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Same sex marriage 2008-05-19 13:06:18 Who's talking about it? Australian Green Senator Bob Brown today asked the government to drop its opposition to same-sex marriage
, at a time when all other sexual discrimination laws are being dropped. Following California's landmark decision this week to legislate...
Insulation 2008-05-18 23:52:59 What's been happening? New Zealand is one of the most successful Green Parties in the world, and as they have quite a lot of MPs, they hold a balance of power to bring in laws. This week, Green MPs have...
2 Degrees 2008-05-16 14:49:53 Who's talking about it? European MEP Caroline Lucas (who is also expected to win the UK's first parliamentary seat for The Green Party at the next election). This week, she called for governments to take the "2 degrees" issue seriously,... Read more:Degrees
Death penalty 2008-05-15 13:35:56 Who's talking about it? Canada Green Party leader Elizabeth May this week asked the government to demand foreign countries not carry out the death penalty of Canadians imprisoned in other countries. The death penalty has been illegal in Canada for...
Citizen's Pension 2008-05-14 22:40:02 Who's talking about it? Senator Bob Brown, the leader of the Australian Green Party, has again this week asked the government to increase state pensions by $30 a week, something he asks for on a regular basis (he asked again... Read more:Citizen
, Pension
Polar bears 2008-05-20 23:30:18 Who's talking about them? Elizabeth May (leader of the Canadian Green Party), has asked the Prime Minister to protect polar bears and their habitats, following last week's ruling by the US government of polar bears as endangered species (which stops... Read more:Polar
Local TV 2008-05-22 12:38:10 Who's talking about it? New Zealand's broadcasting spokesperson Sue Kedgley MP has spoken of recent figures on locally-made TV. Sue says, "The sad reality is that only 42% of the programmes that are screened during primetime are New Zealand made,... Read more:Local
High-speed trains 2008-05-21 12:42:31 Who's talking about them? Robert Smith, Green Party candidate for tomorrow's by-election in Crewe & Nantwich (he's talking about trains in general, rather than high-speed ones). He spoke up over concerns at local train prices of 135% by Virgin Trains...
Israel and Palestine 2008-05-23 12:11:44 Who's talking about it? The US Green Party has called on Israel
to respect UN human rights laws, on its 60th anniversary. What is Green Party policy? Most Green Party policies are popular across the board, but on the issue... Read more:Palestine
Iraqi war resisters 2008-05-25 10:11:55 Who's talking about them? Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who is calling on the Prime Minister to stop the deportation on June 12th of Iraqi
war resister Corey Glass. He will be the first Canadian "refugee" to be deported, based...
Wielangta forest 2008-05-24 09:56:13 What's been happening? Australian Green Party leader Bob Brown has just lost an appeal to save Tasmania's Wielangta Forest from extensive logging. This is harming the forest and all its endangered species - mainly to make woodchip for paper companies....
20mph 2008-05-26 03:22:01 What's been happening? Less than one week after Norwich Greens became the first official opposition on a UK city council, they have succeeded in bringing in a 20mph driving limit across the city (2 years after Labour said it could...
Unwanted phone calls 2008-05-27 11:45:08 What's been happening? Ireland's Green Party Communications Minister Eamon Ryan (who is bringing his long-awaited Broadcasting Bill to the Dail) has unveiled measures in the Bill to combat premium rate numbers and telephone
scam calls
. Eamon announced that the Bill... Read more:Unwanted
Chicken welfare 2008-05-28 10:46:47 New Zealand Green MP Sue Kedgley has said that if the recent report from the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee finds that New Zealand has the best welfare standards for broiler (meat) chickens in the world, then other chickens worldwide... Read more:Chicken
European animal testing 2008-05-31 22:50:21 Caroline Lucas MEP has led leading scientists (including primatologist Jane Goodall OBE) and animal protection organisations to present a petition to the European
Parliament, asking that they overhaul present animal testing laws (over 20 years old), end animal testing, and...
