We've printed a 10 000 copy newsletter, and we'll be distributing it over the next fortnight throughout the wards of Wainbody and Cheylesmore, along with parts of Earlsdon.
It has articles on the Strident protest at Faslane, organic fruit/veg boxes and the recent floods in Britain. It also has an events diary of upcoming peace/environmental meetings in our city.
The idea is to focus on part of the Coventry South constituency in the lead-up to a national election in spring 2008 (unless Gordon Brown divorces Prudence, with Labour still £20 million in debt, a spring election is more likely than a snap autumn one).
We'll have a 2nd issue of the newsletter in November, and a 3rd in late Jan/early Feb.
We're calling it "Coventry Greenleaf" -- aping Brighton Green Party's newspaper. They began "their" Greenleaf as a ward-focused newsletter in 1994, and look where they are now (12 city councillors, and on the cusp of giving Britain its first Green MP in Caroline Lucas).
Great oaks from little acorns grow ...
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Sounds like a great plan - well done!
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