Dates for your diary from the November meeting

 Here are dates for your diary and news updates following our meeting last week in the The Cornubia

In brief:

• Sat 19^th Nov – Campaigning on The Prom, Gloucester Road
• Sun 20^th Nov – Campaigning at Totterdown Arts Trail
• Sat 3^rd Dec  - Harbourside Xmas Fair
• Wed 7^th Dec - Student outreach at Wiltshire College,  Lackham Campus
• Thu 8^th Dec – DATE OF NEXT MEETING, CORNUBIA
• Sat 17^th Dec – Stokes Croft Winter Fayre
• Thu 12^th Jan – DATE OF NEXT MEETING
• Sat 14^th Jan – South West Skillshare
• Sat 21^st Jan – Potential Campaign Date (TBC)

If you can help at any of the above dates get in touch!    The main contact is Richard:  r.lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk  / 07505 990595.

In detail:

Various Dates – Volkswagen Campaigning

We are moving into the next phase of the VW campaign during the winter months and are doing a few high street information points with Stormtrooper costumes!  We want to encourage the public to complete action cards to return to Canonbury to send through to VW HQ.

Sat 19^th Nov – Campaigning on Gloucester Road – 11am-3pm – Carol, Lauren, Paul, Stacey, Ian, Loz – Carol will liaise about where to meet

Sun 20^th Nov – Campaigning at Totterdown Arts Trail 12am – 4pm - Richard L, Richard B, Natasha, Cordelia, Ian, Sue – Richard L will liaise about where to meet

Sat 3^rd Dec  - Harbourside Xmas Fair – Sue, Richard L (am), Ian, Loz,  Adam, Greg (TBC) – Sue will be liaison

Sat 17^th Dec – Stokes Croft Winter Fayre – to be discussed at next meeting

If your name is not mentioned above and you’d like to help – get in touch with Richard: r.lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk

The Europe wide campaign was launched on 28 June involving several Greenpeace offices, including the UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Greece and Germany. The campaign launched with a video http://www.vwdarkside.com/en which explains how VW is blocking necessary action on climate change.  Over 460,000 Jedi have so far signed up to help us turn VW away from the Dark Side.

Weds 7^th Dec – Chippenham College

Richard L and Cordelia are running a stall at the Lackham Campus Carbon Roadshow.

Other news from meeting

Welcome to New Members

We started the meeting by doing a few introductions and welcoming in some new faces – Paul, Stacey and Captain Tom from The Matthew. 

The Matthew

We expored a few ideas for publicising Greenpeace with the captain.  Cordelia is looking into potential dates but the boat is away between mid-January and August.  There is a great opportunity to give the captain a Greenpeace banner for occasional display on the boat on its travels.  http://www.matthew.co.uk

Rainbow Warrior

Sue, Carol, Laurence and Richard B went down to visit the Rainbow Warrior in London on the weekend after the meeting.  If you didn’t get a chance to go down check out the Guardian video and interactive tour:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/10/greenpeace-launches-rainbow-warrior-glastonbury

And some of our photos can be found here:

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/bristol-east/blog/mighty-fine-boat-indeed

NVDA Training

NVDA training went well on the weekend after the meeting.

Other

We heard an update on the ongoing legal proceedings against activists resulting from action at Cairn Energy in Edinburgh in July.

Sue reported back on the Nuclear Consultation event that took place last week in Colston Hall on 9^th November – another attendee’s opinion of proceedings can be found here:

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/bristol-east/blog/nuclear-communities-listen-and-be-heard

Richard L provided a useful update on Greenpeace actions worldwide.

Paul gave us some useful feedback after having encountered a Greenpeace Bristol stall earlier in the summer.    We need to try and read briefings thoroughly because, although 95% of public only want to hear the basic facts about campaigns, 5% of the public want a bit more depth on the issues.