Manchester Group updates
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...
August 02 at 11:34am
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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...
May 31 at 01:26pm
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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...
May 31 at 01:13pm
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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...
April 26 at 06:13pm
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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...
April 22 at 04:56pm
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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,...
April 15 at 10:58am
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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...
April 07 at 02:29pm
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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...
February 15 at 11:51am
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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...
February 15 at 11:38am
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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...
January 21 at 05:28pm
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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...
January 13 at 12:06pm
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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...
January 04 at 08:49pm
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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...
December 13 at 07:31pm
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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...
December 12 at 11:41am
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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...
December 07 at 08:01pm
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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...
December 07 at 07:46pm
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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...
November 29 at 12:34pm
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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...
October 28 at 03:55pm
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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...
October 26 at 05:27pm
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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...
October 26 at 05:18pm
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