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Greenpeace Protesters with a Polar Bear - outside shell station

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,...
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People protesting outside a Shell station

September Get Active newsletter

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...
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August Get Active newsletter

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Greenpeace Netherlands action at Shell HQ - the Hague

July Get Active Newsletter

Shell-Day Saturday 21st July by Vicky Wyatt, climate campaigner At 6.30 this morning 70 + Dutch Greenpeace volunteers, including their executive director...
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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...
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Arctic fox cub

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...
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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...
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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...
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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/...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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