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21 May 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, will speak at a national demonstration this weekend calling for an end to police violence. Jean will join the United Campaign Against Police Violence (UCAPV), a new coalition which includes civil rights groups, trade unions, justice campaigns and political parties, on their demonstration this Saturday 23 May. [1] […]
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In the first of a series of election videos, Jean Lambert, London’s Green MEP for the last 10 years, talks about privatisation and public services. If Britain is one of the richest nations in the world, why can’t we run our public transport properly? Investment in public transport infrastructure would help […]
Over the past three decades, and last few months in particular, hundreds of thousands of people in Sri Lanka have been caught up in fighting between the LTTE and government forces. The United Nations has reported that 6,500 civilians have been killed and 14,000 wounded in the fighting from January to the end of April […]
20 May 2009 by sianberry
The UK faces an embarrassing legal wrangle during the 2012 Olympics over its failure to act on air pollution, Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, has warned. The European Commission has already launched legal action against the UK over breaching standards on particulate matter (PM10), the tiny airborne particles emitted by industry, vehicles and domestic […]
Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, has welcomed a report which names and shames countries around the world where state-sponsored homophobic laws exist. Homosexuality is illegal in 80 countries around the world, and in five countries it is a crime punishable by death, according to State Sponsored Homophobia, the third annual report from ILGA, the […]
19 May 2009 by sianberry
The London Green Party launched its European elections campaign this morning, 19th May, at 10am. The launch took place at the air quality monitoring station on Marylebone Road, near Baker Street. This air quality monitoring station records some of the worst air quality in Greater London — for both N02 pollution and PM10 particulates.(1) Jean […]
18 May 2009 by sianberry
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, has joined the growing calls for the Speaker of the House of the Commons, Michael Martin, to go. "Michael Martin’s handling of the whole expenses issue has been a disgrace. London Assembly members would never in a million years be allowed to get away with the […]
In response to reports that next week Boris Johnson will travel to Seoul for the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, stay for one day and use an airline that flies via Dubai, Jenny Jones is calling on the Mayor to think more carefully about his own use of resources. "If London is going to pay […]
Responding to reports that Metropolitan Police officers are earning tens of thousands of pounds from overtime duties, Jenny Jones has called on the Mayor and Met Commissioner to get a grip on the issue. "When the police budget was voted on by the Assembly earlier this year I called for a large reduction in overtime […]
Darren Johnson has responded to the London Mayor’s claim that he will make London a cleaner and greener city by 2012 Darren Johnson said: "The London Mayor might say he wants a cleaner, greener city, but his policies are actually making London dirtier and more polluted. He cancelled the £25 charge on gas guzzlers, suspended […]