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Cara Lavan
@caralavan.bsky.social
1.3K followers 900 following 410 posts
Film-maker & Green Councillor for St George Central, Bristol. Interests include drug law reform, harm reduction, feminism, BLM, LGBTQPI+, climate change, nature, politics, public transport, netball and music. Not always in that order. FT single parent.
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 1h
@stuartjeffery.bsky.social there’s a growing harm reduction network for local councillors of all political parties. Would you like to be added?
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 1h
Thank you Cllr @stuartjeffery.bsky.social for helping spread the eminently sensible message about Green Party policy to legalise and regulate all drugs and to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for explaining further. Sory its a Facebook link. www.facebook.com/share/r/1a9c...
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 1d
If you don’t have much time - watch Rachel at 20’50” for four minutes. So inspiring. And I loved all of Mothin’s. share.google/BjEsRqZxQJGS...
Co-Deputy Leaders' Speech - Rachel Millward & Mothin Ali at Green Party Conference 2025
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 1d
Also worth watching are the Green Party deputy leader speeches. If these were Reform politicians, the media would have been all over them. Brilliantly delivered messages of hope and inspiration like this are what we desperately need right now. Starts at 9’30” share.google/BjEsRqZxQJGS...
Co-Deputy Leaders' Speech - Rachel Millward & Mothin Ali at Green Party Conference 2025
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 1d
Here is @zackpolanski.bsky.social ‘s full Green Party conference speech. It’s brilliant. It starts at 18 minutes in . You sadly can’t see him sprinting down the middle of the room to the platform by way of entry but the rest is golden.

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Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 1d
Today I’m remembering the horrific ordeal the Israeli people were subjected to two years ago today and thinking of all those still suffering as a result of these events 😢.
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 1d
Britain’s Immigration Panic Is Manufactured

The Green Party’s new deputy leader Mothin Ali says the left has stopped listening to post-industrial towns and it’s opened the door for Farage and the far right.

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Britain’s Immigration Panic Is Manufactured | Novara Media
The Green Party’s new deputy leader Mothin Ali says the left has stopped listening to post-industrial towns and it’s opened the door for Farage and the far right. From ignored housing crises to London...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d
🚀 @greenparty.org.uk has grown from 58,000 members in December to 86,000 today.

Six years ago, consistently polling around 2%. Now, above 10%.

Green councillors leapt from fewer than 200 to nearly 900.

Green MPs from one to four.

This is the beginning.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay
Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay
www.theguardian.com
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 2d
Huge numbers for the ‘Bristol Patriots’ protest outside City Hall today ….
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 4d
And Mothin finally got me in tears when he said his son asked him if he was a good politician. His answer ‘probably not - but I try to be a good man’. And there it is. In a nutshell. 💚💚💚
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 4d
“When they say there’s no money. What they mean is there’s no money for you.”
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 4d
“We want a society what stands up to racists and homophones. We want a society that looks after each other.”
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 4d
“Immigrants are the backbone of the NHS... It’s time to celebrate them not demonise them… Your enemies aren’t other poor people. They are people who extract wealth from our society to fill their coffers.” Mothin Ali, Green Party deputy co-leader
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 4d
Mothin Ali - deputy Green Party co-leader speaks to the party being the only political party where you can speak to your own principles. We must be able to speak up in the face of the rise of the far right. Immigrants didn’t privatise our key infrastructure or sell off our council houses. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 4d
Great to hear Green Party deputy co-leader talk about paying tax as your contribution to a better society. We desperately need to change how we think about tax and be proud of our ability to pay it.
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 5d
Chair is @carolinelucas.bsky.social. Speakers include Sukaina Rajwani, Asad Rehman and Cole Macdonald.
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 5d
Jaw dropping talks on how quickly protest is being criminalised in the UK with long prison spells, often without trial, for political protest. If you don’t care about this now, imagine how it would feel under a Reform Government.
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 5d
Poor research led to one of our Bristol Cllr’s, Abdul Malik, being wrongly slurred on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning with claims he said terrible things about Jewish people. Yesterday, Abdul and his fellow ward Councillors issued this statement about the terrible synagogue attack.
Statement in solidarity with Jewish people after the terrible synagogue attack in Manchester from Green councillors: Cllr Abdul Malik, Cllr Tim Wye and Cllr Izzy Russell.
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 5d
Superb speech from @zackpolanski.bsky.social at Green Party Conference www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Well worth watching in full if you can.
UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1% – UK politics live
Polanski earlier called for patriotism debate to go beyond beyond ‘waving flags’
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 6d
Huge respect to Greta for this work and a reminder that Jewish people are not the same as the Government of Israel, so the former must not be held accountable for the actions of the latter.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7d
Greta Thunberg is the best of us.

If you are not on her side there is something very wrong with you.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7d
Greta Thunberg is the best of us.

If you are not on her side there is something very wrong with you.
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 6d
Agreed.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 6d
I am alarmed and upset by this emerging news of attacks at a synagogue on Yom Kippur.

The rise in religious hate crimes in this country is totally unacceptable - there is no excuse for antisemitism and no excuse for violence.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Manchester synagogue: Four people injured in car and stabbing attack at Manchester synagogue - suspect shot by police
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says it's believed the suspect is dead, and that the immediate danger appears to be over.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d
More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 7d
Good news re: measures for lowering emissions in London are working.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 7d
184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time.

This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.
London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says
The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.
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Cara Lavan @caralavan.bsky.social · 8d
I'm really worried by the rise in the number of racist attacks in & around Bristol. School children are even being verbally and physically abused by adults. This is what happens when your government choose to go along with far right narratives rather than challenge them. We must stand up to racism.
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