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In this issue:

• Campaign launch this Sunday
• Green Room - view online
• Opening broadcast
• Crucial volunteer roles
• Meet a candidate
• Are we doing well?

Campaign launch this Sunday

We're officially launching our campaign this Sunday!

Come and join our Co-leaders, MPs, candidates, the National Campaign Team, members and MC Robyn Malcolm as we celebrate the launch of our election campaign for 2011. We will be screening our TV commercials AND revealing other exciting campaign initiatives.

When: Sunday, 6th November, 11:15am for an 11:30am start
Where: The Boatshed, Taranaki Street Wharf, Wellington (click for map)

Please invite your friends and family who live in Wellington, and children are welcome. Sunday 6th November, 11:15 AM at The Boatshed, Taranaki Wharf, Wellington

RSVP on Facebook and spread the word! You can also also support our campaign by clicking the image above for a Facebook or Twitter profile picture.

Green Room - view online

So, did you catch it? The Green Party set a challenge to the John Key/Phil Goff election debate on TVNZ last Monday by holding an interactive online programme called Green Room at the same timee. It was an enormous success! Over 6000 of you tuned in live to the panel discussion and the Co-leaders' debate.

Our Twitter hashtag #greenroom consistently out-trended TVNZ's debate tags for days after the debates, proving how important it is to hear from all parties in the political spectrum, and showing just how positively people respond to more constructive viewing choices!

If you missed it, you can watch and SHARE with others the recordings on YouTube:

  Green Room - Interview with Metiria Turei and Russel Norman

Finlay MacDonald interviews Green Party Co-leaders Russel Norman and Metiria Turei during the John Key/Phil Goff election debate.

  Green Room - panel discussion

An online panel discussion with David Slack, Irene Pink and Nandor Tanczos, which ran concurrently with the John Key/Phil Goff election debate.

Opening broadcast

We hoped that you have enjoyed watching this on TV1 last week. If you missed it, you can see it on Youtube with captions (which you can turn off with the little CC button on the player window).

If you liked it, please share it with others - it is our campaign in a nutshell, and we need to use our people power to get it out there. Do you know any "wildly unpredictable swing voters?" email this link to them. : )

Crucial volunteer roles

Handy with a hammer? We need people to join our Hoarding Teams across the country erecting our FINAL lot of election signs. If you have a van, that would make you doubly, triply useful to us!

Please volunteer today!

Meet a candidate

Ranked at number 6 on the list, Eugenie Sage will be highly likely to be joining our team in Parliament this year. She has deft advocacy and policy making skills which she has used to champion environmental concerns for most of her working life. It will be great to have her strong environmental credentials on our Green Team.

Are we doing well?

By all accounts, yes! This is the first time this year that we have got over 10% in the Herald Poll. And our Co-leaders are really doing a magnificent job when they get to the media.

But you might have noticed that we are getting crowded out again in the media. The only way we can combat this is to increase our visibility through paid advertising. We reeeeeaaaaaally need your help here.

Any dollar you can give will be put to good use. Donate now.

Thank you for being Green.

Ka kite ano,

Megan Salole
National Campaign Manager
campaign.manager@greens.org.nz

I’m always happy to receive your feedback and input (although as things crank up, my ability to respond to all requests will diminish).

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