Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the’Conservative Militant’
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/lessons-in-resistance-from-mlk-theconservative-militant
Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word...
Water crisis puts trade war into perspective for China | Asia Times
▻http://www.atimes.com/article/water-crisis-puts-trade-war-into-perspective-for-china
China’s trade war with the United States has tended to dominate the news agenda in the past year. But a bigger challenge for Beijing could be the threat of a water crisis which would submerge the world’s second-largest economy and wash away growth.
Two reports by Greenpeace East Asia and Chinadialogue.net, an independent, non-profit organization, have highlighted the risks that President Xi Jinping’s administration faces because of climate change and homegrown #pollution.
Earlier this week, Greenpeace released research showing that glaciers in the western China provinces of Qinghai and Gansu, as well as the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, are rapidly melting, causing natural disasters and reducing the drinking-water supply.
Deep Green: The 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace | Greenpeace International
▻http://www.greenpeace.org/archive-international/en/about/deep-green/deep-green-jan-2010
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In 1969, a United States plan to conduct nuclear bomb tests on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian archipelago ignited the movement in Canada that would become Greenpeace.
Irving and Dorothy Stowe were American Quakers, who left the US in protest of its military policies, and arrived in Canada, in 1966, with their children Robert and Barbara. The Stowe home became a nexus of action to protest the US nuclear tests. Their Quaker friends Marie and Jim Bohlen first proposed the idea to sail a boat into the test zone. Canadian journalists Bob Hunter and Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe lent media experience, and the small group swelled with volunteers.
Hunter wrote a newspaper column about the danger of a tsunami from the bomb tests, which provided the group with its first name: The Don’t Make a Wave Committee. Twenty-two year-old Bill Darnell, who organised an ’Ecology Caravan’ in Canada, inspired the name that has endured for four decades. After a meeting, when Irving Stowe said “Peace,” Darnell responded with “Make it a green peace,” and the name stuck.
The group raised money with tin cans in corner grocery stores, and 25 cent ’Greenpeace’ buttons, but had not raised nearly enough to charter a boat and sail 6,000 kilometres across the Gulf of Alaska. Irving Stowe, a lover of music, decided to stage a rock concert.
He wrote to activist musicians Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, and others. Ochs and the popular Canadian band Chilliwack agreed to appear. Baez could not attend, but sent a $1000 check and connected Stowe with Joni Mitchell, who agreed to perform and brought her friend James Taylor. Stowe booked Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum for the event on16 October, 1970. Sound engineer Dave Zeffertt, recorded the concert on quarter-inch tape, and gave a copy to Stowe for his personal use only: it is a testament to Irving Stowe’s integrity that this historic recording never leaked out as a bootleg.
Greenpeace International ends its Forest Stewardship Council membership
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/greenpeace-international-ends-its-forest-stewardship-council-membersh
“We believe robust timber certification is a helpful but imperfect tool for protecting people’s rights and improving forest management, which is why Greenpeace International will not renew its Forest Stewardship Council membership,” Matt Daggett, a campaign leader at Greenpeace International, said in a statement.
#Greenpeace announced its decision on March 26, saying in a briefing statement that the #FSC was not accomplishing its goals of protecting forests and the rights of people who live there. The organization called on the FSC to increase the transparency of its certification process and to do more to ensure that certified companies were indeed adhering to the FSC’s social and environmental standards. Greenpeace also said the FSC needed to go beyond the certification of timber operations to safeguard standing forests. The briefing statement noted that the FSC’s application of its policies across countries was “uneven,” especially in places where forest governance was lacking.
Norway Arrests #Greenpeace Ship and 35 Activists During Protest at Arctic Oil Well – gCaptain
▻http://gcaptain.com/norway-arrests-greenpeace-ship-and-35-activists-during-protest-at-arctic-o
Norwegian authorities have detained Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise after a protest at a Statoil contracted drilling rig at Norway’s northernmost oil field in the Barents Sea, the environmental group said in a statement.
