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Illegal timber – now it’s everyone’s business
Ever wondered where your outdoor furniture came from? Ever pondered on the story behind your lovely new decking? Or how about the journey your toilet paper took to arrive at your loo? Blogpost first appeared on ABC online Most Australians assume that everyday purchases such as dining chairs and toilet paper don’t come from illegally…
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Protecting forests, traditional welcomes and leaving PNG
My name is Jamie, I work as the Online Manager in the Sydney office. I've just arrived in Port Moresby to join the MY Esperanza on the second leg of the Defending the Pacific ship tour.
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Greenpeace ship joins remote protest against largest land grab in PNG history
Press release – 22 October, 2011Hundreds of landowners converge to save their stolen forestsPapua New Guinea, Sunday 23 October 2011: At the request of landowners from the Pomio district in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Greenpeace’s largest ship, the Esperanza, is protesting the export of illegally logged timber bound for China. Five district Task Force policemen…
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Meet Katherine aka Barbie
Katherine Higgins from Melbourne is one of our wonderful volunteers. She recently took action as the not-so-wonderful ‘rainforest destroyer’ Barbie. Here Katherine talks about her motivations for volunteering with Greenpeace’s environmental campaigns. How long have you volunteered with Greenpeace? I’ve been volunteering with Greenpeace in Melbourne for 5 months. Last year, I lived in…
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Shining a light on the ladies leading change
It’s International Women’s Day today and so from all of us at Greenpeace, a big shout out of acknowledgement goes to the millions of women who are working to make this world a better place for current and future generations. By Claire Parfitt and Julien Vincent Disparities in economic, social and cultural equality are still…
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Greenpeace blockades Pacific-bound unregistered Tuna ship in Taiwan harbour
Press release – 24 January, 2011Activists from the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior today prevented the departure of fish carrier MV Lung Yuin, demanding that Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency (FA) properly investigate and as appropriate, prosecute the ship’s owners, who are in apparent breach of Taiwan’s laws. A Greenpeace activist chained himself to Lung Yuin’s anchor…
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Unjust sentence for anti-whaling activists
Press release – 6 September, 2010Greenpeace has condemned a one-year jail term, suspended for three years, imposed on two Greenpeace activists who exposed widespread corruption in the Japanese government’s Southern Ocean whaling programme.Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were today convicted of theft and trespass after carrying out a public interest investigation into whale meat embezzlement…
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Whaling, Activism, and Human Rights
This will be the first blog Toru and I have written together, as up until recently our heavy bail restrictions have meant that we could not be in the same room or even talk to each other without a lawyer present. The verdict in our trial is approaching, and on Monday September 6 we will…
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How far would you go to help save the whales?
International human rights experts Dirk Voorhoof and Serge Gutwirth have co-authored a thought provoking article about the right to protest under threat. Check it out on the ABC Unleashed site here: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2911068.htm Professor Dirk Voorhoof recently provided testimony in the case again the Tokyo Two, our activists who risked jail time for exposing the fraud that…
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GUILTY! UN finds Japanese authorities violated human rights of Greenpeace anti-whaling activists
Press release – 8 February, 2010The United Nations has ruled that the Japanese Government breached international human rights law by detaining two Greenpeace activists who uncovered major corruption in the Japanese whaling programme. (1)One week before the "Tokyo Two", Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, stand trial on February 15th, it has been revealed that the…