From: tony.mitra@gmail.com
Subject: Request for an interview with the Green candidate Mr. Hosein
Date: 14 April, 2013 10:54:06 PM PDT
To: richard.hosein@greenparty.bc.ca
Dear Mr. Hosein
I am an ordinary retired engineer that is trying to engage with the politics of Canada at the grassroots level. I have strong views on preservation of natural bounties of
the planet and to look for a sustainable future for the humankind, without destroying the environment in the name of progress.
I have posted a comment on your Green party web page, requesting for a citizens interview. Perhaps that was not the best place to present the request – hence I found your email address on the same page, and am sending you this message as a follow up.
I wish you good luck in the coming election. I like some of the Green Party policies. It is unfortunate that the party appears to be n the fringes of public eye. One of my friends is standing for election on the Green platform from Langley riding.
I’d like to interview Mr. Richard Hosein – a citizen’s interview, with my home video camera, asking questions mainly about the Green Party plan for the nations well being, focussing on a few items such as:
1. GMO in our food chain and in the countryside.
2. Carbon footprint for BC and Canada – and Global Warming.
3. Reducing environmental damage rather than increasing it in name of progress.
4. What should be the definition and criteria, in calculating “progress”.
I am not a journalist, but a retired engineer. I’d like to interviewyou, to edit and put up on the U tube and perhaps on my blog (www.tonu.org), as part of citizen journalism.
Please respond if acceptable. I can be found at:
Email: tony.mitra@gmail.com
Twitter: @tonymitra
Facebook: Tony Mitra
Mobile: 604-649 7535
Best wishes
Tony Mitra
Note : Richard Hosein has agreed to arrange for an interview soon.
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I am hoping that Mr. Hosein would agree to the interview. Meanwhile, I also sent out a second email to Ms Jane Sterk, the leader fo the Green Party in BC. The text is as follows:
From: tony.mitra@gmail.com
Subject: Request for an citizen’s interview with some Green candidates
Date: 15 April, 2013 7:13:13 AM PDT
To: office@janesterk.ca
For Ms Jane Sterk,
BC Green party
Good day.
I am a recently retired engineer and concerned about the the future with regard to climate, sustainability, food security, governance, even the functioning of democracy.
I have admired some of your blog posts.
I have lately been trying to engage with the grassroots volunteering for good cause as well as engaging with the political process that shapes the nature of social debats at provincial or federal level.
I write a blog time to time as a hobby : www.tonu.org
I have been attempting to conduct citizens interview of some of the candidates from the lower mainlands area, to record and perhaps convert into either an audio podcast or a video, to freely circulate through U tube etc, for interested parties, as part of citizen journalism and social service.
I am keen to find Green party candidates from the lower mainlands that might spare me a half hour for the same. Issues I should like to raise with them are, for example:
1. GMO in our food chain and in the countryside, along with the pesticide tide.
2. Carbon footprint for BC, for other provinces and for Canada – and global warming
3. Stopping environmental damage in the name of economic progress.
4. Re-thinking of what should be ideal datum and criteria to calculate “progress”
5. Tweaking of the democratic system, such as proportional representation, multi-party alliance, or citizens direct input on parliament issues through internet referendums etc.
6. Taxation without representation – BC govt taxes legal residents of other nationalities, but does not allow those tax payers any voice in how their tax dollars are spent. This (taxation without representation) was the issue that triggered US colonies move to independence from British control. I am told UK is the only country which allows all tax payers to vote at all levels, though only citizens can be elected.
Issues of these kind.
I request you, through this email, to see if you can help me contact a few of the Green party candidates of this region (I live in Delta, BC), for such interviews.
Thanking you, and wishing the Green party best of luck.
Tony Mitra
10891 Cherry Lane, Delta, BC, V4E3L7, Canada
604-649 7535
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Here too, I am hoping that Ms Sterk would respond. I like some of the policies of the Green Party. It would be interesting to ask her views on things.
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I have subsequently asked similar questions to following Green candidates:
Sara Sharma, Candidate from Surrey-Panorama
Regan-Heng Zhang, Green Candidate – Vancouver – Langara
Tim Binnema, Surrey-Fleetwood
I hope to get some positive response from them in due course. So WATCH THIS SPACE.