Scottish Green Party Conference 2012 – Live Blog
Alison Johnstone MSP closed conference showing off our latest membership count (just passed 7,000) and lauding Patrick Harvie MSP’s emergency motion on Green Yes (see below). Free Public Transport was…
It looks like a boat, but does it float?: the proposed Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill may need some tweaking
by Sarah Stewart After the spectacular history lesson of the London Olympics’ opening ceremony, most Britons should be up to date on the Industrial Revolution and capitalism’s jumble of pros…
Has Occupy Had an Impact?
by Luke Martell This week was the first birthday of Occupy Wall Street. It returned to Manhattan to mark the occasion. In the UK, occupations kicked off in the student…
An enquiry to the Daily Mail upon becoming unemployed
by Innes MacLeod, whose blog is here. As a recently unemployed person I decided to pen an e-mail to the Daily mail asking why it wasn’t all they’d built it…
Green Party Executive results announced
Jon Nott, the electoral returning officer for the Green Party of England and Wales' internal elections, has announced the results for posts on the party's executive, known as GPEx. Members…
Paralympic ceremony performers join disabled activists and UK Uncut to target Atos HQ in London
Today Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and UK Uncut will pile pressure on the controversial Paralympics sponsor Atos. Over 700 hundred protesters from across the UK are expected to descend…
A truth that's told with bad intent: Ecuador's government quells dissent
Joe Cape is a web designer thanks largely to the Acción Creativa collective based in Quito. He has been telling people more than they think they wish to know about…
A Future for the Graduate without a Future
Luke Martell The ‘graduate without a future’i is part of a wider precariat, poorer and with less life chances than their parents. The affluence and welfare state that benefited cohorts…
Green leadership candidates breached election rules
The Returning Officer of the Green Party has ruled that two of the candidates for party leader, and two of the candidates for deputy, have breached election rules. The four…
London 2012 has turned into one very big, very cruel, corporate joke
Stuart Roger I hate to put a downer on things as we reach the halfway point of London 2012. Like many people, I have spent the past week pinned to…