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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...
September 13 at 01:49pm
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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...
September 05 at 09:51pm
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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...
September 04 at 01:36pm
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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...
August 29 at 08:58am
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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...
July 09 at 12:27pm
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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...
June 10 at 12:13pm
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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...
March 26 at 07:18pm
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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...
March 25 at 06:04pm
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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...
March 03 at 06:09pm
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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...
February 16 at 04:54pm
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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...
January 19 at 12:24pm
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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...
January 06 at 01:50pm
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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...
December 14 at 08:27pm
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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...
December 08 at 09:18pm
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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...
December 04 at 11:13pm
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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...
December 01 at 04:06pm
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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...
November 27 at 02:27pm
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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...
November 10 at 04:21pm
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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...
October 31 at 12:44pm
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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,...
October 23 at 01:46pm
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