Greenpeace

WANTED: One new or used time machine to get me through the next six days and on to the Activist Summit in Washington D.C.   I haven’t felt this hyped about anything in years. When I got the Email from Anna Wagner inviting me to the Summit I got excited…then I calmed down and the doubts set in immediately. “Yeah right. Go to Washington D.C. How? I have to work at least three of the four days. There’s no way I can possibly afford to get there. There’s no way I can afford ...

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Also protests in Germany!In Bochum some greenpeace activists demonstrated before the headquarter of BP! Great Action guys!

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I didn’t know much about Greenpeace until I met a Lead Activist tabling at a local environmental festival.  I was also tabling at the festival for another environmental group that promoted the development and use of natural gas.  I was impressed by the enthusiasm of the Lead Activist and decided to look into Greenpeace.  After becoming very impressed with our organization, I had the opportunity to speak with Anna Wagner and Ben Smith in San Francisco.  Sensing their enthusiasm for all the good work that is done by Greenpeace and hearing of the campaigns that have been successfully undertaken, I ...

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     So I've always been enviromentally concerned but it wasnt until I watched a documentary nararated by Leonardo Dicarprio titled 'The 11th Hour' that I really took on a new found concern for our planets future. At the age of 17 i'm already so aware of our governments partnership with big corporations and how it's affecting our eco-system. I sometimes wish I could go back to when I thought the president was a god and when I thought everything the government ever does is uncodionally right. I don't share this belief anymore and it makes me asamed to live in this ...

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BP will go down in history for a number of reasons. The company will forever be known as being responsible for the largest oil spill in US history, for leaving hundreds of people without jobs in the Gulf region, for killing an incalculable amount of wildlife, and for altering the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico for decades to come. It’s a severe understatement to say that the company’s reputation has been tainted in the last few months. BP knows this, and they are on damage control. But the frantic efforts to repair their image have of course ...

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