by frog
Green Party Co-leader, Metiria Turei, delivered this year’s Picnic for the Planet speech in Wellington. This year’s Picnic marked a departure from the past. Firstly, it was held in Wellington away from the still sunny weather of the far North. Secondly, Metiria chose to talk predominately about social equity rather than turn the usual environmental spotlight on our nation. Here are the highlights of her speech.
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Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Tue, February 2nd, 2010
Tags: 2010, inequality, Metiria Turei, Picnic for the Planet
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
That’s the trouble, the Greens are no longer an environmental party – I’ve supported them since they started but feel the way they’re heading I won’t be able to vote for them at the next election. Time for an Environmental Party in New Zealand.
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Sustainability through plutocracy, authoritarianism, and imperialism isn’t my cup of tea.
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Anne, the Green party has always been engaged in four charter principles, not just environmental issues.
It is also available in maaori, here on the Green’s website:
http://www.greens.org.nz/charter
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All pushing to narrow the Greens activities and neutralise their effects in other areas.
I guess ‘food safety’ would be an interesting field to challenge them on. Is food safety an environmental or a social issue? Or both?
They’d have us abandon our very good activities there, because it’s ‘not a core, environmental issue’.
Hah!
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industrial relationsdrugstradeincome supportimmigration[insert policy here] policy.”Like or Dislike:
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Aye toad, and as though it were even possible to achieve ecological sustainability in those circumstances.
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I always say to people who give me the regular line “I would vote for you if you just stuck to issues relating to environment”, “I kinda doubt you. I’m sure you could find other reasons not to vote for us if we did just that.”
Does anyone have any better one-liners?
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Tintin – you are so correct it makes my eyes water!
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Toad – you have their measure. I laugh in their faces! (sung to the tune of OMC’s ‘How Bizzare’)
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Having witnessed Met’s speach I found it among the strongest social justics speaches I have heard since the heydays of the early 1990s when the Unemployed and Beneficiaries Movement had a number of strong speakers, including Sue Bradford. She targetted the government’s increasingly strident and calculated attacks on the country’s poorest, perhaps as a softening up process to make fiscal attacks akin to what they announced on 19 December 1990. And for those lacking a sense of history, lookmit up.
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You are right Graham – she’s very good.
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