Brent Council is running a series of consultation workshops to determine priorities for the "Community Grants Fund"

 Brent Council is running a series of consultation workshops to determine priorities for the "Community Grants Fund" (the new name for the Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy Grants - NCIL).

There are five workshops scheduled online, to consult with residents in different parts of the borough. The link to register for your area can be found below.

It would be good if people could go and press home the point that grants should be directed at projects or ideas that will address environmental issues, particularly climate change, clean air, active travel and tree cover.

Please sign up on Eventbrite using one of the links below. All workshops are, of course, free of charge.

All the best,

Ian

All workshops are at 6pm:

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Kingsbury & Kenton Neighbourhood Priorities Workshop - 13th July 2023

 

· 

Willesden Neighbourhood Priorities Workshop - 17th July 2023

 

·  Kilburn Neighbourhood Priorities Workshop - 18th July 2023

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Wembley Neighbourhood Priorities Workshop - 19th July 2023

 

Harlesden Neighbourhood Priorities Workshop - 20th July 2023

PR AND ANTI-TORY ALLIANCES GREEN LEFT OPEN MEETING 20 JULY 2023 AT 7PM.

 

PR AND ANTI-TORY ALLIANCES

GREEN LEFT OPEN MEETING

20 JULY 2023 AT 7PM.

 

SPEAKERS

James Doran, and William Relton (Get PR Done),

Stuart Hill Unite activist and member of Unlock Democracy's Council

 

How should we campaign for a fairer electoral system in the UK?  ‘First past the post’ elections support a duopoly of political parties apparently committed to managing the capitalist system that is perpetuating climate change.

 

Is Proportional Representation a solution? Are there any tactics to resist the existing unfair system?

 

The meeting will be online, via zoom, open to Green Party members and other ecosocialists. It is intended to record the meeting and distribute an edited recording via social media.

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82710493009?pwd=Y1Ntby9MbWc0bitHakxiYVltWTZ4UT09

Meeting ID: 827 1049 3009 Passcode: 951164

Contact PETER MURRY yrrumuk@googlemail.com

Brian Orr RIP

 

 

 

Brian Orr of Brent Green Party and a former activist in the London Federation of Green Parties died on Monday 12^th June, after an illness which began in Autumn last year.

 

Brian played a crucial role in re-starting Brent Green Party as an effective political body and went on to steer it through the early decades of this century. He was unstinting as an organiser of campaigns and as a campaigner. As Party Chair and Election agent he ensured that the party stood candidates in local, regional and national elections, and also stood as a candidate himself.

 

 

Brian also worked with the London Federation of Green Parties as Treasurer during the time Noel Lynch was Chair of the Federation

 

Brian had a scientific background and training which informed his deep commitment to Green politics and ideas. Long before many others he was aware of the potentially catastrophic impacts of human-caused global climate change and its environmental feedbacks. He argued that this was manifesting itself in loss of biodiversity, especially of insects as the basis of the food chain. However he combined this understanding with a determination to enact these ideas politically as can be seen here https://brentgreens.blogspot.com/2010/06/brent-greens-call-to-safeguard-climate.html.

 

So, it is no surprise that he welcomed the intervention of Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion in the climate crisis campaign. In fact, he loved the development of ideas and politics through debate and his colleagues and comrades both in person and online. We will sorely miss provocative and insightful discussions with him.

 

He made a significant contribution, and we will miss him. We send our sympathy and condolences to Liz his partner and his family. 

 

Peter Murry and Martin Francis

BRENT GREEN PARTY SENDS SUPPORT TO STRIKING TEACHERS

  

BRENT GREEN PARTY SENDS SUPPORT TO STRIKING TEACHERS

The news that National Education Union members in Brent will be striking on February 1^st is welcomed by Brent Green Party, who together with  the Green Party of England Wales as a whole, support all workers taking part in the current strike actions.

We recognise that NEU members are making just claims for pay increases that at least give some respite from the pressures of inflation which is outpacing the incomes of many except wealthy cabinet ministers and donors to Tory party coffers.

We know that the issue is not just pay, the NEU strikes and others are in defence of proper public provision in such vital areas such as education, health and transport. A viable low carbon economy can only be built on these foundations, so the strikes of the NEU members in Brent and many other trade unionists are an important part of wider struggles which are vital to us all.

SOLIDARITY TO THE NEU! SOLIDARITY TO STRIKERS!

Peter Murry, Trade Union Liaison Officer, Brent Green Party yrrumuk@googlemail.com