ARE YOU ANGRY Your Green Team Re-elect your Green MEP about bankers’ bail outs “It’s a great honour and bonuses? that you’ve trusted me to serve as your WORRIED MEP for the past 10 years. Greens have about inaction on climate already made a real change and jobs? difference, but there is still so much to do to make the world a FINDING IT HARD safer, fairer place.” to trust those politicians Caroline Lucas MEP is top of the Green list in the South who’ve got us into this East, and Leader of the of England and Wales

mess? “A vote for us is for a future where IT DOESN’T HAVE TO people and planet come before profit. BE LIKE THIS - With enough votes VOTE GREEN FOR A on June 4th, our region can have BETTER FUTURE! two Green MEPs in the European Parliament.”

Cllr Keith Taylor, second on the South East list, “It’s vital to and a city councillor on Brighton and Hove City Council for over 10 years, is a former Principal vote Green in Speaker of the Green Party. ?these elections” Other candidates on the Green Party list are: Derek Wall Jonathan Essex Miriam Kennet Matt Ledbury Tony Juniper Jason Kitcat Steve Dawe Director, Friends of the Earth, 2003-2008 Hazel Dawe Beverley Golden Campaign Hotline Brighton 01273 634541 For more information, posters or a manifesto, or to offer help or make a donation to this campaign, please contact: Kate Collier-Wood For more information on Green Party policies, see Green Party Office, 39-41 Surrey St, our manifesto at: Brighton BN1 3PB www.greenparty.org.uk and on Caroline’s in the European Elections, Thursday 4 June, 2009 [email protected] work visit: www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk Please display in your window Text GREEN to 81707 Calls will be charged at your standard rate ELECTION COMMUNICATION SOUTH EAST REGION Printed on 100% recycled paper. Promoted by Leo Littman, on behalf of the South East Green Party, both at 39 - 41 Surrey St, Brighton BN1 3PB. Printed by Centre Web Northampton NN4 7DT on 100% recycled paper. Don’t lose your What do other What your Green Caroline Lucas MEP Green Party MEP in people say about Party MEPs will be has made a real the South East. Caroline Lucas? working for: difference!

You made history by Protecting our environment Peace through justice electing Caroline Lucas as • Tackle climate change through massive Vice-President of the Stop the War coalition, investment in green energy, creating Caroline has led initiatives to ban cluster the UK’s first Green Party thousands of new green jobs. bombs, and served on delegations to Gaza MEP. Since then, she has • Invest in free home insulation, cutting and Iraq. made a real difference. people’s fuel bills and carbon emissions. Reforming the EU Promoting Human Rights • Clean up Brussels bureaucracy; enforce Observer Ethical Politician of the Year 2007, The European Elections are a transparent and honest system for she has voted consistently to uphold civil held under Proportional MEP expenses. liberties. Representation, giving the “Caroline Lucas is a tireless • End the wastefulness of Parliament’s monthly move to Strasbourg. Green Party a real chance to campaigner in the European Fair and Sustainable Trade win more seats. Parliament, staunchly defending A safe, healthy Europe Winner of the MEP of the Year award for her human rights, and strongly • Ban GM foods; end factory farming and work on , Caroline has argued for the export of live animals. promoting greater protection for radical reform of EU trade rules. Greens need 9.1% to ensure animals. I urge you to cast a positive • Oppose the privatisation of public services, and promote a healthy keeping the seat - and with vote for a better future by voting environment. Animal Rights Green in the European Elections.” RSPCA award-winner, she has fought to end just 14%, we could win two. the annual seal cull, and to ban imports of Joanna Lumley, OBE cat and dog fur. Actress and campaigner EVERY VOTE COUNTS No to Airport Expansion “She is intensely disliked by EU commissioners and much of big Caroline has led a Europe-wide campaign to end night flights and airport expansion, and Use your vote to keep industry after drafting laws to has promoted UK tourism. force airlines to pay the true a strong Green voice costs of flying, forcing a legal investigation into nuclear power, A Better Quality of Life in the in the South East South East taking on chemical companies and Peace, justice and equality harassing the Commission at every An advisor to the Transition Town • Ensure respect for human rights for all, Movement, she has also supported local opportunity on trade, GM crops, including refugees. campaigns against the destruction of green Vote Green globalisation and animal diseases.” • Promote a non-nuclear future, a just spaces for road-building and executive Guardian, Top 50 Eco-heroes settlement in the Middle East, and an housing, and promoted secure, local jobs in on June 4th. end to the arms race. the region. For more information about Caroline Lucas’ work, visit www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk