Rupert's Read

Tuesday December 3rd, 6pm   UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR, DR RICHARD FALK, AT UEA, event hosted by UEA Greens. Richard Falk - Palestine: the perspective of the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. 3 December at 18:00, for a prompt 18.15 start. Lecture Theatre 3, UEA. Chaired by Rupert Read, lead Green Party MEP-candidate in the European Elections, 2014. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967."   Very excited about this... Falk is a great man...  

European Election Day is May 22 2014... Today it's exactly 6 months to go til E-Day!  # VoteGreen   And can you help in THIS way:   http://www.pledgebank.com/6monthstogoGreen  ...

  #GreenNewDeal special: Here's a link to my opinion piece in t he November issue of Lux  http://www.luxmagazine.co.uk/#!/issue/28/page/32          

The Wicker Man of 1973 is a superb piece of work; I explain here how and why... http://thinkingfilmcollective.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-new-total-recall-old-wicker-man.html  

Impressive new UEA blogsite: http://www.ueapolitics.org/2013/11/14/immodest-proposal-revolutionise-ailing-institution-guardians-future-generations/   Check it out! And do come to the 'Philosopher-Kings?' event with Baronness Jenny Jones and Richard Bacon MP, at UEA this evening! I'll be giving a reply to what they say...

The role of Parliament and its relevance in British life will be explored at the University of East Anglia (UEA) this month as part of a new national democracy initiative. Parliament Week 2013, which takes place from November 15-21, aims to get people involved with parliamentary democracy in the UK and brings together organisations, schools and individuals in a week-long programme of events to engage, inform and inspire. Two events are being held at UEA, organised by the Schools of Law, Political, Social and International Studies, and Philosophy. On Friday November 15, a debate and discussion will ask Is Parliament Fit for Purpose? Richard Bacon, MP and Member of the Public Accounts Committee, and Baroness Jenny Jones, the first Green member of the House of the Lords, will join lawyers, political scientists and philosophers from UEA to explore the state of Parliament today. Organiser Dr Rupert Read, from the School of Philosophy, said: "We will ...