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40 Years of Protecting the Planet the GREENPEACE CHRONICLES 40 Years of Protecting the Planet the greenpeace chronicles 40 years of protecting the planet THE GREENPEACE CHRONICLES 40 Years of Protecting the Planet Written and edited by: Steve Erwood Contributors: Laura Kenyon, John Novis, Mike Townsley, Rex Weyler With special thanks to Bill Darnell Creative Direction/Design: Toby Cotton, ARC Communications Acknowledgements: There are many previous chroniclers of Greenpeace’s history whose accounts - like Rex Weyler’s - have informed and influenced this present work. These include Michael Brown and John May, authors of ‘The Greenpeace Story’; Fouad Hamdan and Conny Boettger, authors of ‘Greenpeace: Changing the World’; and Daniel Kramb, who compiled information during Greenpeace’s 40th anniversary year. Thanks are also due to Karen Gallagher, Karen Guy, Elaine Hill, Sara Holden and Alex Yallop Published in November 2011 by Greenpeace International Ottho Heldringstraat 5 1066 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Printed on 50% recycled, 50% FSC mixed-source paper using vegetable-based ink. For more information, contact: [email protected] JN400 ISBN 978-90-73361-00-3 contents foreword 2 introduction 3 let’s make it a green peace 6 the women who founded greenpeace 14 origins the warriors of the rainbow 18 s the 70s 20 70 s the 80s 40 ten minutes to midnight, 10 july 1985 58 80 s the 90s 84 david and goliath 100 90 s the 00s 118 00 the 10s 162 s the social network 166 10 40 years of photoactivism 182 40 years of inspiring action 190 get involved 192 office contact details 196 THE grEEnPEACE CHroniClEs 1 ll E rn foreword DA Forty years of campaigns have taught ill many lessons. Fundamental is to pay B respectful attention to everything that lives around us; make deep connections, D BY D even with those we disagree with. When or we connect deeply, we fall in love and we EW will not allow others to be harmed. or We have also learned that when we F confront destructive activities, we are going to be scared; we know those we confront may be angry. Fear is an expected part of change but it does not stop us. Mistakes are also to be expected and we will make them: during the first voyage of Greenpeace, if we had not made the mistake of entering the USA ‘illegally’, we would not have received the heroic support of the coast guard crew of the United States vessel Confidence. (See the account of this on pages 12-13). Forty years of activism have taught us to work together and to trust each other. What really matters in the end are our It is my honour to write the foreword to relationship with all life on this planet. The Greenpeace Chronicles, a record of the first 40 years of Greenpeace. Finally, we have learned to celebrate these loving connections by having fun. Hard Greenpeace has evolved from a small work ties us together, the fun celebrates group of men and women in the port the bonds. city of Vancouver on Canada’s Pacific coast to a planetary network of activists, As Greenpeace sails into the next 40 working in concert with indigenous years, I am filled with hope. The tasks peoples and other activists. What remains ahead are daunting, but our gaze is common to the people of Greenpeace global and our roots are with peoples in is a deep connection to creation and all continents. We will use our strength, the shared thread of activism. From its intelligence and goodness to inspire very beginning, Greenpeace, backed people to organise. by research, has taken direct action to Greenpeace has been an inspiration for confront the destruction of our sacred me for these 40 years. I trust Greenpeace home. Greenpeace is the many, supported will inspire both me and you for the next by the many, acting for all. 40 years. Bill Darnell, Founding member of Greenpeace image © Brenda Hala Photography Canada, October 2011 2 THE grEEnPEACE CHroniClEs introduction In 2009, Greenpeace mounted a major These Arctic activities encapsulate the ship-based science expedition to the key elements of Greenpeace’s work: Arctic. It was a great opportunity to work bearing witness, exposing environmental with some of the world’s leading climate crimes, investigating and highlighting scientists and glaciologists, joining forces environmental issues. They make use of and expertise to highlight the reality the Greenpeace ‘tools of the trade’ - our and severity of climate change impacts ships, our non-violent direct actions in the region. Investigations focussed - and they have been accomplished by mainly around Greenland’s glaciers, and our volunteers and our activists, our The Arctic is finished with research into the sea ice ships crew and our campaigners, our under threat in the north, west of Norway’s Svalbard scientists, lawyers, political lobbyists from both archipelago. Apart from the scientific and researchers, our staff in regional and climate work, the expedition was also the highest national offices around the world and by change and – north or south – a Greenpeace ship had our supporters and cyberactivists. oil drilling. ever