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Tuesday July 29th, 2008. 10:18 am by frog

I had been watching gblog waiting for it to get it’s stable of writers  into action, but it seems No Right Turn and Beehive Buzz have already discovered it so I may as well point out it’s existence too.

gblog is a community for all Green Party members to share their thoughts with the New Zealand electorate.  Basically the premise is that anyone who is a Green Party member can post anything they like so long as it conforms to the rules.

The aim is to show the Green Party promoting debate and gives another vehicle to members who like writing, making videos or photography or who have good ideas to share with the country to do so. Unlike other political parties it won’t try to manage the debate or focus it tightly on just one or two celebrity politicians.

But, we trust that open debate is good, and we’re hoping this might be an avenue for some exciting new policy proposals, debates and stories.

Some of frogblog’s regular green commenters and readers might use it as an opportunity to take their Green thoughts and debates out to another forum and start writing under their own name (or pseudonym).  To write at gblog you just need to send an email greenvoices@greens.org.nz.

I’ll be covering some of the more interesting, controversial, enlightening and strange posts here at frogblog too.

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5 Responses to “gblog”

1. StephenR Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 11:14 am

   I look forward to their thoughts on the eternal ’social and/or environmental policy’ issue…

2. greenfly Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

   Good to see a good ‘regional spread’ of posts - not all coming out of the main centres. Country mice are political animals too!

3. frog Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

   just after I put up this post jackhumm from Southland put up his post about the unintended benefits of industrial dairy down that way:

   …Even the roads are subject to change, with the excavation of underpasses; tunnels for cows, beneath the tarmac, to make the passage from pasture to milking shed easier. With all of this happening at a pace that has locals somewhat dazed, it was encouraging to hear the comment the other day, that ‘once the boom has bust’ we’ll have a ready made series of cycle tracks throughout the south, along the shingled cow lanes and under ground whenever the happy cyclists need to cross a road…

4. StephenR Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

   Well, they *are* being good little Greens and thinking very very very very long term aren’t they…

5. greenfly Says:
   July 30th, 2008 at 9:08 am

   StephenR - you got it, in a nut shell!

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