Islington Group updates
This is just the beginning #SaveTheArctic
Today, activists from Greenpeace Islington campaigned at Shell’s garage on Holloway Road against Shell’s plans for oil exploration in the Arctic. Other North...
February 25 at 11:54pm
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Islingtonites heartbroken by Baker's defection...
Six honourable Greenpeace Islingtonites braved the sub zero temperatures to make it to The Regent Pub on Liverpool Road for our monthly catch up last night...
February 08 at 10:10pm
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Reflections on 2011 and looking ahead to 2012...
It’s the New Year! As a Greenpeace activist, I am one year old. So now is a timely opportunity for me to reflect on my first year as a Greenpeace activist. In...
January 07 at 01:24pm
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London wide day of campaigning, fun and games - Turning VW away from the darkside
On Saturday, 10th December, in the freezing cold, about 60 local Greenpeace volunteers from all 11 London networks and friends from Berkshire, Surrey and...
December 13 at 04:20pm
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Samba and cake - What does it take to save the Amazon?
As a Greenspeaker, I have often used the McDonald's campaign from 2005 as an example of a success story. With every telling, this story reminds me why we do...
December 02 at 12:14am
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St Paul's stormtrooper
Today, Greenpeace Islington crew headed down to Occupy LSX at St. Paul’s Churchyard for a spot of campaigning. Our campaign today was to make the public aware...
November 30 at 07:11pm
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Freezing to death: action highlights excess winter fuel deaths
Taking action against Fuel Poverty
Greenpeace and the National Pensioners Campaign have embarked on ajoin campaign to highlight the 25,700 excess winter deaths...
November 26 at 05:43pm
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Campaigning in Stoke Newington
Today we went to Stoke Newington together with the Walthamstow group to ask people to write letters to David Cameron about the Common Fisheries Policy. It went...
October 22 at 03:50pm
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Rainbow Warrior pub quiz
We knew it would be fun and we knew we'd have a lot of teams but we didn't expect quite the explosion of people that arrived at the Hanbury last...
September 28 at 09:33pm
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Meanwhile at the Thames Festival…
This weekend was mainly about Greenpeace volunteers up and down the country exposing the darkside of VW dealerships and what a great job they did.
But joining...
September 12 at 05:52pm
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Wanted: Videographers, producers and talented amateurs
Greenpeace has launched a new film competition to turn the cameras on VW, and I’d encourage you to enter. However Greenpeace volunteers in London also need...
August 15 at 12:45pm
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We did it! John West changes it's tuna policy
We did it! Today John West, the last of the major UK players to agree to shift to more sustainable tuna policy, finally caved in. The move was helped by the 51...
July 26 at 01:40pm
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Can you help with our campaign against John West tuna?
Following the excellent news that Waitrose in Islington had agreed to stop stocking John West tuna, sadly we found that not all supermarkets in North London...
July 20 at 04:37pm
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Islington Greenpeace at Glastonbury
Many of us from Islington were working with Greenpeace at Glastonbury this year.
The field had the usual - the amazing hot showers (carbon neutral); the...
July 15 at 10:35am
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Glastonbury 2011: Green Trader Awards
As many of you will know, Greenpeace is one of the beneficaries of Glastonbury Festival. As well as the financial donations, around 300 volunteers head down to...
July 05 at 06:08pm
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Waitrose Islington stops stocking John West tuna
Back in November we blogged about our tuna research in supermarkets across North East London. That research was submitted to Greenpeace HQ who used the...
June 29 at 05:59pm
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Go Beyond Oil - a response from Diane Abbott MP
Over the last few months we've been out on the streets of North East London with the Go Beyond Oil campaign. We blogged the other day about how we got 130...
June 11 at 02:42pm
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Life onboard the Esperanza
I'm writing this in my bunk onboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, which is currently involved in action against Cairn energy's reckless attempts to drill for...
June 01 at 04:58pm
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GO BEYOND OIL Campaigning Session
Asa, Jo and I were out at Alexandra Palace Farmer's Market yesterday.
We had all our 130 cards signed in about 90 minutes, there were lots of smiley people and...
May 16 at 10:09pm
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There's something fishy going on...
The new bottom-dweller on Greenpeace’s league table of Tuna producers is the giant canning company Princes.
That's because to catch tuna, Princes uses one...
January 21 at 01:25pm
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