Greens in the news

As part of my role helping the Gloucestershire Green party with their press work I produce a monthly summary of links to the party's news releases and letters. Over 55 items this month - about 70% of them make it into at least one of our 6 local newspapers in the County - despite this, other than in the local letters pages, Greens still have on average much less coverage than their share of the vote would suggest they should.

There are many reasons for this but perhaps most obvious is the similar lack of coverage in national media - another is reflected in a quote from a journalist at The Independent newspaper - something along the lines of 'we don't do climate change as we have too many holiday and car adverts' - infact they are probably the best national paper on the subject - and certainly in the last year things are changing in all the national press in terms of climate change...

Anyhow that is a discussion for another time - for now here is the contents of the latest GNN - which shows we've been busy on a huge range of issues - I've been particularly involved with the first two sections:

QUOTES 1. NUCLEAR: STRUCTURALLY DEFECTIVE REACTORS BUT NEW BUILD GETS GO-AHEAD 2. GLOS HEALTH: TRAIN TO WESTMINSTER, BIGGEST EVER MARCH, PRIVATISATION PLANS AND A POEM 3. PEACE: MAYOR OF HIROSHIMA, BROWN BREAKS LAW, WTO AND MORE 4. CLIMATE CHANGE: STAVERTON ACTION, GREEN EU SUCCESS, BARRAGE AND MORE 5. GM: FRENCH GM PHARMACEUTICAL CROPS RISK AND SW MEPS FAILURE TO SIGN DECLARATION 6. TWO INTERNET FREEDOM CAMPAIGNS 7. LOCAL FOOD: GLOUCESTER VEGGIE FAIR, STROUD MARKET AND FOOD MILES 8. 95% of 47,000 RESPONSES SAY NO TO CULLING BADGERS 9. CUTTING CRIME: PRISONS AND STONEHOUSES' TEEN REPELLANT 10. WASTE, RECYCLING, BISLEY COMPOST AND BATTERIES 11. LOCAL CHILD ABUSE CHARITY CLOSURE CONDEMNED 12. OTHER ISSUES: TESCO IN DURSLEY, GREEN TORIES, DHANDA AND DEBT, ASDA STRIKE AND 'DONATED' ORGANS 13. NEW ON 'BIG ISSUES' 14. WEBSITES THAT MIGHT INTEREST 15. UPCOMING KEY EVENTS: COFFEE HOUSE GATHERING, WALMART AND STAVERTON

To see back issues of GNN go to the Glos Green party website - to receive them regularly go to Mailing Lists section of the website in the top right hand corner and click on subscription instructions - very simple:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/index.php