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13/11/2024 / 13/11/2024 by AC Baker
Thank you to everyone who has voted in the Greens of Colour 2024-25 Committee Elections, which close at 11 pm GMT / 23:00 UTC on Thu 14 Nov 2024. The announcement & ratification of results, and theCommittee handover will be at theGreens of Colour AGM (online/hybrid),at 11 am – 1pmon Sat 23 Nov 2024on Zoom.All GPEW Members in good […]
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04/11/2022 / 25/03/2024 by
Thank you for joining us at the Extraordinary General Meeting at Autumn Conference if you were able to! At a fruitful meeting, sections 2.5 and 3.6 of the Greens of Colour Constitution were ratified at the EGM (replacing the old 2.5, and renumbering 3.6 onwards). The new section 2.5 reads as follows: 2.5 The Executive […]
Do you want to see more Greens of Colour elected? The Deyika Fund was set up to support the engagement, development and election of Global South heritage members of the Green Party of England and Wales, who wish to stand as candidates internally and externally. The Deyika Fund is named in honour of Deyika Nzeribe […]
Join the Annual General Meeting on Saturday 26th November! The Greens of Colour AGM is where you elect the new Committee for 2022, discuss new policy, or areas of interest for the forthcoming year with fellow members and celebrate our achievements over the past year. This year, the Greens of Colour Annual General Meeting will […]
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Greens of Colour Committee! Our dear friends, thank you for your support of Greens of Colour this year. You have enabled all our achievements. Indeed, your 2021-22 Committee will share their Annual Report soon. Now, could you consider taking on a Committee role, to help further advance Greens […]
26/08/2022 / 25/03/2024 by
2021-2022 First Half-Year Report Your Greens of Colour Committee for 2021-22 after the 2021 AGM were: Results of the 2021 Greens of Colour Committee Election: Chair – Kefentse Dennis Deputy Chair – (currently vacant) Co-Secretary – Paul Beswick& AC Baker (ally) (Job-Share) Treasurer – Alex Horn Communications & Marketing Officer – Lily Hayward Membership Officer […]
30/06/2022 / 25/03/2024 by
The Children of the Anthropocene by Bella Lack Review by Lydia Ayame Hiraide Greens of Colour, Green Party of England and Wales The Children of the Anthropocene is a rallying cry for all of us everywhere to carefully consider our relationships with other humans and other life on this planet. How can we live more equitably, […]
31/05/2022 / 25/03/2024 by
The Deyika Fund was set up in honour of Deyika Nzeribe who was an inspiring member of the Green Party of England and Wales, and sadly died suddenly during his campaign as 2017 Green candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor. The Deyika Nzeribe Fund was set up to support the engagement, development and election of Global […]
The Green Party Executive and Deputy Leader elections are coming up very soon and there are a bunch of roles to run for. You could be the new… If any of these roles sound like they could be for you, then now is the time to get your nomination together! We would love to see […]
The Green Party is celebrating another year of breakthrough results in the local council elections, with gains made from Labour and the Conservatives all across the country! This year many people have voted for fairer, Greener communities. They have voted to do politics differently and to make a real change in their local communities. With your […]
30/03/2022 / 25/03/2024 by
Get your round-up from the Greens of Colour at Spring Conference 2022… By Paul Beswick, 2021-22 Co-Secretary, Greens of Colour Trying to make sure Green Party Conference is as high profile an event for Greens of Colour as possible has become something of a tradition for the GoC committee in recent years; the crystal clear […]
30/01/2022 / 25/03/2024 by
Get your round-up from the Greens of Colour at Autumn Conference 2021… By Paul Beswick, 2021-22 Co-Secretary, Greens of Colour To suggest barely catching my train, finding a seat and then arriving at Birmingham New Street on Friday 22nd October with barely enough time to find my (terrifyingly expensive) hotel and the (far from Covid-secure) […]
16/09/2021 / 25/03/2024 by azzeesminott
Greens of Colour hosted a hustings Following the hustings, we asked candidates to answer the questions that were not answered on the day in written form below. We also strongly suggested that they stick to a maximum of a 150 word limit for each question but we did not edit their response to fit this […]
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 […]
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 […]
