Southampton Group updates
Saving forests at home and abroad
It's been a good week or so for forest campaigning - following on from last year's success with Nestle over palm oil use and links to the evil Sinar Mas (...
February 18 at 11:02am
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Paving the way to scrap Trident?
A new independent commission has just been launched to look at Trident replacement. This comes at a time when the Armed Forces Minister, Nick Harvey, has said...
February 11 at 10:24am
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Facebook vs whaling
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is scheduled to meet at the Hotel de France in St Helier in July. About 450 delegates from 88 member countries are...
February 09 at 02:53pm
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Southampton’s 2010 top ten
OK, January’s whizzing along so I thought I’d post a round-up of the Southampton group’s greatest hits from last year although there were lots of other...
January 18 at 03:15pm
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STOP PRESS *** Tesco tuna U-turn
Tesco have got wind of our new tinned tuna 'league table' - especially the fact that it was going to come last - and has done a spectacular u-turn. After...
January 09 at 04:33pm
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Tune(a) in to Hugh's Big Fish Fight!
2011 is still young, but it's already looking like a big one in our campaign to end the plunder of the oceans. With fish stocks plummeting and other marine...
January 06 at 06:47pm
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January meeting moved to the 20th
Just a quick note - other than to say Happy New Year, please note that the January 2011 meeting will now be on the 20th, not the 6th. This is because details...
January 03 at 12:28pm
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Greenpeace join Oxfam to lobby Chris Huhne on climate
At lunchtime today, I joined Oxfam staff and volunteers to deliver Oxfam's campaign message from Eastleigh constituents to local MP and Secretary of State for...
December 03 at 05:43pm
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Taking the Government to court
You may have heard that as of 12th November, Greenpeace UK is taking the Government to court over oil drilling e.g. granting of further licenses for...
November 17 at 12:40pm
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Eastleigh - going beyond oil...
It's taken a while, but the Southampton group were finally out campaigning for Go Beyond Oil, this time at Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh as part of...
November 11 at 05:52pm
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Fancy stopping an oil rig?
Yes? Well, that's good because you have the opportunity to help stope quite a few oil rigs... read on... Right now in Brussels, our politicians and civil...
November 04 at 02:36pm
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Support Greenpeace's Turkish activists
Greenpeace Mediterranean is inviting all of us to show support for the 58 activists who are facing 3 years’ in prison for protesting in front of the Turkish...
October 26 at 12:29pm
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A year on - the Airplot tree
Remember last year? - Airplot campaigning, street work... and tree-planting, twinning our local trees with the Airplot orchard in Sipson. Well, in case you...
October 26 at 09:37am
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Win-win? Well maybe...
A couple of campaign wins - on Trident and the Green Bank? Well, possibly, maybe - read on... 1. Trident The Strategic Defence and Security Review (...
October 21 at 09:27am
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Campaigners scale the Treasury
News just in... Four Greenpeace climbers have scaled the Treasury building in the heart of Westminster this morning as Chancellor George Osborne is...
October 19 at 09:00am
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Bake cakes, raise money, save world!
Got twitchy oven-gloves? Fancy baking some cakes? If so, Greenpeace has just launched 'Flour Power' - our new Autumn fundraiser. If you want to wow your...
October 13 at 10:00am
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BP's new boss - can he fix it?
BP - oil spills, dodgy deepwater drilling, dumping their plans for renewables - bad, bad, bad. But maybe they could be better. BP's now got a new boss, Bob...
October 12 at 10:17am
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Tap, tap, tap - nails in Trident's coffin...
Six months ago (doesn't time fly...), we were out on the high street campaigning to persuade politicians to Cut Trident, and to include the cost of new...
September 22 at 02:54pm
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Breaking News: Greenpeace scale Shetland oil rig
News just in...see here for more from the Greenpeace UK site Once you've read this, you might want to write to Chris Huhne. CAMPAIGNERS SCALE GIANT OIL...
September 21 at 01:15pm
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Breaking News: Greenpeace stop deepwater drilling
News just in - about an hour ago, Greenpeace activists evaded a massive security operation and scaled Cairn Energy's controversial oil rig off Greenland,...
August 31 at 10:51am
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