Why it’s vital that Greens make our voice heard in the EU referendum
Photo: Wikimedia At the Green Party’s Autumn Conference this past weekend, I stood up and spoke, for the first time, to a mass of assembled party members. I was proposing…
#GPconf: Why don’t Black people vote? Q&A with Rashid Nix
Rashid Nix and Samir Jeraj at the 'Why don't Black People vote?' screening, #GPconf. Photo by Violeta Vajda. Q: In the film, made in 2008, people are not interested in…
We belong here! Hungarian activists fight back in refugee crisis
Romani activists from the Ide tartozunk! (We belong here!) network show their support to refugees in front of the Hungarian Parliament. Hungary and Austria are in spitting distance from each…
Jean Lambert MEP: the refugee crisis demands a coherent and strategic response
We can either throw our hands up at overwhelming human misery, or we can rally and do something – quickly. On Monday Britain announced meagre plans to accept refugees from…
Scottish Young Greens threw a tea party for the Queen today. Here’s why.
At some point today (around according to the Telegraph), Elizabeth Windsor will become the longest reigning monarch in British history. The Scottish Young Greens heard that she’d be in Edinburgh…
Weapons turned away from world’s “leading” arms bazaar as activists blockade roads
Outside the Excel Centre, London, today. Image: CAAT Today faith groups got together for a day non violent action against Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) in East London, one…
Gravely disappointed with the white moderate? You may have a point.
President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., after handing him one of the pens used in signing the Civil Rights Act of July 2, 1964…
#SGPconf: motion opposes discrimination of Gypsies and Travellers
"My Home". Photograph by Tara Darby; graffiti by Delaine Le Bas. Trailer at Delaine's Mum and Dad's place West Sussex 2005. From ROOM Transition Editions produced for solo exhibition by…
Foreign relations must be central in the EU referendum debate—just ask Turkey
View image | The EU referendum debate has, so far, failed to really get going. We are all having too much fun with a pantomime and increasingly hilarious Labour leadership…
From climate change to child poverty – it all comes back to electoral reform
Come and sit with me on this sad little bench if you’re one of the 1,134,742 people who voted for a Green candidate in this year’s general election, but have…