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Volkswagen's reponse - and a Greenpeace supporters riposte

Like many others I watched the Greenpeace Videos VW the Dark Side, and I asked myself - how can this be? Isn't Volkswagen the "people's car" and the...
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The Dark Side

Berkshire Greenpeace was represented at yesterday's action against Volkswagen in Old Street in London. Climbers dropped banners from a four-sided advertising...
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Chainsaw Barbie planting

Berkshire Greenpeace activists have been out and about planting Barbies in the Reading area as part of the Barbie Hunt. So far four of the destructive dolls...
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Berkshire Greenpeace kick off Barbie campaign!

Berkshire Greenpeace helped to launch Greenpeace's new international 'Barbie' campaign with a visit to the UK headquarters of the Mattel toy company at...
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Green Gathering 2011 (28th to 31st July)

The (not so Big) Green Gathering is happening this year and it's happening on our own doorstep in West Berkshire. Canonbury have given the OK in principle for...
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Wood Festival

Huge thank you to the lovely Wood Festival crew for running the campaign stall and supervising the showers. It was a great team effort with everybody doing a...
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Agenda for 7th April Meeting

Greenpeace meeting April 2011 Oceans & Tuna Trish Go Beyond Oil Rainbow fund Raising Rushy Mead Wind Turbines AWE Update Peter Burt. Other Things in March...
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Top evening out raises £146 towards a new Rainbow Warrior

Three ace films, £146 raised towards a new Rainbow Warrior, and our very own rainbow!  What more could anyone want from a top evening out? Berkshire...
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Campaigning in Reading

We have been running street stalls in Reading this month and collected another large stack of postcards to local MPs asking them to help make the Energy...
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Minutes for 3rd March Meeting

Greenpeace meeting 4th March: minutes   Apologies: Martyn, Sunil   Convener: Peter   Present: Jamie, Eva, Ash, Doug, Peter B, Michelle, Alistar...
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Greenspeakers talk at the University of Brighton

Off to Brighton last week to give a talk about Greenpeace to a group of Environmental Studies students at the University of Brighton.  As part of their...
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Minutes for 3rd Feb meeting

Present: Trish, Michelle, Peter C, Helen, Sarah, Alan, Fish, Helen, Chris, Martin, Kirstie, Amy, Sunil, Amanda, Adela, Pete, Jamie, Jim, Sue, Brian, Tim,...
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Review of 2010

I think many of us began 2010 a little flat. The previous year had featured campaigns focused largely on the Copenhagen climate summit at the end of the year...
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Naomi Klein: Addicted to Risk

Here's an excellent video from the TED network featuring Naomi Klein speaking about risk, the environment, oil, and climate change - all issues of interest to...
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January 2011: The Beginning

We had our first meeting of 2011 at RISC last night. AGENDA New Greenpeace Strategy A Gree Spring Fair/Event Tuna Campaign Resuming Deep Oil Drilling in the...
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October Meeting

We had an excellent meeting last thursday, with Tom Brinicombe of Partnership for Renewables talking about the Rushy Mead Wind Farm. 
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gobeyondoil.org

Cycling round town saw a few bill boards that had been subvertised with gobeyondoil.org posters.  Nissan ad, A33, Reading: Nissan Ad, A33 ReadingMini ad,...
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Campaigners unite to oppose AWE's new nuclear building project

Over thirty campaigners from an alliance of anti-nuclear groups united to take to the streets this weekend to highlight opposition to the planning application...
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September Group Meeting

At last night's group meeting we reviewed the events of the previous month and made some plans for the weeks ahead.AGENDA1) Apologies2) Ongoing Action - Beyond...
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Coal Feeds The World

Two stories in today's Guardian, coal and food demonstrate that environmental protection requires a continuing commitment.It should come as little surprise...
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