and knowledge. It is time to move on from the strict focus on economic productivity which prevails today ... the [political] left must launch its own initiatives, project and referendums, and not spend its time on the defensive". In October 2018 Mazzone announced that in the 2019 national elections she would stand not for re-election to the National Council ("Conseil national" - lower house) but as a candidate for election to the Council of States (Switzerland) ("Conseil des États" / "Cussegl dals Stadi"), which is the upper house of the national parliament. The relationship between the two chambers of the Swiss national parliament is roughly analogous to that between the German Bundesrat (upper house) and Bundestag (lower house). In the elections for the "Conseil des États" she is hoping to win the seat made vacant by the recently announced retirement from the chamber of her party colleague Robert Cramer. The elections in question are scheduled for October 2019. Beyond parliament Much of Lisa Mazzone's most visible political activity still takes place outside parliament. She chairs the organisation "Regional Co-ordination for a Geneva city airport respectful of the environment and of the residents" ("Coordination régionale pour un aéroport de Genève urbain, respectueux de l'environnement et de la population" / CARPE) which in December 2016 tabled a cantonal "people's initiative", backed by 14,450 signatures, calling for "democratic control in respect of Geneva airport" ("Pour un pilotage démocratique de l'aéroport de Genève"). She is co-president, along with Priska Seiler Graf of the Social Democratic Party in Zürich, of the "Environment and Health Coalition for responsible air transport" ("Coalition environnement et santé pour un transport aérien responsable" / CESAR) created in September 2016 by 20 like-minded Swiss associations and organisations. In March 2017 she became one of two co-presidents of the CIVIVA, a national organisation which makes arrangements for an extended period of alternative public service ("Service civil" / "Zivildienst") to be performed by male citizens unwilling, for reasons of conscience, to undertake the normal terms of (otherwise compulsory) military service. Since May 2018 she has also served as president for the Swiss section of the Society for Threatened Peoples which emerged in 1970 from the Hamburg-based "Aktion Biafra-Hilfe" movement. Notes References People from the canton of Geneva Canton of Geneva politicians 21st-century Swiss women politicians 21st-century Swiss politicians Green Party of Switzerland politicians 1988 births Living people