http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Lib Dems ALTER en-GB Lib Dems ALTER http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Lib Dems ALTER 2010-03-11T20:24+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000010/coalition_for_economic_justice_launches_no10_epetition_taxless4more.html The Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ), of which ALTER is a member, has launched a petition on the No.10 website, which reads:- 2010-03-04T08:37+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000009/facing_issues_when_implementing_lvt.html At a General Meeting of the Coalition for Economic Justice, on Friday 22nd January in London, at the School of Economic Science, a packed room heard speakers from four organisations set out some of the problems with implementing Land Value Taxation in Britain today. 2010-02-01T09:31+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000007/equality_banking_and_land.html The Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) of which ALTER is a member, is planning a one-day conference for the Spring, in the run-up to the General Election, on the subject of Equality. CEJ is working with the Equality Trust to bring together an even broader group of campaigners (mainly those working on anti-poverty and banking reform), trying to work out how these campaigns link. 2009-12-30T00:00+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000008/landscape_winter_09.html This may be the last issue of ALTER's newsletter Landscape that is offered as a free download to ALTER members. To ensure that you continue to receive Landscape, if you are not already a paid-up ALTER member go to the Join Us page on our website. We are about to move to a new site, where membership benefits such as Landscape may be password protected. With the cost of our main activity (attending Lib Dem Conference) going up in recent years, we are likely to increase our subs at the AGM in March. So join now. 2009-12-30T00:00+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000006/alter_group_in_act.html If you haven't heard of the Lib Dems' new private social networking facility ACT, then you are missing a lot of 'ACTivity'! ALTER now has a Group in ACT, where you can join discussion on topical subjects. We have already recruited new ALTER members this way, in less than a week since creating the Group. So please tell your friends about ALTER in ACT. 2009-12-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000002/tony_vickers_on_mansion_tax_origins.html The origins of the "Mansion Tax", mentioned in Vince Cable's speech at Bournemouth last month, go back to early 2006, as a policy working group, the Lib Dem Tax Commission (TC), started serious work. Many Lib Dem MPs saw any continuing domestic property tax alongside "Axe The Tax" (i.e. scrapping of Council Tax) as (a) confusing for voters and (b) expensive to achieve. 2009-10-01T00:00+01:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000001/coop_party_blends_into_the_landscape_of_lvt.html Our allies in the Labour & Cooperative Movement, the Labour Land Campaign, have achieved a significant victory by securing the support of the Cooperative Party Conference for a General Election Manifesto which includes very clear support for using LVT as an economic instrument. 2009-09-01T00:00+01:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000004/meeting_with_vince_cable.html August 2009 Archives 2009-08-07T00:00+01:00 http://www.libdemsalter.org.uk/news/000005/open_meeting_of_c4ej_friday_22_may_09.html Open meeting of C4EJ Friday 22 May 09 2009-05-18T00:00+01:00