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Bournemouth skillshare, Saturday 11th September

One of the interesting parts of my job at Greenpeace is the amount of time I spend out of the office meeting passionate people, who care enough about...
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UK blog

I've been making regular comments on the main UK blog. Suffice to say some of the other comments have been wide and varied, with Greenpeace being either...
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September Get Active e-newsletter: A World beyond Oil

Campaign Update: A World beyond Oil by Ben Ayliffe, climate campaigner As I write Greenpeace activists from the Esperanza are stopping oil drilling in...
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August Get Active e-newsletter: BP & Tar Sands

Greenpeace active supporters on their way to the BP HQ in London. Greenpeace/Buus Campaign Review: BP & Tar Sands Back at the beginning of May, we...
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July Get Active newsletter: The Big Problem is Oil

The big problem is oil by Paul Morozzo, climate campaigner The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has exposed three things about the oil industry to the...
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June Get Active newsletter: Nestlé victory and on to the banks

Nestlé victory and onto the banks by Ian Duff, forests campaigner Thanks to the huge public support generated by the street campaigning you helped make...
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A day like today

This is what it's all about. Days like today. Those who know me will know I frequently I quote Harald Zindler: "The optimism of the action is better...
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New actions skills training development day

A group of our activity coordinators and nonviolent direct action trainers spent a very tiring and slightly damp Saturday working with the actions unit on the...
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Kingsnorth round up: How we stopped emissions from new coal in the UK

Coal and Kingsnorth: the story so far by Jim Footner, climate campaigner After the best part of a decade with Greenpeace I am taking a short break to do...
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Follow-up and the matrix

This week I'm going to be on the phone a lot, doing follow-up calls to those who recently did the NVDA training in London and Manchester, to see if they've...
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What do activists do?

What on earth do activists do? Well it's not all going on ships and climbing chimneys; those are the rare treats if you like that kind of sweet. Campaigning...
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Final days of Copenhagen

So I'm now back in the office, sitting in front of a computer feeling kind of weird to be constrained by different boundaries than the steel walls of the...
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Secret Diary of an Assistant Cook, age 39 ½

This time a week ago, we were making banners in the snow near Oslo. Now a lifetime away, the Rainbow Warrior is moored on the outskirts of Copenhagen, and the...
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One week on board the Rainbow Warrior

A week ago I caught an early train to Edinburgh, to join what I thought was to be a short 3 day jaunt on the Rainbow Warrior. One week on I'm still here, and...
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Over the Rainbow

I’ve been back at my desk this week and I was away for such a short space of time that you may not have noticed my absence. Well my trip may have been...
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Action is Eloquence

Spotlight on Andrew McParland, a Greenpeace activist, trainer and climber I became a Greenpeace financial supporter about 20 years ago, after seeing a video...
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The long weekend

The world of the active supporter unit lurches between peaks and more peaks. The essential challenge is that various big intensive projects loom out of the...
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Scottish Skillshare

In the dazzling sunshine on Saturday November 7th, 30 or so activists stood in the doorway of a beautiful Georgian stone town house in Perth gazing at the...
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Network Newsletter

Network Newsletter is a bi-monthly glossy publication produced for the active supporter network and the general public. Paper copies are sent to all network...
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Here she comes!

The last few months in the ASU have been mind boggling manic, leading to the levels of insanity that leaves you wibbling at your desk late into the evening,...
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