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11 May 2017 by sianberry
Caroline Lucas has announced the Green Party’s environment promises, with pledges to protect the natural world in the wake of the EU referendum, introduce locally owned energy companies, and end plastic waste Caroline set out how the Green Party will put the environment at the heart of its politics at the launch of the party’s […]
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18 April 2017 by sianberry
18th April 2017 Last month Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50, signalling the start of the UK’s exit from the European Union. Within just a matter of days, former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard managed to spark a diplomatic row with Spain by threatening the use of military force to protect British sovereignty over […]
27 March 2017 by sianberry
Jean Lambert MEP opened a joint meeting organised by Phil Fletcher with Barnet Friends of the Earth, Barnet Green Party, and air pollution economics and legal experts. London Green Party’s Unsung Hero award-winner of 2014, Edelgard Vaswani, raised the issue of living without a car. Barnet Council tends to plan 800 underground parking spaces per […]
19 March 2017 by sianberry
Caroline Russell came to Stanmore, as promised, to meet with a community group the Stanmore Society concerned with the state of their local town centre. The step-free access has no lift at the station despite a hospital nearby. A new school in the area has a lot of parents dropping off kids by car. Caroline […]
5 March 2017 by sianberry
Jean backs European Parliament report aimed at protecting workers from exposure to carcinogens 1st March 2017 The European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs committee has today backed the draft report which seeks to amend a directive in order to better protect workers from risks of exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work. Commenting after the […]
23 February 2017 by sianberry
Commissioner Dick was in charge of the police operation which resulted in the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station in 2005. She will replace outgoing Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe. Sian Berry said: “This is a very controversial choice. Assembly members will want questions answered about the lessons the new Commissioner learned […]
9 February 2017 by sianberry
It has been a winter of discontent with many protests but this one stands out, from its timing, its global coordination, and the sheer strength of the people that turned out: Speakers ranged from Madonna to a feminist comedian, to Councillor Caroline Russell, who stood in Emily Thornbury’s MP seat and went on to become […]
2 February 2017 by sianberry
As Greens were some of the first to raise the truth about corporate-led trade deals at the European level, the pressure is on as the vote approaches in the EU parliament in Strasbourg, where Justin Trudeau, the well-dressed successor to conservative leader Stephen Harper, is expected to speak. If the bulk of the Labour MEPs […]
27 January 2017 by sianberry
Caroline Russell, who is the sole opposition councillor in Islington Borough Council, and tweets at @CarolineRussell, said, “At a moving City Hall HMD (Holocaust Memorial Day) event on Monday I was reminded by speakers of my visit to Auschwitz in 1991 which woke me to politics.” Sian Berry, who is a Humanist, represents Highgate ward […]
17 January 2017 by sianberry
On Friday, 13 January 2017, the London Green Party joined a protest outside the Pakistani Embassy in the UK to protest enforced disappearances of online political dissidents. The critics included bloggers, poets, writers, and commentators, and all were active online criticising the state and military as well as social conservatism and […]