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Richmond & Kingston Group updates

A call to disarm Vince

On Saturday, Paul Tippell launched TRAKNAT in Twickenham.  Traknat is a local network of campaigning groups he has established to bring together local...
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40 years of Making Waves film evening

So we have been a little slow in organising the Making Waves film evening…  but what better place to celebrate 40 years of Greenpeace than on a boat!!...
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We're moving...

From this month we will be meeting at the Kingston Environment Centre in Kingston town centre, and saying goodbye to Ham.   The centre is 3 minutes...
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Sipson Revisited

With Sipson back under siege due to increased noise & disturbance from Heathrow dual runway trials starting on Tuesday until February, we caught up with...
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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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August Update (somehow missed July!!)

Toy Packaging - Mattel / Barbie Dolls Campaign June saw the launch of the Toy packaging campaign, just when we happened to be at the Ham Fair. And our Barbie...
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Orang-utan in Indonesia

What we're up to in June? Campaigns & Events

Protecting Indonesia's rainforests by Ian Duff, biodiversity campaigner This time, last year Greenpeace was in the middle of a campaign to stop Nestlé buying...
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Local Political Lobby Network Update (by Peter Dombi)

Kingston and Richmond Greenpeace have been actively lobbying their local MPs in relation to the Climate Change and Energy Bills that are currently progressing...
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Summer Festivals & Fair Diary 2011

The local group will be attending the following local fairs / festivals during the Summer:  Richmond May Fair - 14th May Ham Fair - 11th June Barnes Fair...
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Go Beyond Oil Campaign Update

Following on from all our hard work getting the Go Beyond Oil postcards signed, we have arranged a number of face-to-face postcard handover meetings with our...
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Our apple tree’s blossoming and other success stories from 2010

This time last year we were helping HUG (who set up and look after the library orchard where our Airplot twinned apple tree was planted) with some general...
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Update on our local meeting at the Hand and Flower Pub in Ham on 17 January 2011

There was a good turnout and plenty of ideas and issues discussed: Colin Cooper gave a really interesting introduction to the work done by Richmond...
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Kingston Paint the Town Green Festival 2011

Greenpeace R&K will be taking part in the Energy Event as part of Paint the Town Green festival on the 18th & 19th March. We will be raising awareness...
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Kingston University Freshers

This time last week was Kingston University Green Freshers Fayre, and, of course, Greenpeace had to be there. We were a small group of four – Hannah, Maria,...
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2010 Thames festival (and others) update

Over the weekend of the 11th and 12th September Greenpeace Active Supporters, staff and Face to Face Fundraisers were all active during the Thames Festival...
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A sunny Sunday with Banksy at the Thames Festival

Well, not Banksy himself you understand, but a wall-sized cartoon of jungle book characters hiding their eyes from a devastated rainforest. Maria and I joined...
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I hadn’t realised the Aldermaston site was so big….

Last Saturday three of us headed off to Reading to join colleagues from other Greenpeace groups and members of Trident Ploughshares to raise public awareness...
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BP – hope for a change of strategy with Dudley at the helm?

Amidst the reports of millions in severance pay for “back to oil” man Tony Hayward, there’s little in the news so far about the sort of approach that Bob...
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What would you have asked Tony Hayward, if you'd been a member of that congressional committee?

The Deepwater Horizon fiasco is a tragedy; the only remotely positive outcome of the affair is that it has highlighted the fact that, although the world isn't...
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