Sentences with phrase «former green leader»

Former Green leader Natalie Bennett on why it's time to take a proper look at universal basic income

Not exact matches

Austria must rerun the presidential runoff vote between the anti-immigrant Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer and the liberal former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen on Oct. 2.

And since the former Alberta Green Party leader became aware his own constituency association president was challenging him, he's already said some pretty harsh things about the Wildrose Party and its leadership.

A former gang leader on Chicago «s West Side who became a Green Beret and was awarded two Bronze Stars for valor in Vietnam, Hobson has worked for the Park District for more than 11 years.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was a «pro-active target,» confronting the FBI early on about its probe into his outside business interests, dubbed «Operation Green Pastures.»

Today, alongside former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, I'm doing what other parties leaders won't — I'm standing up for free movement.

The list of Democratic candidates includes County Legislature Minority Leader Carrie Andrews, Irondequoit Town Supervisor Adam Bello, former county legislator Vincent Esposito, former Brighton Town Supervisor Sandra Frankel, and former Monroe County District Attorney Mike Green.

New Monroe County Democratic Party Chairman Dave Garretson is reportedly considering County Legislature Minority Leader Carrie Andrews, Irondequoit Town Supervisor Adam Bello, former County Legislator Vincent Esposito, former Brighton Town Supervisor Sandra Frankel, and former Monroe County District Attorney Mike Green.

He shared platforms during the campaign with former Liberal Democrat Leaders Lord Ashdown and Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Simon Hughes, the Green Party Leader Caroline Lucas and Business Secretary Vince Cable, among others.

UPDATE2: Several WFP types noted a few other wins over the past year that I overlooked, including the ouster of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. by Gustavo Rivera in a Democratic primary and the passage of so - called «Green Jobs» legislation.

Among the roughly 20 people who spoke in favor of the tax breaks today were Walt Dixie and Twiggy Billue, of Jubilee Homes; Vito Sciscioli, former city economic development director; City Councilor Chad Ryan and County Legislator Chris Ryan; Jason Smorol, general manager of the Syracuse Chiefs; former City Councilor Mike Atkins; and Lauren Staniec, leader of the Syracuse chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Adrian Masters is joined in the studio by the former leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Lord German; Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth; Nathan Gill, the UKIP MEP and Pippa Bartolotti, the leader of the Wales Green Party.

While magnanimous in victory — a change from previous election night addresses by the former UUP leader — Elliott used his acceptance speech to remind observers that «this is not a green constituency».

Cheryl Green is a former Leader of Bridgend Council, and still leads the Welsh Lib Dem group on the authority.

We spoke this week to the fifth candidate for the seat, Paul Graziano, a former Green Party organizer who makes a credible case for why he poses a serious challenge to Vallone and Shafran, the two presumed leaders in the race.

Green — possibly aided by his special adviser, the former Sun PR man and leader writer Dylan Sharpe - suggested he was unimpressed with his former colleague's approach to the new job and proposed a radical new strapline for his newspaper:

The former Liberal Democrat leader was selected to head the eight - person committee, which will seek to ascertain why Metropolitan police officers were permitted to search Mr Green's parliamentary office without a warrant.

Natalie Bennett (Former leader, Green party of England and Wales), Sheffield

The proposal, in the form of an amendment to the data protection bill, has been tabled by the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke, and MPs from the Liberal Democrats, Scottish National party, Plaid Cymru and the Green party.

Former Green party leader Natalie Bennett (left) with deputy leader Amelia Womack in Sheffield during the 2017 General Election campaign.

The Green party received more than one million votes in the public poll, though it too has just a single MP - former leader Caroline Lucas.

The President of Austria is a former Green Party chairperson, so clearly this party and its (former) leaders play a significant role in Austrian politics — it's not a fringe party.

A former Guardian journalist has been elected leader of the Green party, as the organisation tries to replicate the performance of the far - left Syriza party in Greece.

Caroline Lucas, the former leader of the Green party, has been arrested at a protest against fracking near Balcombe, West Sussex.

