Local activist L was featured in the most recent edition of the newsletter for Greenpeace supporters: Get Active. Below is an excerpt.
Spotlight on L
Changing from fur to a suit in Brussels
I have been an activist with Greenpeace for the last four years. Why and how did I get involved?
At that time I was becoming aware that the world my children were growing up in was changing and I began to become uneasy about the legacy we will hand them. I got involved with Greenpeace by chance. I had always admired Greenpeace's international work but it wasn't until I bumped into some Greenpeace activists in Bristol, running a stall at an event, that I realised how much is done at the local level.
Since then I have baked cakes for Greenpeace, worked on stalls and encouraged people to think about overfishing, painted peoples shoes to make footprints in support of the coal campaign, helped organise film shows, written to my MP, taken photographs, written blogs, made badges, collected signatures - all for my hope for a greener future.
I have travelled to various places in the UK and Europe on actions and appear to have made a habit of donning some sort of fur fabric; firstly monkeying around as an orang-utan for the palm oil protests and recently as a placard waving shark!
And then a few weeks ago I found myself in Brussels in a business suit (a marked change from fur fabric) chained to a post with people from 20 other countries to prevent climate laggards from entering the European business summit. It was an amazing experience.
I get so much out of being actively involved with Greenpeace, meeting inspiring and friendly people and a sense that even a middle aged woman from Bristol can make a difference.
Thank you for all of your hard work helping Greenpeace campaign. We couldn't do it without you.
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