cc: date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:33:19 -0000 from: "Rob Tinch" subject: [norwichgreenparty] Fw: appeal for help with leafletting to: "Norwich GP Mailing list" , Dear all, Please read the message below from Martin Harrison of Lincoln Greens, about campaigning on Global Warming in Boston on Saturday 2 December. Boston is one of the UK places at greatest risk from sea level rise and other climate change problems. This is in the Eastern Midlands Euro region, where we polled 5.4% of the vote last time. A big increase is possible: as Martin says "I really think that once the penny drops we will be swimming in votes." If people are interested in going, please mail the lists, and we'll try to coordinate transport. Cheers, Rob ------------------------------------------------------- Rob Tinch School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ tel 01603 593174 fax 01603 507719 mail R.Tinch@uea.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Martin Harrison To: enquiries@norwichgreenparty.org Date: 22 November 2000 21:02 Subject: appeal for help with leafletting >I spoke to Ingo this evening. Please could you distribute this appeal >far and wide urgently. At present we have only 2 people to carry out >this leafletting in Boston, a week on Saturday. > >Basically Boston is THE place in the whole UK that gets the most >potential damage from global warming. It gets hit from rising sea, >flooding rivers, the farming industry from the UV as the global warming >enlargens the ozone hole over the UK. > >Thank you > >Martin Harrison > >Here's the text for anyone who can't download the file. > > >Appeal for help to leaflet Boston (Lincs) December 2nd > > >Background > >Boston is one of those rare places threatened by both river and sea >flooding. The whole of the Boston and Skegness constituency lies under >sea level and has been flooded in the past (1953). It is therefore >fertile ground for us because the global warming issue is in the >interests of the residents. But we need to get the message across. > >Need to leaflet the town >In early November I gave several local radio interveiws on this subject >and got articles published in some of the local press. Except Boston, >the key town in the constituency, where I suspect the press are >unsympathetic. We have only one active member in the constituency other >than me, and he only did anything for us a year ago. There is a crying >need for us to get more publicity and more contact with the people in >order to get more helpers come the election. I really think that once >the penny drops we will be swimming in votes. The bull point of my >message is that the price of low-lying land and property will fall once >people start to anticipate the problem. Surely this will strike a >self-interest chord with some people. > > >Aim of the leaflet >There are two aims. First, to raise awareness of the exposure ot the >constituents to the global warming issue. Second to recuit members who >may help us in the election and later campaigns. > > >Appeal for help >With a general election possibly only 5 months away, I therefore appeal >for people to volunteer to help us leaflet as much of Boston as we can >cover on Saturday December 2nd. I attach our proposed leaflet. My >appeal is a matter of urgency and I would ask you all to give this kind >of activity your priority just ahead of the election. If the media won’t >hep us we have to take the case to the people ourselves. > > >How to get to Boston. > >By rail > >There is only one line there, up from Grantham on the main East coast >line, through Sleaford.to Boston. > >By car (?) > >>From East Anglia, A47 to Kings Lynn, then A17, then A16 into Boston. >>From the south, A1 to Peterborough, A15 to Spalding, A16 to Boston >>From west, A46/52, then A17 to A16 to Boston >>From the north, A1 to Newark, A17 to A16 to Boston. > > >Martin Harrison >Green Party, Lincolnshire > > -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/2/_/90084/_/974975595/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_->