The Green Party has pledged its full support to the thousands of protesters taking to the streets in New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Athens, Berlin, Rome and London.
Peaceful protest has spread to major cities across three continents in a show of defiance against a world economic system that has been engineered to furnish a global financial elite. Across the world, people are coming together to demand a new economic system that enriches society instead of undermining it.
The Green Party shares the aspirations of the thousands of people across the world calling for a new and democratic global financial system. Green Party policy has outlined an ambitious Green New Deal that would seek to strengthen and diversify a UK economy that is currently over dependent upon a diseased banking sector.
Green Party leader, Caroline Lucas, said:
“As awareness increases of the injustice and unsustainability of the global economic system, more and more people are taking to the streets in opposition. The camp that has been set up a stone's throw from London Stock Exchange is an opportunity to explore a different kind of future to the one the mainstream political parties have constructed.
“The authorities must respect the right to peaceful protest. If they have any sense, they will also start to listen to the voices of those ordinary - and extraordinary people - who want to invest in a greener, fairer future rather than the stocks-and-shares house of sand that sustains corporate capitalism.”
Jenny Jones, Green
Party Candidate for London Mayor and London AM, attended the protests at St
Pauls Cathedral.
She said:
“The protests are a clear indication of the
frustration felt by many people over the current economic and political
situation. It is very difficult to stomach deep cuts to public services and
massive increases to youth unemployment while the financial sector continues to
enrich a small section of society and trade beyond the reaches of taxation and
regulation.
“I agree with the demonstrators' concerns and believe that profound change to
the way parts of economy are run is urgently needed. As has been seen this year
in The Arab Spring, there is great value in popular protests highlighting
injustice and inequality and bringing about change.
“I am fully supportive of peaceful protest, although my favourite form of
direct action is of course voting, and with the Mayoral elections now fast
approaching, I have committed to ensuring that the Great London Authority leads
the way on wages. As Mayor I would ensure that no one in the GLA family would
earn less than 10 times less than the highest paid worker.”