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ASDA
VICTORY: Persistence pays off! After nearly two years of
campaigning, Brent Green Party declares victory over Asda road danger.
Pictured clockwise from left: Rodney, Martin, Alex, Shahrar, Phil,
pedestrian with grand-daughter, and Tiger (front). Read more
here and below.
LOCAL PARTIES OF BRENT AND HARROW.
Brent
Green Party and Harrow Green Party
form part of the London Federation of Green Parties.
We have campaigned on local issues from planning permission and nuclear trains
to Londonwide ones such
as traffic congestion and pollution. Latest campaigns:
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General election candidates:
Martin Francis (Brent North), Shahrar Ali (Brent Central) and Bea
Campbell (Hampstead and Kilburn). See bottom of page for more.
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Solidarity with Harrow
mosque anti-facist campaign. Letter in
Harrow Times (countersigned by Green party)
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Local party support for
Kensal to Kilburn transition towns
movement. Letter in
Brent Times (page 32).
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ASDA campaign
success.
Brent Green Party victory over Asda danger lorries reported in Harrow Times
April 2009 & Asda
apology. Campaign history - press sample:
Feb09 (reply);
Oct08;
Aug08;
Aug08;
May08;
Sept07;
photographs
&
video.
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Brent Green Party
Statement on
Gaza , letters
local &
national,
video, Green speaker at
BBC
(release).
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Planning objection to
Wembley Masterplan - our
submission.
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Planning objection to Academy - our
submission.
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Brent's climate change consultation - our
submission.
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Brent's
school places consultation - our
submission.
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No to
Heathrow expansion - Latest
press.
Brent and Harrow joined the
march.
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Criticism of Council
plans to reintroduce herbicides in weed-clearing.
Harrow Times April 09.
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Brent's
waste management consultation - our
submission.
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Metropolitan line
replacement train proposal -
letter and news
update.
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energy
efficiency in the home - see launch of MEP
report;
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fund Brent's
local health services
petition;
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justice for the
detainees of
Guantanamo;
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dishonest parking penalties in
Brent, see our freedom of information
result;
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greater
participation of trades unions - see
release;
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saving
Willesden
market
from closure;
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microgeneration
in the home - see
BBC
coverage of Rowan's scheme;
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pollution in
Neasden goods yard.
RECENT MEDIA
Visit Latest Press
pages for press coverage updated weekly. Selection of others below:
Vote Green - Shahrar Ali interviewed on why vote Green at this election,
Camden New Journal (29 May).
G20 policing -
Shahrar Ali at UCAPV lobby of MPA outside City Hall on,
Politics.co.uk (30 April).
Flu virus concerns -
Shahrar Ali on
Press TV
discussing flu concerns, US-Iran relations and climate change (28
April).
Brent Greens
on U-tube -
Climate Change
march.
Brent Times series. "Ex-head named to battle Labour"
Profile of Martin Francis,
candidate for Brent North.

Wembley City Academy Plans. Martin
Francis addresses Brent residents on the Council's Wembley City Academy
plans (23 Oct). Video footage
here. |

How Can Brent best Survive Climate Change? Jean Lambert Green MEP
addresses Brent
residents on 28 Oct 2008.
Flyer
and
Poster. Photo Viv Stein. Edited proceedings
here (with thanks to Pete Murry). |
GENERAL ELECTION SELECTION NEWS.
Brent North: Martin Francis [blog] - incumbent Barry Gardiner (Lab)
Brent Central†: Shahrar Ali - to be
contested by Dawn Butler (Lab, Brent
Sth) and Sarah Teather (LD, Brent East)
Hampstead and Kilburn: Bea Campbell - incumbent Glenda Jackson (Lab,
Hampstead and Highgate)
Map
showing new Brent boundaries for the next general election.
Text
description (3 wards from Brent East now in H&K).
Harrow East: Sarah Kersey - incumbent Tony McNulty (Lab)
Harrow West: Rowan Langley - incumbent Gareth Thomas (Lab)
†The 2008 GLA results for Brent and
Harrow reveal a particularly strong Green vote when broken down to
constituency boundary level for Brent Central: Lab – 11,665 (41.46%), C
– 6,286 (22.34%), LD – 5,129 (18.23%), Green – 2,590 (9.21%).
These are actual votes polled on a first-past-the-post ballot and we
shall be fielding the same Green candidate in the general election. |