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BRENT GREEN PARTY AND
HARROW GREEN PARTY
[formerly Brent and Harrow - new websites to be launched soon! BRENT GREENS BLOG]
The Green Party is the only political party committed to ecological sustainability and social justice. It stands in local and general elections, offering voters a chance to put Green policies on the political agenda. We campaign on these issues, working with others who share our aims. Brent Green Party and Harrow Green Party are two of 175 semi-autonomous local parties across England and Wales that are the embodiment of the national Green Party. Sunflower

Asda Victory April 2009
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:

  • General election candidates: Martin Francis (Brent North), Shahrar Ali (Brent Central) and Bea Campbell (Hampstead and Kilburn). See bottom of page for more.

  • Solidarity with Harrow mosque anti-facist campaign. Letter in Harrow Times (countersigned by Green party)

  • Local party support for Kensal to Kilburn transition towns movement. Letter in Brent Times (page 32).

  • 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.

  • Brent Green Party Statement on Gaza , letters local & national, video, Green speaker at BBC (release).

  • Planning objection to Wembley Masterplan - our submission.

  • Planning objection to Academy - our submission.

  • Brent's climate change consultation - our submission.

  • Brent's school places consultation - our submission.

  • No to Heathrow expansion - Latest press. Brent and Harrow joined the march.

  • Criticism of Council plans to reintroduce herbicides in weed-clearing. Harrow Times April 09.

  • Brent's waste management consultation - our submission.

  • Metropolitan line replacement train proposal - letter and news update.

  • energy efficiency in the home - see launch of MEP report;

  • fund Brent's local health services petition;

  • justice for the detainees of Guantanamo;

  • dishonest parking penalties in Brent, see our freedom of information result;

  • greater participation of trades unions - see release;

  • saving Willesden market from closure;

  • microgeneration in the home - see BBC coverage of Rowan's scheme;

  • 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.
 

Martin Francis addresses packed hall - photo by S Ali
Wembley City Academy Plans. Martin Francis addresses Brent residents on the Council's Wembley City Academy plans (23 Oct). Video footage here.		 Public Meeting on Climate Change - picture by Viv Stein
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.

Updated October 2009 Published and promoted by Brent and Harrow Green Parties on behalf of M Francis and S Ali all at PO Box 54785, London NW9 1FL.