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Establishment
-Vancover, BC, Canada
-Grows out of Vietnam War
-Initally focused on Nuckear Weapons
-Concert to finance Greenpeace
-Raises $17,000 -
First Greenpeace Protest
It didn't work, they didn't get their in time -
Changing
-Move into animal rights -Orientation towards Ecology -
First Environmental Battle
-Disrupting Russian whaling measures twice
-Lots of support -
Artic Adventure
-Taped killing of baby seals in the artic
-Uproar from both hunters and public
-Government sides with hunters -
Rainbow Warrior Ship
-Trip to Iceland against Icelandic Whalers
-Secret dumping of nuclear materials in European Watera -
Greenpeace International Founded
-Greenpeace International is created
-Becomes worldwide movement
-Becomes much stronger -
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
-Auckland, New Zealand
-Bombed by French Agents
-Trying to stop atomic bomc test in French Polyneasia
-French President orders bombing of ship
-France wasn't going to deal with Greenpeace
-Causes people to join Greenpeace b/c of outrage -
Today
-4 Ships
-Flotila of zodiacks
-Hot Air Baloon
-400 million dollars in budget
