[Iowa-dx] interesting article on Tasmania GReen founder - FW: Celebrating Dr. Richard Jones, Green Party Pioneer

[Hart, Holly J]

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Heinrich B=F6ll Foundation
edited by Frank Zelko & Carolin Brinkmann

Green Parties: reflections on the first three decades

"... Dr Richard Jones, the University of Tasmania botanist who led the
campaign against the flooding of Lake Pedder and who was instrumental in
forming the United Tasmania Group, outlined a political vision shared by
many of the new generation environmentalists who were emerging in
the early 1970s. environmental activists, Jones insisted, needed to
do more than merely campaign against wilderness destruction.
they also needed to reach out to groups such as trade unions
and to become involved in electoral politics. Jones and others
saw environmentalism as part of a broader progressive agenda
that also included social justice issues and the development of
new forms of political organization that broke down the rigid
hierarchies of the established political parties. here, in embryonic
form, were the ideas and coalitions that would later characterize
Green parties in much of the world."

http://www.globalgreens.info/literature/dann/chapterfive.html

1. UTG and Tasmanian Greens activist Chris Harries sums up Jones=92
contribution to original green thinking and practice as =91...it should be
noted that Dick Jones=92s most important contribution was his recognition
that Tasmania=92s environment was being wrecked owing to the state=92s
ill-conceived economic path. His primary focus on changing the economic
direction of the state was critically important to our eventual
success...Jones was also professionally an ecologist and therefore
espoused the concept of interconnectedness and thus the need for broadband
policies, including social policies.=92 (Harries, pers. comm., 14.6.97).

http://greenpages.wordpress.com/category/summer-07-features/
See the article at the bottom of the page

http://books.google.com/books?id=3Df8bBpq3krQIC&pg=3DPA62&lpg=3DPA62&dq=3DU=
TG,+%22Richard+Jones%22&source=3Dweb&ots=3DTQ-PvnenHA&sig=3D6cuQ66-GYXgDKUn=
nFYfjHQ611Lw&hl=3Den#PPA63,M1
>From Bob Brown, Gentle Revolutionary

"The formation of the UTG and the Tasmanian Greens didn't go unnoticed by
people around the world.  Richard Jones could not have realized the
potency of his message. But perhaps more than any other, this was the
moment of inception for the Greens -- a political party now recognised and
represented in every continent of the world and who's global political
leverage we are only now seeing blossom in Australia [JamBoi's note:
hmmm... I guess the penguins would make up the Antarctic Greens ;-)  ]"

http://www.aussieheritage.com.au/listings/tas/Via%20Strathgordon/GordonDama=
ndLakeGordon/12931
United Tasmania Group (UTG) and Dr Richard Jones

"This political party was formed at a Lake Pedder protest meeting in
Hobart in March 1972. Its foundation document was the first affirmation
world-wide of a conservationist political agenda. It strongly opposed the
whole development ethics of the state. It stood candidates in the 1972
state election at short notice without success. (However both the major
parties quickly came up with environmental policies after the election and
the new Department of Environmental Control was established.) The
Co-directors of the UTG were Dr Richard Jones and Mr Milo Dunphy. Dr Jones
was the Foundation Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies at the
University of Tasmania. He proved to be very politically astute and a
strong leader. The UTG was wound up when people began to put their
energies into the Wilderness Society which began in 1976."

http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/senators/homepages/first_speech/sfs-ka5.htm

 Christine Milne, Senator for Tasmania
Excerpt from First Speech - 10/08/2005

"...WB Yeats once said, =91In dreams begins responsibility=92. The formatio=
n
of a political party to achieve that dream of reconciliation was an
acknowledgment that the founders of the UTG were prepared to take
responsibility for the earth and future generations. I honour the memory
of Dr Richard Jones as I honour all the founding members of the UTG and
all those people who have supported the Greens vision in the intervening
years and have made it possible, 33 years later, for me to join my
colleagues Senators Brown, Nettle and Siewert in this parliament, and
others in dozens of parliaments around the world, as the Greens
representatives.

"We are the only political party at the beginning of this century that is
global in its reach, global in its thinking and global and local in its
action. Such a global perspective is critical for decision makers in every
parliament of the world. In the absence of a democratically elected,
global decision making forum, each national parliament is charged with
coming to terms with a world community interconnected by ecosystems but
struggling to resolve the contradictions and seemingly intractable
problems thrown up by a combination of a global population of six billion,
global warming, the unprecedented movement of people and goods around the
world and the increasing scarcity of environmental resources like fresh
water and uncontaminated soil. The need for global democracy, cooperation
and multilateralism has never been greater. How 2=BD billion people in Indi=
a
and China exercise their right to develop will be the key to whether or
not global ecosystems can continue to sustain us all. ..."

http://books.google.com/books?id=3DvZ5pH6RmDDoC&pg=3DPA248&lpg=3DPA248&dq=
=3DUTG,+%22Richard+Jones%22&source=3Dweb&ots=3DXaNgZlwq0p&sig=3DI9Efs0PNr5y=
OmQH__aIkFF6j064&hl=3Den

Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and
Action

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en/files/introducion.pdf+UTG,+%22Richard+Jones%22&hl=3Den&ct=3Dclnk&cd=3D8&=
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http://books.google.com/books?id=3Ddlsbib7EN4AC&pg=3DPA121&lpg=3DPA121&dq=
=3D%22United+Tasmania+Group%22,+%22Jones%22&source=3Dweb&ots=3DwpHN7NSJa4&s=
ig=3DKMF4wTbSoMVCfcdMglScgQ1Z-QA&hl=3Den#PPA125,M1

http://books.google.com/books?id=3DoSvlkVflBdwC&pg=3DPA115&lpg=3DPA115&dq=
=3D%22United+Tasmania+Group%22,+%22Jones%22&source=3Dweb&ots=3Df0n-sEdufP&s=
ig=3DIuAND1ANw0MIlgT2uinohzD4-ns&hl=3Den