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Star Lawless slams oil giant Shell outside court

Press release | February 7, 2013 at 6:06

New Plymouth, New Zealand, February 7, 2013 – Film and TV star Lucy Lawless and seven activists were today convicted and sentenced to 120 hours community service each for attempting to stop an Arctic-bound oil drilling ship last year.

The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

Background | November 5, 2007 at 13:09

In 1985, French secret service agents planted two bombs and sank our ship the Rainbow Warrior. One crew member was killed. It was an instance when a government chose to respond to peaceful protest with deadly force. But peaceful protest has...

New Zealand: Ready and Waiting

Feature story | January 5, 2007 at 10:43

As the Esperanza heads for Auckland, the Greenpeace New Zealand team are eagerly awaiting her arrival. With the ship comes old friends and colleagues, from New Zealand and around the world. Carol in our New Zealand office reflects on the shared...

Paying homage to the legendary Rainbow Warrior

Blog entry by Aaron Gray-Block | January 9, 2013 3 comments

New Zealand’s Matauri Bay played host today to two Rainbow Warriors, the original and the current Warrior – one lying peacefully on the sea bed providing an artificial reef for sea life and the other a gleaming, eco-friendly...

Rainbow Warrior In New Zealand

Slideshow | January 9, 2013

Update from the seas - Navy arrives at peaceful action

Blog entry by Vanessa Atkinson | April 14, 2011 2 comments

In the early hours of the morning, still many hours before dawn, we picked up the location of the Orient Explorer and her support vessel the Ocean Pioneer . Primed for another exciting day on the water and ready to do whatever we...

Seven of us climbed up that drillship to stop Arctic drilling, but 133,000 of us came...

Blog entry by Bunny McDiarmid, Greenpeace New Zealand | February 27, 2012 9 comments

As we sat anxiously in the office last Friday waiting for the 'we made it' call we never dreamed that four days later we would have witnessed such a massive media storm, such overwhelming global support and such tenacity from our...

Shell Contracted Drillship.

Slideshow | February 28, 2012

Daily News: Renewables could supply 80 percent of world’s energy within 40 years,...

Blog entry by Alexa P | May 10, 2011

Top news: The IPCC says renewables could supply 80 percent of the world’s energy by 2050, averting catastrophic climate change; shale gas is found to contaminate tap water with explosive methane; Italian activists campaign against...

March 8: New Zealand says ‘yes’ to whaling

Blog entry by Almudena | March 8, 2010

This is part of a trial series Canned Tuna in New World Supermarket, New Zealand 03/26/2009 New Zealand says ‘yes’ to commercial whaling New Zealanders are against whaling. Even their own government opposes whaling. So...

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