You could also take five minutes to write a short e-mail to Sam Okwulehie, Group Area Manager at Kenya Airways. You can use this template, but it will be more effective if you include your personal feelings. If you were being forcibly separated from your partner how would you behave? If you were being sent back to a country where you were totured for doing your job how would you feel?

contact@kenya-airways.com

Dear Mr Okwulehie

Please do not help the forced removal of Bernard Alain Mboueyeu Djikeugoue on Kenya Airways KQ101 from London Heathrow at 20:00 on Monday 21st May. He was tortured in Cameroon, and his return there will endanger his life. He is being separated from his English wife, Sharon against his will. Please have mercy on him and refuse to take him back to the country where he was tortured for carrying out his job as a journalist. You have the right and duty to consider whom to carry on your airline, both for the sake of your reputation and for the sake of the safety and comfort of your passengers. You have a moral duty not to be involved in this injustice.

Yours sincerely

Jillian Creasy at Occupy Sheffield

Cllr Jillian Creasy, Green Paty city councillor sent the following message of support and encourages Greens to come along.

“Sheffield Green Party sends its greetings to everyone gathered in the Peace
Gardens to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. It
is hard to believe that it was only 22 years ago that the World Health
Organisation removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. We
have made so much progress in terms of attitudes towards LGBT people since
1990. But there is still a long way to go, in UK and internationally. We
must allow gay and straight people to choose whether they want to enter into
civil partnership, or marriage or neither. We must keep up the pressure on
those countries where being gay is criminalised. Sorry I can’t be with you
in person, but I’m with you in spirit and I’m sure I’ll hear the one
minute’s noise as I’m cycling to another meeting.”

Bernard was not deported on Monday, but today (Wednesday 16th May) he was arrested and taken to Morton Hall Detention Centre.

Please sign the petition here.

Keep Bernard Safe in Sheffield               Home Office Ref: D1142549

Bernard Mboueyeu fled the Cameroon in 2007 when he was pursued by the authorities for supporting a political group opposed to the brutal ruling regime.

Bernard came to the UK in 2007 and married Sheffield woman, Sharon, a charity worker, in 2010. Sharon and Bernard have set up home in Wincobank and Bernard plays an active role in the local community, supporting local charities.

Despite their marriage, the Home Office have demanded Bernard return to Cameroon to apply for a spouse’s visa. Bernard has offered to return if his safety is guaranteed but the Home Office have refused to make that guarantee.

If Bernard returns to Cameroon he could detained, face torture, be locked up indefinitely and may never return to his wife Sharon in Sheffield.

Amnesty International’s 2011 Report noted that the Cameroon regime “continued to restrict the activities of political opponents and journalists and to stifle freedom of expression” and that “detention conditions remained harsh and often life-threatening”.

Please sign the petition here.

Please help to  raise the profile of one of
Sheffield’s forgotten heroes. A new campaign has the
aim of getting a lasting memorial to Edward Carpenter. He is famed for
living openly with his gay lover at the time that Oscar Wilde was imprisoned
for being gay. But he was also an environmentalist and anti-imperialist . Do
have a look at the website!

http://www.friendsofedwardcarpenter.co.uk/

Dear Sir

The Green Party believes in multi-party government. The whole point of
electing councillors and MPs is so they can
represent a range of views within the city council or parliament. As the
third party in Sheffield, our voting power in the council is small, but we
have influenced the larger parties on housing, energy,
transport, community safety and many other issues. And we provide the
only opposition to privatisation of council services, for
instance waste management (Veolia) and the Highways PFI. If the number of
Green Party councillors reflected our share of the vote across the city
(10%) we could do even more.

Yours

Cllr Jillian Creasy, Green Party

This letter was in reply to the Star article “Is Sheffield set for a single party system?”

The Climate Jobs Caravan is ready to roll and is visiting Sheffield on Fri 18th and Sat 19 May!

There will be three linked events in Sheffield:

TUDOR SQUARE – CLIMATE JOB CENTRE – Friday 18^th May 12-6pm

The Climate Jobs promotional vehicle will be in Tudor Square. There are films about climate jobs, launch of local singer song writer Chrystine Moon’s new DVD, promotional materials and a ‘Climate Job Centre’ to give details about the real climate jobs that can be created. Julie Dore, leader of Sheffield City Council will be visiting between 5 and 6 pm.

One Million Climate Jobs – creating the future we want!

 Friday 18 May from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm Quaker Meeting House

There are two national speakers from 7.00 pm: This meeting gives an update on the campaign so far, we aim to open up a debate and to inspire everyone to take this forward. This will take place at the Quaker Meeting House, S1 2EW.

John Stewart, who has been an environmental campaigner for 30 years and chaired the coalition which successfully opposed plans for a third runway at Heathrow and is the current chair of the Campaign against Climate Change and

Martin Mayer, is chair of the Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance and President of Sheffield Trades Council.  As a member of Unite the Union’s Executive Council and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) he works for public transport jobs and real solutions to climate change.

Workshop: An economy for the 99%: ideas and tools to make it happen’ Saturday 19^th May from

10.00 to 12.30

We will continue and deepen the discussion with this workshop organised by the World Development Movement.  Workshop leaders include Peter Verity, from the group Positive Money and Dr. Rory Ridley-Duff of Sheffield Hallam University who will talk about co-operatives. The workshop is at the Quaker Meeting House, S1 2EW.

Organised by Sheffield Climate Alliance contact Joan on 0114 2498613

Do you want to help? Do you want to bring a stall? Do you want to book a party of young people to visit the Climate Job Centre? Call Joan

More information on www.climate-change-jobs.org  or our Sheffield event page   http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/405229559496764/   or check out the videohttp://youtu.be/WAO2Oa5iWa8

“Labour campaigned hard again to oust us in Central but year round work across the ward underpinned our increased majority. Rob’s win keeps the Greens as one of just 3 parties on the council. Bernard Little fought a strong campaign on ward issues in Broomhill and came up just short – we will be the clear challengers to Labour in the next ward election there in 2014. Our citywide vote held up well and for the first time we beat the Tories into 4^th place with 2700 more votes across the city.

Greens have made gains nationally including a net gain of 1 seat in the region. All regional seats were held and we took Kirkburton ward in Kirklees from the Tories.” ENDS

For more information please contact Sheffield Green Party Press Officer Eamonn Ward on 0750 3883740 or eamonn.ward@btopenworld.com.

NOTES : The Green vote share across the city was 10.34% (subject to full checking)

Promoted by Eamonn Ward, 73 Eskdale Rd, Sheffield, S6 1Sl on behalf of Sheffield Green Party

Greens come close second, beating former leader of the Council, Paul Scriven into third place.

Full results here

Full results here