rainbow warrior Archive

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    The Rainbow Warrior sinking – 25 years ago today - by frog



    July 10 1985: the French Government sinks the Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbour. That’s 25 years ago.  Today,  spare a thought for Fernando Pereira, killed when the boat sank. A cover of Anchor Me was made for the 20th anniversary. It’s a great song and a worthy tribute still. read more
    July 10, 2010 5:19 am - 19 Comments
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    PM silent on support for state terrorism in NZ - by frog



    Godfrey Bloom is a Member of the European Parliament. He is also a prominent climate change denier. Here he is condoning an act of state terrorism in New Zealand. And our Prime Minister has nothing to say. read more
    February 8, 2010 8:36 am - 28 Comments
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    The climate change elephant - by frog



    The crew on the Rainbow Warrior got 2003′s cartoonist of the year, Malcolm Evans, down to Wellington’s Queens Wharf yesterday afternoon to paint an entire billboard. I had been going to show you a photo of his creation, but Greenpeace has gone one step better and provided a video: read more
    April 4, 2008 1:10 pm - 17 Comments
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    Live climate change webcast debate - by frog



    I’ve only just found out about this but currently there is a live webcast debate on the Rainbow Warrior today in Wellington today (2 April 2008) at 7:00 PM, NZ politicians will debate which party’s climate policy is most on target to tackle climate change. Sean Plunket from Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report is chairing [...] read more
    April 2, 2008 7:45 pm - 33 Comments
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    Sour grapes - by frog



    Doesn’t the police response to the Rainbow Warrior protest yesterday sound a little bit unnecessarily miffed? It’s a bit hard to blame Greenpeace for a lone constable being attacked in a brawl in central Christchurch, when it was the police that decided protecting the property on a coal export ship was 30 times more important [...] read more
    March 26, 2008 10:19 am - 6 Comments
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    Rainbow Warriors target NZ’s coal export industry - by frog



    The great thing about blogs is their ability to respond to breaking news. Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior blog is currently right at the centre of the Lyttelton Harbour news of the three activists from the Rainbow Warrior who have made it across to the coal exporting ship, Hellenic Sea, in a fast inflatable boat and have [...] read more
    March 25, 2008 7:47 pm - 15 Comments