Blogposts tagged 'Greenpeace'

Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. 11 rig workers were killed and 16 injured in the initial explosion. And, after nearly 5 million barrels of oil spewed in to the ocean for five months, the long term effects on the Gulf of Mexico are still being uncovered.

Today is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and for several weeks I've been thinking about what Greenpeace can do to support it. I know that to many people, Greenpeace looks like a macho organisation, and it has to be said that the world of non-violent direct actions in Greenpeace is a male-dominated world.

We wouldn't be who we are today without our ships.  The current Rainbow Warrior and her predecessor of the same name have been at the heart and soul of our campaigning for over 30 years. 

On issue after issue - nuclear tests, whaling, over-fishing, climate change, rainforest destruction, dumping of radioactive waste at sea and many more - the Rainbow Warrior has been there and allowed us to collect evidence, expose environmental crimes and shame governments and companies into taking action. 

Unfortunately the ship is coming to the end of her useful life and we urgently need your help to replace her. The Rainbow Warrior II was already 31 years old when we bought it and refitted the ship for environmental campaigning back in1989, as a replacement for the first Rainbow Warrior which was destroyed by a bomb in New Zealand in 1985.