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August Get Active newsletter

Volkswagen update – news on the Dark Side Since the campaign to move Volkswagen away from the Dark Side launched four weeks ago, an incredible 250,000 people...
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Hook a Warrior and book stall in Chorlton

An innovative 'hook a warrior' game for children, our buskers and a book stall this Saturday resulted in us raising an amazing £50 in only two hours...
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Chorlton Big Green Festival - what th kids drew

The annual Chorlton Big Green Festival went with a swing again. Our stall, asking children to draw who or what they thought should be saved by the Rainbow...
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Easter Edale Pirate Trespass!

Greenpeace active supporters from North Wales joined the Manchester group (organizing) and various supporters from other groups for a Greenpeace Easter Pirate...
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Greenpeace Activist Occupy Deep Water Oil Rig

Greenpeace activists have been involved in occupying an oil rig on it's way from Turkey to drill for oil in the Arctic. Full report below. Please spread the...
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Rainbow Warrior fundraiser at the Ram and Shackle, Fallowfield

Crowds of people turned up to show support, make donations and watch the bands at the Manchester Greenpeace fundraiser in Fallowfield. Honeyfeet,...
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Tar sands mine in the boreal forest of Canada

Tarnished Earth

Tarnished Earth is a street exhibition of large scale photographs showing the effects of the extraction of oil from the tar sands. It opened on the South Bank...
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RAINFOREST VICTORY! (another one!)

Remember last year how spent 6 weeks campaigning against Nestle for the use of unsustainable palm oil in products such as Kit Kat? Well they bought it off a...
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Join Our Facebook Petition-Competition!

We've just launched a photo petition (or, competition - see below!) for everyone who wants Facebook to pledge to go green by Earth Day, and it's...
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Trident's Great Big Budget Hole

Remember the Trident campaign last year? Those lovely nuclear weapons our political leaders are so desperate we have renewed at a huge cost when you could say...
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Tuna and Oil Campaigns Update

It's been a bit of a busy week with some exciting developments: 1) Just as we were about to launch a campaign against Tesco for their unsustainable tuna they...
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New Year, New Campaigns!

Last year was amazing. There's something fishy starting this year and I know 2011 is going to be incredible. But let's just take a pause to go over what we did...
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EU Fishing Quotas Are About to Get A Bit More Exciting....

Greenpeace direct action in Brussels at a meeting of EU fisheries ministers to decide quotas for the 2011. A little taste of what may be to come for us in 2011...
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John Sauven @ Independent Live New Energy Future Debate

Last month the Independent hosted a live debate about tackling carbon emissions. Ok, it WAS sponsored by Shell but John Sauven (GP UK executive director) did a...
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Manchester Airport on Trial

Two members of Manchester Greenpeace pleaded guilty yesterday to blocking the road to the World Freight Terminal at Manchester Airport on May 26th. They were...
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National Climate March

On Saturday 4th December Jake, Wendy and James Alden went down to London for the 7th National Climate March. James joined with the samba band which kept a...
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Energy Bill Lobbying Report

Message from Laura regarding Energy Bill Lobbying:  "It went quite well with Sir Gerald. He agreed to meet again when the bill has been through the Lords...
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Happy Apple Day!

 It feels much longer, but a year ago we were still battling to stop the 3rd runway at Heathrow, hitting the streets of Manchester getting people signed up to...
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Cairn fails to find Arctic Oil

Cairn Energy has failed to find oil in deepwater drill sites in the Arctic Ocean near Greenland. Cairn was the subject of a daring Greenpeace direct action as...
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Kingsnorth Scrapped (for good!)

Some news we've been wanting for a long time - that E-on have finally pulled out of building Kingsnorth coal-fired power station! Along with others, Greenpeace...
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