Fluoride 2008-05-31 22:44:40 Dr Caroline Lucas MEP has said that Southampton's public consultation on adding fluoride to water was a sham, after a local campaigner was refused permission to speak at a public meeting. Dr Lucas says the public has a right to... Read more:Fluoride
Menu For Change 2008-05-31 22:39:22 New Zealand Green's co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today launched the Menu For Change
, to ensure that everyone in the country has access to healthy and affordable food. The program will investigate food prices and the growing gap between what farmers get,...
Injury Prevention Plan 2008-05-31 22:36:38 Canada's Green Party leader Elizabeth May is calling on government to implement a national Injury
Prevention Plan. In counties where a plan exist (Sweden, Italy, UK and The Netherlands), injury rate for young people are four to seven times less....
Cluster bombs 2008-05-31 00:40:07 Ciaran Cuffe (Irish Green spokesperson on Foreign Affairs) has welcomed the Dublin agreement of more than 100 countries to ban cluster bombs. Cluster bombs break apart during flight, to scatter hundreds of smaller "bomblets" and injure many civilians (including children)...
Australian troops 2008-06-01 23:10:45 Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has welcomed the return of Australian troops from Iraq, and says that it was a mistake to send to a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. Green policy is against the... Read more:Australian
Sharks 2008-06-03 23:23:43 Australian Green Senator Rachel Siewart has called for Queensland's government to not allow the proposed shark fishery in the Great Barrier Marine Park, saying it is unbelievable they are considering this. She says that shark populations are already under threat,... Read more:Sharks
Alcopops 2008-06-03 23:21:10 Australian Green Senator Rachel Siewart has called for the government to do more than just put taxes on "Alcopops" to tackle alcohol problems in Australia. Presently, alcohol causes over 3000 deaths a year, 70,000 hospital admissions, a third of road...
Cape York Peninsula 2008-06-03 23:18:18 Australian Green Senator Rachel Siewart has welcomed the announcement that the Cape York Peninsula's 200,000 acres of tropical rainforest are being returned to management by local Aborigines. Rachel says this area covers over a fifth of Australia's tropical rainforests, and...
Mental health and outdoor exercise 2008-06-03 23:16:15 Green MEP Caroline Lucas has spoken in London of a study showing people who walked in the park for 30 minutes (compared to those who walked in shopping centres) experienced less stress and depression. Caroline says with 31 million anti-depressants... Read more:outdoor
Bullfighting 2008-06-03 23:12:16 Green MEP Caroline Lucas is hosting an EU seminar to stop subsidising breeders of fighting bulls. She will be joined by a Spanish vet, a Barcelona councillor, an ecologist and fellow MEPs. Caroline says that the 21st century has no...
Henley by-election 2008-06-04 23:07:33 Green MEP Caroline Lucas says that Mark Stevenson is an excellent candidate for the upcoming by-election - made vacant by the resignation of Boris Johnson - the new London mayor. Mark is a seasoned campaigner who created a local producer's...
Pentagon 2008-06-05 23:31:34 Green Party Presidential candidate Jesse Johnson says the US needs an auditable accounting system at the Pentagon
, following a report showing $1.6 trillion has been overspent on nuclear weapons. Jesse says this money could have gone to pay off 15%...
Energy labelling 2008-06-05 23:24:19 Australia's Green Senator Christine Milne has asked why solar technology and mandatory labelling has not been introduced, instead of the government's new voluntary energy efficiency labelling for TVs. Christine says, "What I'd like to ask is how a voluntary system... Read more:Energy
Fuel cells 2008-06-05 23:22:23 Connecticut's Green Congress candidate Harold Burbank says the present energy crisis could be solved in five years, using fuel cell technology, which could become the state's biggest export (there are already five research companies there). Harold says that if President... Read more:cells
Voting at 16 2008-06-10 11:01:50 Green Party spokesman Adrian Ramsay has asked MPs on the upcoming vote to adopt Green policy, to reduce the voting age to 16. Adrian says, "In the eyes of the law, a person at 16 is an adult - they... Read more:Voting
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