The Green Party could see its number of MEPs rise from two to six in the 2015 European elections, says its sole MP and former leader.

Green leader, former NY gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins among 13 arrested in human blockade

[15] Candidates at the election included the former leader of the council Howard Martin for Health Concern, a former councillor for the ward, Adrian Sewell for Labour, and the first Green party candidate for an election to Wyre Forest District Council, Kate Spohrer.

Ms. Paterson filed to run on the Independence Party line and Diane Richardson, a former candidate for Democratic district leader, filed to run on the Working Families Party and Green Party lines.

Austria rejected the extreme - right Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer in favour of Alexander Van der Bellen, a former Green Party leader, on 4 December.

The government has appointed Ian Bauckham, a former headteacher and president of the Association of School and College leaders, to advise it on reforms to sex and relationships education, Justine Greening has announced.

And despite his busy schedule Johann König — our recent collaborator alongside Süddeutsche Zeitung on the special Jorinde Voigt edition — arrived and fell almost immediately into conversation with Peer Steinbrück, the former German Federal Minister of Finance, and Rezzo Schlauch, former parliamentary floor leader of the German Green Party, on the question of «exhaustion» — a subject close to all our hearts ahead of this bustling weekend of art.

And when the Liberals selected Stephane Dion, a former environment minister who championed green issues in his campaign, as leader in December, change was inevitable.

Former federal Liberal leader Stephan Dion's political life ended when his partisan rivals, including the late Jack Layton, savaged his complex «Green Shift» carbon tax.

This was the rallying cry of Goldman Prize winner and former leader of the Australia Greens... Read More

This was the rallying cry of Goldman Prize winner and former leader of the Australia Greens political party Bob Brown (1990, Australia), who, along with three other protesters was arrested at Lapoinya in Northwest Tasmania last week.

• Philip Adams, broadcaster • Kirstie Albion, CEO, Australian Youth Climate Coalition • Paul Barratt, former head, Defence Dept • Professor Judy Brett, historian • Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO, Beyond Zero Emissions • Geoff Cousins AM, President, Australian Conservation Foundation • Mary Crooks, CEO, The Victorian Women's Trust • Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate for Medicine • Ian Dunlop, former chair, Australian Coal Association • Professor Tim Flannery, palaeontologist • John Hewson, businessman and former Opposition leader • Professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, marine scientist • Professor David Karoly, atmospheric scientist • Professor Carmen Lawrence, former Western Australia premier • Dr Colin Long, Victorian Sec., National Tertiary Education Union • Professor Robert Manne, political scientist • Bill McKibben, author and co-founder, 350.org • Christine Milne, Global Greens Ambassador • Paul Oosting, CEO, GetUp • David Ritter, CEO, Greenpeace Australia • Professor Peter Singer, moral philosopher • Professor Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist • Dr John (Charlie) Veron, pioneer coral researcher • Mark Wakeham, CEO, Environment Victoria

Ben Oquist, former chief of staff to Greens leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne, says Tony Abbott risks being on the «wrong side of history» at the 2015 Paris climate summit.

Here is the former Executive Director of the Canadian branch of the Sierra Club and now Leader of the Canadian Green Party writing in June 2006.

Prominent AGW «defectors» include Dr. Judith Curry, professor of climatology and chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Dr. Patrick Moore, chemist / ecologist / activist co-founder of Greenpeace and former director of Greenpeace International; Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a leader in the European environmental movement and «green» energy; Dr. Richard S. J. Tol, IPCC author and professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Dr. James Lovelock, inventor / scientist / ecologist and formulator of the «Gaia hypothesis.»

The Green Party, for instance, asked Toronto lawyer Sheila Block to probe accusations from three former staffers of workplace bullying by longtime Leader Elizabeth May.

I interviewed former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, who is standing for Parliament in Sheffield Central, where the Greens came second in 2015.

Senator Richard Di Natale, former GP and public health specialist, was widely described as «little known» in the mainstream media when he was elected leader of the Greens yesterd... Read more