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- From: jamesh@aisb.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton)
- Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.activism.d,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: CFD: alt.politics.green-party
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.140241.7847@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:02:41 GMT
- References: <Bxr7Ip.HF1@unix.amherst.edu> <4007@randvax.rand.org> <1992Nov16.210214@aifh.ed.ac.uk> <Bxu2vE.4EA@unix.amherst.edu>
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- Reply-To: jamesh@aisb.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton)
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- In article <Bxu2vE.4EA@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.210214@aifh.ed.ac.uk> jamesh@aifh.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton) writes:
- >
- >>In article <4007@randvax.rand.org>, jim@rand.org (Jim Gillogly) writes:
- >>
- >># That said, I don't see the need for distinction between *.green and
- >># *.green-party, since the point of the Green Party is environmental
- >># political activism (isn't it?).
- >>
- >>... Green Politics is not just about the environment, it's about
- >>social justice, human rights, democracy and peace ...
- >>...
- >>My feeling, therefore, is that there should be an alt.politics.green
- >>newsgroup,
- >>but not a separate alt.politics.green-party, and that this group should cover
- >>green politics and ecology in all it's forms.
- >
- >If I can remind you all of Jym's original posting for just a second
- >here:
- >
- >! =+= I propose the name alt.politics.green-party rather than
- >! the simpler alt.politics.green, since the media (in the U.S.,
- >! at least) uses "green" for anything vaguely ecological. The
- >! more explicit name will hopefully keep folks from thinking
- >! it's another talk.environment type of newsgroup.
- >
- >In light of this, I think all of the comments above are extremely
- >bogus.
-
- Actually you do have a point here, the label 'Green' is now being
- very widely misused( I was speaking of what it meant before the fuss
- about ozone layer and greenhouse effect came to light and what Greens
- mean by the word Green). Maybe alt.politics.ecology? though I am now
- not against alt.politics.green-party due to that being closer to 'Green
- Politics' than the current usage of the label.My preference is towards
- the more general label of alt.politics.ecology though.
-
-
- James
-