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West Dorset Group updates

Energy Bill meeting

West Dorset FoE joined us in a meeting with our local MP Oliver Letwin, we raised our concerns on the weak proposed Energy Bill and how the government has the...
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Broadoak Earth Day

On 1st May we had a stall at Broadoak Earth Fair, it was a chilly windy day but we had lots of fun meeting people and painting faces with rainbows, we...
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Chesil beach clean

Local Greenpeace supporters and Portland Canoe Club took part in the Great Dorset Beach Clean. We collected many bags of rubbish from a sensistive protected...
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Dorchester street campaigning

On Sat 26th Dan, Iria, Christine and Len were campaigning in sunny South street and by luck there was a busy market so we signed up lots of people for the...
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John Worst

Tuna campaign update

Princes and Asda have changed their tinned tuna policies. Princes have pledged that by the end of 2014 all their tinned tuna will be caught by either pole and...
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Current TUNA campaign

We have been out attaching stickers to Princes Tuna tins in local Morrison and Asda supermarkets in Weymouth, Bridport and Yeovil. At present this is...
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Bridport Farmers market

On Sat 8th the intrepid team of Ian, Daisy, Mark, Irene, Rosemary and Len braved a cold morning in Bridport to continue with the Beyond Oil campaign,...
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2010 - Highlights and Reflections

So many campaigns this year were immensely satisfying because they were relatively short and focussed, with a clear development and end-point:   The...
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Meeting Oliver Letwin

We have run eight stalls since October asking the public to support our Going Beyond Oil campaign. The campaign aim is to inform the public about frontier oil...
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Apple tree twinning

Apple tree. Back on 6th February 2010 the Dorchester and Weymouth Greenpeace group with support from the Liberal Democrats, Dorset Wildlife Trust, Dorchester...
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Dorchester and Weymouth Tar Sands BP campaign

After several days out campaigning in Weymouth and Dorchester, including a rather eventful morning at the local BP garage, Irene and I headed to London on...
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Dorchester 'Asked the Climate Question'!

People 'Asked the Climate Question' in the streets of Dorchester and Bridport.   The 'Climate Question Time' event itself was a great success with a...
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Ask a Climate Question

As the next election approaches Greenpeace has teamed up with a collation of other environmental and development NGOs to organise a political hustings in our...
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A Day in the Life of a Reluctant Orang-utan

 The timing let me guess it was going to be the beginning of the palm-oil campaign. Getting off the train at 'East Croydon- home of Nestle UK' was also a bit...
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Apple tree twinning - better late than never!

A lovely sunny afternoon, 50 people, photographers from all 3 local papers and sticky Dorset apple cake! Poundbury Garden centre donated a perfect Cox's...
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The Wave

Wow! What an amazing day! For many of us it was our first big national march. Lots of people all there to mak a very important point! Even the weather behaved...
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The Wave

Seven of us travelled on the coach from Weymouth and then we adopted Felix who was by himself and had come all the way from Wales! Look at the other snaps at...
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One World Week Fair

Lots of artistic efforts with very messy coal to send to Ed Miliband. The towncrier told him to 'Leave Coal in the Hole'. I have to say we were preaching...
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Airplot visit to MP

Oliver Letwin is already a  beneficial owner, so here are some of us congratulating him in this very dodgy photo. We were assured (and as Chairman of the...
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Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival

The Dorchester group joined forces with the Bournemouth and Poole group for a wonderful weekend of camping, socialism, and of course Greenpeace campaigning...
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