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Founded in 2004, the LSESU Green Party (also known as the LSE Green Party and LSE Greens) is currently the largest political party within the LSE Students' Union; one of the most politically active Students' Unions. The LSESU Green Party are highly involved with many regular LSE Students' Union events and a number of members successfully run for election to LSE Students' Union bodies and LSE committees in termly elections.

The LSESU Green Party is affiliated to the Young Greens (the youthwing of the Green Party of England and Wales).

Committee

All LSE Students' Union societies are required to have a Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. Societies may create additional positions as required. Unlike other LSE Students' Union societies, the LSESU Green Party has a Female and Male Co-Chair. This is to reflect the structure of the Green Party of England and Wales, which has no leader as such - instead, they have a Female and Male Principal Speaker, to reflect both a commitment to non-hierarchical leadership and gender equality. In the LSESU Green Party Constitution the Female and Male Co-Chairs are given the same status and are always listed alphabetically.

Committee members are elected at the LSESU Green Party AGM, held after Freshers' Fayre in Michaelmas Term. All members are eligible to stand for election. Each LSESU Green Party member has one equal vote at meetings, regardless as to whether they are on the Committee or not and all members are invited to any meeting of the Committee.

The LSESU Green Party made net gains in the 2007 Lent Term elections, holding Environment and Ethics and Residences officer posts, and gaining Anti-Racism, Mature and Part-Time and Women's Officer posts.

LSESU Green Party Committee 2005-6
Male Co-Chair Louise Robinson
Female Co-Chair Aled Dilwyn Fisher
Liar Becky Pillinger
Cheater Rob Cane
Failures Fatima Manji, Henry Trew and Megan Gaventa
Spin Doctors Michael Deas and Philip Pacanowski
Website Coordinator (yeah whatever) Tom McClean
International Officers Nikki Herannen, Guang Liu and Tobi Eule
Elections Coordinator James JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ Caspell
Campaigns Officers Shayaan Afsar, Jeff Courtney and John Philpott

Elected representatives

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The following students have been elected to positions representing the Green Party:

LSESU Executive Committee

LSESU Environment and Ethics Officer: Aled Dilwyn Fisher

LSESU Residences Officer: Louise Robinson

LSESU Postgraduate Students Officer: James Caspell

LSESU General Course Representative: Anushka Shenoy

LSESU Womens' Officer: Daisy Mitchell-Forster

LSESU Mature and Part-Time Students Officer: Ziyaad Lunat

LSESU Anti-Racism Officer: Amina Adewusi


LSESU Committees

Constitutional and Steering Committee: Jefferson Courtney (Chair), Elle Dodd and Simon Douglas

Finance and Services Committee: Megan Gaventa and Shayaan Afsar

LSESU delegations

University of London Union (ULU) Council Delegation: Nada Mansy

National Union of Students (NUS) Conference Delegation: Aled Dilwyn Fisher

LSE committees

LSE Court of Governors: Louise Robinson

LSE Academic Board: Elle Dodd

ULU Executive Committee

ULU Mature and Part-Time Students Officer Shayaan Afsar

May 2006 local elections

The following LSESU Green Party members stood in the May 2006 local elections:

London Borough of Hackney - Francois Gemmene (Wick Ward)

London Borough of Havering - James Caspell (Pettits Ward)

London Borough of Islington - Elaine Londesborough (Barnsbury Ward)

London Borough of Tower Hamlets - Richard Simpson (Bethnal Green North Ward)

Campaign Against Appointment of Peter Sutherland as Chair of LSE

In Spring 2006 Peter Sutherland, the Chairman of BP was appointed Chair of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Council commencing in 2008. His appointment has been poorly received by a number of students at LSE who have organised a campaign to oppose the decision.

The LSESU Green Party has been involved in organising protests, creating a petition, the release of press releases to London Student and other papers, and the organisation of an online petition.

Ethical Investment Campaign

In Autumn 2006, the LSESU Green Party successfully passed a UGM motion condemning the receipt of academic grants from high profile arms companies at LSE. The motion condemned the receit and mandated that the LSESU refrain from investing in 14 of the UK's most notorious arms companies and also to lobby the LSE to do the same and adopt an ethical investment policy.

The LSESU Green Party also supported another successful motion which aims to force the LSE to divest from companies that are operating in Sudan in repsonse to the human rights abuse that are occurring in Darfur.

Anti-Tuition Fees Campaign

The LSESU Green Party believes that education is a right, and not a privilege, and contiunally cmapaigns against fees in all of their forms, fighting for equal access to higher education. As such it has drfated and supported several motions which commit the LSESU to opposing tuition fees, and in the particular variable fees and the continued marketisation of the higher education system.

Living Wage Campaign

Working with other progressive societies, the LSESU Green Party is currently involved in lobbying for decent levels of pay for LSE's cleaners. We believe that the reputation of LSE is not best served by the payment of poverty wages, with no sick pay and minimum holiday pay, to contracted cleaners. If you agree, please sign the campaign's petition here: [1]

See also

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