The Scottish Green Party conference taking place in Aberdeen has given its support to the aims of the Occupy movement.
Conference representatives backed an emergency motion which expressed support for the movement’s aim of creating ‘a new sustainable economic model based on a planet with finite resources.’
The emergency motion was proposed by Mike Ferrigan who is involved with the Occupy Edinburgh group. Mr Ferrigan told the conference that Occupy Edinburgh was a broadly based movement supported by people from across society calling for a new,fair economic model. Describing the current economic crisis as a ‘last chance’ to reform, Mr Ferrigan urged the conference to support the Occupy movement and the emergency motion.
Occupy Edinburgh is drawing on work by the New Economics Foundation.
Spokesperson for Edinburgh’s Green Councillors Cllr Steve Burgess said:
“Across the world people are spontaneously gathering in city centres with a collective sense that all is not right with the way the world is being governed by undemocratic institutions that encourage corporate greed and destruction of the global environment.
“Greens support Occupy Edinburgh in their call for a new economic system that will reduce inequality and protect the planet’s shared resources that we all depend on. It’s early days for this movement but this up welling of dissatisfaction is a welcome indication that even people in democratic countries are feeling disenfranchised.”
Debra Storr
Scottish Green Party
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