Blogposts tagged 'Rainbow Warrior'

Still making waves after all these years

Posted by Craig Sams - 13 January 2012 at 12:44pm - 4 Comments
Rainbow Warrior III beneath the towers of Canary Wharf at night
All rights reserved. Credit: Vicki Couchman/Greenpeace
No longer a 'rust bucket trawler': the new Rainbow Warrior docked in London

In 1977, Greenpeace organised a ‘Save the Whales’ rally in Kensington Gardens. Spike Milligan came over to rally the troops with a quirky but passionate speech. We sat on the grass to listen and many people ended up soiled by dog crap.

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Stories from the Rainbow Warrior: Changing Sides

Posted by bex - 13 December 2011 at 8:54am - 0 Comments

In the latest in our video series, "Stories from the Rainbow Warrior", Martti talks about his journey from an unhappy sailor working for an oil company to a sailor / activist on a Greenpeace ship. Want to get on board?

Article tagged as: activism, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, rainbow warrior, ships, videos

Michael and Emily Eavis join the Rainbow Warrior for the day

Posted by tracy.frauzel - 11 November 2011 at 9:58am - 7 Comments

Michael and Emily Eavis joined the Rainbow Warrior III yesterday for a trip up the Thames. Glastonbury Festivals gave a generous donation to help pay for the new ship and the ship's mess has been dedicated to Michael Eavis (he didn't know about that until he got on board). Here's a look behind the scenes of their journey.

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A new Rainbow Warrior sets sail

Posted by hayley.baker - 14 October 2011 at 11:49am - 19 Comments
Kumi Naidoo and Melina Laboucan Massimo launch RWIII
All rights reserved. Credit: John Novis / Greenpeace
Rainbow Warrior 3

The Earth has a new champion. This afternoon at a small ceremony in Bremerhaven, Germany, our Executive Director Kumi Naidoo,  christened the world’s first purpose-built, crowd-bought, eco-sleek sailing vessel, the new Rainbow Warrior.  

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Leave a memory with the Rainbow Warrior II

Posted by jamie - 4 August 2011 at 12:02pm - 3 Comments
Rainbow Warrior II at sunset in the Mediterranean
All rights reserved. Credit: Paul Hilton/Greenpeace
Rainbow Warrior II at sunset in the Mediterranean

For twenty two years she’s been our trusty workhorse, a symbol of inspiration, a bringer of hope and a home for her hundreds of crew. But now it’s time for the Rainbow Warrior to move on and we'd like to collect memories from everyone who has sailed, seen or simply been inspired by her.

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Rainbow Warrior III afloat for final fittings

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 5 July 2011 at 9:31am - 5 Comments
The Rainbow Warrior III is afloat in Berne, Germany and awaits her mast plus fin
All rights reserved. Credit: © Marcus Meyer / Greenpeace
The Rainbow Warrior III is afloat in Berne, Germany and awaits her mast plus final fittings

Longtime Greenpeace crew member Rien Achtenberg blogs from a landmark event, as the world's first purpose-built environmental campaigning ship - The Rainbow Warrior III - enters water for the first time, at the Fassmer Shipyard in Berne, Germany, and gets nearer to completion.  

Article tagged as: actions, activism, Build, Campaign, rainbow warrior, ship

Projecting change for our oceans in South Korea

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 1 July 2011 at 1:04pm - 0 Comments
Activists project an animation on Pacific tuna destruction onto Sajo Industries
All rights reserved. Credit: © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Greenpeace
Activists project an animation on Pacific tuna destruction onto Sajo Industries HQ in Busan, South Korea
From our brand new Korean office, Oceans team leader at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Lagi Toribau, reports from the Rainbow Warrior's latest action: taking the plight of Pacific tuna to South Korea's biggest fishing company - Sajo.  

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Rainbow Warrior III: progress so far, thanks to you!

Posted by mollybrooks - 23 May 2011 at 4:56pm - 22 Comments

We couldn’t have got this far without the amazing support of thousands of people

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Help us build a new Warrior

Posted by molly - 1 November 2010 at 1:43pm - 1 Comment

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.

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Rainbow Warrior ordered out of Indonesia - rainforest destruction allowed to stay

Posted by bex - 25 October 2010 at 10:57am - 0 Comments

Deforestation continues in Indonesia, as this image taken on 16 October of an area cleared for an Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) plantation shows (c) Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace

Being a part of a Greenpeace ship tour is never boring. Generally, you expect the unexpected, and then you're surprised. But even by ship tour standards, the Rainbow Warrior's recent 'tour' of Indonesia was an interesting one.

It started with high hopes that our peaceful campaigning ship would be able to support the Indonesian president's stated aims of ending deforestation in Indonesia. It ended with the Rainbow Warrior being denied vital supplies and being ordered - and escorted - out of Indonesian waters and well into international waters by two navy vessels, in breach of international maritime law.

Article tagged as: deforestation, forests, indonesia, palm oil, pulp and paper, rainbow warrior, rainforests, ships, sinar mas, sumatra
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