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The Founding Voyage

The Founding Voyage

Background | 15 May, 2007 at 17:31

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...

The Founders

The Founders

Background | 29 October, 2008 at 16:11

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...

Lyle Thurston 1937 - 2008

Lyle Thurston 1937 - 2008

Feature story | 31 March, 2008 at 12:36

Lyle Thurston, one of 12 crewmembers on the original Greenpeace campaign, died of pneumonia at the age of 70 in Victoria, BC, Canada, March 26, 2008. "Doc" Thurston - a medical doctor, patron of the arts, and lifetime environmental advocate -...

Jim Bohlen 1926 - 2010

Jim Bohlen 1926 - 2010

Feature story | 6 July, 2010 at 15:35

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,...

Greenpeace finally arrives at Amchitka

Blog entry by brianfit | 30 August, 2007

Kieran Mulvaney, sailing aboard the Esperanza, wrote the following for Undercurrents, the crew blog for our Bering Sea voyage: Thirty-five years, eleven months, and eighteen days later, we finally made it. On September 15, 1971,...

Joni Mitchell: A tribute to the artist

Joni Mitchell: A tribute to the artist

Blog entry by Rex Weyler | 2 July, 2015

On 31 March, 2015, Joni Mitchell – who helped launch Greenpeace with a 1970 benefit concert, and emerged as one of the greatest songwriters and performers of the last 50 years – experienced a brain aneurysm. Friends found her...

Quarterly - 2009.3/4

Quarterly - 2009.3/4

Background | 8 December, 2009 at 12:37

Fair Winds and Following Seas

Fair Winds and Following Seas

Blog entry by Steve Erwood | 25 January, 2011 2 comments

We were saddened to hear of the passing of Dave Birmingham, at his home in Keremeos, British Columbia, on 11 January. Dave was the engineer on board the Phyllis Cormack , the boat chartered by the Don’t Make a Wave Committee in 1971...

David McTaggart

David McTaggart

Background | 20 November, 2006 at 15:15

Amchitka: the 1970s rock concert that launched Greenpeace

Blog entry by laurak | 11 November, 2009

Amchitka is the rock concert that launched Greenpeace. It's also the concert that launched a ship: the Phyllis McCormack, which sailed out into the first Greenpeace action protesting US nuclear testing in the Aleutian Islands. ...

Joni Mitchell on stage at the Amchitka Concert

Joni Mitchell on stage at the Amchitka Concert

Image | 15 January, 2010 at 1:00

Joni Mitchell on stage at the Amchitka Concert.

The Amchitka voyage

The Amchitka voyage

Image | 14 January, 2010 at 18:47

The Amchitka voyage.

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

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

Blog entry by LisaV | 15 September, 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

Phil Ochs at the Amchitka Concert

Image | 14 January, 2010 at 18:51

Phil Ochs at the Amchitka Concert.

Greenpeace 40 Years

Image gallery | 14 September, 2011
James Taylor photographed by Alan Katowitz

James Taylor photographed by Alan Katowitz

Image | 15 January, 2010 at 1:00

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

Ben Metcalfe

Image | 24 September, 2009 at 14:55

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...

Crew of the Phyllis Cormack

Crew of the Phyllis Cormack

Image | 1 September, 1971 at 3:00

Crew of the Phyllis Cormack, first Greenpeace trip to Amchitka Island to protest nuclear weapons testing.

Jan 2010 - The Amchitka Concert

Background | 8 February, 2010 at 13:22

During the 1960s, art and politics merged into a full-spectrum cultural revolution - a liberation of music and poetry, political street theatre, socially-conscious films and novels. A fresh political awareness swept around the world; the women's...

A photo tribute to Bob Hunter, Greenpeace co-founder

Image gallery | 3 May, 2005
Amchitka

Amchitka

Image | 14 January, 2010 at 18:22

Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace.

Crew of PHYLLIS CORMACK

Crew of PHYLLIS CORMACK

Image | 1 September, 1971 at 3:00

Crew of PHYLLIS CORMACK. 1st Greenpeace trip to Amchitka Island to protest USA nuclear testing

Robert Hunter - Voyage Documenta (Vancouver to Amchitka: 1971)

Robert Hunter - Voyage Documenta (Vancouver to Amchitka: 1971)

Image | 11 October, 1971 at 17:36

Bob Hunter, official chronicler on-board The Greenpeace. 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...

Ben Metcalfe

Ben Metcalfe

Image | 30 September, 1971 at 2:00

Ben Metcalfe, Jim Bohlen and Dick Fineberg, the first voyage to Amchitka 1971

Bob Hunter - Voyage Documentation (Vancouver to Amchitka: 1971)

Bob Hunter - Voyage Documentation (Vancouver to Amchitka: 1971)

Image | 15 September, 1971 at 2:00

Robert (Bob) Hunter files a report from the Phyllis Cormack in 1971.

On board the Phyllis Cormack during Greenpeace

On board the Phyllis Cormack during Greenpeace

Image | 1 September, 1971 at 2:00

On board the Phyllis Cormack during Greenpeace first protest against nuclear testing off coast of Canada.

Bob Hunter and Ben Metcalfe on the Phyllis Cormack

Bob Hunter and Ben Metcalfe on the Phyllis Cormack

Image | 9 July, 1971 at 2:00

Bob Hunter on Phyllis Cormack together with Ben Metcalfe en route to Amchitka to oppose US nuclear weapons testing.

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