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Marriage proposal on a Greenpeace ship
Many a marriage and many a romance have blossomed aboard our ships, but this is a first....
Gerd Leipold, Activist-in-Chief, steps down next week
Gerd Leipold steps down as the leader of Greenpeace International next week. Here are some stories from around our virtual campfire to send him off....
Amchitka: the 1970s rock concert that launched Greenpeace
Amchitka is the rock concert that launched Greenpeace. It's also the concert that launched a ship: the Phyllis McCormack, which sailed out into the first Greenpeace action protesting US nuclear testing in the Aleutian Islands....
Marking Gandhi's birthday
One of our Communications Managers, Prajna Khanna, writes: With the simple act of making salt, Gandhi concluded one of the most successful Non violent protests in History – the Salt march. He mobilised millions with his vision of a free state, sym...
CNN tour of the Arctic Sunrise
Our ship, the Arctic Sunrise, has spent the last months on an expedition to Greenland. We provided a platform for independent scientists researching climate change impacts, and independent journalists reporting on them. During the journey, CNN fi...
Rex Weyler talks about Tar Sands and Greenpeace early history
Rex Weyler is a big picture guy. He was an ecologist back in the 70s when he hooked up with the rag-tag bunch of hippies that was Greenpeace then, and he's an ecologist still. He's a believer in the mind bomb -- those events and messages that get y...
Greenpeace response to Washington Times editorial
On Tuesday May 5th The Washington Times had an editorial that was all about Greenpeace, it was included in both the print and online versions of the newspaper. The editorial mentioned arson, and 'Nazi brownshirts' in reference to Greenpeace, but also...
