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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.

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
Brighton pier
Brighton and Hove holds first Climate Assembly
The city council’s first Climate Assembly focused primarily on transport
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
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Reforming the house
Green Party House of Lords nominee Molly Scott Cato outlines her plans should she be asked to enter the second chamber
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
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
Clive Lewis MP
Q&A with Labour MP Clive Lewis
Green World talks to Labour MP Clive Lewis about working cross-party cooperation and democratic reform
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

Freight-to-rail must be part of post-Brexit, post-Covid future

A lorry queue outside Dover
With the Brexit transition period close to ending and calls for a green recovery from Covid-19 growing, Sarah Gleave, Co-ordinator of the Dover and Deal Green Party reiterates the Green P...
Sarah Gleave |
Brexit
Climate Change
Transport
| Fri 11 Sep 2020

Stroud makes climate emergency progress

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In the latest of Green World’s What has changed? series on the progress of local authority climate emergency plans, Stroud Green councillor Simon Pickering recounts the passing of the cli...
Simon Pickering |
Democracy
Climate Change
Local Government
Activism
| Thu 10 Sep 2020

No atrocities: Ecological reasons why black lives matter

George Floyd mural
Green Party member Rosey Thomas Palmer looks at how ecology must support equal rights for diverse communities and reformulate itself to support social justice aims as well as ecological o...
Rosey Thomas Palmer |
Activism
Environment
Justice
Society
| Thu 10 Sep 2020

Planning reforms clear ground for US trade deal

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Julian Mellor explores how the government’s proposed planning reforms could hand power to US developers by removing the decision-making power of local planning committees.
Julian Mellor |
Housing
International
Democracy
Brexit
| Wed 9 Sep 2020

Why we need proper legal protections for our right to protest

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With reports of heavy handed policing of Extinction Rebellion protests and rumours that the government plans to reclassify the group as an ‘organised crime’ organisation, our right to pro...
Kevin Blowe |
Democracy
Activism
Politics
Police
| Mon 7 Sep 2020

Belarus should be a warning to the UK

President Lukashenko
“In a tweet about the protests in Belarus, former Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said ‘They are demanding something better – why aren’t we?’.” Student and Green Party member Matthew Staton ar...
Matthew Staton |
Democracy
Europe
Elections
| Thu 3 Sep 2020

Q&A: Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu

Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu
Green World talks to Hazel Chu about her first few months as the 352nd Lord Mayor of Dublin, only the 9th woman and first person of colour to do so, what difference the Greens can make in...
Green World |
Green Party
Politics
International
Europe
Democracy
| Wed 2 Sep 2020

Extinction Rebellion returns to the streets

Elephant XR
Extinction Rebellion (XR) will be holding protests across the country, including a rebellion outside Parliament, this weekend to demand the government support a climate and ecological eme...
Green World |
Activism
UK Government
Climate Change
Democracy
| Sat 29 Aug 2020

Do not just ‘Build, build, build’!

A construction site in Longbridge
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) protests the new laws on Permitted Development Rights (PDR) as being detrimental to meeting underlying climate targets and wants the government to...
Sahar Nava |
Policy
UK Government
Local Government
| Fri 28 Aug 2020

Book Review: Confessions of a Non-Violent Revolutionary

Extinction Rebellion activists and police on Waterloo Bridge
Green peer Natalie Bennett reviews Chris Savory’s Confessions of a Non-Violent Revolutionary, a memoir of political activism in the 1980s and what lessons can be learned for the future of...
Natalie Bennett |
Activism
Reviews
Democracy
| Thu 27 Aug 2020
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