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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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Stormtrooping, VW Campaign, 10.12.11
Being in a thriving Greenpeace group can give you lots of things: pride in wearing the shirt; tremendous fun with your friends; unusual and memorable...
December 15 at 10:46pm
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VW Campaign, York, 19 November 2011
Our first VW campaign stall and we get one particularly interesting supporter! I sometimes think that if we give it ten years, half the working population of...
November 20 at 04:23pm
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Rainbow Warrior III
So why did I give up an entire weekend and do a round trip of nearly 500 miles just to look at a ship? Easy. I wanted to witness an iconic moment, visit an...
November 20 at 04:01pm
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Chasing rainbows
Four of us set off to London on Saturday morning through the fog and greyness that dominated Yorkshire, knowing we were heading for a mighty Rainbow in the...
November 16 at 03:25pm
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York's Beginnings
On Saturday the 29th October the York group set up stall for only the second time this year! It was a great result in terms of public interest and letters...
November 06 at 09:51pm
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Greenpeace activity in York
Sunday 16th October we were out in the centre of York campaigning on reform of the European Fisheries policy. And we are such lovely people. You can see us...
October 21 at 01:48pm
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October Get Active newsletter
The Case of the Rotten Paella
by Ariana Densham, oceans campaigner
2nd October saw the launch of the next phase of our Common Fisheries...
October 12 at 01:03pm
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September Get Active newsletter
Common Fisheries Policy: Broken and Corrupt
by Ariana Densham, oceans campaigner
It is not very widely known that an astonishing 72 per cent of all...
September 01 at 05:18pm
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August Get Active newsletter
Volkswagen update – news on the Dark Side
Since the campaign to move Volkswagen away from the Dark Side
launched four weeks ago, an incredible 250,000 people...
August 02 at 11:34am
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International Women's Day for Disarmament May 24th
On Tuesday 24th May CND will be marking International Women's Day for Disarmament by holding a Women's Peace Camp at the US spy base Menwith Hill, near...
April 15 at 12:58pm
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Tinned tuna league table - M&S and Sainsbury's best, Princes worst
PRINCES TINNED TUNA LINKED TO MASS SHARK DEATHS AS TESCO DO U-TURN
Japanese-Owned Giant Faces Mass Product Recall Bid Over Misleading Tinned Tuna Claims...
January 10 at 06:37pm
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Watch Fish Fight in January!
Greenpeace is working with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to promote sustainable fishing practices and campaign for reform of the Common Fisheries Policy which...
December 15 at 03:50pm
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New group, new opportunities
York is a new group - we've only just begun and need new faces to help out with campaign events like this on tar sands, with local publicity, keeping this web...
May 11 at 06:01pm
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