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Greenpeace volunteers make a world of difference – we would not be where we are today without them.
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Rainbow Warrior 20th anniversary
July 10th 2005 saw the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace boat the Rainbow Warrior I in Auckland Harbour. Over eighty volunteers gave their time, energy and passion to help make the events planned to commemorate such a weighty occasion for Aotearoa and Greenpeace.
Volunteers got products donated for the reception, worked security shifts at the 8 band concert, prepared food, planned logistics, talked to the public, ran open boat days, went without sleep and helped clean up. Their contribution ensured the commemorations were a huge success.
Defending our oceans
In 2004 the Rainbow Warrior went out to the Tasman Sea to document the deep-sea destruction caused by the bottom trawling industry. We found them, got the proof of their indiscriminate destruction, and bought the pictures home to tell the story. After a year, the governments of the world had done nothing but talk and the destruction of ancient deepwater coral colonies continued unabated. In 2005 we decided to go back out to the Tasman and stop them ourselves.
Driving an inflatable in 6m seas, 500 miles from land and in the face of hostile fishermen takes a certain kind of person - to do it voluntarily takes a hero. A hero is who we had in Logi.
As our volunteer boat trainer for 3 years, Logi has spent hundreds of hours donating his time training other Greenpeace volunteers to drive our inflatable boats and all these hours on the water paid off in the Tasman Sea. We spent 4 weeks at sea, and many long and cold hours in small inflatables trying to stop the destruction. None of this would have been possible without dedicated long term volunteers like Logi.
Mardsen B mailing party
In the long drawn out legal process of Greenpeace opposing the power station Marsden B being converted to run on dirty coal we had a surprise. We had to send a copy of our 11 page notice of appeal to all of the 4,000 people who put in submissions on next to no budget in a tight court set deadline of THREE DAYS!
To help out the Northland community groups opposing Marsden B we took on doing their mailings also. We organised a day long mailing party with snacks and music and put out an urgent call for help to all volunteers. The office was humming with people helping out and we not only finished the monster Marsden B mailing but had a whole lot of fun in the process!
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Examples where committed, heroic, generous, caring people volunteered to make a difference…
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior makes her way out to the commemoration ceremony marking 20 years since the original Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour.
July 10th 2005 saw the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Greenpeace boat the Rainbow Warrior I in Auckland Harbour. Over eighty volunteers gave their time, energy and passion to help make the events planned to commemorate such a weighty occasion for Aotearoa and Greenpeace.
Volunteers got products donated for the reception, worked security shifts at the 8 band concert, prepared food, planned logistics, talked to the public, ran open boat days, went without sleep and helped clean up. Their contribution ensured the commemorations were a huge success.
07-June-2005: North West Challenger Plateau Tasman Sea: Greenpeace activists disrupt the setting of a bottom trawl net by attaching an inflatable liferaft. The bottom trawl vessel is the 'Ocean Reward' owned by New Zealand company Talley's Fisheries.
In 2004 the Rainbow Warrior went out to the Tasman Sea to document the deep-sea destruction caused by the bottom trawling industry. We found them, got the proof of their indiscriminate destruction, and bought the pictures home to tell the story. After a year, the governments of the world had done nothing but talk and the destruction of ancient deepwater coral colonies continued unabated. In 2005 we decided to go back out to the Tasman and stop them ourselves.
Driving an inflatable in 6m seas, 500 miles from land and in the face of hostile fishermen takes a certain kind of person - to do it voluntarily takes a hero. A hero is who we had in Logi.
As our volunteer boat trainer for 3 years, Logi has spent hundreds of hours donating his time training other Greenpeace volunteers to drive our inflatable boats and all these hours on the water paid off in the Tasman Sea. We spent 4 weeks at sea, and many long and cold hours in small inflatables trying to stop the destruction. None of this would have been possible without dedicated long term volunteers like Logi.
Dedicated Greenpeace volunteers help spread the word.
In the long drawn out legal process of Greenpeace opposing the power station Marsden B being converted to run on dirty coal we had a surprise. We had to send a copy of our 11 page notice of appeal to all of the 4,000 people who put in submissions on next to no budget in a tight court set deadline of THREE DAYS!
To help out the Northland community groups opposing Marsden B we took on doing their mailings also. We organised a day long mailing party with snacks and music and put out an urgent call for help to all volunteers. The office was humming with people helping out and we not only finished the monster Marsden B mailing but had a whole lot of fun in the process!
