Re: Population Policy: An Invitation to Racism

Brandon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:25:31 -0000

Kieran, the older I grow, the more I realize everything you say makes so much damn sense.

Re: Moving on from the Australian Greens

Wendy Radford — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:56:26 -0000

Dear Kieran

Although I have only met you on several occasions, I am sorry to lose the prospect of meeting you again at Greens functions. I am also sorry that we lose a thinker like you, because we need thinkers who challenge not only the external systems in society, but the internal systems in the Greens.

As to your basic thesis that by the time we get into power we will have eroded our own possibilities for genuine action to change society by a dedication to pragmatism, it would, certainly, not be a new thing for a revolutionary movement. We need people like you to prevent it from happening. However, I respect your desire to have something more immediate and personally satisfying to work on.

Just let me say that I have spent the last 6 months working on Vic Greens water policy, and we have included such items as getting logging out of water catchments, keeping water in public hands, advocating a way of actually getting water into rivers for environmental and indigenous cultural flows, refusing to build new dams, rejecting alternatives like desal. plants, and many more things that no other party has dared to put in policy for fear of angering Bob Brown's powers that be. It is the capacity of the Greens to still work in this way to put environmentally sound tenets directly into policy, that will GUIDE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, which I find personally satisfying.

Thank you for your enjoyable and thought provoking explanitory blog. And thank you too for your vivid contribution to the Australian Greens so far. Maybe you shall return.....
All the best
Wendy Radford

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