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BP HQ protest

An early start on Tuesday morning meant that we arrived in London just as the news was breaking that Greenpeace activists had managed to shut down nearly all...
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A little more about tar sands by Joella

Tar sands, a brief introduction:Canada’s tar sand mining has been named ‘the most destructive project on Earth’ but what are tar sands and why are they so...
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Fear and loathing at the Climate Conference

Last Saturday we were invited by the organizers to the annual climate conference at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle. Despite the weather being blissful...
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A Global Problem

Greenpeace doesn't deal with the problems facing your average shark, not directly anyway, although there has been more mention of sharks in recent blogs...
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Follow up to film night

Just as a quick follow up to the film night last week for Earth Day, if there was anyone who wanted to come but couldn't make it...here are the links to two...
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South Shields Film Night Climate Change Talk

One of the most disturbing things about climate change is the attitude that a lot of people still have towards it. From my experience talking to people the...
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Monkey Business

Yesterday we trawled the streets of Newcastle city centre because in spite of initial protests, Nestle still insist on sourcing the palm oil for its popular...
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getting a meeting with local MPs

Hi All, If anyone knows that they can get a hold of their MP in the next couple of weeks, can you please let me know as we need to produce the completed...
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Nestle campaign info

A week later and there are over 750,000 views of all versions of our controversial Kit Kat video and over 100,000 e-mails have been sent to Nestlé -...
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Latest on Airplot campaign and the expansion on Heathrow

Fantastic news! Both the climate and common sense have scored a major victory at the High Court today, where the government's plans for a third runway at...
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trident polling in Newcastle and South Shields

Today and last Saturday we were polling the public to see how much the public knew about Trident and also whether they though we should be spending £97 billion...
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Summary of February meeting

£178 billion in national debt and the government are planning on upgrading our nuclear defence system Trident with £97 billion of our money...we don't think...
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Street Campaigning training 6th Feb

This was a very useful training day, as we identified the different methods of campaigning, including different actions and approaches, and took part in role...
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***Coffee meeting tonight cancelled***

Sorry, due to unforseeable circumstances we have had to cancel tonights coffee and a chat.
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First Meeting

Last week I went along to my first meeting of the Tyne and Wear Greenpeace group. I've been interested in environmental issues for a long time now and wanted...
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January meeting summary

Hi All, On Wednesday we had our first meeting of the year at the Old George pub in Newcastle. Lots of people sent apologies (seems like we are all getting...
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Street campaign training reminder

Hello... Just a quick reminder to ask if anyone wants to do the street campaign training can they please get their names to either Diane or Ingrid...
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Glasgow Wave

Hi all,  I finally got hold of a photo of the Glasgow Wave march on December 5th where I joined Glasgow Greenpeace on the biggest march of its kind Scotland...
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Screening of A Time Comes Tuesday December 1st 2009

As many of you may know we have had no other option but to cancel the screening of the above film at the Star and Shadow cinema through circumstances beyond...
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Facebook page

Hello, We now have a facebook page too with all the latest events and happenings...if you are a member of facebook please become a fan and get updates on...
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