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Stop Shell - Save The Arctic street signs

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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VW The Dark Side

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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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One man, one cow, one planet

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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