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We meet on the second Wednesday of every month, at 7.30 pm in a room at the Stork Hotel, Price Street, Birkenhead. This is just off Hamilton Square and close to Conway Park and Hamilton Square railway stations. Birkenhead bus station is just a short walk away. Non-members are welcome to attend.
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Conference report 2007
A VIEW from the Green Party Conference - Liverpool - 13-16 September 2007.
by a new(ish) member of Wirral Green Party.
Never having been to a party conference before, let alone a GREEN PARTY Conference, I had no expectations, as I toiled up the hill in Islington in hot sunshine - except perhaps a certain amount of boredom!
Well of course there were "chunks " - mainly about policy and organisation - with titles like "Process for Compositing Motions" - of which I understood not a word - but all the workshops I chose to go to were about "real stuff" ranging from Green MEPs to the Arms Trade to Education to Climate Change and gave chances for people to exchange ideas.
The YES CAMPAIGN - Sian Berry and Darren Johnson spoke eloquently about what it was like to be interviewed by the press who naturally wanted to know if they were talking to the Green Party Leader. Sian then has to take time out to explain to them that there is no leader as such but Principal Male Speaker and Principal Female Speaker - almost laughably confusing for those outside the Party - laughable if it weren't so important for the Green Party to address itself to the wider community.
Having to go off on this tangent to explain this difference in structure between the Greens and other political parties must prove detrimental to getting across the real GP issues and aims to the media.
Having heard during this workshop people speaking both for and against having a Leader/Deputy Leader I for one will most definitely be voting YES when referendum voting papers are sent out next month (Oct.) - especially as Leaders would have to be re-elected by our own membership every 2 years and subject to recall.
This would preclude the Green Party "getting stuck with one Leader" which was one comment refuted during the workshop.
THE VENUE - The venue itself was The Cornerstone - part of Liverpool Hope University. Its an old converted church set back off a big grassy quadrangle off Salisbury St., Islington _ I had a struggle finding it on the first day - the signage left something to be desired! which wasn't helped by the Conference address being given as Haigh St. which doesn't seem to exist on the ground!
On entering the Cornerstone the whole height of the church space is used, with stairs leading up to a mezzanine level with coffee bar area, which in turn leads into the Main Hall with rooms off which held a big choice of workshops/meetings.
But again there was a bit of a prob. with signage for merchandise stalls - I got there eventually but they were well hidden. Next Conference it would be good to see some stalls for Ethical Investments/Finance etc.
CHANCE MEETING - One result of meeting other Greens from around the country was that I recognised someone from the London contingent at Conference who I worked with at the Natural History Museum the best part of 40 years ago! I even managed to dig out at home a very "hairy" 1970s photo of us "hard at work" (not) in Redgrave Fen, Norfolk.
FRESH VIEW? - It may be no bead thing for people like me who don't know much about how a political party works to go to a conference and look at the Green Party in a similar way to someone "unconverted" - because it's this wider community that the Green Party needs to start appealing to - without of course selling out - sometimes a fine line.
Mainly though, it was the atmosphere of people coming together nationally (some international members too) to further Green aims which I found heartening - less heartening was the lack of national media coverage for this important event.
Marilyn Jones, October 2007
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