{"id":69975,"date":"2025-05-14T06:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?page_id=69975"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:21:19","slug":"rainbow-warrior-auckland-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/act\/rainbow-warrior-auckland-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior Auckland Open Days 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Rainbow Warrior Auckland Open Days 2025<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

During July, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior<\/em> was back in Aotearoa – 40 years after French Government agents bombed the original ship in Auckland.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Auckland Open Days<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for joining us and being a part of the next chapter in the story of a ship that became a legend.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, our Open Days are now over! Thank you so much to everyone who came down to support the Rainbow Warrior<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

If you weren’t able to join us, you can still get involved!<\/p>\n

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A moment in history<\/h2>\n\n
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The Rainbow Warrior\u2019s return to Aotearoa came at a pivotal moment\u2014when the fight to protect our planet\u2019s fragile life-support systems has never been as urgent, or more critical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here in Aotearoa, the Luxon Government is waging an all-out war on nature, and on a planetary scale, climate change, ecosystem collapse, and accelerating species extinction pose an existential threat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace is on the front line of that fight globally and here in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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In 1985, French Government agents used two bombs to sink the Rainbow Warrior<\/em> in Auckland Harbour. It came at the height of the Greenpeace campaign to stop French nuclear testing in the Pacific<\/a> and was designed to intimidate and silence Greenpeace and the wider movement because we were being so effective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ship was destroyed and a crewmember killed but the plan backfired. Greenpeace only grew stronger. We showed that you can\u2019t sink a rainbow, and you can\u2019t silence a movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, 40 years on, it is the oil industry trying to silence us. Not with bombs but with overwhelming legal attacks. They too are trying to intimidate us because we are a threat to them and big polluters everywhere. But just like 40 years ago, we will not be silenced. We will not be intimidated and we will not back down.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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40 years since the bombing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

10 July 2025 marked the 40th anniversary since the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rainbow Warrior<\/em> was, and still is, a symbol of resistance in action. The bombing was intended to silence and stop the campaign to end French nuclear testing in the Pacific. But it failed, because you can’t silence a movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty years on, its spirit lives on in everyone who believes in standing up for the planet and each other. Watch the videos below to learn more about the legacy it has created in Aotearoa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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