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Last minute push to get those 3 million signatures!

I'm sitting in the relative warmth of the Tobacco Factory bar, inputting names and email addresses that are being fed to me by a stalwart team who have braved...
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Chasing Ice at The Cube, Bristol

Members of Bristol East Greenpeace were gaining signatures from the audience at the one night showing of the award winning documentary, Chasing Ice, shown at...
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Video Blog of Flag for the Future/Save the Arctic Weekend in Bristol

Hope the following three minutes convey the fun we had in running our exhibition of designs for the Flag for the Future competition in Bristol.  A lotta...
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A Weekend of Art and Action to Help Save the Arctic

How can I sum up the weekend when Bristol East Greenpeace took up residency at The Parlour Showrooms in the centre of Bristol to show off the local entries for...
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Flag for the Future competition - a week to go!

It's not too late to get your entries sent in for the Flag for the Future competition.  The closing date is Wednesday 23rd January 2013.  The reason...
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In Praise of Olly!

When I volunteered to co-ordinate Shell Day 2 last September I got an email from a 16 year old teenager, Olly Tyler, who asked if he could attend the protest...
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Wot! No meeting agenda?

Being a member of Greenpeace is not just about planning meetings and getting the campaign message across to the public and media.  There is so much to be...
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What Bristol East Did in 2012 - video blog

It certainly has been a blockbuster year for East Bristol Greenpeace group.  Having so much to cover has not been easy in putting together a videoblog as...
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2012: An Amazingly Busy Year

What an amazingly successful year 2012 was!  See the video below to get a flavour of our achievements.  This blog focuses on the National and some of...
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Picton Street Xmas Fayre

Picton Street was full of festive stalls on Saturday for the Xmas fayre.  Musicians played from the Picton Square stage and new Bristol mayor George...
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Inviting Young People to Design a Flag for the Future

Bristol Schools and Colleges - Flag for the Future Competition This is a great opportunity for the young people of Bristol to be creative in designing a Flag...
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Promising Good News: Waitrose and EDF Postpone Plans

Today I came home to find two pieces of good news awaiting in my inbox to make me smile on the inside ... and outside too! Waitrose just couldn't cope with the...
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Telling Waitrose to Dump Shell - Bristol

On the Greenpeace UK Get Active Facebook page there is a new phrase - "We're going to 'shell' Waitrose!"  Yes, we are certainly bombarding Waitrose, but...
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Our Thanks and Best Wishes To Richard Martin

I have loved the recent blogs on the fact that there seem to be too many guys called Dave in the Greenpeace movement.  Well in our neck of the woods (...
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Going Wild at Totterdown Arts Trail

The theme of this year's Totterdown Front Room Arts Trail was WILD! So it was fitting that Bristol East campaigned in a variety of animal outfits which...
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Giving Shell Hell at Eastville

A great turn out on Saturday at Eastville - this picture shows pretty much all those who turned up (plus of course Jo who took the photo).  For a full...
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Bristol Zoo

On Saturday 3rd November Paula, the Greenpeace polar bear, went back to visit Bristol Zoo, where she made so many new friends last Summer. To be honest she...
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Giving Shell A Bit More Hell

A driver asks, "So where's the nearest alternative garage?"  That is just the kind of question we love when doing a Shell garage protest.  It shows...
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Lauren is running for Greenpeace

East Bristol Greenpeace group member Lauren Tobia, a veteran of many direct actions is taking on another challenge – she’s running to raise money for...
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October Get Active newsletter

Let’s sort out our Energy Future by Richard George, Energy Campaigner We are standing at an energy crossroads and a new law, the Energy Bill, will set out the...
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