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Greenpeace Action Highlights UK Government Support For Tar Sands Oil in Europe

Over the past several months Bristol Greenpeace has continued to campaign against Canada's Tar Sands - the most destructive and dirtiest method of extracting...
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BRISTOL PEOPLE HELP TURN VOLKSWAGEN AWAY FROM DARK SIDE

The Bristol GREENPEACE Group was out out campaigning again last Saturday 26th November at the St Werburgh's City Farm Xmas Fair where 174 local...
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Local 'Polar Bear' Greenpeace Protester Cleared By Court

A Greenpeace protester from Bristol who occupied the offices of an energy company dressed as a polar bear has been found not guilty of committing a breach of...
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Stormtrooping In Bristol with VW Campaign

We set up our VW communication stall on a crisp, bright and sunny Saturday morning outside the Clifton Down Shopping Centre.  Our mission was to inform...
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VW Climate Change Campaign Takes to the Streets

Bristol Greenpeace were out on the streets last weekend (12th-13th Nov) with the latest national campaign to encourage Volkswagen to make a real commitment to...
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The World Has A New Warrior ... And She's Magnificent!

The plea went out -"The World needs a new warrior!"  The challenge to build a £16m new ship, financed by donations and fundraising by Greenpeace...
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Energy Decisions - Pipelines and Spying!

Within hours of each other two telling decisions were announced which bring some justifiable comfort (but not complacency) to Greenpeace and other...
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Volkswagen is lobbying against critical environmental laws

Greenpeace Gatecrash VW Ibiza Party

So Volkswagen organised a conference on Ibiza for some 12,000 sales people from 50 countries and mysteriously Greenpeace's invite must have got lost in the...
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Fishing for CFP Support on World Food Day

It is estimated that 928 million people go to bed hungry every night, yet at the same time some 1.6 billion people are considered obese. It is clear we already...
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Kumi Naidoo and Melina Laboucan Massimo launch RWIII

Rainbow Warrior III Launched

Those who commit crimes against the environment - be aware!  Yesterday (14th October) the brand new Rainbow Warrior III was officially launched in...
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Busy Weekend of Campaigning

Bristol Greenpeace attended two events in Bristol and Bath last weekend - The Schumacher Society's Centenary Festival held at the Colston Hall and the Love...
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You did it!

.... and even more good news - for our rainforests.

They say things come in threes (like London buses, the legs of Jake The Peg, Billy Goats gruff, Stooges, Wise Men, blind mice, Musketeers, education (Tony...
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Harvesting Success - Volkwagen and Tar Sands Campaign Updates

Throughout the summer we have toiled on the streets, prepared the ground, sown the seeds in the minds of others and it looks like our work is about to bear...
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Bristol Greenpeace Join in March and Blockade Against 'New Nuclear'.

Members of Bristol Greenpeace joined over 100 other protesters on a march and gathering in Bridgwater on Saturday afternoon.  The event was organised by...
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There's A Bluebird On My Shoulder

Doesn't the 'tweeting' Twitter bird look so happy and optimistic. It's even a calm, aesthetically pleasing sky blue colour. I've used Twitter on and off for a...
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40 Years of Campaigning - Happy Birthday Greenpeace!

THE SCENE  A Chief Executive’s office of a large multinational  somewhere in the UK (it doesn’t matter where ‘cos we know where they all are!!)....
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Campaign Against VW Shifts Up A Gear

Last weekend (10th-11th September) saw co-ordination of direct action against Volkswagon across France and Germany and the UK.  On Saturday morning 60...
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Fishy Support at Food Fest

A busy, yet rewarding, weekend was spent at Bristol Harbourside at the Soil Association's Organic Food Festival.  It was great to speak to so many people...
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Greenpeace seek a judicial review over nuclear power

In  June the Government announced plans for new nuclear power plants in the UK, as it confirmed a list of eight sites where the next generation of...
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