Eric Walker was Membership Secretary of Green Party Seniors, and a frequent contributor to the Green Seniors email group (a private and informal email group for older Green Party members). In late 2023, Eric posted questions to the group about the identity of the GPRC reps who take the decisions to place party members on no-fault suspension (NFS). Their identity is meant to be kept secret (to protect them from the risk that they might be harassed or victimised by the people that they put on NFS).
Even though Eric’s questions were posed innocently and he revealed nobody’s secret role, he was placed on no-fault suspension in January 2024. The repercussions of this extended to the moderators of the Green Seniors email group. Even though they had asked Eric not to post his enquiries there, they too were placed on NFS.
Eric is a D-Day veteran now aged 99, who has been running an educational charity ‘Concord Video and Film Council’ aka ‘Concord Media’ that has been publishing documentary films since the 1970s, including ones on climate change: ‘And on the Eighth Day’ (1970) and ‘Limits to Growth’ (1972).
Notably, in 1978, he published the film, ‘Trapped inside the Wrong Body – people of both sexes explain how it feels to have a body of the wrong gender’.
In 1989, he published the film, ‘Sex Change – Shock! Horror! Probe! Gender identity and transexuality issues explored’. It was directed by Kristiene Clarke, a well-known transwoman in the documentary film world, with whom Eric has on ongoing working relationship for the supply of material and royalties.
Greens in Exile are concerned that Eric is likely to hear from the King before he has a chance to make his case to the Disciplinary Committee.
Eric has been active in ecological movement for over 50 years and joined the Green Party in 2014.