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VW film: A YouTube U-Turn

Posted by jamess — 20 July 2011 at 12:01pm - Comments
Still from our film challenging Volkswagen's environmental record
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Still from our film challenging Volkswagen's environmental record

We still have to turn VW away from the Dark Side, but we’ve scored a small victory for internet freedom along the way.

A few days into our campaign while our Volkswagen film was the most shared ‘ad’ in the world, YouTube suspended it after a complaint from Lucasfilm.

Article tagged as: climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

Cairn occupation is over, but the campaign goes on

Posted by bex — 18 July 2011 at 8:22pm - Comments

It's been a long day but, around 12 hours after our intrepid Polar bears occupied Cairn Energy's HQ, the last of them has now been removed by police. Around 20 people have been arrested in all, and most of them remain in custody here in Edinburgh.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, climate, direct actions, drilling, go beyond oil, oil

Cairn occupation still going strong

Posted by jamie — 18 July 2011 at 1:27pm - Comments
Image removed by Cairn Energy
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Image removed

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We assembled at about 8am this morning near to Cairn Energy's offices in Edinburgh. It was a strange gaggle of people in suits and an army of polar bears. Such a gathering was going to attract attention so we couldn't hang about - we crossed Festival Square which was starting to get busy with people heading for work and straight through the doors of Cairn's office building. 

Article tagged as: cairn, climate, direct actions, go beyond oil, oil

VW Viral Video: The Jedi Strike Back

Posted by jamess — 15 July 2011 at 3:28pm - Comments

A little over two weeks ago, we launched our VW campaign with our spoof video of the company’s Darth Vader advert.

It instantly went viral, becoming the most shared ‘ad’ worldwide (see pic on the right).

Article tagged as: 30 percent, climate, climate change, fuel efficiency, go beyond oil, oil, volkswagen, VWDarkside

Jedi, we need your help. There has been a disturbance in the Force.

Posted by jamess — 1 July 2011 at 4:27pm - Comments
Our comms channel has been destroyed. But the Rebellion goes on.
All rights reserved. Credit: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace
Our communication channel has been hit. But the Rebellion goes on.

Last night – at approximately 1830 – our communications equipment took a direct hit. After providing nearly 2 million transmissions of our latest Rebellion underground message “VW: The Dark Side”, our YouTube films and channel were taken down. And now moments ago, Vimeo took them down.

Our rebel engineers are working shifts round the clock in the coldest depths of cyberspace to try and locate the source of the attack.

Article tagged as: climate, go beyond oil, oil, VW, VWDarkside

What does 100,000 Jedi look like?

Posted by jamess — 30 June 2011 at 10:49am - Comments
We've just passed 100k Jedi in the Rebellion. Help us visualise it and get some
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We've just passed 100k Jedi in the Rebellion. Help us visualise it and get some Force points!

Wow. Just over 48 hours in and we've passed the 100,000 mark for the rebellion. With well over a million views to our VW films (in all languages) this is getting bigger by the minute.

There's only one problem: what does 100,000 Jedis look like?

Article tagged as: climate, go beyond oil, oil, VW, VWDarkside

A message to the oil industry: what spill response?

Posted by bex — 29 June 2011 at 12:13pm - Comments

Last week, the oil industry was in London. The World National Oil Companies Congress - sponsored by the likes of Chevron, Total and Statoil and addressed by BP's Bob Dudley - "brings together the most senior executives from NOCs [National Oil Companies]" to discuss, among other things, how to "overcome deepwater challenges" and "benefit from shale and unconventional opportunities".

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn energy, go beyond oil, oil, oil spills

Photo essay: Oil on Lubicon Land

Posted by bex — 23 June 2011 at 10:32am - Comments

From deepwater drilling in the Arctic to the Tar Sands in Canada, oil companies are going to ever greater extremes to squeeze the last drops of oil from the Earth. And where oil companies pile in, environmental destruction follows.

Article tagged as: alberta, canada, go beyond oil, oil, oil spills, photo essays, rainbow pipeline, tar sands, videos
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