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Tag Archives: Greenpeace
Record number of old people arrested at Palestine Action demo
Three women from a group of mostly Croydon-based protestors were among the record 532 people arrested at Saturday’s protest in support of Palestine Action and free speech outside the House of Commons. They included one 62-year-old charity worker who said … Continue reading
Posted in London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged Amnesty International, Croydon, Crystal Palace Friends of Palestine, Defend Our Juries, Freedom of Speech, Gaza, Genocide, Geoffrey Bindman KC, Greenpeace, Israel, Ita Gallagher, Keir Starmer, KIng Charles III, Labour, Labour Friends of Israel, London, Lord Hain, Metropolitan Police, Palestine, Palestine Action, Peter Hain, Sir Jonathon Porritt, Yvette Cooper
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Labour attack on freedom of speech continues at Gaza protest
Police say they arrested 365 people in Westminster today. These included a blind man in a wheelchair, former NHS nurses and Quakers, all for holding up signs saying ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. But no one at the … Continue reading
Posted in David White, London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged Amnesty International, Croydon, David White, Defend Our Juries, Freedom of Speech, Gaza, Genocide, Geoffrey Bindman KC, Greenpeace, Israel, Keir Starmer, Labour, Labour Friends of Israel, London, Metropolitan Police, Michael Rosen, Mike Leigh, Palestine, Palestine Action, Yvette Cooper
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Minister Reed attended unminuted meetings with water bosses
Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, reports on how the tide of support for one local MP in government is going out very quickly Steve Reed, the Croydon MP promoted to environment secretary in Keir Starmer’s government, is rapidly finding himself … Continue reading
Philp bottles it and exits ‘cesspit’ Facebook group in a hurry
Croydon Mayor Jason Perry and policing minister Chris Philp were in full-scale retreat after the London elections, hurriedly trying to distance themselves from the ‘absolute cesspit of vile racism and hate speech’ that they had helped to foster on social … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 London elections, Chris Philp MP, Crime, Croydon South, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged 2024 London elections, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Conservatives, Croydon Council, Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion, Greenpeace, London, London Borough of Croydon, London Elections, London elections 2024, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Tory, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
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Perry’s Facebook page part of Tory ‘vile cesspit’ of racism
By STEVEN DOWNES, Editor, Inside Croydon More than six months since this website exposed the Tory policing minister, Chris Philp, and Croydon’s Conservative Mayor, Jason Perry, as being involved with a secret Facebook group that appeared to encourage criminal damage … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Crime, Croydon South, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Policing, Sadiq Khan, Susan Hall, TfL, Transport, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion, Greenpeace, London, Mayor, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Sadiq Khan, Susan Hall, Tory, ULEZ, ULEZ expansion
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Greenpeace are making waves over destructive supertrawlers
Greenpeace Croydon has this week helped to launch Operation Ocean Witness, which is making waves to confront destructive fishing methods and the use of supertrawlers. At campaign stalls around Croydon, locals signed a petition calling on the government to ban … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon Greenpeace, Greenpeace, Sir David Attenborough
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Volunteers back Attenborough’s call to halt deep-sea mining
Greenpeace Croydon took part in a national protest last weekend calling on the government to ensure our oceans are off-limits to deep-sea mining. The volunteers’ photographs of their banners, displayed at sites around the town centre, together with hundreds from … Continue reading
Greenpeace give supermarkets a monstering over their meat
Alongside the John Lewis Christmas ad and the seasonal TV commercials that play across our screens, Greenpeace wants us to tune in to the important message contained within their own new and powerful animation: Monster. If kids’ pester power really … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Aldi, Greenpeace, Lidl, McDonald's, Nando's, Tesco
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Greenpeace activists take pointless plastic back to Sainsbury’s
Greenpeace volunteers yesterday handed back a shopping trolley full of customers’ unwanted plastic packaging to the Sainsbury’s store on the Purley Way. The store manager was presented with a trolley filled with 131 pieces of single-use packaging, the major contributor … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Purley Way, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon Greenpeace, Greenpeace, Purley Way
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Penguins ask Croydon to p-p-p-pick up their petition
The goat man of Croydon has become something of urban legend (but not myth, he really did exist; whatever happened to him?), and there really is a woman in the town centre who daily takes her macaw out for a … Continue reading
Open house at Heathfield, Croydon’s secret garden
It’s Open Garden Squares weekend across London tomorrow and Sunday. Squares, being enclosed places, offer some protection from the elements, so if you want to enjoy the inclement summer, this might be the chance to do so. There is something … Continue reading
