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Giant NO WAR banner over the America's Cup race
Saturday, 15 February 2003, 5:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Greenpeace flew an 18 by 6 metre 'No War, Peace Now' banner above the opening of the America's Cup yacht challenge today to promote peace, as protest against a war in Iraq spread around the world. More >>
Greenpeace CTU Joint Letter to PM on Iraq
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 2:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
The organisations cited call on you to act urgently and unequivocally in support of a peaceful resolution to the crisis over Iraq. We urge that the New Zealand Government now declare its support for the proposal being put to the UN Security Council on ... More >>
Government GE precautions like a condom with holes
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 5:29 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 12 February 2003: Greenpeace GE spokesperson Steve Abel today described the Governments GE precautions as “like a condom with holes: destined to fail”. More >>
Coal no solution to Maui Gas
Tuesday, 11 February 2003, 6:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 10 February 2003: “Coal is not a feasible replacement for Maui Gas which is expected to run out in 2007,” said Robbie Kelmen, Greenpeace climate campaigner. More >>
Greenpeace Takes Global Action Against War
Thursday, 6 February 2003, 10:52 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Wednesday, 5th February, 2003: Greenpeace New Zealand has issued an open letter to Prime Minister Helen Clark urging her to take a more pro-active stand against the impending war in Iraq. More >>
Greenpeace Takes Global Action Against War
Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 8:28 am | Greenpeace
London, Tuesday, 4th February 2003: Greenpeace took peaceful direct action in Australia, France and the UK today to as part of an ongoing campaign against an impending war in Iraq. More >>
Greenpeace Sets Up Peace Camp In British Tanks
Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 8:26 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today (7.45 am 4/2/03) peacefully occupied British military vehicles en route to the Gulf as part of an ongoing global campaign against war in Iraq. In the latest action to stop a UK military attack, fourteen Greenpeace volunteers entered ... More >>
Open Letter to PM Stand Up For Peace
Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 8:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
The world is faced with the imminent prospect of war. Throughout history courageous individuals, communities, leaders and nations have stood for peace in the face of war. We urge you to make a stand internationally for a peaceful resolution to this ... More >>
Greenpeace Onboard Gulf-Bound Military Supply Ship
Friday, 31 January 2003, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
The Solent, England, 30th January 2003: A team of Greenpeace volunteers today boarded and set up a peace camp on a UK military supply ship bound for the Gulf. The five volunteers climbed on to the MV Lyra, which has been commandeered by the British ... More >>
Ag Research in la-la land: No markets for GE milk
Thursday, 30 January 2003, 12:23 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland January 29 2003: “Ag Research is dreaming if they think their genetically engineered cows milk will ‘translate into substantial economic gains’. Consumers have rejected GE food crops the world over. GE dairy products will most certainly ... More >>
Call Dow Day - Wednesday 22 January
Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 9:49 am | Greenpeace
Dow Chemical seems to think it can safely ignore the suffering of thousands of people in Bhopal who live with the contamination caused by the factory its Union Carbide subsidiary abandoned following the worst industrial accident in history. Despite ... More >>
Greenpeace Boards Single-Hull Tanker In Gibraltar
Tuesday, 21 January 2003, 8:33 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Algeciras Bay, Gibraltar 20 January, 2003. Greenpeace activists this morning boarded the single hulled oil tanker Vemamagna (1), anchored in Algeciras Bay to highlight the permanent presence of single hulled ships in the area. Activists from the Greenpeace ... More >>
Mothers Ask Important Questions About GE Cows
Friday, 17 January 2003, 3:40 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Friday 17 January 2003: Greenpeace today expressed its support for the proceedings filed in the High Court by Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE) against AgResearch’s human-gene-cow experiment approved by ERMA last year. More >>
Esso's attempt to cybercensor critics in court
Wednesday, 15 January 2003, 9:06 am | Greenpeace
A French court will tomorrow hear the next round in Esso's attempt to curtail freedom of expression on the internet. Greenpeace France is appealing a ruling by a Paris judge in favour of Esso France which ordered the environmental group to remove its ... More >>
Greenpeace confronts Dow Chemical with poison
Wednesday, 8 January 2003, 11:44 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 7th January 2003: At midday today, Greenpeace and survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, started returning poisonous waste collected from the disaster scene to its rightful owner, Dow Chemical. The waste was abandoned ... More >>
Greenpeace Activist News Vol. 2, No. 7
Tuesday, 10 December 2002, 2:56 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
In this issue, Dow and Bhopal, a victory for safe food, the latest on oil tankers, a new Exxon poster from Adbusters and an opportunity for the Webby awards. More >>
New Zealand Kyoto ratification vital to Protocol
Tuesday, 10 December 2002, 12:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 10 December 2002; New Zealand’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change today means the Protocol only needs Russia for it to come into force.* More >>
New Zealand’s most popular food companies are GE f
Monday, 9 December 2002, 2:52 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
All five food companies and brands that appear in the top 10 of New Zealand’s most admired companies have non- GE ingredient policies. More >>
NZ must heed European baseline for GE labelling
Thursday, 5 December 2002, 4:23 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 5 December 2002: Greenpeace is calling on the Government to bring New Zealand’s GE labelling in line with the European Union’s strict new labelling legislation. The EU decision on labelling GE food and feed coincides with the one-year anniversary ... More >>
Oil Tanker Update
Thursday, 5 December 2002, 1:39 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace continues to campaign against unsafe oil tankers in the aftermath of the disastrous Prestige spill off the coast of Spain. More >>
