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North East Poet Joins the Campaign to Save The Great Barrier Reef

The North East poet Linda France has put a local face to Greenpeace Australia's campaign to Save The Reef, a campaign which seems to be geared up to saving the...

March 29 at 01:46am

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Newcastle Community Green Festival needs your help

The Newcastle Community Green Festival an annual event that takes place in Leazes Park, has also suffered from the cuts that have hit the public services in...

March 08 at 01:28am

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Fracking George Osbourne

As we speak Greenpeace activists have erected a mock gas fracking rig outside the George Osborne's constituency office in the village of Kuntsford in Cheshire...

March 04 at 01:17pm

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Protests continue to Save our Libraries & The Battle for Britain

From Saturday night to Sunday morning around 70 people of all ages and walks of life including me took part in a sit in & sleep over protest at the...

February 24 at 11:26pm

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Save Our Libraries – A REVUE

On Saturday I had the pleasure to attend an intimate show put on by the Artists Against Cuts, a collection of creative and passionate people who are against...

February 11 at 12:11am

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Idle No More - The Birth of A New Movement

A new movement is sweeping the world, titled "Idle No More" it calls on people around the world to stand in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Canada....

January 29 at 09:44pm

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Miranda's Story

As we enjoy the festive period spare a thought for Miranda Gibson, who has spent the last year living on a tree in Tasmania, Australia. She is making a...

December 27 at 02:08am

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Greenpeace Newcastle 2012 a Review

Its been a very good year for us in Newcastle, from very humble beginnings. Our group has grown from just a couple of people, to up to a dozen people. In...

December 14 at 02:04am

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Are Waitrose hypocrites? NO

Waitrose have decided to go into a partnership with Shell which will include, having Waitrose shops at Shell garages. Waitrose is a supermarket which...

December 04 at 03:31pm

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Polar Bear Visits North Shields

On Sunday Volunteers from the Tynedale & Newcastle Greenpeace groups gathered outside a Shell Garage in North Shields to protest against the companies...

November 27 at 10:53pm

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Talk by Jess Worth: UK Tar Sands Network (No Tar Sands UK)

Earlier this month we had the plessure to welcome Jess Worth, the founder of the UK Tar Sands Network, an organisation based in the United Kingdom to draw...

November 27 at 08:54pm

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Polly Higgins Visits Newcastle

On the 16th of October we had the pleasure of hosting a talk by international lawyer Polly Higgins about the campaign to make Ecocide the 5th International...

October 30 at 10:55pm

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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...

October 11 at 02:24pm

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Shellday 2

It was Shellday 2 on Saturday 22nd of September, a national day of protest against Shell and their destructive plans to exploit the Arctic for Oil. As...

September 24 at 08:31pm

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People protesting outside a Shell station

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Your chance to #TellShell to stop Arctic drilling by Vicky Wyatt, Climate Campaigner Over two weekends in July Greenpeace supporters took action to shut down...

September 19 at 04:53pm

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Street Stall at Haymarket on Northumberland Street

Today we had a street stall at the Haymarket side of Northumberland Street, because of the rain it bacame a very wet affair, though it was good to be seen on...

August 25 at 11:54pm

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Shell-Day 2 Saturday 22nd September by Sara Ayech, climate campaigner Last month saw two huge days of action against Shell in the UK in support of our...

August 15 at 11:30am

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Shell Global Day Of Action

Last Saturday I joined one of a coordinated wave of protests across the globe to oppose Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. There was a surprisingly...

July 27 at 01:08am

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Climate Change is the challange we must face up to.

I have rarely been moved enough to write a blog on a report in a newspaper or a magazine, but today I have to break this trend after reading an article in the...

July 19 at 07:37pm

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Greenpeace Netherlands action at Shell HQ - the Hague

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Shell-Day Saturday 21st July by Vicky Wyatt, climate campaigner At 6.30 this morning 70 + Dutch Greenpeace volunteers, including their executive director...

July 13 at 02:01pm

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