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18/05/2021 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer As an allotment gardener based in the East Midlands, I invite us to talk to bird watchers and to our fellow gardeners. Recent BBC information is that swifts migrate in April, build nests, incubate their eggs for 20 days, nurture their first brood of young for 20 days then reuse […]
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Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Nationalism has a neo-dangerous underbelly. On no account be misled! Never think we are immune. Always check in on universal humanity: Zoning can only be fluid and voluntary; Intentionally walk in each others’ shoes So that independence and dignity are preserved. Magnify positivities for no-one’s life escapes adversity.
23/04/2021 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Virgil Bitu As in general, the GRT population is not taken into consideration not even during elections. Politicians feel no restriction or common sense when they are referring to us GRT. They cannot express their thoughts when they refer to other vulnerable groups because they are held accountable by the media, state institutions […]
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Dr Andrews’ speech to an Oxford debating society, underlining the prevalence and power of racism in schooling has been widely watched on social media. He expertly distinguishes schooling, at any level, from education and shows its neo-colonial use as a means of perpetuating international control and continuing white economic supremacy. […]
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Let’s take a walk high up in the trees so the leaves mingle with our hair, Stretch the soles of our feet down long sinews to tread flat on the soil, Engrain the colour of the dirt into toughened skin that fears no thorns, Express assurance that we are one […]
10/04/2021 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Virgil Bitu LACHO ROMANO GES! O Del te del amen zor thai gogi! God may give us strenght and wisdom! Today we celebrate 50 years from the First World Roma Congress, which was the milestone in the process of our identification and recognition as a nation. Than we, Roma, Gypsies, Sinties, Travelers adopted […]
26/03/2021 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Virgil Bitu 20th of March 2021 – UN Anti-Racism Day We, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are a population with a very rough fate. During the centuries we have been enslaved, victims of the Holocaust, of armed conflicts which were not ours and even nowadays we are constantly victims of violent hate crimes especially […]
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Photo by Vincent M.A. Janssen from Pexels This preparation for Cop 26 rests on a promise found in holy writings: “The sun shall not smite you by day nor the moon by night.” Participation in Cop 26’s climate deliberations is modelled by leaders of Catholic and Islamic faith groups. Of […]
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer I was warned that within Greens of Colour that there were some rumblings of misgiving about ally-ship. I decided to examine what the idea of being an ally means to me. What I jotted was: friend, supporter, empathetic observer from within, “standing in the shoes of main players”, sharing work, […]
22/01/2021 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written by Robinah K. Nanyunja I entered politics at the founding Congress of The African Greens Federation (AGF) and Ecological Party of Uganda (EPU) in 2010 when I was elected as a Vice President of EPU. Since then I got involved in party building and organizing. In 2014 I was elected as the Treasurer for […]
15/01/2021 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Japortation is implementation of the UK Home Office’s “hostile environment” directed against Jamaican nationals who have been identified as illegal immigrants. It involves holding them without warning in detention centres, flying them to Jamaica and delivering them to the custody of the Jamaican Defence Force pending contact with their wider […]
18/12/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Thanks to Dzaier, our GP Disabilities’ group chair, the Greens of Colour is glad to introduce the Disabilities Union, a new source of activism to improve social conditions across the whole range of disabilities. The Disabilities Union was founded and is being run by an energetic and diverse group in […]
15/11/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Claudine Letsae International Co-ordinator Green Party England and Wales It is truly a privilege to serve the membership as an International Coordinator and to highlight the Global South issues. Building on the good work that have already been undertaken by my predecessors, I aim to strongly advance the way we engage with the […]
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Contacted after an interview on BBC radio, a lead worker in an urban stables, Naomi Howgate, shows how London youth can enjoy a pastime that is usually associated with a rural childhood Naomi writes that Ebony Horse Club “aims to raise aspirations and life skills of young people through horses, […]
An actor’s life story through his parents’ Eyes Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer Kofi was baptised Nevill and registered in his father’s name of Stephenson on the rugged hillside that mounts steeply from Savanna-la-mar, a coastal market town at the western point of Jamaica. His parents’ small holding of freedom fields nestled between the sugar […]
14/11/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Kefentse Dennis The moment I was elected as Trade Union Liaison Officer (TULO) as a bittersweet moment as a had Covid-19 at the time, however since my recovery I’ve been working to need my own flavour and vision to the TULO role. Currently I want to push my agenda through Green Party Executive […]
13/11/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Ben O’Donovan-Iland Green Party Co-Leader Johnathan Bartley has written to Tim Davie, BBC Director General, requesting him to give clarification on the directive to ban all of the organisation’s staff from attending ‘controversial’ events. According to Davie, the ban is to create a perception of impartiality within the BBC after they have received […]
18/10/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written by Rosey Thomas Palmer My correspondent in Ashanti Territory, Ghana, sends a picture of “”the river that runs behind my house. They have polluted it with chemical used to wash gold. The rivers used to have special species of fishes. They all died.” The correspondent who has chosen to remain anonymous , reports that […]
17/10/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written by Rosey Thomas Palmer I ‘ve a phone, maintain my bike or my car. In it I travel circuitous routes and far. I’m a carer, a cleaner, taxi driver, Deliveroo. I’ve an I D , a badge and a uniform too. I cost you so little, risk covid and flu. My contract is zero, […]
Written by Rosey Thomas Palmer Second in a series of articles about the typical English Syllabus Courtesy of Jamaican Rastafari “the I see and overstand.” I see that very nearly every available exam in English Literature or Language and Literature, features a work of Jane Austen in its syllabus. Her novels are significant within the […]
Written by Rosi Sexton The last few months have been full on. It seems half a lifetime ago, but in reality it’s only been four months since I made the decision to stand for the leadership of the Green Party. There were several things that motivated that decision, but one in particular was the need […]
Written by Cleo Lake Reparations: the making of amends for wrong or injury done; monetary or other compensation payable by a country or institution to an individual or group of people for a historical wrong.Abolition: the complete ending of an activity or custom by law or official action; the legal prohibition of slavery, especially the […]
14/09/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written By Rosey Thomas Palmer BBC World Service 1.30am, 8.9.20, reported on seabed damage in waters surrounding the Bahamas. The report revealed that drifting anchors have damaged the sea floor and killed coral reefs, the effluent from the vessels is illegally released into the waters and plastics waste is arbitrarily dumped. Since cruise passengers are […]
12/09/2020 / 25/03/2024 by rakeshprashara
Written by Rosey Thomas Palmer The Insidious power of education to influence selectivity of thought, thereby shaping culture, is demonstrated by the nineteenth century coexistence of classical education in boys’ schools and adult involvement in ”Empire building”. Meanwhile, the emphasis of girls’ education was on comportment and the arts in order to fit them for […]
