Newcastle Group updates
Shell campaign, the next step SHELL DAY
On the 21st of July Greenpeace volunteer groups across the world will mark international Shell Day by holding peaceful protests outside Shell Garages. We...
July 12 at 07:00pm
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#SaveTheArctic an inspiring campaign
The last week has seen Greenpeace launch one of its biggest campaigns in recent times, its called "Save the Arctic" and its aim is to raise awareness of the...
June 28 at 12:39am
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Newcastle Green Festival
Last weekend was my first experience of the Newcastle Green Festival, helping Rakesh, Ed, Hannah and Ursula on our #savethearctic themed stall. In addition to...
June 10 at 07:06pm
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Lake District to become nuclear dumping site?
To my suprise it seems we are once again facing the prospect of underground storage of nuclear wastes in the Lake District. A similar project is under...
June 07 at 12:10am
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Uk Tar Sands Network keep up the pressure on big oil
On the 12th of April supporters of the Uk Tar Sands Network and Gulf Coast residents attended the BP AGM to ask the board some difficult questions about the...
April 24 at 12:14pm
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Grow your own food!
A group of volunteers in Newcastle have come together to form a new environmental organisation called Guerrilla Greengrocer, which aims to encourage local...
April 12 at 12:42am
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Volkswagen street campaign
After the recent unseasonally warm weather four Greenpreace volunteers set out on a cold Saturday morning to inform the people of Newcastle about the recent...
April 02 at 08:58pm
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Shell Action by Newcastle group in Arctic conditions!
Rakesh, Ed and Elizabeth all met at the Shell in Byker early on Saturday morning to show our solidarity for those at the top of Shell's drilling rig in New...
February 27 at 03:28pm
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VW film night and social event 27th Jan - Newcastle
Volkswagen is the largest car company in the EU, and a major influence on the German government. VW markets its cars as being more efficient than its...
January 24 at 04:00pm
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weekend of activities
Advance notice: Friday 27th January - Sunday 29th. There will be stuff happening. In Newcastle. OK so that's a bit vague - more info later.
November 23 at 07:17pm
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Cinema Politica Presents - One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Cinema Politica gives a voice to some of the pressing issues that we face in the world today, stories from all corners of the earth that fail to grap the time...
September 06 at 07:13pm
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Social meeting
We are arranging a social meeting at the new library in Newcastle. The pobjectives will be to meet anyone new to the group who wants to be more involved and...
August 24 at 09:48am
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Nuclear discussion in October
A meeting about Nuclear Power. Medact Tyneside is organising a meeting about nuclear poweron Sunday afternoon 16 October 2pm at the Star and Shadow CinemaWe...
August 24 at 09:43am
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Newcastle Community Green Festival
On the weekend of the 4th and 5th of June we had a stall at the Newcastle Community Green Festival, our main aim was to raise as much money as possible to go...
July 07 at 12:09am
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Cinema Politica Opening night
The launch of Cinema Politica, will be showing the fantastic yet tragic documentary H2Oil, a film about the Canadian Tar Sands. A subject near and dear to...
February 15 at 02:40pm
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Save our forest demo...13th Feb...
Hundreds of dedicated local and not so local people took part in the demo to help save our forests at Chopwell Woods yesterday. To get the crowd warmed up...
February 14 at 07:53pm
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Save our forests...particularly our local Chopwell!
Our nations most national treasure....the government are talking of plans to sell a small percentage of our forests off to the highest bidder....this is a...
February 10 at 12:28am
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Happy New Year!
Hope everyone has had a fab yule time and all the best wishes for 2011! Had a bit of a break over Christmas but it's now time to get cracking with the next...
January 04 at 09:40pm
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