My Next Few Days

I'm going to go to the Abortion Rights protest against the Widdicombe speaking tour tonight.

Tomorrow, I'm giving a talk to Coventry FoE. I'm shaping it around the idea of a "Great Moving Green Show" -- how do we seize the agenda back from greenwash? People will need to buy into a bottom-up sustainable society, rather than a Green Party making "Transition Towns" mandatory, or imposing it through regulation/green taxes. We need to focus on themes like taking control, local economies, empowerment, radical democracy, and equality -- and contrast that with a right-wing social policy that signs up to The Big Ask (David Cameron) or loads of off-shore wind farms but British Jobs For British Workers (Gordon Brown).

If it's Friday, it must be Reading Town Hall, for the spring conference of the Green Party. Admission is by sliding scale, and you can go for one day to sample debate, or buy a four-day pass (Thu-Sun). I always look forward to fringe meetings at conference, and this year, there are a number of interesting ones (on biomass burners, integrity in public life, animal rights/vegetarianism, films, and campaigns for press freedom).