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Perhaps you know the Green Liberal Democrats are putting on a series of virtual events starting this Saturday – 20th June! – to replace our cancelled ‘actual’ Summer Conference. What you may not have seen yet, because it was only confirmed earlier this week, is that the most famous primatologist and anthropologist in the world – Dr Jane Goodall – has confirmed that she will be speaking to us on Sunday 21^st June. Jane Goodall is to be our STAR guest on Sunday evening, from 6.00pm until 7.15pm – so please come and join us for that and the many other events we will be putting on virtually from this Saturday through to Sunday 5^th July.

We have a number of films for you to see that you almost certainly have not seen before, including the UK Liberal Democrat Premiere of the film 2040, subtitled – join the REGENERATION. This is a powerful and evocative film from Australian film journalist Damon Gameau, who takes a look at how much better life could be on earth in 2040, when his five-year-old daughter will be in her early 20s. You can see the trailer for the film here. You can, however, ONLY see the full film during our Green Liberal Democrats festival of Green Events, because we have acquired the showing rights of the film – just for you!

And that is not the ONLY film we have licensed for your viewing pleasure  – we have the rights to show you the film The Story of Plastic – it is not just about plastic waste although that does feature strongly in the film. It is also about where plastic comes from, how it is made and the overall impact of the plastics industry on our planet, from extraction to transport to manufacture to disposal and recovery. The showing of this film will be shortly before the session we have planned with Lib Dem Party President Dr Mark Pack about “Greening the Party”  so it should throw up a number of question we might challenge our President over in relation to the normal Spring and Autumn Party Conferences when there are far too many single use plastic bottles of water in front of all of us as delegates.