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Scrap Trident, save money - have your say

The Treasury is inviting ideas on how to save money, and to vote/comment on ideas already posted - one of these is to scrap Trident. Why not have a look here?...
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Visiting BP in Winchester

Saturday 10th July: It was sunny, it was hot - it was our visit to take the 'No Tar Sands' campaign to the St.Cross BP garage in St.Cross, Winchester as part...
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My decade of forests campaigning

Yesterday was a great day – first the EU banned illegally-logged timber, then HSBC shed its investments in the forest-trashing Sinar Mas. Great campaign...
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One day, two victories...

News just in - would you believe it, another victory! After receiving nearly 10,000 emails, HSBC has sold its shares in Sinar Mas, one of the worst...
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Illegal timber finally banned in the EU!

It’s taken 10 years and has had us hanging off Government buildings more times than I like to remember, but finally illegal timber is banned in the EU. See...
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Greenpeace at BP speech

News just in... Two Greenpeace activists have just disrupted a speech by BP's chief of staff at a major oil conference in London. More from the Guardian. No...
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July meeting

Just a quick note - the July meeting was due to be on the 1st, but will have to be changed as I'm not available that day. It's now on the 8th - see link under...
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BP & tar sands - redesign the logo

Greenpeace has launched a new competition to redesign BP’s logo to better reflect the company’s operations abroad - and the winning logo will be used in ‘...
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We win again! First Heathrow, now Nestle...

Guess what? Nestlé has just agreed to our campaign demands, by developing a plan which will identify and remove any companies in their supply chain with links...
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Heathrow 3rd runway cancelled: we won!

Fantastic news - the carbon-spewing, climate-hostile plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport have been scrapped. The Cameron/Clegg government confirmed on...
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D is for Deep Water Horizon

The BP alphabet continues: D is not for Dog, it is for... Deep Water Horizon and the resulting oil spill courtesy of BP and its Bad Petrol. Go here and here...
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Vote NO to BP Tar Sands

It's election day, but your local candidate isn't the only thing you can vote for - you can also vote NO to BP's involvement in the uber-pollution that is the...
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A is for Athabasca

Here are a few of the petals from our first poster; in this case, A is not for Apple, it is for... Athabasca, one of the major tar sands areas in Canada, where...
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Personalised petals...

So, what happens to the petals? Well, they get attached to our big 'No Tar Sands' posters, along with all sorts of other comments, including some interesting...
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Tar Sands campaign - the Southampton launch

The BP Tar Sands campaign came to Southampton yesterday at The Hobbit's annual Environmental Rock day. We're asking people to personalise a petal from the BP...
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Trident campaigners seek to ensure right to protest

Four campaigners from Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp (not a Greenpeace camp, but we all want the same thing - to scrap Trident) will be attending Reading...
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Nestle - we're watching you...

Nestle, are you listening? Still trashing rainforests for palm oil? Well, it's time to stop and we're watching you - all over the country, people are being...
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Sunshine against rainforest destruction

It's sunny, people are in the park, and there's a Nestle van... what better time and place than this to get support for the campaign against Nestle's...
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Southampton new members' event

Thanks to all who came along to our new members' event on Friday - it was good to chat to some of our financial supporters (without whom...), including some...
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Trident poll results

Recent Trident campaign weekends in Sot'on went well: 200+ polling cards signed on 20th March (almost all 'NO' to Trident). Then on the 27th, 291 cards (...
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