Green Candidates Across Coventry

In addition to our campaigns in Earlsdon and Cheylesmore, the Coventry Green Party is running in six other wards across Coventry for the 2007 elections.

Combining a message of environmentalism and social justice, we will highlight a number of issues:

- three years after Ken Taylor became council leader, we still lack a climate change strategy for Coventry; we need comprehensive action on climate change and carbon emission reduction
- being pro-peace and anti-war
- Coventry’s use of incineration and our lack of plastic kerbside recycling
- supporting the local economy (high street shops, small business, postal services)
- pushing for youth facilities and youth employment projects
- funding for English courses to help migrants, asylum seekers and refugees integrate into our community and access the services and support which they require

The Coventry Green Party’s candidates are:

Bablake – Gianluca Grimalda, 35, is a researcher at the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.

Binley and Willenhall – Cathy Wattebot is an active volunteer with her church, the Coventry Peace House, and the World Development Movement.

Cheylesmore – Bryn Tittle, 26, is an advocate at Grapevine, a charity that promotes equality for people with a learning disability. Bryn has started an election blog: cheylesmoregreens.blogspot.com

Earlsdon – Scott Redding, 34, ran last year in Earlsdon and received 16% of the vote. He works at WATCH, a charity that provides IT access, employment advice and youth training.

Foleshill – Penny Walker, 56, is one of the founding members of the Coventry Peace House, a housing co-operative and peace and environmental centre on Stoney Stanton Road.

Longford -- Natalia Grana, 29, is a full-time mom and a parent governor at Hillfields Nursery. Natalia is co-coordinator of Coventry Friends of the Earth.

Radford – Dan Finnan, 25, is the co-ordinator of the Hillz FM radio project in Hillfields.

Wainbody – Emma Biermann, 20, is a student in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the national campaigns co-ordinator for the Young Greens (all party members who are 30 and younger, and student members of any age).

While we didn't plan it this way, our eight candidates have two interesting 50-50 splits:

- we have an equal number of male and female candidates. 23% of candidates in Coventry’s 2006 elections were women.
- we have an equal number of candidates under 30 and over 30 years old

Again, if you want to help our campaign, or want an A4 poster for your window, get in touch!

For more information, please call me on 07906 316 726, or email sgredding2003@yahoo.co.uk.