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From Burnaby Mountain to our homelands in the Tar Sands

Blog entry by Melina Laboucan-Massimo | November 26, 2014 2 comments

I’ve been spending a lot of time up on Burnaby Mountain, just outside Vancouver, where 89 people have been arrested as part of the growing grassroots opposition to a tar sands pipeline. It is inspiring to see the Coast Salish peoples...

Greenpeace applauds the commitment and courage of the Occupy movement

Blog entry by Bruce Cox, Greenpeace Canada Executive Director | October 21, 2011

The Occupy Wall Street movement is raising some basic issues about fairness, democracy, how decisions are being made and who benefits. Greenpeace applauds their commitment and their courage to take action. In the summer of 2010 on...

How Stephen Lewis got me arrested in Ottawa, and what Harper had to say about it

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | September 30, 2011 1 comment

I blame Stephen Lewis for the fact that I got arrested in Ottawa on Monday , as we called on the federal government to turn away from the tar sands, respect treaty and Indigenous rights, and build the green, just energy future our...

Faces of Greenpeace: Meet the people behind our resistance

Blog entry by Jesse Firempong | March 20, 2018

Greenpeace has been at the heart of the environmental movement on the Pacific coast, in Canada and around the world for more than 40 years. Now, just 20-odd kilometres from where we launched our first ship from Vancouver in 1971,...

What’s good for Kaddafi is good for Harper

Blog entry by Bruce Cox | February 28, 2011

Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent yesterday in meetings developing a strategy and response to the uprising unfolding in Libya. Following on the United Nations Security Council’s unanimous decision to condemn Libyan President Muammar...

A healthy democracy needs dissent

Blog entry by Bruce Cox, Executive Director | December 10, 2010

Police look on as Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo addresses supporters in the garden of Greenpeace's Toronto office during the G20. “the most massive compromise of civil liberties” “a mass violation of...

Greenpeace Responds

Blog entry by Bruce Cox | October 7, 2009 12 comments

Part 2 of a 2-Part Post, written by Bruce Cox, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada.  Read Part 1 What gets lost in the flame wars on the comment boards of the Globe and Mail or the Calgary Herald is the reason we leave our...

Greenpeace: Why Civil Disobedience and Why Now

Blog entry by Bruce Cox | October 7, 2009 39 comments

Part 1 of a 2-Part Post , written by Bruce Cox, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada. Read Part 2 Why in the world would a group of global citizens from Alberta to Berlin to Rio, drop everything and leave their comfy homes...

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