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Greenpeace launches new educational website
Greenpeace launches new educational website on
anniversary of Rainbow Warrior
bombing
Sunday, July 9:
Greenpeace New Zealand has today launched a new educational website about the
bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, which includes a series of
never-seen-before documents.
The
educational portal contains a recently declassified Security
Intelligence Service briefing and some internal Greenpeace
archival material. New material will be added over
time.
Greenpeace has made them public on eve of the
anniversary of the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in
Auckland Harbour, which was carried out by the French Secret
Service, and killed Greenpeace photographer, Fernando
Pereira.
Greenpeace has been working in collaboration
with teachers to build the website in an effort to bring the
story of the Rainbow Warrior to classrooms around the
country.
Greenpeace Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman,
says the lessons learnt from the bombing and the nuclear
free campaign are just as important as ever.
“The
anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing is also a
reminder of how effective people power can be.
“The
bombing was intended to shut down Greenpeace’s Nuclear
Free Pacific campaign, but what it actually did was bring
people together throughout the country to take a stand
against the world’s nuclear superpowers. And people power
ended French nuclear testing in the Pacific,” he
says.
“We’ve now also just marked the 30th
anniversary of New Zealand’s Nuclear Free Zone status - a
feat of which we can be incredibly proud.
“As we face
the two largest existential threats to human survival -
climate change and nuclear weapons – I think we can take
heart from the fact that when we stand together, we can beat
anything.”
“This is particularly important today
as we confront the New Zealand Government working in
collusion with the oil industry to stop peaceful protest
about climate change. Just recently, a group of peaceful
protesters, including myself, were prosecuted for putting
ourselves in the water in front of the world’s largest
seismic ship to stop it from searching for the new oil we
know will destroy our climate.
“We were charged by
the Government’s oil division under the Anadarko Amendment
- legislation that was rushed through in 2013 without any
public consultation to shield oil companies from peaceful
protest in New Zealand.
“The spirit of the original
Rainbow Warrior is still strong in Greenpeace and, working
alongside millions of others, we will defeat the oil
industry and the Governments it
employs.”
ENDS
The recently declassified
Security Intelligence Service briefing can be seen here: http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/Global/new-zealand/P3/photos/Rainbow-Warrior/NZSIS%20declassified%20file.pdf
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