Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal

We're building a grassroots movement to demand a Green New Deal, join us 👇

[Philosophy Football @Phil_Football]

Can @BillGates save the world? @graceblakeley for one remains to be convinced, https://t.co/4fH0vQ9t8b

[Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal @brumlgnd]

Check out resources for a Global Green New Deal!

👉 Here's a very helpful short intro from @Leon_Ayo
https://t.co/yFrJRHGzHF

👉 And @LabGND's #CovidDemands here:
https://t.co/dQMD02qNYF

[Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal @brumlgnd]

Wonderful to have been joined by @communaz_, @Lamar__Campbell + local activists for @LabGND's Sunday Seminar. An incredible conversation on our demands for Global #ClimateJustice, its intersection with class and race - and where we need to go with local organising! #GreenNewDeal

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Never forget: Attacks on the working class come from those who travel by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

[Worker-Climate Project @WorkerClimate]

What the Attlee government nationalised:

- the Bank of England
- gas
- energy
- British Airways
- railways
- buses
- coal
- health services (creating the NHS)
- telecommunications
- steel

What Labour is currently calling to nationalise:

- rail

[Olly Armstrong @Olly4Everyone]

Full solidarity with this. I know some of my friends from @AcornBirmingham @twtbrum and @brumlgnd are hoping to go support, and we have been raising it internally as something we intend to continue to platform and stand alongside.

[Worker-Climate Project @WorkerClimate]

Our second demand for Labour's green recovery plan: Public Finance for a Just, Green Transition ✊🌹

This means ⬇️

✅ Bailouts for Workers and Planet, not Billionaires ✈️
✅ Green Finance for the Many 💷
✅ Rewrite the Green Book ✍️

Read more here👇

https://t.co/XUlObuwrIP

[Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal @brumlgnd]

Environmental justice means racial justice, say activists

https://t.co/A1eTZBllgT

[Momentum 🌹 @PeoplesMomentum]

throwing racist statues into large bodies of water = very good

[NEF @NEF]

"Contrary to what some may believe, racism in all its guises is alive and kicking here in the UK."

Important writing from @AyeishaTS, who you may recognise as the presenter of @WeeklyEconPod #BlackLivesMatter

https://t.co/hvm3rkjmRG

[Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal @brumlgnd]

We fully support these demands.

@BhamCityCouncil needs to show leadership and abide by what was agreed in their declaration of a Climate Emergency a year ago 🌍 #GreenNewDeal #ClimateEmergency

[Birmingham Youth Strike 4 Climate 🌍 @bhamys4c]

We have been ignored for too long.
We are tired of being ignored, dismissed and treated as a political prop by @BhamCityCouncil and our politicians.
The council continues to be stagnant on climate action. They have all but ignored their declaration of a Climate Emergency (1)

[Birmingham Youth Strike 4 Climate 🌍 @bhamys4c]

Today @BhamCityCouncil vote on their budget.
We urge them to reject it.
Besides the Clean Air Zone, it fails to include climate action measures.
We thought you understood it's a #ClimateEmergency?
We could give you a dozen proposals.
Act like leaders.
Act Now.

[Olly Armstrong @Olly4Everyone]

Reading through BCC budget info before we vote on it in full council tomorrow. There is a “risks heatmap” in there. Climate change is in the middle. Not the top. Not the highest third. The middle. As if it was “buses might be late”. Glad to see we are taking it seriously lads.

[Olly Armstrong @Olly4Everyone]

Out with the wonderful @LabGND @brumlgnd @paulmasonnews @adribuller @Leon_Ayo for @RichardBurdenMP @NorthfieldCLP

[Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal @brumlgnd]

Join us from 2pm with @paulmasonnews @adribuller and @Leon_Ayo at Weoley Hill Post Office in Northfield, we'll be door knocking to help elect a Labour government!!

[Olly Armstrong @Olly4Everyone]

Today at @NorthfieldCLP door knock we have @adribuller from @LabGND plus @Leon_Ayo and @paulmasonnews sharing thoughts and joining us to talk to residents about climate breakdown:labours green industrial revolution. Come along with us!! 2pm today. Message me if you want to join.

[Worker-Climate Project @WorkerClimate]

Tories offer £7.3bn for home upgrades? Lib Dems £6bn? Greens £38bn, you say?

Labour's 'Warm Homes for All' policy will invest £60bn to:

✅Retrofit 27m homes
✅Reduce energy bills for 9.6m people
✅Create 450,000 good jobs

#VoteLabour 🌹 #ClimateDebate https://t.co/7faHOyoXtU

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I have loads of respect for so many Greens, not least Caroline Lucas. But Labour's climate plans are the most radical of any governing party in history, and a vote for the Greens in most seats will let the environment-destroying Hard Brexit Tories win #climatedebate

[Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal @brumlgnd]

"they've been doing it Scandinavia", indeed Jo, exactly the model being offered in the #Labour manifesto #ClimateDebate

[Birmingham Labour for a Green New Deal @brumlgnd]

Invest and expand our railway network, in our buses and in our society. Bringing public assets back into public ownership. #Labour #ClimateDebate