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7 July 2009 by sianberry
Jenny Jones has welcomed the HMIC review of public order policing. Jenny Jones said: "The Metropolitan Police have received a clear message from their own inspectorate that they have to facilitate peaceful protest, even if that means allowing some illegal behaviour. If the Met wants to keep the public’s consent then it must improve public […]
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6 July 2009 by sianberry
Greens in London and Manchester today blasted a "ridiculous right-wing plan" to introduce water cannon to the Metropolitan and Greater Manchester Police. (1) The plan for the two forces to introduce water cannon was revealed yesterday in the Independent on Sunday (2). Jenny Jones, a Green Party member of the London Assembly who sits on […]
The Croydon Green Party has obtained a damning document [1] which confirms their worst fears and exposes the intention of the South London Waste Partnership. The key to the document are the numbers and codes it contains: – First, it identifies the estimated cost: 919 000 000.00 GBP, almost £1billion (see page 6 of document, […]
3 July 2009 by sianberry
The European Commission (EC) has started to reject applications for time extensions to countries meeting the legal limits for air pollution. Ten countries, including the UK, failed to reduce air pollution in time to meet the 2005 deadline for particulate (PM10) emissions and have asked for an extension to the last possible date allowed under […]
25 June 2009 by sianberry
A motion was passed this morning (25th June 2009) by the Metropolitan Police Authority to publish the Cass Report, into the death of Blair Peach, by the end of 2009. (1) The original motion, proposed by Green Party home affairs spokesperson, Jenny Jones, read: "This Authority calls on the Metropolitan Police Service to publish immediately […]
London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert has joined protests in Brussels against the adoption of legislation in Lithuania which will outlaw the discussion of homosexuality in schools. On the 16th of June, the Lithuanian parliament adopted an amended Law on the "Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information." According to this law, "propaganda of […]
24 June 2009 by sianberry
A motion will be debated tomorrow (25th June) in a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority, calling for the police to "publish immediately the full report by former Commander Cass into the death of Blair Peach." Blair Peach was knocked unconscious in an April 1979 demonstration in Southall by the Anti-Nazi League against a National […]
18 June 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party MEP, has welcomed news of the successful end to the occupation of SOAS by students and activists in support of cleaning staff arrested last week. Students and activists occupied the School of Oriental and African Studies in Bloomsbury after a dawn raid by immigration officers last Friday [12 June], when […]
17 June 2009 by sianberry
The Metropolitan Police’s efforts to combat human trafficking are under threat following the Mayor’s confirmation that funding has not been secured beyond 2009/10. The UK’s only specialised human trafficking unit was launched by the Metropolitan Police in 2007 with full funding from the Home Office. But this contribution has been cut back, covering only half […]
16 June 2009 by sianberry
Jean Lambert, London’s Green MEP, has written to the Home Office after it emerged that six of the SOAS cleaners arrested on Friday 12 June were removed from the UK over the weekend. Jean Lambert has asked the Home Office to clarify the procedures that immigration officers are expected to follow, after details of the detention and […]