Southampton Group updates
Shellday 2: the Return of the Banners
A few months ago, groups all over the country visited dozens of Shell garages to #tellshell to stay out of the Arctic. That was the first Shellday. Yesterday,...
September 23 at 01:49pm
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Your chance to #TellShell to stop Arctic drilling
by Vicky Wyatt, Climate Campaigner
Over two weekends in July Greenpeace supporters took action to shut down...
September 19 at 04:53pm
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Shell-Day 2 Saturday 22nd September
by Sara Ayech, climate campaigner
Last month saw two huge days of action against Shell in the UK in support of our...
August 15 at 11:30am
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Multigroup #tellshell extravaganza!
Once in a while, I just have to have a bit of a vent about the huge issues that underpin our campaigns, but not too often - after all, what local groups...
August 12 at 01:43pm
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The whys and hows of telling Shell
OK, by now you probably know about the campaign to Save the Arctic (or for the twitterati, how we #tellshell to #savethearctic), but what do we, as volunteers...
August 08 at 06:47pm
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The Monday after Shellday - what's next?
Let's face it, Shellday was great - in the UK alone, getting on for 60 garages were visited (if not more), with well over 500 volunteers involved, many of whom...
July 23 at 09:30am
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Southampton #tellshell on Shellday
20 volunteers, 3 petrol stations, 4 banners, hundreds of leaflets, 3 police officers and one big bright shining sun... yup, it's Shellday!
Following major...
July 21 at 03:56pm
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Taking the Shell campaign to the Arctic
You've probably seen plenty of webpage column-inches about the #savethearctic campaign recently, and rightly so - the actions of companies like Shell who want...
July 16 at 03:40pm
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Shell-Day Saturday 21st July
by Vicky Wyatt, climate campaigner
At 6.30 this morning 70 + Dutch Greenpeace volunteers, including their executive director...
July 13 at 02:01pm
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Saving the Arctic from Shell
Live news coming in as I type - volunteers from the Southampton group are touring Shell garages in and around the city, displaying banners and handing out...
July 05 at 12:09pm
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Get foxy on facebook
Arctic foxes are stealthy and cunning. Arctic foxes are splendid and furry. Arctic foxes are threatened by companies such as Shell who are greedily and...
June 29 at 02:16pm
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Tea, tattoos and a day in the park
If you've been following our Be A Fisherman's Friend campaign which aims to reform the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), you'll know all about the problems of...
June 28 at 05:15pm
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Southampton - Saving the Arctic
Greenpeace's worldwide #savethearctic campaign has just been launched - as Antarctica once was, it's a wilderness under threat from oil companies greedy to...
June 22 at 10:32am
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Big fish, small fish, cardboard box
Being a Greenpeace volunteer often means spending your 'spare' time asking people to sign things, running stalls at fairs and festivals, or writing to your MP/...
June 21 at 04:06pm
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Shell's surprising rebrand
Recently, rumours have been spreading around Southampton, and in other towns and cities, of Shell rebranding themselves in surprisingly honest ways given...
June 20 at 12:44pm
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World Oceans Day
Today was World Oceans Day, and so the Southampton Greenpeace group took the 'Be a Fisherman's Friend' campaign to the Southampton Eco-Fair. While grown-ups...
June 08 at 05:09pm
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Big Fish protecting smaller fish...
Our campaign to reform the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has started swimmingly (ho ho) - the Southampton part of it was launched at Environmental Rock on...
May 22 at 10:01am
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CFP reform - and so it begins
12th May was the launch of the latest part of our campaign to reform the Common Fisheries Policy - the European policy that currently drives overfishing and...
May 14 at 12:09pm
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The LightSide have fun in the sun
Another fine day of VW DarkSide campaigning today. Six volunteers from the Southampton group took time out of their busy midweek schedules to head to the parks...
March 06 at 08:17pm
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Southampton helping to #SaveTheArctic
While Greenpeace volunteers (with actress Lucy Lawless) occupied Shell's drillship in an action that highlighted the importance of Greenpeace's #SaveTheArctic...
March 01 at 05:38pm
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