 'Tis the season to sing carols and watch TV ads for buying SUVs and jetting abroad.
With the climate emergency accelerating and causing catastrophic impacts all around the world, advertisers still make millions from making it worse. At the very least, such ads should carry a strong ‘health warning’. Whether on TV, in newspapers, on hoardings or anywhere. Just like tobacco ads before these were banned. So, we have a new campaign flatpack for you this month: #DontSellClimateHell. It focuses on a (literally) burning issue, but we hope you’ll have some fun with it too! The Green Party’s conference in October passed a motion, brought by Caroline Lucas, that calls for a ban on the advertising of carbon-intensive products that do extreme damage to the climate, such as airline flights and gas-guzzling SUVs. Our campaign pack gives you resources to draw attention to this issue and put pressure on MPs and the Advertising Standards Agency to change the rules. There are easy actions you can take now. Great, too, if you're short of ideas for party games! And you can already change things at local level: Green Councillors in Hackney recently brought a successful motion aimed at stopping Hackney Council from accepting advertising that contradicts its own Climate Action Plan. Cambridgeshire, Basingstoke and Coventry councils have all passed similar motions this year. We show you how you could do the same. We’ll have more for you in the new year – and we’re already working with Green parliamentarians on a campaign against the government’s cruel and illegal Rwanda Bill. Meanwhile, sing whatever songs take your fancy, email those advertisers, and have a very happy and Green festive season!
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 Do you fancy helping with the national party's non-electoral campaigns? We're looking for members to join us on the national Campaigns Committee.
You'd get a chance to work with spokespeople, parliamentary Greens and others to develop low/no-cost campaign ideas and materials that can be taken up and used by members and local parties. Recently we’ve worked on campaigns to uphold the right to protest, to support NHS workers seeking better pay and conditions, to stop sewage pollution and protect the natural world with a Rights of Nature Act, and to build support for Baroness Jenny Jones’ Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill (Ella’s Law). We’ve also supported the Green presence at big events such as XR’s Unite to Survive and the March to Rejoin. Just yesterday we heard we'd been successful in helping the campaign to keep open railway station ticket offices. We meet on average once a fortnight on Zoom. If you’d like to join, we’d love to hear from you! If you’d like to apply or come along to a meeting fill out the contact form or email Campaigns Coordinator Tom Scott Greens lead successful opposition to government attempt to worsen the sewage crisis It’s been an exciting couple of weeks in Parliament. Last week, Campaigns Committee was able to support efforts by our Green peers Jenny Jones and Natalie Bennett to defeat the government’s attempts to tear up water pollution (nutrient neutrality) rules for property developers.
The government aimed to do this by slipping new clauses into the Levelling Up & Housing Bill at a late stage and without proper parliamentary scrutiny. Labour refused to say that it would oppose this move in the House of Lords. We encouraged Greens to write to Labour MPs and shadow Levelling Up Secretary Angela Rayner to demand that they oppose this move, and Jenny and Natalie put personal pressure on Labour Lords. And, at the very last minute, Labour found a spine and voted with our Green peers to defeat the government!  This Saturday (23 September) many Greens will be at the national March for Rejoin in London, where Green speakers will include the German Green MEP Terry Rientke.
We’ve produced an information sheet to help you link up with fellow Green Party members at this event, and a placard design you can print off – these are here. The Green Party is the only party calling for the UK to rejoin the European family of nations, and we’d like to make sure that Greens are highly visible on the march. Hope to see you there! |
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