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Peace March from Glasgow to Faslane

  The Peace March left George Square in Glasgow at 12 noon on Thursday 21 June and arrived in Faslane early evening on Friday. Despite the heavy rain, our...
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Talking Rubbish at Portobello High School Changeworks Summit, 19 July 2012

On Tuesday 19 June 2012, a couple of volunteers from Scottish Greenpeace groups headed across to Portobello High School for the day to take part in their...
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Scotland could be free from nuclear weapons in just two years!

From Scottish CND: Scottish CND has published a new report, Disarming Trident, which shows how nuclear weapons can be de-activated within 7 days, removed from...
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Pub Quiz – Wednesday 6th June

The Edinburgh Greenpeace group have now officially made our annual Pub Quiz, well, rather more bi-annual. On Wednesday 6th June, we held our very first Summer...
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Edinburgh Marathon Festival - Sunday 27th May

Scotland’s biggest running event, the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. A record-breaking 23,000 runners took part...
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#SaveTheArctic at Knockengorroch World Ceilidh

Volunteering with Edinburgh Greenpeace can take you to all sorts of interesting places: perhaps a visit to your MP, an energy company's headquarters, the...
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A Gentle Day at the Farmers' Market, 19 May 2012

On Saturday 19 May a few of us from the Edinburgh Greenpeace group manned an information stall at the Edinburgh Farmers' Market on Castle Terrace. Although we...
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How to shut down a corporate building in three minutes

You will need: A strong purpose Lots of people High-visibility jackets Courage   Step one: Get in the way It's really quite remarkable how much...
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“Countdown to zero” in Brass Monkey pub

Between 7 and 9:30 pm of Thursday the 26th April, in the Brass Monkey pub, the documentary “Countdown to zero” traced the history of the atomic bomb, up until...
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Thanks, Mandy!

Just wanted to say a HUGE thanks to Dr Mandy Meikle, who kindly presented for us an utterly amazing talk on unconventional oil at last week's meeting. A truly...
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Sunshine on the Dark Side

The VW campaign is drawing to a close in the UK so we took our group's remaining action cards to the east end of Princes Street on Sunday. A glorious, but...
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Setting sun shines through nuclear protest flag with radioactive symbol

Add your name to the Nae Nuclear map!

One for anyone living in Scotland: Scottish CND has created an online map for people to show that they don't want nuclear weapons in Scotland. More than 400...
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Stockbridge Farmers' Market, 1 April 2012

We were at the Stockbridge Market last Sunday with a Greenpeace stall for Fossil Fools’ Day! It seems clear that VW is being a Fossil Fool as it has been...
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Another Total disaster to deal with!

While Gulf of Mexico is still suffering the consequences of the largest ecological disaster in the USA history (April 2010!), a serious gas leak from an oil...
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'Countdown to Zero' film showing

We will be having a film showing of 'Countdown to Zero' at the Brass Monkey on Drummond Street on Thursday 26 April 2012. The event will start at 7pm but we'll...
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Edinburgh Farmer's Market 17th March 2012

It was another lovely fresh day at Edinburgh farmer’s market with the delicious aromas of fresh bread and frying onions in the air. Our Greenpeace stall was...
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Hinckley Blockade

Hinkley flooded by 1000 protesters

Over 1000 people gathered a few steps away from Hinkley Nuclear Power Station (Sommerset) on Sunday the 11th March 2012 for another successful blockade,...
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Dumfries & Galloway Environment Fair

Saturday 3rd March   Four of us from Edinburgh ventured south for a day in search of signatures, support and just some good conversation from visitors to...
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Shell, Stay Out Of The Arctic!

A Shell drill ship has been prevented from leaving New Zealand to head for the arctic by Greenpeace activists and we were showing our support yesterday by...
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The Nuclear Renaissance

In the news today, David Cameron is meeting Nicolas Sarkozy to sign a deal to strengthen co-operation on civil nuclear development. The deal is to create 500m...
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