Newcastle Group updates
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...
July 30 at 10:18pm
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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...
July 03 at 08:18pm
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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...
June 15 at 10:37pm
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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...
June 03 at 09:26pm
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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...
April 26 at 09:36am
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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...
April 23 at 09:18pm
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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...
April 11 at 04:53pm
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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...
April 03 at 03:31pm
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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 -...
March 28 at 10:08pm
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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...
March 28 at 10:06pm
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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...
March 27 at 10:45pm
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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...
February 12 at 07:58pm
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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...
February 09 at 02:02pm
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***Coffee meeting tonight cancelled***
Sorry, due to unforseeable circumstances we have had to cancel tonights coffee and a chat.
February 03 at 03:06pm
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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...
January 22 at 05:27pm
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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...
January 16 at 05:28pm
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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...
January 09 at 05:31pm
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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...
December 31 at 02:27pm
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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...
November 30 at 05:16pm
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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...
November 25 at 05:49pm
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