Greenpeace said the vessel and 35 activists were unlawfully detained after entering the exclusion zone of Statoil’s #Korpfjell well, halting drilling operations for the Songa Enabler semi-submersible. The ship, activists and crew members were all arrested by the Norwegian Coast Guard, the group said.
Greenpeace said it hopes the protest will send a message to the Norwegian government to stop oil drilling in the Arctic.
“Just 10 days before ratifying the Paris Agreement, in June 2016, the “environmentally friendly” Norwegian government granted new oil licenses. Now, a year later, Statoil has just started to drill for oil in the northernmost area ever licensed by Norway,” the group said.
In 2017, Statoil had scheduled to explore five licenses in the #Barents_Sea, including the northermost Korpfjell well. Exploration drilling will take place in the period from May to September using the Songa Enabler, a floating, self-propelled rig purpose-built for cold climates and operated by Songa Offshore.
Earlier this summer, the Arctic Sunrise met up with the Songa Enabler at a well about 170 miles north of the Norwegian coast, in the Arctic Barents sea.
Greenpeace’s Taiwan Map Error: Oversight or Consequence of China’s NGO Management Law? · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2017/07/31/greenpeaces-taiwan-map-error-oversight-or-consequence-of-chinas-ngo-ma
Environmental action group Greenpeace is facing a fundraising crisis in Taiwan after it included the island in a map of China.
Taiwan has been a self-ruling political entity since 1950, but China claims the territory and has pushed the international community to break official ties with the Taiwanese government.
Greenpeace apologized and said it was an error, but the public statement didn’t stop Taiwanese from making their anger known on the organization’s official Facebook page and calling on their compatriots to stop donating.
NGO workers also speculated that the inclusion wasn’t actually a mistake, but a consequence of China’s foreign NGO management law, which requires groups operating in the country to have a government entity sponsor.
#chine #taiwan #eau #environnement #énergie #charbon #électricité
#frontières #territoires_contestés #conflits #marrant (façon de parler)
Licence to drill: Centrica awarded rights to explore Barents Sea | Business | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/18/licence-to-drill-centrica-awarded-rights-to-explore-barents-sea?CMP=twt
Centrica has walked into new controversy by obtaining a licence to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic.
The owner of British Gas, fresh from rows over annual domestic energy profits, has been awarded rights to explore in the Barents Sea off Norway.
Greenpeace said it was astonishing that Centrica would risk the enormous financial costs of a spill in such pristine waters when larger companies such as Shell had recently abandoned operations in the Alaskan Arctic.
Sur le retrait de la mer de Beaufort, c’est en effet tout frais : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/488444
#TTIP Leaks
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents. We have done so to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty. This treaty is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US.
Firestorm Erupts Over Transgenic Rice Study in Chinese Children - ScienceInsider
►http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/09/firestorm-erupts-over-transgenic.html?ref=em
The illustration is part of a media firestorm now engulfing a 4-year-old study in which Chinese schoolchildren were given golden rice, a genetically modified form of rice designed to boost vitamin A levels. The results of that study, published online early in August, drew little attention until the activist group Greenpeace China on 29 August claimed the trial shouldn’t have gone forward and called it a “scandal of international proportions.”
Ici la Hague, #Greenpeace Airways en approche… | Claire Berthelemy
►http://owni.fr/2012/05/02/greenpeace-survole-la-hague-nucleaire-atomique
La filière #nucléaire française vante la sécurité de ses installations. Notamment contre les risques aériens. Les sites les plus sensibles sont théoriquement interdits de survol. Or, OWNI met en ligne une vidéo inédite réalisée par un engin de Greenpeace survolant le site de La Hague, le plus dangereux de tous. L’ONG publie aujourd’hui un rapport sur l’absence de prise en compte de ces risques par les responsables français. Bienvenue à bord, sur une petite musique de Vivaldi.