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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...
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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...
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Rainbow Warrior III beneath the towers of Canary Wharf at night

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...
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VW London finale in Trafalgar Square

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...
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Greenpeace samba campaigners in London join worldwide call to save Amazon

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...
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Marching stormtrooper and volunteers

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...
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Pensioners action on winter fuel payment

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Montage of Greenpeace at Glastonbury

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...
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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...
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John West tuna tin with sticker

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...
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Letter from Diane Abbott

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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