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The founding voyage

Background | May 15, 2007 at 15:31

In 1971, a small group of activists set sail to the Amchitka island off Alaska to try and stop a US nuclear weapons test. The money for the mission was raised with a concert, their old fishing boat was called “The Greenpeace”. This is where our...

Jim Bohlen 1926 - 2010

Feature story | July 6, 2010 at 13:35

There's an old joke that you can walk into any bar in Vancouver and find somebody claiming to be a Greenpeace founder. If that somebody had been Jim Bohlen, however, then this claim would have been absolutely true. It is with very deep sadness,...

The Founders

Background | October 29, 2008 at 15:11

There's a joke that in any bar in Vancouver, Canada, you can sit down next to someone who claims to have founded Greenpeace. In fact, there was no single founder: name, idea, spirit and tactics can all be said to have separate lineages. Yet, some...

Quarterly - 2009.3/4

Background | December 8, 2009 at 11:37

Joni Mitchell on stage at the Amchitka Concert

Image | January 15, 2010 at 0:00

Joni Mitchell on stage at the Amchitka Concert.

The Amchitka voyage

Image | January 14, 2010 at 17:47

The Amchitka voyage.

It's our birthday and we'll go beyond oil if we want to!

Blog entry by LisaV | September 15, 2010 1 comment

Today is the 39th birthday of Greenpeace and we have just arrived in Aberdeen on the Esperanza. Back in 1971 on September 15th - the first Greenpeace ship set sail to protest against a US nuclear test zone and peacefully prevent the...

Phil Ochs at the Amchitka Concert

Image | January 14, 2010 at 17:51

Phil Ochs at the Amchitka Concert.

James Taylor photographed by Alan Katowitz

Image | January 15, 2010 at 0:00

Alan Katowitz's images, like this one of James Taylor, had never been seen before. He only developed the film when hearing about the CD release.

Ben Metcalfe

Image | September 24, 2009 at 12:55

Ben Metcalfe at the radio as Jim Bohlen looks on. This is a photographic record by Robert Keziere of the very first Greenpeace voyage, which departed Vancouver on the 15th September 1971. The aim of the trip was to halt nuclear tests in Amchitka...

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