travelled. It was this same combination of In 2010, we sailed the coast of Greenland independent investigation and scientific again. The aim of our mission this time research, political lobbying and was to stop Cairn Energy from drilling direct action, ships, Greenpeace staff, for oil in the pristine waters of the Arctic volunteers, supporters and activists Circle. Cairn’s Arctic drilling programme that - 20 years ago, and at the opposite was limited to a period between July and side of the world - helped to ensure that November, and it was in a race against the entire continent of Antarctica was time to finish its exploration before the protected from exploitation. sea-ice once again became too thick to And 40 years ago, a small group of allow its vessels to operate and for wells environmentalists and anti-war protestors to be drilled effectively. In non-violent set sail in a rickety old boat headed direct action, Greenpeace climbers towards the US nuclear testing site at occupied Cairn’s rigs in order to delay Amchitka Island. They may not have had its activities. Even this short action was the resources that Greenpeace enjoys enough, and Cairn was unable to find any today, but their vision has remained oil that year. constant throughout the organisation’s And in 2011, we returned to the Arctic. history. From its very earliest days, In September, a gigantic version of Greenpeace has borne witness to Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketch – the environmental crimes, and challenging Vitruvian Man – was constructed by the those who fail to protect our planet. Greenpeace-commissioned artist John Today, Greenpeace comprises 28 national Quigley, on a stretch of sea-ice just and regional offices in over 40 countries 800km from the North Pole. As the sea- across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa ice melts into the Arctic Sunrise, the and the Pacific, as well as a coordinating Vitruvian Man himself bears witness to body - Greenpeace International - based in the dramatic decline in both the thickness Amsterdam, the Netherlands. and the extent of summer sea-ice in the Arctic over the past 30 years, driven by a rise in global temperatures. image 1 In 2011, leading independent ice scientists from the University of Cambridge joined the Greenpeace ice breaker Arctic Sunrise on an expedition to test Arctic sea ice thickness, in a year that could mark the lowest sea ice minimum on record © Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace image 2 The Arctic Sunrise and her crew facilitate the field work of oceanographers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in 2009, in order to calculate the impact of ocean warming on east Greenland’s outlet glaciers © Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace image 3 Greenpeace was involved in a week-long search for the 53,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson, the only oil rig scheduled to begin new off- shore drilling operations in the Arctic in 2011 © Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace THE grEEnPEACE CHroniClEs 3 image With the help of the crew of the Arctic Sunrise, artist John Quigley recreates Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch Vitruvian Man, from copper, on the Arctic sea ice © Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace Like that small group of protestors who Also contributing to ‘The Greenpeace ion sailed towards Amchitka, we remain Chronicles’ is John Novis, Greenpeace CT independent. We do not accept funding International’s Head of Photography. u D from any political parties, governments John has worked with Greenpeace for ro or corporations. Instead, we rely entirely over 20 years, and provides us here with T n his insight into 40 years of Greenpeace’s i on voluntary donations from individual supporters, and on grant support from photoactivism. Mike Townsley looks at foundations. Our independence ensures the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior the credibility and authority that plays by French secret service agents in New a large role in making our campaigns Zealand, 1985, a defining moment in successful. Greenpeace history. And Laura Kenyon - Greenpeace International online We continue to expose environmental activist and a specialist in community criminals and to challenge governments network - brings us up to date with the and corporations when they fail to live latest technological developments as up to their mandate to safeguard our Greenpeace adds social networking and environment and our future. We continue cyberactivism to its powerful array of to use research, lobbying and quiet campaigning tools. diplomacy to pursue our goals, as well as high-profile, non-violent conflict to raise ‘The Greenpeace Chronicles’ have been the level and quality of public debate. And 40 years in the making. Join us on a trip we continue to inspire millions of people through time that will lead you from that to join us in taking action every day to group of protesters and environmentalists preserve the future of our planet.
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