Meet the Mob Squad: Akshey Kalra

Akshey Kalra, Online Offline Campaigner at Greenpeace India.

When we caught up with Akshey Kalra, he filled us in on his current focus as Online Offline Campaigner at Greenpeace in India. Akshey is working on the online-offline strand of the biggest project in India — getting a moratorium on mining that nation’s biologically diverse forests. Basically, keep large-scale coal mining from destroying forests.

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Campaigners in China: social media plays critical role in social action (VIDEO)

Shinning Shen of Greenpeace East Asia

For being the world’s most populous and fastest growing economy, it’s astonishing how little the rest of the world seems to know about How Things Work in China. That’s just one of the reasons why I was so enthusiastic about visiting China for the first time. China represents, in many ways, ground zero for our [...]

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Meet the Mob Squad: Ramy Barhouche

Ramy Barhouche, Volunteer and Mobilization Coordinator at Greenpeace Mediterranean

The Mob Squad is a rapidly growing community of staff at Greenpeace and among our allies dedicated to people-powered campaigning and the arts and sciences of supporter mobilisation. We’re profiling as many Mob Squaders as we can to learn more about their lives and work. Check out all the profiles. Ramy Barhouche is a people [...]

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ArcticReady Integrates Online & Offline Actions to Amplify a Week of Action Against Shell

Winner of the Arctic Ready billboard contest: You can't run your SUV on cute!

In case you haven’t seen it, there’s some nice evidence of the fusion of our offline and online work at Greenpeace during the Shell week of action. On July 16th, when we shut down 76 Shell stations across the UK (on live TV!) there was a massive spike in Twitter interest. Nine percent of the [...]

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Innovations in Mobilisation presentations, conversations taking place across global Greenpeace

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Quick update here on a major project, Innovations in Mobilisation, that we’ve been working on for the better part of this year in partnership with The Engage Network. The goal was to collect “bright spots” or positive trends and stories in Greenpeace’s global mobilisation efforts — and to surface innovations in mobilisation that will help Greenpeace and its [...]

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