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Anne Gray has lived in West Green since 1983. Recently retired, she has a long career in public administration and policy-related research, covering job creation and training, welfare benefits and working conditions of low paid and casual workers.
She believes that slowing climate change and securing peace in the Middle East are urgent tasks for the survival of civilisation. She hopes for a swift withdrawal from military involvement in Afghanistan, which is killing civilians more than it is helping them. Rather than wasting money on Trident and uncritically pouring millions into the banks, the budget priorities should be preserving public services and decent pensions. Anne has been working with the local campaign against health cuts, as well as becoming one of many Green Party members to challenge the law at the Faslane submarine base in Scotland, protesting against the new generation of nuclear weapons which puts taxpayers’ money on mass murder rather than health.
A longstanding campaigner on peace and civil liberties, she says ‘The government is over-focussed on the so-called “war on terror”, using this as an excuse for many restrictions on the right to non-violent protest, whilst paying far too little attention to the risk of death from traffic, floods, inadequate health services and pollution.’
Locally Anne served for many years as a committee member of West Green Residents Association, and of the allotments association at Tottenham Hale. She helped to start Tottenham Food Coop, which aims to cut food miles by ‘buying British’ and to make organic food more affordable. She is also working with ‘Sustainable Haringey’, an exciting non-party community initiative to plan for energy saving in the face of climate change and higher oil prices.
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