West Dorset Group updates
Direct Action
On Wednesday 18th May members of West Dorset Greenpeace joined 180 Greenpeace activists from all over Europe in a Direct Action in Brussels...
May 21 at 08:55am
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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...
May 21 at 08:35am
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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...
May 21 at 08:20am
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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...
April 25 at 06:59pm
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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...
March 29 at 01:11pm
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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...
March 09 at 08:42pm
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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...
February 02 at 03:34pm
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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,...
January 14 at 06:03pm
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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...
January 06 at 06:19pm
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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...
December 20 at 12:53pm
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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...
November 15 at 02:51pm
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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...
August 01 at 11:15am
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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...
April 22 at 10:40am
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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...
March 22 at 01:38pm
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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...
March 20 at 07:33pm
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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...
February 08 at 06:11pm
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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...
December 21 at 11:19am
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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...
December 08 at 08:30pm
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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...
November 02 at 08:50pm
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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...
November 02 at 06:05pm
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