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Rob White British Green Party Politician
Rob White is currently selected as the Green Party candidate for Park Ward -- Newtown and the Wokingham Road area -- in Reading and the Reading East constituency. He lives and works in the area as a gardener and am active in the community. He was born in 1979, and lives on Cumberland Road near Cemetery Junction. He has lived in Reading for 10 years. He leads a busy life, running his own gardening business. He is active in the Newtown GLOBE (Go Local On a Better Environment) community group, works with the community and police as vice-chair of the Newtown NAG (Neighbourhood Action Group), is a governor at the Alfred Sutton School and a volunteer as a lollipop man at the same school. Electoral He has stood for election in Park Ward in the local elections since 2004, increasing the number of Green votes each time. In the last locals, he finished just 20 votes away from becoming Reading's first Green councillor. He also stood in the General Election for Reading East in 2005 where the vote increased by 50%. Political He has been involved in many successful local campaigns: saving play equipment in Palmer Park, tackling speeding across Reading with the 20's Plenty campaign and getting the Council to produce a climate change strategy to name a few. At a national level he has campaigned against the war in Iraq, for the abolition of tuition fees and for government action on climate change. He is out all year-round knocking on doors and talking to people about local issues. Through this work he am able to help people solve local problems. He have helped improve the local area by getting countless bins installed, pram crossings created and street lights fixed.

(1) http://www.greenparty.org.uk/individual/278 (2) http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2058380_calls_for_boiler_scrappage_scheme (3) http://southeast.greenparty.org.uk/region/southeast/news/11-11-2009-Bicycle-parking-at-Paddington-station-a-shambles.html (4) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rob-White/111738323162?v=photos#/pages/Rob-White/111738323162?v=wall&viewas=598568379 (5) http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2057170_borrow_a_smart_meter_from_your_local_library (6) http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2062498_fence_action_delight_at_park (7) http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/opinion/letters/articles/2009/11/20/43010-letter-we-need-to-withdraw-from-afghanistan/ (8) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/470.stm (9) http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/berkshire/blog/airplot-twinned-prospect-park (10) http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2037536_rubbish_to_write_off_whites_trash

Adrianwindisch (talk) 13:11, 29 December 2009 (UTC)Adrian Windisch

Dan Viesnik green activist
Dan Viesnik is a green activist and anti nuclear campaigner.

Dan Viesnik went on a 100 hour Hunger Strike in respect of the many victims of the Arms Trade (1) He is involved in the Guantánamo Campaign demonstration (2) Was jailed for refusing to pay a fine after blockading AWE (3) & (9) On Monday (1st February) he appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in London for refusing to pay a fine of £50 and £465 in costs resulting from a peaceful symbolic sit-down protest in July 2007 outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire - Britain's nuclear warhead manufacturing and research facility - during the Footprints for Peace International Walk towards a Nuclear-Free Future from Dublin to London. (4) He is involved in the The Aldermaston Blockade on 15 February 2010, writing for peacenews (5) He was involved in the Footprints For Peace walks, (7)covering vast distances. In 2007 from Dublin to London via faslane, AWE.(11)

Along with members of London Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT), East London Against the Arms Fair (ELAAF), the London Catholic Worker and Trident Ploughshares met vistors outside the Spirit of Christmas Fair at London’s Olympia, on 7 November 2009. (8) He supported Lance Corporal Joe Glenton was arrested for refusing to return to Afghanistan, for leading an anti-war demonstration and for speaking to the media in defiance of orders. (10)

1. http://current.com/items/90905344_dan-viesnik-international-arms-trade-hunger-strike.htm 2. http://www.richardkeithwolff.co.uk/photo_5365729.html 3. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/01/445488.html 4. http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2010/02/04/peace-activist-defiant-as-he-is-sent-to-jail-116451-25757053/ 5. http://www.peacenews.info/issues/2516/25161507.html 6. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Oxfordshire/blog-186393.html 7. http://www.peacenews.info/issues/2496/2496033.html 8. http://caatblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/clarion-call-from-the-spirit-of-christmas/ 9. http://brentgreens.blogspot.com/2010/02/dan-viesnik-gets-14-days-imprisonment.html 10. http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1598/27/ 11. http://greenreading.blogspot.com/2007/07/footprints-for-peace.html Adrianwindisch (talk) 21:35, 7 February 2010 (UTC)AdrianWindisch