Hackney has the second-worst rate of child poverty in London - 45%! Diane Abbott voted for this (of course). So Meg Hillier why didn’t you?

We love Hackney, but it needs to work for all of us. Rising rents. Mouldy homes. Foodbanks. Zoë Garbett is running Mayor of Hackney to change that - with Dylan as Deputy. But we need YOU. 💰Donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hackney-ma... 📲Share with your friends: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4j...

RIP St Dominic's Primary. Joined staff on their picket line alongside @liamzud.bsky.social , Hackney Independents & NEU ✊️ The school will close at the end of term. The staff have led an incredible campaign to try & save it which has loudly raised the alarm for other schools.

My climate emergency motion in 2018 came out of brilliant campaigning by so many Londoners. It’s great the Mayor responded quickly and positively as that has led to clear net zero targets to which Green AMs continue to hold him accountable. Just five years left! www.london.gov.uk/motions/clim...

From my Green councillor colleague @liamzud.bsky.social calling out the Mayor of Hackney's statement. All words. No action. The situation in Palestine is horrifying and desperate. Hackney's residents, Green & Independent Cllrs have been pushing for the council to divest, blocked by Labour.

Green councillors took a stand with Hackney Independent Socialists against the undemocratic changes to the constitution ❌️Overriding residents' views ❌️Ignoring genocide ❌️Systematic housing failures ❌️Restricting democratic accountability ❌️'Savings' that really mean cuts!

We need bold leadership. Now. That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party. Join our campaign: backzack.com #BackZack

Nothing like some local action to raise your spirits 🚪 Knocked on doors in Dalston with new young Greens 🇵🇸 Joined Welfare not Warfare demo with @lauralouisefairley.bsky.social 🗣 Caught up with Ridley Road market traders with @liamzud.bsky.social 💚✊️

Gassed to welcome my friend + Lewisham Cllr Hau-Yu Tam to the Green Party 🫶 Look forward to working with you across London! @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social @londongreenparty.bsky.social

"We are not going to come forward with a wealth tax" Labour spelling it out for anyone who had any doubt. Squarely in the corner of the richest. Refusing to tax assets & property anywhere near as high as they tax people in work. The poor will have to pay again. #r4today

People in overcrowded homes, using foodbanks & sleeping on the streets can't wait around for growth. They need change now. I called on the Mayor of Hackney to be less grateful & more outraged at the lack of funding for local authorities & how this means continued cuts

Our Green motion tonight in Hackney calling to scrap the child benefit cap has been gutted by Labour into yet another ‘no money’ excuse. It’s now just a ‘maybe one day’. Hackney has the 3rd worst child poverty rate in London.

Tonight, Hackney Greens will table our budget amendment inc the reversal of Labour’s £500k cut to Hackney Carnival. After clear scaling back post-pandemic, this event deserves investment - not an ice out. We’d work to bring it back to life with community groups at the heart.

Grateful to @carolinerussell.bsky.social for supporting us and raising the long-paused Stoke Newington gyratory plans with the Mayor. Residents and local businesses want answers after years of silence. Find the Mayor’s response soon at👇 london.gov.uk/who-we-are/wha…

Thames Water have been allowed to add another £3 billion to their existing £19 billion of debt. They've run up this bill by paying out huge amounts to bosses and shareholders instead of investing in our water infrastructure. It's time for water to be run for people, not profit.

Here's what your hard-working Hackney Green councillors have been up to recently. @alastairis.bsky.social @liamzud.bsky.social @zoegarbett.bsky.social

Brilliant work here from @greenparty.org.uk London Assembly member @zoegarbett.bsky.social - pushing Labour politicians locally and nationally to take action on the cost of rent crisis through a range of short term and longer term measures 👏

Joined Voyage Youth this week for their new Raising Voices programme. So many great intersecting ideas on everything from housing, community safety, technology to the environment We have hope in the next gens! 🙏

… Here we are, with our 2025 game faces on 🙂, refusing to accept Labour’s vision of “austerity forever”. Three Green Party Councillors. Three oppositional & independent voices working hard for Hackney’s residents. Proudly offering a transformative agenda. A thread: 1/ 🧵

Israel launches major offensive in Jenin days after Gaza ceasefire  - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-launches-major-iron-wall-assault-jenin-days-after-gaza-ceasefire

Spent the evening at Hackney Empire for Rise 365’s Memories 2025, remembering Robert Levy + every other young soul lost to knife violence in Hackney Community is healing. Yet it alarms how much we increasingly rely on & expect from them to fill voids left by systemic failures

attack on the peaceful palestine march today by the cops is utterly unconscionable. videos of the violent arrests and testimony of those who were there stating cops have lied about being ‘pushed through’ must galvanise resistance and pushback against increasingly draconian tactics of the state.

Banning Section 21 evictions is overdue, but the Bill does almost zilch for affordability You can now own a pet, but good luck finding a flat you can afford to rent

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Hackney's Green councillors @alastairis.bsky.social @zoegarbett.bsky.social & @liamzud.bsky.social visited Greenhouse, the @hackneycouncil.bsky.social homelessness advice service today. They provide much needed help in a friendly atmosphere.

They couldn’t find a working-class creative to lead this review? It’s all the same voices on rotation - ironic, given working-class creatives are increasingly locked out of the arts through low-paid work & nepotism

The devolution debate in the Commons is peak Starmers Labour. Entirely dressed up in "giving power to local communities" but clearly in detail moving power even further away from citizens. Labour want to transfer public funds to private wealth & don't want people to notice!

No questions? Nothing? Hackney Cabinet asked no questions of community campaigners who have been working with residents for 5 years on the future of 55 Morning Lane Despite saying they are committed to codesign. 🤷‍♀️

IGNORED: Petition signed by 4000 residents to detwin from Haifa Ignored by Mayor of Hackney who noted the petition - not even responding to resident speech introducing the petition Pic: @alastairis.bsky.social intervening to try to get action. Residents holding "APARTHEID" in the public gallery.

Garbett noted that “There were rent controls until 1988 and we could say we’ve had a failed experiment of not having rent controls. We now need to get back to having them”.

Redbridge truly comes through with the ‘high quality’ Labour candidates…

Had a great evening yesterday welcoming so many new members and hearing what moved them to join the Hackney Green Party 🙏 Lots to come 👀

Tonight I joined Hackney council officers, organisations & councillors (inc. @liamzud.bsky.social) to undertake a rough sleeper audit which is happening nationally - it gives a snapshot of need. 🧵

Busy week meeting incredible individuals building community wealth with Coffee Afrik, marching for climate justice and for justice for Palestinians 🙏

The cost of living crisis is a crisis driven by fossil fuels. It's a crisis of inequality where richest 1% of the world emit more than poorest two thirds. Marching today with @thegreenparty.bsky.social & lots of organisations for social, racial, economic & environmental justice. 🇵🇸🌎✊🏼

"We’ve been stripped of our dignity as human beings." Al Jazeera contributor Ruwaida Amer describes what it is like to slowly starve alongside her family while struggling to survive in Gaza under Israel’s relentless bombardment aje.io/5q7s1u

Here’s hoping this app maintains this momentum 👀