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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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A busy few weeks for the Southampton group

Not long ago it was New Year - Christmas was over, and it was time to nudge people towards making 'get active with Greenpeace' their 2012 resolution. Then, our...
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Wow-factor Double-feature Picture-show

You may know that not that long ago, Greenpeace celebrated its 40th birthday. You may not know just how much Greenpeace has changed in that time. From a small...
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Southampton taken by storm(trooper)

In the latest visit to the streets of Southampton, the local Greenpeace group were accompanied by a stormtrooper who has seen the Light and joined the Jedi....
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Southampton sends the 'stop lobbying' message to VW

Three hours, two cafes, six volunteers in two shifts, 102 VW cards signed by members of the public in Southampton city centre yesterday - yet another example...
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VW's *FAIL* continues

You may have read about VW's social media FAIL - asking for suggestions and new year's resolutions, then deleting the ones they didn't like. The story even...
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Volkswagen is ignoring us on social media. Time to make some noise.

Join Jedi online across the world

Across the world, Jedi are joining forces to tackle VW's dark Side through their social media (i.e. facebook) pages. If you'd like to find out more about this...
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Meet the Jedi

We're off to Southampton to continue with VW campaigning tomorrow - if you come along, here are some of the people you'll see, though we're not usually in...
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Southampton 2011 - the year in pictures

A photographic round-up of some of our group's campaigning activities this year - more to come with VW in 2012 (and on Dec 29th if you'd like to come along!),...
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Stormtroopers outside Acea car lobbying meeting in Brussels

Woe is me! Greenpeace debunks car-industry doom-mongers

Yesterday, the Southampton group was out and about campaigning against VW's stance on climate change legislation. Today, you may have seen that Greenpeace went...
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Southampton Jedi vs VW's Dark Side

Midweek's not always the easiest time to campaign, but some of us were free so off we went to Portswood High Street to get cards signed as part of the VW Dark...
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Climate change is about governments AND companies

Having just got back from a meeting with Chris Huhne (who happens to be my MP as well as the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change) about fuel...
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Southampton Greenpeace visits the new Rainbow Warrior

As you probably know by now (there has been a lot of publicity!), the new Rainbow Warrior was in London last weekend so people could look round it and see our...
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Darth VWader

The Rising of the Jedi

You may be aware of our 'Dark Side' online campaign - as I type, there are 456,431 Jedi (wow!) and the number keeps rising... you can join here if you haven't...
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Volkswagen is lobbying against critical environmental laws

What VW did next

OK, it seems VW just don't get it. For three months they said nothing, then when they did respond to our campaign, their reply didn't really say anything at...
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