Green Left Pamphlet Launch

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Housmans – radical booksellers since 1945
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PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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TALK + PAMPHLET LAUNCH

Green Left
Wednesday 27th May – 7pm
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Summary for listings:

This evening guests from Green Left will be discussing the eco-socialist, anti-capitalist agenda, and launching a new pamphlet on the subject.

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Synopsis

Green Left is an eco-socialist, anti-capitalist current within the Green Party, which started in June 2006 when 36 Green Party members agreed its launch statement (the Headcorn Declaration).

Sarah Farrow, Green Left co-convenor said then: “Activists in the Green Party have founded Green Left because many Greens believe the only path to an ecological, economically and socially just and peaceful society has to be based on an anti-capitalist political agenda.”

This evening guests from Green Left will be discussing their agenda, and launching a new pamphlet on the subjects at hand.

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Event information

Wednesday 27th May – 7pm
Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London N1 9DX
Tel: 020 7837 4473

Free entry
Nearest tube: King’s Cross
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GPTU

From Romayne Pheonix…

Re-Elect Jean Lambert

From rights in the workplace through to the right to migrate, from campaigning for reduced CO2 emissions through to gay rights, Jean Lambert has done it all. A truly inspiring MEP for London and one of the most hard working in the European Parliament.

Please make sure you’re registered to vote and please make sure you vote for Jean.

Details of what she’s done for the past decade in the European Parliament, along with her colleague, Caroline Lucas, can be found in her End of Term report: http://tinyurl.com/cgtavg. Well worth a read if you want to get an idea what issues they’ve campaigned about. Their tireless work has meant they have been recognised as some of the most principled and thoughtful politicians in Brussels… re-elect Jean for a strong voice to speak for justice and fairness in Europe.

A most unnatural and tragic death

Ian Tomlinson who died at the demonstration on the 1st of April was confronted by police minutes earlier according to the IPCC. This contradicts the initial statements put out by the police.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/07/g20-demonstration-police-death

I hope for the sake of Mr Tomlinson’s family that the truth comes out about what happened in the run up to his death. It is seeming more and more unlikely that the police will be able to claim they are blameless. Their initial claim that he died of ‘natural causes’ is seeming less and less likely with every witness who comes forward and every statement from the IPCC.

Kettling as a tactic must end. Full stop. It is a undermines some basic human rights and has no place at political demonstrations involving peaceful protesters.

I continue to believe that the best way forward is for a full, public inquiry into the policing at the G20. I cannot have confidence in the IPCC after it originally seemingly took the police’s version of events as true and was going to issue a statement confirming this. The temperature has to stay high on this: they cannot get away with this this time.

My thoughts are foremost with Mr Tomlinson’s family and friends.

SM