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Greenpeace PR - Grains Council miss the point
Monday, 17 March 2003, 8:26 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
“NZ Grains Council chairman Hugh Ritchie’s response to Bob Willick’s testimony of GE failure in Canada is astounding,” said Greenpeace GE Campaigner Steve Abel today, in response to claims by Ritchie that the Canadian GE crop experience is irrelevant ... More >>
GE soy shipment stopped in Oz after Tauranga
Monday, 17 March 2003, 9:24 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sunday 15 March 2003: 15 Australian Greenpeace activists halted the offload of a genetically engineered (GE) soy shipment in Port Melbourne on Saturday evening by leaping aboard the ship Despina and locking themselves to equipment used for offloading ... More >>
NZer Arrested As Spanish Board Rainbow Warrior
Monday, 17 March 2003, 9:22 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Madrid, Spain: The Spanish police have boarded the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior at port's entrance of the Rota naval base as the ship was blocking the U.S. Navy vessel Cape Horn from delivering arms to the Gulf region in preparation for the war ... More >>
Don’t lift your moratorium says Canadian GE farmer
Friday, 14 March 2003, 5:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Former GE farmer Bob Willick has a simple message for the New Zealand Government: “don’t lift your moratorium on GE release”. His message to New Zealand farmers is: “don’t be sucked in by the false promises of the biotech corporations”. More >>
Greenpeace Calls on the World to Unite for Peace
Thursday, 13 March 2003, 1:47 pm | Greenpeace
Auckland Thursday 14 March 2003: Greenpeace and the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York called on countries to support a new resolution by all members of the United Nations to uphold the UN Charter and hold an Emergency Session of the General ... More >>
Howard a puppet to the US (With Webcam Image)
Monday, 10 March 2003, 10:48 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has exposed who is pulling the Australian Prime Minister’s strings, unveiling a giant John Howard puppet in downtown Wellington today. The puppet is dangling from the outstretched fingers of Gollum (aka G.W. Bush) on the Embassy Theatre to mark ... More >>
Howard a puppet to the US
Monday, 10 March 2003, 10:11 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, Monday March 10, 2003: Greenpeace has exposed who is pulling the Australian Prime Minister’s strings, unveiling a giant John Howard puppet in downtown Wellington today. The puppet is dangling from the outstretched fingers of Gollum11 Gollum, a ... More >>
Greenpeace Image: Body Bags For John Howard
Monday, 10 March 2003, 9:42 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
8 March 03 - Greenpeace deliver the first casualties of the Iraq crisis; Innocent People, public Opinion and International Law to John Howard at the new Australian consulate general offices in Auckland ©GREENPEACE / John Collie More >>
War casualties delivered to Australian PM
Monday, 10 March 2003, 9:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, Saturday March 8, 2003: Body bags symbolising the first casualties of the Iraqi crisis have been delivered to the Australian Consulate in Auckland. More >>
Greenpeace Sails 'No War' Banner Past UN
Friday, 7 March 2003, 9:03 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists anchored a large banner to a boat today, reading “When Will the U.S. Disarm? No War”, and sailed it in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York. The protest took place as the world prepares for leader of the United ... More >>
Urgent New Security Council Action on Iraq
Thursday, 6 March 2003, 10:30 am | Greenpeace
Events are racing forward as a proposed US/UK resolution on Iraq has split the UN Security Council into opposing factions. More >>
Esso loses bid to silence critics on internet
Thursday, 27 February 2003, 7:53 am | Greenpeace
Paris, February 26, 2003: The decision by a French court today to lift an injunction against the use of a parody logo on the StopEsso website was an important victory for free speech on the internet, a victory for the climate, and evidence that Esso’s ... More >>
ChCh cleans up while Auckland Airport keeps dioxin
Wednesday, 26 February 2003, 2:09 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Following an open letter in the Christchurch Press and hundreds of emails from Greenpeace supporters, Nuplex Medismart yesterday issued a press statement announcing their intention to close their incinerator at Christchurch airport and move to steam sterilisation. More >>
Rainbow Warrior confronts U.S. military shipment
Friday, 21 February 2003, 9:24 am | Greenpeace
Rainbow Warrior confronts U.S. military shipment as it tries to leave Holland for the Gulf More >>
NZ Must Support France, Germany & Russia at UN
Tuesday, 18 February 2003, 3:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 18 February 2003: The New Zealand Ambassador’s speech to the UN General Assembly tomorrow must back a peaceful resolution to the crisis over Iraq – that means actively supporting the Governments of France, Germany and Russia. More >>
Rainbow Warrior confronts US war preparations
Monday, 17 February 2003, 9:04 am | Greenpeace
Antwerp February 14th 2003: Greenpeace continued its global protest against preparations for war on Iraq today. At 10.00 GMT, activists from the Greenpeace vessels, Rainbow Warrior and Argus, used life rafts and canoes to build a floating peace camp long ... More >>
Anti War video - WARNING: Horrific Reality of War
Saturday, 15 February 2003, 5:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace has released graphic and disturbing video footage of the reality of war - Scoop Editors advise that this is published solely to cause people to consider the true reality of allowing war to go ahead... More >>
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 >>
