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Voting at Autumn Conference 2018
Conference in the time of coronavirus

With the Green Party autumn conference unable to be held  in person, the event has been moved online, throwing up new challenges and opportunities for the conference team. Conference Manager Louisa Greenbaum gives an insight into how organising Green Party conference has changed during Covid-19.

Brighton and Hove holds first Climate Assembly
The city council’s first Climate Assembly focused primarily on transport
Reforming the house
Green Party House of Lords nominee Molly Scott Cato outlines her plans should she be asked to enter the second chamber
Measures on second wave don’t go far enough, say Greens
Blaming the public and weak track and trace will not stop a second wave, the Green Party warns.
Spotlight
Clive Lewis MP
Q&A with Labour MP Clive Lewis
Coronavirus testing
Our enemy is not only the virus
Larry Sanders warns of a darker side to the government’s bungled approach to test and trace
Campaigners outside City Hall protesting the Silvertown Tunnel
Silvertown Tunnel must be cancelled now
Caroline Russell reveals the £2-billion cost to Londoners of the proposed Silvertown Road Tunnel
Caroline Lucas speaks to Andrew Marr
Climate Assembly recommendations forge the way for progressive climate policy
Caroline Lucas considers the impact of cross-party support on future climate policy

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What has changed? Progress on climate emergency declarations
Sheffield
Sheffield Greens lobby for actions, not just words
Douglas Johnson looks at Sheffield’s mixed responses to its zero-carbon deadline amendment
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All words no action in Bristol
Carla Denyer calls for Bristol City Council to get on with making progress on its climate emergency plan
Manchester Town Hall
Manchester must do better on climate emergency
Alison Hawdale looks at Manchester’s mixed results in its action over the climate emergency
Liverpool Docks teaser
Further to travel on climate emergency in Liverpool
Cllr Lawrence Brown looks at how Liverpool’s action on the climate emergency matches up with its promises
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Stroud makes climate emergency progress
Simon Pickering describes Stroud’s positive action to make the town carbon neutral by 2030
Features
Rupert Murdoch
A new way of taking on the Murdoch empire
Rupert Read explains why he is calling for a boycott on speaking to the Murdoch-owned press
Smoke billowing from a wildfire
Book Review: Riders on the Storm
Molly Scott Cato reviews Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh
Bruno Bernard - Lyon mayor
What was behind the Green wave at the French municipal elections?
Charlotte Soulary explores the reasons behind the Greens’ success in the French municipal elections
A lorry queue outside Dover
Freight-to-rail must be part of post-Brexit, post-Covid future
Sarah Gleave calls for the government to invest in moving freight by rail to reduce HGV emissions
Covid-19 pandemic
Coronavirus testing
Green Party uncovers coronavirus testing 'postcode lottery'

A Green Party Freedom of Information Request has shown there is a ‘postcode lottery’ when it comes to coronavirus test result waiting times, with some parts of the country receiving test results far quicker than others.

Coronavirus
A Covid-19 vaccine must be accessible for all
Alan Story looks at the barriers to developing a Covid-19 vaccine and who will have access to it
Non perishable foods donated in Birmingham
Community resilience key to responding to coronavirus outbreak
Green councillor Gina Dowding calls for a community approach to supporting the vulnerable during the Covid-19 outbreak
An image of coronavirus
A patented Covid-19 vaccine could price out millions
Alan Story explores the race to find a Covid-19 vaccine and how its patenting could price millions out
Amelia Womack
Covid-19 means Brexit must be delayed
Green Party Deputy Leader Amelia Womack calls for Brexit to be delayed in light of the Covid-19 outbreak
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Rupert Murdoch
A new way of taking on the Murdoch empire
Copenhagen crossing
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Good idea badly implemented?
Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu
Q&A: Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu
An image of Extinction Rebellion protestors in London
Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill enters Parliament
Signs saying 'Refugees welcome' at a protest.
Why are migrants coming to the UK?
Andrzej Duda
UK and EU should stand up to anti-LGBT agenda in Poland
Black Lives Matter
George Floyd mural
George Floyd murder: Solidarity in pain and fear

The US is convulsing with protest over the shocking murder of African American George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, who kneeled on his neck for eight minutes, suffocating him. Solidarity protests have broken out across the world, demanding an end to institutional racism in the US and everywhere. Green World talks to two Green representatives in the US and UK about the fight for equality and justice for the black community.

Black Lives Matter protest in London
Black Trans Lives Matter: Shared history of fighting for equality
Susie O’Connor looks back at the trans people of colour activists influential in the early LGBT+ rights movement
An image of a school classroom
Decolonizing the Curriculum: Why Black History matters
Navasha Wray discusses the importance of re-examining Britain’s colonial past
An image of Cleo Lake
Lobby government over slavery reparations, says Bristol councillor
Green Councillor Cleo Lake asks Bristol Mayor to push for government slave trade reparations
Shahrar Ali, Green Party Home Affairs Spokesperson
BAME life chances, Covid inequality and death
Dr Shahrar Ali comments on the racial and social inequality laid bare by the current pandemic