National Demonstration: Saturday 3 January: Hands off Gaza. Stop the bombing. Free Palestine Called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative and many other organisations. Meeting Point for Greens Villiers Street by the park entrance on the Charing Cross side of the Embankment Tube Station. If it is pouring with rain, up the stone stairs at the higher end ...

The economy has ceased to grow, in fact it has begun to shrink. Interest rates are now at marginal levels and may soon drop to 0%. Combine this with the falls in stock prices and you realise that it is no longer possible to earn money from having money. These are the very characteristics of the steady state economy that greens have been calling for. So should we be celebrating? The problem with in...

• Greens challenge Obama to press Israel to comply with international law and end the illegal occupation of Gaza and other Palestinian lands The Green Party of the United States calls for an immediate end to Israel’s bombing attacks on Gaza, which in the past four days has already caused at least 364 deaths, including Palestinian women and children, with hundreds more wounded. “It...

Two quick observations. First of all, there is another protest today between 4 and 6pm, opposite the Israeli embassy at Palace Greens (nearest tube High Street Kensington). I am told that yesterday's was extremely impressive, the successful street occupation resulting in riot cops having to physically remove people from the road. Secondly, the protests across the country yesterday, called at ...

THE co-leader of the Scottish Greens has said he is increasingly "ambivalent" on the idea of a high-speed railway linking Scottish and English cities.

Gorgie and Dalry are the areas where the Edinburgh Community Backgreens Association (ECBA) has been doing some work with tenement back greens. They are an expanding organisation and in 2009 plan to do work in the Newington, Sciennes and Marchmont areas. If you are fed up with the state of your back green you might like to get in touch with them. See here for their website which gives details of wh...

Personal statement by Councillor Steve Morphew, Leader of Norwich City Council and Leader of the Labour Group, Councillor Brian Watkins, Leader of the LibDems and Councillor Antony Little, Leader of the Conservatives. Steve Morphew, leader of the council, said: “I have every confidence that the inquiry is dealing with this seriously and thoroughly and will report fully at the earlier possibl...

Apologies for the gratuitous "milieu", it's one of the posh terms that I picked up when I was in the SWP years ago - but I like it so I'm sticking with it! One of the appeals of the Green Party when I was considering joining is that it builds diversity into its constitution. So, despite the Party having an electoral focus, it states directly that; 9. Electoral politics is not the only way to achie...

What the heck is all this about? It came through the system and I am struggling to comprehend.Dear friends, as many of you know already, I have been from 06./07. December at Tirana to support the Green Party at a conference where more than 70 interesting engaged people attended and media paid attention, too. It was agreat success for the Albanian Greens. The main topic of the conference was relate...

I’m not sure watching Mayor’s Question Time is doing a lot for my health – it’s certainly giving me a headache – but since I’m stuck at home ill it seems remiss not to tune in to the webcast. So far I’ve been pleased to see two members of the Axis of Progress – the Greens’