Green Party Women need your help TODAY

[GreenChris]

Green Party Women has been doing a grand job championing women in the party, knowing that #sexmatters and providing great resources to support and encourage women to participate in politics.

Today the current committee is up for election and under threat of a take-over by a group that's single concern appears to be self-ID for transwomen - although trans folks have their own voice within the party in LGBTIQA+ Greens. They want the women's group too!

PLEASE REGISTER TO VOTE BY 13.30 TODAY. You need to be:

• A member of the Green Party
• And crucially, signed up to Green Party Women via this link: women.greenparty.org.uk/contact/

PLEASE SIGN UP TO VOTE NOW - list of good candidates standing will be posted this afternoon. Voting closes Sun eve.

I've just seen that i missed the deadline to vote! Ffs!

No I think it’s 23rd??

@ChoosandChipsandSealingWax
If you are wishing to vote for one or two selected names, vote only for those and on the next line, vote for RON (Re-Open Nominations) which will prevent the others being given any votes.

Please share this information with any women you know who are GPEW members and have received the voting email. If they haven't received the email it will mean that they haven't registered with Green Party Women. Please share it with friends who may know any GPEW members too, in order that the information reaches as many Greens as possible.

I've just voted, and I wish best of luck to all those candidates who are women standing for women.

@GreenChris

Ballot email from 'Green Party Women Committee' went out around 19.05 tonight.

Anyone wanting to vote for a GPW committee that keeps women its priority, here is voting recommendation:

Co-Chair

1. Dawn Furness
2. Emma Bateman
3. Re-open Noms

Secretary

1. Chris Holt
2. Re-open Noms

Treasurer

1. Nicola Watson
2. Re-open Noms

Membership Sec

1. Claudine Letsae
2. Re-open Noms

Non-portfolio Officer

1. Julia Lagoutte/Faty Kane jobshare
2. Rossi Addo-Kissi-Debah
3. Andrea Carey Fuller
4. Re-open Noms

(or some version of this order)

There’s a new post with some different names (as well as some of these), I’m a bit confused now

This is the current list of women who are neutral or not in favour of including males in Green Party Women and who are standing for election. The previous list from October is now outdated.

For all those who have registered to vote and wish to support the excellent engagement work of the current committee, please vote in GPW committee elections - deadline Wednesday 23 Dec 2020 at 23.59.

Secretary

1. Chris Holt
2. RON

Co-chair

1. Emma Bateman
2. Rebecca Johnson
3. RON

Membership Secretary

1. Claudine Letsae
2. RON

Treasurer

1. Nicola Watson
2. RON

Non Portfolio

1. Faty Kane and Julia Lagoutte
2. Gillian Mills
3. Charlie Hamilton
4. RON

@EyesOpening - sorry, meant to tag you in my post above.

[quote GreenieFingers]@EyesOpening - sorry, meant to tag you in my post above.[/quote]
Thank you

Voted. Here's to sense & science making a come back in the Green party!

Voted but not very optimistic. Is there a fallback plan?

When's the next election?

Deadline 11:59pm today!

Yes, deadline is 11.59 tonight but please vote earlier in case of any tech problems etc.
I have no idea about a fallback plan @Festive Greenery as I'm not on the committee, but I do wonder if we could set up a sex-based women's group.

Done, thanks for the reminder!

So much easier than last time.

Bump.

Oh, someone was watching in here even early hours of Christmas day, what a surprise!

Apologies, apparently I breached one of the rules and didn't see the email from MNHQ until just now.

Won't use that "offensive or hurtful phrase" , again.

I’m assuming younger people without children and not in relationships have more time to vote in the run up to 23 December, and to report posts made late Christmas Eve/early Christmas Day.
Someone solo/polyamorous for instance mobile.twitter.com/KathrynBristow/status/1315018590001790978

Does the Green Party actually do anything er, green, anymore?

Would be great if they campaigned to end live animal export (now finally ending as we’ve left the EU, hurrah), or plant trees or campaign against ecocide that is HS2.

The last GP member I met was a vivisectionist who kept trying to explain why experimenting on animals was a great thing. Another was threatened when he said he wanted to ban non stun slaughter and improve conditions in slaughter houses.

When I was a member 20 years ago we were all feminists and animal rights activists and campaigned against vivisection.

What happened?

The environment is hard and outside? Being intersectional is more compatible with staying indoors?

Fuck me, what the hell has become of the Green Party?

[quote OneEpisode]I’m assuming younger people without children and not in relationships have more time to vote in the run up to 23 December, and to report posts made late Christmas Eve/early Christmas Day.
Someone solo/polyamorous for instance mobile.twitter.com/KathrynBristow/status/1315018590001790978[/quote]

Have to say I came v close to not managing it.

Also, "note the head tilt" as Glinner likes to say.

What has happened?

The deleted post suggested that of the 4 co chair candidates one had won, nothing on the web I can see.