Videos of me on the campaign trail

Green Alliance hustings

My rather cheeky speech at the big Green Alliance London Mayor hustings on 14 February 2008. Can you trust any of the other candidates to take real action on climate change?

Naming and shaming the Tate for low pay

Living wages are a massive concern of mine. Here I'm taking part in a Christmas demonstration at the Tate Modern art gallery, with the London Citizens campaign, to highlight low wages in London.

Stonewall hustings

My speech to the Pink News/Stonewall hustings for the London campaign. Greens have a fantastic record on LGBT issues, which made fitting everything I wanted to say into five minutes a bit tricky.

Flood risks in a future London

A short video warning that plans for new roads and homes in London's Thames Gateway could create flood risks in the future. Can't we plan our city better?

Channel 4 Political Slot 2007

My Mayoral campaign was rated top by the Federation of Small Businesses. Here I take a whistlestop tour of small, independent and green businesses in London to launch the new website Greens Mean Business.

Going Green in Paris and London

Green Deputy Mayor of Paris, Denis Baupin, visited London to talk about bike schemes. Paris has more than 20,000 street bikes available for hire and they changed the image of cycling in Paris virtually overnight when they were introduced in July 2007.

Petrified Porsche - urban dinosaur hunting in Mayfair

With the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s, I went on an urban dinosaur hunt in the vicinity of the Porsche showrooms in Mayfair.

At the time, Porsche was trying to stop Londoners charging gas-guzzlers more to drive in our city with a legal challenge to the now-cancelled £25 congestion charge for top polluters.

Car ads - where's the CO2 info?

Helping to launch the new Advertise CO2 campaign with the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s. Most car adverts were breaking the law by not displaying information on their carbon dioxide emissions. But, after our campaign pointed out the government guidelines were at fault, they were changed. You'll now see billboards with quite prominent CO2 information - success!

Vote Siân 1, Ken 2 to stop Boris

Here I explain the Green Party in London's decision to recommend voters give their first vote for Mayor to us and then use their second vote as insurance against a Boris Johnson/Tory monopoly over London. All I warned about is now coming true, scarily.

Free Parliament Square!

On 18 March, the first official day of the London campaign, I called for freedom for Parliament Square and the cancellation of the 'restricted zone' for protest in Westminster. We should use the police to prevent crime - rather than control protests, obviously.

Every day is budget day for Londoners

Budget day, 12 March 2008. In the freezing dawn in Kentish Town, I set out, with the help of some green pound notes, to how the Greens would create a greener, more affordable London.

Launch of North London Against Heathrow Expansion

My short video message to the Stop Heathrow Expansion rally at Westminster Hall - reporting from the launch of North London Against Heathrow Expansion in Finsbury Park. Yes, aircraft noise and pollution affect us Northerners too.

Launching ECO shop in Chiswick

I helped to launch the swanky new ECO shop in Chiswick, owned by Livia Firth (Colin's fantastic wife) and her brother. Filming here was with the Evening Standard and I put forward my policies to help small and green businesses in London. (This opens in a separate video player)

Conference keynote speech autumn 2007

My final conference speech as Principal Speaker of the Green Party before taking on the Mayoral race in London. This was shown live on the BBC news channel, which made it fairly nerve-wracking compared with most conference speeches.

Census Alert campaign launch

Launching  the Census Alert campaign to stop Lockheed Martin getting the contract for the UK Census in 2011 and getting their hands on our data.

They got the contract in the end, but we succeeded in having some safeguards put in place, thanks to getting the Treasury Select Committee interested in the issue.

Mudwash

The Alliance Against Urban 4x4s out in Chelsea offering urban 4x4 drivers an authentic coating of country mud for their shiny vehicles. This was a superb day of fun with the crew from a few years back, including Richard from Plane Stupid, a bit younger than now and with his shirt off, for some reason!

Launch of the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s

Film of the campaign's launch event in Kensington in 2004, including me, Jenny Jones AM, Blake Ludwig, Hayley Rolfe, now sadly far away in Australia, and Suzy Edwards, now working hard keeping everyone chilled and sustainable at Embercombe.