York Group updates
Keep on Chasing Ice
After the success of the recent showing of Chasing Ice at York City Screen - in which the local group supported the screening by having our Save the Arctic...
February 11 at 11:43am
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A step closer to sustainable fisheries...and the destructive lobbyists based here in York
Yesterday, MEPs moved a step closer towards reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) - it's something that we were on the streets of York last year,...
February 07 at 11:53am
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Important campaign win brings us one strep closer to saving the Indonesian rainforests.
This week Asia Pulp & Paper have committed to a range of measures which, if implemented, will be an important step towards saving the rainforests of...
February 07 at 11:29am
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Group update
Chasing Ice
On Sunday February 3rd, City Screen in York showed the dramatic film Chasing Ice which shows the undeniable evidence of climate change through the...
February 07 at 11:11am
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CHASING ICE - A Greenpeace Critic's Choice!!
"Dispite the cold and snow, people were not deterred to queue at Hebden Bridge Picture House, to see the first of two screenings of 'Chasing Ice' - this...
January 22 at 02:21pm
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Turn the January blues into a green start to 2013!!
We want 2013 to be just as successful, if not more, than 2012 which saw Greenpeace successes positively influence the Common Fisheries Policy reform, Wairose...
January 18 at 05:46pm
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October Get Active newsletter
Let’s sort out our Energy Future
by Richard George, Energy Campaigner
We are standing at an energy crossroads and a new law, the Energy Bill, will set out the...
October 11 at 02:24pm
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York is host to Yorkshire's Shell Day 2!
Yesterday was Greenpeace's national Shell Day 2 which saw 13 protests at Shell garages around the country.
At the Shell garage on Hull Road in York, people...
September 23 at 05:10pm
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September Get Active newsletter
Your chance to #TellShell to stop Arctic drilling
by Vicky Wyatt, Climate Campaigner
Over two weekends in July Greenpeace supporters took action to shut down...
September 19 at 04:53pm
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August Get Active newsletter
Shell-Day 2 Saturday 22nd September
by Sara Ayech, climate campaigner
Last month saw two huge days of action against Shell in the UK in support of our...
August 15 at 11:30am
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Polar Popularity
Paula the Greenpeace polar bear came along to support the Arctic campaign in York on Saturday and she was very popular with the public! Lots of group...
July 30 at 07:24pm
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July Get Active Newsletter
Shell-Day Saturday 21st July
by Vicky Wyatt, climate campaigner
At 6.30 this morning 70 + Dutch Greenpeace volunteers, including their executive director...
July 13 at 02:01pm
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Remembering the Rainbow Warrior - 27 years on
"Today is the 27th anniversary of the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret service agents here in Auckland harbour."
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July 10 at 01:55pm
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Beat the storm!
The York group managed to miss the sunshine of last couple of weeks (and the snow predicted for this!), to set up stall on Sunday. The wind was channelled...
April 03 at 11:28am
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Shell shut down as York Greenpeace arrive
Extraordinary! Izzy and Katie had done a leafleting shift at York’s main Shell filling station on Friday evening and the event had passed without incident....
February 26 at 12:08am
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Diary of a Greenpeace Marathon Runner: Part 3
The fact that this blog is several weeks late is an indication of how much I have been struggling to fit training around work and other commitments. The last...
February 22 at 12:32pm
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Greenpeace York 2012
Before we start our group activities for 2012 in York THIS SUNDAY THE 29TH (with a stall outside the Minster)...it is only right that we briefly round up the...
January 24 at 07:57pm
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Diary of a Greenpeace Marathon Runner: Part 2
What I have learned this week
This week, I had the longest training run so far: almost thirteen miles and the best part of two hours of non-stop running. I’ve...
January 15 at 11:43pm
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Diary of a Greenpeace Marathon Runner: Part 1
It’s too late. I’ve told too many people my intentions: a first Marathon, in aid of Greenpeace, in my home town of Hull, on April 8. And I’m at the end of week...
January 08 at 10:43pm
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A Journeyman Stormtrooper: Elliot from Manchester
I woke at the crack of dawn, at some unreasonable time around 6 o'clock. My mission: to make it to York carrying an entire Storm Trooper outfit! I'm not sure...
January 03 at 10:41am
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