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The jury retire to consider the verdict

For the past three weeks 20 climate change activists have been on trial in Nottingham crown court accused of attempting to shut down Ratcliffe on Soar coal...
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activists weekend away

just returned from a weekend break in Kettlewell, yorkshire.A chance to meet others involved in greenpeace in the north.never been before but everyone was...
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The Green Policeman

The worlds multinationals become increasingly nervous when they know Greenpeace is on their case and this nervousness stretches from the boardroom to the...
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Lobbying your MP - Training Day in Nottingham

Brilliant day with pointers and practice for lobbying your MP run by Jane Burd and Richard Martin on 16 Oct.  Brian Norris, a longstanding Greenpeace activist...
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Nottingham Greenpeace 10:10:10

On Sunday at 10.00 o'clock we assembled at the Brian Clough statue in Market Square to show our support for the 10:10:10 campaign - thereby making it 10:10:10...
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Greenpeace climbers on Chevron Oil platform

Following their successful occupation of the Stena Don oil rig off the coast of Greenland, Greenpeace climbers are now hanging off the drilling ship, the...
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last nights meeting feedback

Firstly, welome to the new members of the group.  Peter has already done one stall with us and is keen to do more and Mike and Mark came as first timers to...
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Political lobbying training day

Yesterday I went to Birmingham to help train a group of activists who want to become political lobbyists for Greenpeace.  Greenpeace has always gone...
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Big Climate Mobilisation

Greenpeace are part of the stop climate change coalition and we are inviting as many people as possible to take part in a mass lobby of MP's on the weekend of...
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Come to the third runway victory party!

Following the ConLib governments decision to stop expansion at Heathrow there is going to be a victory part at Sipson, the village that was due to be...
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Stonebridge city farm

Last Sunday on the 25th of July Jane and I went to the Stonebridge city farm to try and get a few more people to sign our no tar sands petition. We arrived at...
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Nottingham Greenpeace group go to BP HQ

Last week three people from the Nottingham Greenpeace group went to BP's headquarters in St James Street near Piccadilly in London to hand over one of the 'No...
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BP tar sands protest at garage in Daybrook

For the first time ever the cry went up "can we finish now, it's too hot?"  And it was.  A fantastic contingent of 8 of us turned up at the BP...
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Sneinton festival

At the last group meeting Cath suggested we try a stall at Sneinton festival.  Now, this was on the Thursday and the festival finale was on the Saturday, so I...
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New coal fired power station proposed in Scotland - your help needed

So we all thought coal was off the agenda after the victory at Kingsnorth - at least for a while.  But I have just received an email from the Worldwide fund...
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Southwell Folk Festival

Southwell and Nottingham groups teamed up to give Greenpeace's first ever presence at the Southwell folk festival over the weekend of the 12th and 13th June. ...
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what awful weather!

Boy am I glad I made the decision this morning not to go to Sounds on the Downs.  As usual as soon as I had called off the event the weather picked up - but...
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Group Meeting 3 June

Just wanted to thank everyone who turned up at last night's meeting.  We had a good, passionate, political debate and came up with some brilliant ideas.  The...
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Nottingham Green Festival

hi, had a really wonderful day on sunday at green fest,twas roasting but we had a shady spot and were nicely ticking over all day.we had lots of interest in...
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Move over Nestle

So all our good work paid off!  Surprising us all, because we thought Nestle enjoyed the reputation of being the bad guys, they have announced a "no...
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