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Free at last! (Now can we have our boat back please?)
Posted by bex on 27 February 2007.
Part of the Trident: we don't buy it tour blog 
With thanks to Wave Maker for the image
The thing nobody tells you about being arrested is just how boring it is. Not just need-a-good-book boring; after the adrenaline rollercoaster of a 14-hour blockade, the protracted thumb-twiddling of detention is mind-achingly, eye-bleedingly, soul-crushingly boring.
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You can't sink a rainbow
Rainbow Warrior 20th anniversary commemoration in Paris
On 10th July 500 Greenpeace volunteers gatherered in the Esplanade Tracodéro to create a human peace sign in commemoration of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior 20 years earlier.
GM milk action - a cow's eye view
Activists prepare to take on Sainsbury's
Greenpeace volunteers have been out at Sainsbury's stores across the country every weekend to tell the supermarket giant we don't want GM in our milk.
Thanks to Ermintrude of Reading for her diary extract
07:30 The herd gathered early for briefings, breakfast and mooing practice. We mingled happily with white-capped milkmen and milk ladies who were to be commooonicators for the day - those tasked with talking to people and getting the Greenpeace petition signed. Our extra large sisters (aka "the double cows") learned how to work with their herdsman and tried out a few dance steps.
On the inside: an activist reports from the shop floor
Richard locks on to the dairy aisle in Romford Sainsbury's
No charges brought against Big Ben anti war activists
Volunteers scaled Big Ben to protest against the war in Iraq
It was announced this morning that no charges will be brought against Greenpeace climbers Harry and Simon Westaway for climbing Big Ben. The brothers climbed Big Ben on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and unfurled banners stating 'Time for the Truth'. (1)
A Greenpeace spokesperson said, "We are very happy that no charges are being brought against Harry and Simon for their peaceful anti-war protest at Big Ben. They climbed Big Ben to express their strongly held belief that the war against Iraq was wrong and illegal".
They continued, "The time was chosen as it was the anniversary of the war, and the location because this was where Tony Blair lied to Parliament over the legality of the war, the real motivation behind it, and the intelligence used to support those arguments. The action put no-one at risk and caused no damage. It fits with the British tradition of taking non-violent direct action to express strongly held beliefs".
Harry Westaway said, "We climbed Big Ben to urge Tony Blair to come clean about why he went to war against Iraq. It clearly wasn't because of WMD, as none have been found. It clearly went against the will of the United Nations and was illegal under international law. It has only increased the threat to Britain from international terrorism. Finally it was clearly without the support of the UK public who came out in unprecedented numbers to urge him not to take us to war".
"Given previous UK and US involvement in Iraq, providing weapons to Saddam at his worst, and the clear interest of the UK and US in Iraqi oil contracts, we do not believe that Tony Blair undertook this war for humanitarian reasons".
"One year on we urge him to come clean, admit his mistakes and commit to never undertake an illegal pre-emptive war in Britains name ever again".
"We also would like to say that criticism of the police over their response to the tower being climbed is in our view misplaced. We feel their reaction was responsible and proportionate. There is a well established tradition of freedom of speech and peaceful protest in the UK. The police did not take action against the climbers as both were clearly identified as Greenpeace. Furthermore, onsite police and security were given full details by Greenpeace officials of who the climbers were and what their intention was as soon as the climb began".
Editor's notes:
(1) The brothers were told that no charges will be brought against them after attending Charing Cross police station this morning.
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