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--My name's Aled Dilwyn Fisher.
I'm 20 years old.
I'm a member of the Green Party.
And I have been since I was 17 years old.
The Young Greens started about four years ago.
It was set up by some young activists in the Green Party
who wanted something that could appeal to younger people,
to get them involved in the Party,
get them involved in campaigning,
and to show them that there is something they can actually
do to make a difference on issues of social justice,
ecology, peace, and participating in democracy,
as well.
We're not kidding ourselves.
We're not saying that electoral politics and the way that we
organise our political system today is the only way forward.
That's why we do direct action and campaigning outside
of the political system.
Because we see the political system as too narrow,
not participatory enough.
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Direct action is about taking back
the power that's been taken away from you,
and empowering people in their local area
to have an effect on the political decisions that
are often taken quite far away from them.
In terms of other campaigns we've
done, a campaign against Trident,
against nuclear weapons, which we see as completely
unsustainable, as making us less secure rather than more secure,
and spending money that could be spent on public services
and on education.
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One person could get involved with the ideas that
change things.
Karl Marx was one person, writing in a kind of pokey flat
in Tottenham.
He's completely changed the world.
His ideas still resonate, even within the Green movement
today.
People can have a massive influence on their university,
on the people around them, just by talking to their friends.
People are not on their own.
They need to get involved in collective networks.
But you can have individual action
to take back the agenda from the people that
don't care about nature, they don't care about people.
You can do it.
And the Green Party and other organisations are there to give
you all the help you need to do it.
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