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The true colours of Volkswagen exposed

Volkswagen want's you to believe that they're a green company and they're serious about tackling climate change and making their cars more efficient, recently...
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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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CFP, street campaign, ,Sainsburys, Colliers Wood

Ideas for how to organise a local Greenpeace event

As there’s lots of new people getting involved in our local Greenpeace group, I thought I’d write a quick blog on how to organise a GP event. This isn’t...
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Chopped down Boreal forest near a tar sands mine in Alberta, Canada

Canadian Tar Sands

The Canadian Tar Sands is the most energy intensive way of extracting Oil and it's highly destructive. Boreal forest the size of England have been destroyed,...
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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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Who are we?

A few months ago The Southwest London network relaunched after having been dormant for a while. We are 4 coordinators that have been working hard to get this...
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Barbie on the loose

Hope you're all exited about the Barbie hunt as we are. The Barbie's went up last night around South West London, join the hunt before it's too late :http://...
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Balham Street Campaign

There was excitement, a bit of anxiety and possible a few downpours in the air. When I got up in the morning and looked outside it didn't look that bad. I...
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It's back!

Hello everyone, Most of you who have been following the activity of this group would have noticed that it have had to slow down for a brief moment due to the...
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Passionate and Approachable

A friend of mine who volunteers for Greenpeace Head Office phoned me up one morning. “Hi Chris”, he said, “would you like to get up at half past six in the...
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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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BP Tar Sands campaigning at Oval Farmer's Market

A few pics from our stall at Oval Farmer's Market. Despite the disappointing weather we had a great response from the market-goers who embraced our efforts...
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Tar Sands campaign - Wimbledon

Today we took the Tar Sands campaign to Wimbledon High Street, asking people passing by to write their message to BP on a petal from BP's flower logo to ask...
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Orang utans descend on Nestle HQ, Croydon to give them a piece of their mind

As the train pulled into Croydon station and I saw the sign ‘Welcome to Croydon, home of Nestle’ a little shiver went through me, could we be going to...
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Trident Poll Results in Tooting

Our recent Trident polling outside Tooting Broadway Underground Station on Saturday 20th March went rather well, getting over a hundred people to stop and...
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What motivates you?

What motivates us activists? What is it that makes some people go to shopping centres to sign people up to a campaign against the British Weapons of Mass...
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We Should Meet up Sometime

When I become an activist I imagined the debates at the meetings would be around big issues such as British defence policy, or whether or not air travel is...
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What do we want? Better chants

Several people I know have commented that the Wave was a very quiet demonstration.  And I agree with them.  I think this was partly due having so many new...
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Didn't we do well

One of the problems I find campaigning with Greenpeace is I get really focussed on organising the next event. I rarely get a chance to reflect on what's been...
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Don't be a Chicken

“I'm feeling rather stalled out” a Greenpeace activist said to me recently, “I really want to dress up as a chicken and invade McDonalds”. As ever, I only...
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