Out campaigning on the streets of Islington the other day, one passer by said, 'Does any of this make any difference? 'Does BP even know about any of this?' Of course I answered in the affirmative, but I'll let you in to a secret - I do sometimes wonder!

Yesterday we took all the messages we had collected from residents in Islington to a local BP station. A letter was also handed to the Forecourt Manager asking him to let BP headquarters know how strongly people locally feel about investment in tar sands.

On Sunday our activists went out on the streets of Islington to ask local residents what they thought of BP. There was little doubting one woman’s feelings when she said: “I think it’s disgusting!”

Last Saturday (15th May) the Islington group - along with friends from the Bethnal Green and Walthamstow Greenpeace groups - was to be found campaigning on Stoke Newington Church Street.  We were out and about campaigning about tar sands - raising awareness of the threat that extracting oil from tar sands poses to the environment and, in particular, to let members of the public know about BP's plans to extract oil from the tar sands in northern Alberta, Canada.