Kumi Naidoo and Ulvar Arnkvaern on the Esperanza, preparing to take action against the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig
Today Kumi Naidoo, the global head of Greenpeace, has been deported from Greenland after four days in jail for his part in a month of direct action on Cairn Energy's Arctic oil rig Leiv Eiriksson.
Posted by tracy.frauzel -
18 June 2011 at 9:16am -
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In a small boat launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International crossed into an exclusion zone and scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 120km off the coast of Greenland.
Posted by tracy.frauzel -
17 June 2011 at 10:28am -
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Our
International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo is right now braving freezing seas
to scale an Arctic oil rig. He's taking direct action to demand an end to
Arctic drilling.
Posted by nick_gp -
4 June 2011 at 7:57pm -
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Just before being arrested today,
oil campaigner Ben Ayliffe radioed the nearby Greenpeace ship
Esperanza from the oil rig he and 17 other activists had boarded:
Danish navy arrest Greenpeace activists and capture the Arctic pod
Climbers working with the Danish navy have just broken into our pod
suspended from the Cairn Energy oil rig here in the Arctic seas off
Greenland and arrested the two Greenpeace climbers inside.
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