Green Space

Ahead of the UK General Election, we talked to Azzees Minott, Green Parliamentary Candidate for Dagenham and Rainham, chair of the Greens of Colour Group, about their new commitment document, current state of education in the UK, and the Home Office and Windrush Scandal. We broke it down how children are getting manufactured in a profit-driven system, how corporatised British universities are and the need to decolonize the curriculum. Also on this episode: what a racist home office says about that government and where politics is going in that country and why allyship matters, and what EVERYONE needs to do so people of color can reclaim the political arena.

Ahead of the UK General Election, we talked to Amelia Womack, deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, about what the recent Green Wave tells us about where politics in the UK is going, why the Green New Deal is different than the other parties’ climate policies, and how the Greens will bring the system change needed through a Green New Deal. Amelia explains happiness is the new GDP. Also on this episode: framing of the Green New Deal, the Labour Party’s Green Industrial Revolution, economic growth, airport expansion, HS2 and, ecocide.

We talked to Sian Berry, co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, about the state of housing in the UK and the Green Party’s plans to secure it as a human right and transform it through a Green New Deal. Sian Berry has decades of campaigning and politics under her belt, from pushing for renters’ rights on the London Assembly to fighting the fight on a national level as the co-leader of the Green Party of England  and Wales.