The next meeting of the Manchester Greenpeace Group is 7:30PM on Tuesday 2 December at the Ape and Apple on John Dalton Street.

If we are to prevent climate chaos we need to get out and protest, but the rigth to protest is under threat, from governments, but also from violent extrememists who feel embolded by the current political climate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TQ...

"Fascists violently attacked protesters following a climate demonstration in Manchester last Saturday." socialistworker.co.uk/news/fascist...

Greenpeace activists have installed prison bars around the statues of three iconic protesters in Parliament Square to highlight the UK government’s crackdown on the right to protest. www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/monumen...

If you're in the Northern Quarter this lunchtime you might see us on Tib Street, standing up to the oil and gas companies ripping us off. Sign the petition here: action.greenpeace.org.uk/stand-up-to-...

Our thoughts, love and solidarity.

Our next meeting is Tuesday 7 October in Black Sheep Coffee, St Peters Square. greenwire.greenpeace.org.uk/s/event/a2XR...

Climate disasters spare no one. From coastal villages in Africa to luxury yachts in Europe, the climate crisis is hitting everywhere and everyone. It’s time we all rise up for climate action. ✊🏿

Drone footage of the almost empty Woodhead Reservoir taken by the Manchester @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social group has been used by the Derbyshire Times. This is what a climate crisis looks like in England. www.dailymotion.com/video/x9pjits

"Greenpeace activists installed a haunting new artwork created by legendary artist, Anish Kapoor onto an active Shell platform in the remote North Sea." www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/anish-k...

It's our next meeting tomorrow, at the new venue of Black Sheep Coffee in St Peters Square.

Negotiations for a Global Plastoc Treaty are dominated by industry lobbyist, who outnumber scientists, indigenous people and even many national delegations. Read the Greenpeace report. www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/pl...

The climate crisis is here. Take action today: become a volunteer with @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

Our next meeting is on Tuesday 12 August at the Black Sheep coffee house in St Peters Square. Yes, we have finally left the pub - although we might go for a drink afterwards.

Derbyshire's reservoirs are at record low levels, so we went out to film them. @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social This is what a climate crisis looks like.

The climate crisis literally has a lots of other costs too. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Those that contributed least are suffering most in the climate crisis.

Another day in the climate emergency. Άλλη μια μέρα στην κλιματική κρίση. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Turkey recorded its highest temperature on record on Friday with 50.5°C recorded in Silopi ⚠️📈 This exceeds the previous record of 49.5°C recorded on 15th August 2023 🌡️ This extreme heat is bringing serious health impacts and giving a very high risk of wildfires 🔥

🚨BREAKING: All 10 climbers have been arrested after spending the night hanging from the Forth Road Bridge blocking INEOS - the UK’s biggest plastic polluter. They will not be silenced and their message is clear. 👇

"Greenpeace said 10 activists were taking part in the protest against the Ineos ship Independence. The group accused the firm ... of attempting to sabotage a global plastics treaty due to be voted on by UN member states in Switzerland next month." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stop drilling and start paying

More coverage of the protest outside the office of Marsh, the insurance brokers for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. www.insurancetimes.co.uk/news/extinct...

'Martin Porter of Manchester Greenpeace said oil should be left underground and questioned the role of financial intermediaries in facilitating extraction projects. “Our message is simple: oil companies need to stop drilling and start paying”. www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/brea...

"This week, supporters of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure our Survival campaign are targeting the offices of insurance companies up and down the country in a national wave of action, demanding that they refuse to insure destructive new fossil fuel projects" aboutmanchester.co.uk/climate-acti...

More than a dozen protesters from a coalition of climate action groups in Manchester gathered outside Marsh offices in Belvedere on Booth Street. Marsh acts as broker insurance for a number of large fossil fuel projects including the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

Great page by the National Maritime Musuem on the Rainbow Warrior. www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocea...

"We welcome you this morning in remembering Fernando Pereira, who was killed in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by French Government agents." www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Electronic billboards in #Manchester have been taken over by @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social @friends-earth.bsky.social, highlighting the threats to our right to protest. Today Manchester was also visited by www.theherds.org @mancgreenpeace.bsky.social @mcrfoe.bsky.social

Thank you to Leah Munokoh for an excellent talk about the impact of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) on communities in Uganda. Stopping EACOP isn't just about climate change, it is a human rights issue.

Yesterday electronic billboards across Manchester displayed messages about how important our right to protest is, and how this is under threat.

Electronic billboards in Manchester have been taken over by Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth and Liberty highlighting the threats to our right to protest. Locations in comments. If you are out and about and see one, send us a photo. www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/protest...

"Areeba Hamid of Greenpeace UK, said: “The fact that police are routinely dragging protesters off the streets for a crime they almost always fail to charge them with amounts to an abuse of their powers and an assault on the right to protest." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Leah will be speakign TONIGHT at the Friends Meeting House in MANCHESTER, 6;30PM. FREE. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Leah Munokoh, an activist from Africa, in Manchester and will be giving a free talk tomorrow evening. We have been opposing pipelines like EACOP due to their contribution to climate change, but it's also important to conside the human impact on some of the poorest people in the Global South.

TOMORROW we have the unique opportunity to hear an activist from the global South speak in Manchester. Leah Munokah is from an NGO that is opposing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. It's FREE. Please LIKE and SHARE. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...

Hey all, please come to learn about Big Crude Oil, and how Leah & communities in East Africa are resisting. Wednesday 2 July, 6.30pm Friends meeting house, Manchester, M2 5NS. See more here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

We are really pleased to be able to bring Ugandan activist Leah Munokoh to Manchester to talk about the impact of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) on frontline communities. Let's make this a great event! Please LIKE and SHARE. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...

Five years after Greenpeace dropped boulders in the sea to stop bottom trawling, the UK government appears set to ban thee destructive practise in half of the UK's Marine Protected Areas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival campaign organised the day of action in collaboration with Friends of the Earth, Manchester Greenpeace and other groups .. ironically, their theme this year was “A New Era”. ' extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/05/26/i...

We spent last weekend in Castlefields, talking to the constituents of Lucy Powell MP. They want her to give parliament time to ratify the Global Oceans Treaty, the best chance we have of saving our seas. Send her your own message here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @lucympowell.bsky.social

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social Yesterday we were in Manchester Central. Your constituents really want to protect our oceans, so please give the Commons time to ratify the Global Oceans Treaty.

We're in Castlefield getting constituents of @lucympowell.bsky.social Lucy Powell MP to send her messages demanding the government ratify the Global Ocean Treaty.

"And what better way to call out flush fossil fuel financiers than to put a sinking Lamborghini at the event’s front door?" www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...