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Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation.GREENPEACE "A gripping yarn. These people changed the world." Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation.
(egor)Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling and anti-nuclear issues. Greenpeace uses direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals. The global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties, relying on individual supporters and foundation grants. There's a joke that in any bar in Vancouver, Canada, you can sit down next to someone who claims to have founded Greenpeace. In fact, there was no single founder: name, idea, spirit and tactics can all be said to have separate lineages. Yet, some people clearly stand out. Here are four of them. Bob Hunter (1941-2005), David McTaggart (1932-2001), Dorothy Stowe (1920-2010) and Irving Stowe (1915-1974). "A trip for life, and for peace": that’s how Irving Stowe, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, described the plan to sail a boat to the Arctic Ocean to stop the testing of a nuclear bomb. Irving didn’t know it then, but the Greenpeace trip would last for decades. And it would change the world.(egor)
(Nastia)The Quakers, pacifists, ecologists, journalists and hippies who started Greenpeace dreamed big, infectious dreams. In a ramshackle old fishing boat, the first Greenpeace crew took off for the island of Amchitka. It was the beginning of what would become an international movement… The Don’t Make the Wave Committee – as the group was still called then – had a plan. “If the Americans want to go ahead with the test,” Marie’s husband Jim said, “they’ll have to tow us out.” Leaving one of those heady first meetings, Irving Stowe flashed the peace sign – as was his custom – and said "Peace". On that occasion, the usually rather quiet Canadian ecologist Bill Darnell made the off-hand reply: "Make it a green peace." In the fall of 1971 the ship sailed towards Amchitka and faced the U.S. Coast Guard ship Confidence which forced the activists to turn back. Because of this and the increasingly bad weather the crew decided to return to Canada only to find out that the news about their journey and reported support from the crew of the Confidence had generated sympathy for their protest. After this Greenpeace tried to navigate to the test site with other vessels, until the U.S. detonated the bomb. The nuclear test was criticized and the U.S. decided not to continue with their test plans at Amchitka. In 1972, The Don't Make a Wave committee changed their official name to Greenpeace Foundation. While the organization was founded under a different name in 1970 and was officially named Greenpeace in 1972, the organization itself dates its birth to the first protest of 1971. In 1985, French secret service agents planted two bombs and wanted to test these bombs in the Moruroa Atoll (New Zealand). They sank Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior. The Rainbow Warrior was named after a North American Cree Indian prophecy: “When the world is sick and dying, the people will rise up like Warriors of the Rainbow…” One crew member was killed. It was the Portugal-born Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira who had joined the crew of the Rainbow Warrior to document the French nuclear testing and bring his photographs to the world. It was an instance when a government chose to respond to peaceful protest with deadly force. But peaceful protest has prevailed.(Deniel)
(artem)Greenpeace is a global environmental organisation, consisting of Greenpeace International (Stichting Greenpeace Council) in Amsterdam, and 28 national and regional offices around the world, providing a presence in over 40 countries. These national/regional offices are independent in carrying out global campaign strategies within the local context they operate within, and in seeking the necessary financial support from donors to fund this work. The Greenpeace National / Regional offices are firmly rooted within the local environmental communities around the globe in the countries where Greenpeace operates. Greenpeace International is the entity that maintains contacts with supporters and donors in countries where we do not have offices. It also provides a range of services to the national/regional offices such as maintenance of the Greenpeace ships, setting up new Greenpeace offices etc. Greenpeace National and Regional Offices are licensed to use the name "Greenpeace" by Stichting Greenpeace Council. National and Regional offices contribute financially to Greenpeace International, participate in international campaigns, and help shape the international campaign programme.
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