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Year one of war

Fourteen of Greenpeace volunteers entered Southampton's Marchwood Military Port and occupied tanks and jeeps queued up to be loaded on the roll-on/roll-off ferry Stena Shipper bound for the Gulf. Enlarge Image

Tank girls occupy war machine

Despite growing public opposition to a war with Iraq, day and night British tanks, helicopters and jeeps are streaming though Southampton as part of the build up of the war machine. For over a week we have tried to stop the supplies from loading and leaving the Uk and today 14 volunteers entered the military port occupying tanks and jeeps ready to roll on the ferry Stena Shipper bound for the Gulf.

The Rainbow Warrior captain Daniel Rizzoti was arrested among others by the Spanish Guardia Civil. The RW was boarded last night while protesting in front of Rota Naval Base. Enlarge Image

Stopping the war machine in Spain

It could be just days before the US goes to war in Iraq and still supplies for the war machine are on route. The Rainbow Warrior blocked the US and Spanish military port of Rota in the south of Spain, trying to stop the US military cargo ship Cape Horn from leaving port for the Gulf. The ship was boarded and several crew members were arrested.

The Rainbow Warrior has been boarded by the Spanish Guardia Civil at port entrance of Rota Naval Base. Enlarge Image

Seizing rainbows and stopping war

The Rainbow Warrior was seized while trying to stop the march of the war machine, our captain and several crew members were injured during arrests. But ours are minor bruises and sprains compared with the death and destruction a war on Iraq would cause for thousands of innocent people. We dare to dream that this war can be stopped.

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Last hope for the UN

The leaders of the most powerful nations on Earth have failed us. The Security Council has failed us. War has begun. The UN should not allow itself to be relegated to a strictly humanitarian role: it is their moment to stand up and give voice to the global demand to stop the fighting.

A satircal take on the North Korea situation by Mark Fiore. Watch the full animation at http://www.markfiore.com/animation/dictator.html Enlarge Image

Make law not war

North Korea prepares to ditch a treaty controlling the spread of nuclear weapons. The Bush administration starts to make noises about where to take the pre-emptive war bandwagon next. India announces that it reserves the "sovereign right" to attack any country that represents a potential threat. The US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security claims "there's no such thing as international law."

Ooops. This 'underground' nuclear test in 1970 went badly. A ten-kiloton weapon, buried 900 feet in the ground, accidentally vented radiation 10,000 feet in the air, exposing test site employees and downwind communities to radioactive fallout. Enlarge Image

Tiny nukes: big problem

The US Senate has bowed to the Dr. Strangelove dream of Donald Rumsfeld, and lifted a ten-year-old ban on research and development of smaller battlefield nuclear weapons. The action paves the way for the creation of a whole new range of numerous small, "usable" nuclear weapons.

A resident of Al Wadiyah carries home a clean water barrel which Greenpeace activists exchanged for radioactive ones. Enlarge Image

Radioactive barrel swap in Iraq

For many local people, the need for water storage overrides the unseen threat of radioactivity. We took clean water containers into the communities around the Tuwaitha nuclear facility near Baghdad and encouraged people to swap them for their radioactive ones, contaminated with uranium "yellowcake".

Greenpeace 'inspectors' outside the U.S. embassy to examine whether or not the Bush Administration is living up to its commitments to eliminate its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace finds WMDs

Since the US and the UK are having such a hard time finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, we thought we'd lend a hand by providing this easy guide to the nukes we know about.

Greenpeace activists from the Greenpeace vessels, Rainbow Warrior and Argus display a peace symbol on the side of two of the transport vessels -CATHERINE and REPUBLICA DE ROMA which are shipping helicopters, tanks, trucks and other military vehicles to the Gulf. Enlarge Image

The second superpower

On February 15th, 2003, history saw the world's first truly global anti-war demonstration. It didn't stop a fundamentally flawed war. It didn't make a US president who wasn't elected by a majority of Americans listen to the majority of world opinion. It didn't prevent over 10,000 civilian deaths. Yet that day has yielded real results, and the 30 million people who took time to say "No" to war sent a potent signal of hope: peace can speak with one voice.

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