Antiwar-demo-draws-thousands.3882716.jp
and Mo - from http://thisisull.com - has done us proud again on a home page article with tons of pictures. Global Protests Demonstrate 15 March 2008 Trafalgar Square, London, Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don't attack Iran End the siege of Gaza with Photo Gallery by Mo. Do check it out.
On a sadder note, many of you will have heard that Harry Gurevitch has passed on, a long time antiwar supporter and former maths teacher in the Hull area. March 15th would have been his 68th birthday but he died in Dove House in the early hours of the previous Saturday after a long fought blood disorder. His funeral was held last week. Many will miss him.

Martin Deane
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Thu, 28 Feb 2008
stuff of life

1.All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic km of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. 2.All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth. Green Party Meeting
Monday 7.30pm, Nagshead, Newland Ave. (Upstairs)

Information provided by Martin Deane
nicked from - http://blog.phiffer.org/post/27344630
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Mon, 25 Feb 2008
Some events coming up

Thursday 28th Feb - Leeds Uni, GM crop meeting. All support welcome.
Summary of GM concerns click here
Monday 3rd March - Green Party, Nagshead, 7.30
"Taking Liberties" Film - Wednesday 5th March, 7.30, Quakers, Bean Street.
Saturday 15th March - World Against War Demo, London, ?20 / ?15 from 471467
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Mon, 18 Feb 2008
Green Party conference
Dear Friends,
Just back from the Green Party conference in Reading and we've made the front page of thisisull -
http://www.thisisull.com/index.html
Thanks to Mo for all the hard work on html and the photos!
It was a really good conference (and I don't say that often!) and my blurb is up too. We passed a fine, strong motion on Israel-Palestine, and an emergency motion condemning the government for leaving hundreds of thousands asylum seekers destitute and calling for immediate help. (Amnesty says 500,000). And lots more.
Familiar faces you may see include Martin Bell (ex-BBC), Mark Steel (comedian), Peter Tatchell (Green, Oxford, and former Labour MP), the Venezuelan Ambassador - impressive on his government's environment policies, Caroline Lucas, MEP, (and Principal Female Speaker)) with video of her speech. Derek Wall (Principal Male Speaker) who gave a barnstormer of a speech.
Congratulations to me for post of Editor for the Green (International Magazine and to Bill Rigby (Beverley) for being invited to basically rewrite Green Party marine policies for next time!! Who have I forgotten? Loads more, another time!
Cheers,

Martin Deane
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Sun, 3 Feb 2008
Resistance is fertile!
Hull PSC, Palestine Solidarity
Mon 4th Feb, 7.30pm, ZEST

Green Party meeting, Weds, 6th Feb, 7.30pm Nags Head, Newland Ave.
1. We thought we'd move it this time into the area local to most of our Hull votes!
For some strange reason...

2. Elections - Hey, I'll probably stand for Council for Avenues Ward (15% last year) this year (yes there are elections contrary to propaganda you may have heard from me before...) Anytime like to stand for Newland Ward (10% last time...) ??? It's free and fun, only costs some time and leaflets!

3. Great Swap Shop in Nafferton on Saturday!!! Well done Green Party Parish Councillor Mike Jackson - and family!! Really nice, relaxed, pleasant, good-humoured. And while trying to get rid of your stuff you ended bring other stuff home for free!! Lovely village too, nice pub meals. Here's to next time. Or maybe one at the Quakers or Spring Bank Cmty Ctr!

4. Green Party Conference, Feb 14-17. Reading. Any issues you'd like raised??? Stop the War meeting, Weds, 8pm, Quakers, Bean Street.
My apologies to the meeting.
Newsletter: Please forward any further content, points, for this and I will turn it round asap. Next demo ideas - 5th Anniversary, London, Mar 15th, - BOOK your seat NOW!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clonpop/59178757/sizes/o/ Iraq, January, America dropped 100,000 lbs of explosives on Iraq in 10 days last month. Barely reported. Since Iraq, American soldier suicides are up x 5. Go Green Week - led by People & Planet at the University.
Feb 16th-24th. Would you be able to help with some leaflets on campus??? Right now, Iran apparently has NO Internet traffic...
Also the cut ocean cables apparently ARE NOT responsible.
http://www.unknownnews.org/080209-sd.html#03-MK
http://current.com/items/88831987_internet_cables_break_iran_registers_no_traffic

Information courtesy of Martin Deane
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Sun, 27 Jan 2008
Crafts group sessions
Hello,
It's Catie Allison here, who was trying to set up a group to make cotton shopping bags. I thought I would let you know, in case you are interested, that as an initial experiment before I do that, I am trying to set up a general, community crafts group that people would come to and bring their own craft project. I wouldn't (usually) be teaching but it would be a chance to meet other people and chat whilst taking some time out to do something creative, which to me would be very valuable!

One bonus for you would be that, although as I said, I am not strictly a teacher, if you are interested in papercrafts I can teach quilling (paper filigree) and a couple of other techniques. I can also provide a lot of scraps of pretty paper that you can have for free, and sometimes cards and other things, as my parents run a craft supplies business. My mother teaches quilling, lettering and folk art and can maybe come and teach on the odd occasion if there is enough interest.

The group would take place, probably every two weeks to begin with, but every week if enough demand. It will be held at the Recycling Unlimited office (NB not the shop), on Newland Avenue, in their very nice upstairs room, on either a Monday or a Wednesday evening - still undecided. It will be non-profit making and entirely free to you.

Please let me know if this appeals, or if you are unsure and would like to ask any questions. It would also be really helpful to know if you would prefer a Monday or a Wednesday or if it does not matter. Or if you would come but can't climb stairs please point this out. If this group kicks off and the organising of it goes smoothly then I will consider setting up other craft projects or groups that need a bit more organising, such as the bag group.
Please reply to this e-mail. c_e_allison@yahoo.co.uk
I would like ideally to start on the 11th or 13th February. Hope to hear from you, or please spread the word!

Catie Allison
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Thu, 10 Jan 2008
How to vote for Stop the War on Channel 4 News
STOP THE WAR COALITION
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Tel: 020 7278 6694
Web:www.stopwar.org.uk

HOW TO MAKE YOUR VOTE FOR PEACE COUNT: SEE BELOW
CHANNEL 4 NEWS AWARD FOR POLITICAL PERSONALITY OF THE DECADE
THE VOICE OF THE ANTI-WAR MAJORITY IS SHORTLISTED
SEE: http://tinyurl.com/3yl9gh

The shortlist is in for the Channel 4 News Award for most inspiring political personality of the last decade and Stop the War Coalition and the majority of people in Britain who have opposed the illegal and immoral war in Iraq from the start are on the shortlist. So is Tony Blair? Who will win? You decide. We have nine days to give voice on national television to the majority peace movement in Britain. The closing date for voting is 18 January.

Brian Haw, Parliament Square's permanent peace protester, won the 2007 Channel 4 News award for Most Inspiring Political Figure, with Tony Blair receiving only 8 per cent of the vote. Let's ensure we have a similar result this year. Please vote for peace and spread the word among your family, friends, work colleagues, fellow students, trade union, community group, church or mosque.

There are 5000 British troops in Iraq and 8000 in Afghanistan. Let us remind Gordon Brown, as we did Tony Blair before him, that this warmongering is not in our name. HOW TO VOTE:
BY EMAIL: IT'S FREE
Go to the Channel 4 News Political Awards Page:
http://tinyurl.com/3yl9gh
Under Anti-Iraq war protestors, click Email
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