Southampton Group updates
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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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...
February 29 at 12:42pm
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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...
February 20 at 11:58am
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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....
February 14 at 06:02pm
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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...
January 24 at 11:16am
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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...
January 19 at 05:23pm
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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...
January 09 at 02:07pm
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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...
December 28 at 03:12pm
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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!),...
December 22 at 05:33pm
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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...
December 02 at 03:35pm
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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...
December 01 at 08:04pm
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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...
November 25 at 05:05pm
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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...
November 17 at 11:56am
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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...
November 09 at 12:37pm
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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...
October 26 at 11:45am
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