#BrightGreenLive Episode 5, with Benali Hamdache, Etienne Stott, Tyrone Scott, Lindsey German + more
#BrightGreenLive streams live every month – bringing interviews and discussion with key figures from Green Parties, the labour movement, social movements and the arts. Episode 5 features:
- Linda Walker, co-convener of the Green Party of England and Wales peace, security and defence working group.
- We’ll be discussing the Green Party’s new defence policy, including the party’s revised position on NATO
- J Clarke, co-director of climate campaigns at People & Planet
- We’ll be discussing the Fossil Free Careers campaign and why students are organising to stop fossil fuel companies recruiting on university campuses
- Michael Kyriacou, chair of UEA UCU branch
- We’ll be discussing the financial crisis at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and its impacts on workers
- Chris Garrard, co-director of Culture Unstained
- We’ll be discussing why Culture Unstained campaigns to end fossil fuel sponsorship of cultural institutions
- Etienne Stott, Olympic gold medallist and Extinction Rebellion activist
- We’ll be discussing why Extinction Rebellion have planned a mass mobilisation in London in April
- Tyrone Scott, chair of Greens of Colour
- We’ll be discussing Tyrone’s plans for Greens of Colour and how the Green Party can improve its representation of people of colour
- Benali Hamdache, Green Party of England and Wales migration spokesperson
- We’ll be discussing the Green Party’s new migration policy, including why family reunification is important and why the Greens want to give voting rights to migrants
- Lindsey German, convenor of Stop the War Coalition
- We’ll be reflecting on the Green Party’s new defence policy and Stop the War’s criticisms of NATO
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