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The Yes Men: sometimes it takes a lie...

The Yes Men Fix The World

Yay - the Yes Men have a new documentary out! The anti-corporate activists, who specialise in posing as top executives of corporations they hate on TV and at business conferences around the globe, hit the big screen later this week with "The Yes Men Fix the World".

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...because there ain't no planet B

Marge - video editor and press offcer extrordinaire

Marge ascends from the Greenpeace basement to write for the blog relay - a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

My name's Marge and I'm the Assistant Press Officer. I lead a somewhat double life just now - being partly based in the press office on the top floor and then descending to the bowels of our building to the video suite, where I run our video archive and do bits and pieces of editing. Who needs a gym when there are six flights of stairs between your desks! When the heck are they going to invent a solar powered lift?

Anyway it's a pretty varied worklife. A typical week? Well there isn't one really. I recently spent lots of time trying to find footage of krill for a TV programme that Willie, our oceans campaigner, was involved in. I had vague memories from school of what krill is - all I remembered was that it's that stuff whales eat, but on talking to Willie I find out its pretty important 'stuff', microscopic but important. It's a tiny crustacean, like a wee shrimp, that lives in vast swarms in the Southern Ocean.

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The making of a supervillain - Coalfinger

Coalfinger

Before you do anything else, watch Coalfinger. I’m just going to babble on about how much fun it was to make it which isn’t nearly as amusing as watching the animation. While you’re at it, share it with your friends because we need to expose the real coalfingers of the world and their carbon cronies and the threat they pose to our climate.

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Kingsnorth media coverage catapults coal onto the public agenda

Emily Hall prepares to send a message to the government

Hats off to the Kingsnorth Six for having the courage to risk prison to hold the government's misguided energy policy to account. The fact that Gordon Brown and co are planning to ramp up Britain's consumption of coal (the most climate damaging fossil fuel) had gone largely unnoticed by our mainstream media until yesterday's successful trial result. Not any more!

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Breaking news: Kingsnorth Six found not guilty!

The Kingsnorth 5

Five of the 'Kingsnorth Six' at the top of the 200m chimney

See all trial updates.

It's been a pretty unusual ten days but today has been truly extraordinary. At 3.20pm, the jury came back into court and announced a majority verdict of not guilty! All six defendants - Kevin, Emily, Tim, Will, Ben and Huw - were acquitted of criminal damage.

To recap on how important this verdict is: the defendants campaigners were accused of causing £30,000 of criminal damage to Kingsnorth smokestack from painting. The defence was that they had 'lawful excuse' - because they were acting to protect property around the world "in immediate need of protection" from the impacts of climate change, caused in part by burning coal.

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Skate your way to free tickets to Glastonbury

Our resident tame orang-utan demonstrates his skateboarding technique... 

If you're an up and coming skater (or a good faker) here’s your chance to win tickets to Glastonbury Festival.

Our skateboard park is a highlight of our field at Glastonbury and this year we’ve already confirmed performances by pro skaters including riders from eS, Vans, Santa Cruz and Death and this is your chance to be among them at this year’s festival.

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YouTube group hug

Check out our YouTube groups

If you've been a visitor here since our re-launch earlier this year one of the most obvious changes you'll have noticed is the amount of streaming videos posted around the site courtesy of YouTube. You may have gone so far as to visit our YouTube site, which aggregates videos from Greenpeace offices around the world and categorises them by campaign: climate, forests, oceans and so on.


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Marine reserves