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First on the list of Scottish Green Party candidates
is Chris
Ballance. Chris is an award-winning playwright, and a former charity
manager, who now owns and runs a secondhand
bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland's National Booktown. Chris has been
an active campaigner for environmental and social justice issues for
the past twenty-five years, and has worked for SCRAM, the campaign
against nuclear power and Scottish Association for Public Transport.
More recently he was one of the organisers of the succesful Carbeth
Huts Rent Strike. He is currently Chair of the National Booktown Literature
Festival Committee, and a Director of the Wigtown Booktown Company.
His plays, both for adults and children, comedies and dramas have
toured Scotland and been produced as far away as Lithuania. |
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David Weston MPhil (Oxon) lives in Stranraer. He is
currently dividing his time between looking after ageing parents,
and completing his doctorate in ecovillage community design. He is
also involved in the 'Democracy
for a Change' movement. He comments "My commitment is to
helping to create a sane, healthy natural and social environment where
people can develop all of their talents and skills." |
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Brian Broadley is a smallholder, 'house-husband' , married to a
practising artist. The demands of four children are now diminishing
as they move into work/further education. He is a serious ornithologist
presently studying Jackdaws and a campaigner involved in issues
of waste, opencast mining and social policy in Ayrshire. |
The Scottish Green Party slate of candidates for
the South of Scotland election on May 1st. |
Other candidates for the South of Scotland list are
Mandy Meikle, Joan Higginson, Michael Collie, John Blair-Fish, Chas
Booth, Nick Bibby, Carey Coombs.
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