{"id":72593,"date":"2025-02-07T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=72593"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:23:26","slug":"greenpeace-pictures-of-the-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/72593\/greenpeace-pictures-of-the-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Pictures of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A selection of images from Greenpeace photographers around the world this week. Comment below to tell us your favourites!<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Tim Aubry \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 U.S. – Hundreds of protesters and a contingent of Democratic lawmakers rallied outside the Department of the Treasury in Washington denouncing what they called Elon Musk\u2019s \u201chostile takeover\u201d of federal financial systems, as demonstrations spilled on to, and took over, the street outside the building.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Aliona Kardash \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Germany – Greenpeace activists provide the public information about an ecological wealth tax for the super-rich in 42 cities across Germany, from Munich to Cologne and Dresden. In the run-up to the Bundestag elections, the environmentalists are offering people in pedestrian areas the opportunity to literally send their \u20182 cents\u2019 to the leading candidates of the CDU\/CSU, SPD and Greens for the fair financing of future tasks. Two-cent coins can be handed in on the spot with prepared letters calling for climate protection measures to be financed via an ecological billionaire’s tax.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Oumar Bayo Fall \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3 Senegal – Greenpeace Africa volunteers participate in the Setal Sunu Rew (\u201cLet\u2019s Clean Our Country\u201d) initiative in Dakar, Senegal. Throughout the morning, they dedicated their efforts to cleaning up the city\u2019s beaches, helping to create a cleaner and healthier environment for the community. <\/p>\n\n

They also used the opportunity to share information on plastic pollution and its dangerous impacts on our oceans.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Rafal Wojczal<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Poland – Greenpeace Poland activists on kayaks in Gdansk demand an urgent ratification of the Ocean Treaty.<\/p>\n\n

This message is addressed to the Polish government, which has taken over the presidency of the EU Council and is hosting EU commissioners in Gda\u0144sk on this occasion. The main topic of talks in the ECS building is to be the most important actions for the next six months. Activists are demanding that one of them be the ratification of the Treaty by the Polish government and other EU countries.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Pedro Armestre \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Spain – Greenpeace Spain activists carried out an artistic-performative activity inside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao coinciding with the International Wetlands Day, to protest against the future expansion project in Urdaibai. Through their performance, the activists sought to represent those animal and plant species that would be particularly affected by this project, many of which are vulnerable species or at risk of extinction.<\/p>\n\n

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\u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Rafal Wojczal<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 Poland – Greenpeace Poland activists projected huge messages onto the European Solidarity Centre (ECS) in Gda\u0144sk reading ‘Ocean Treaty now!’.<\/p>\n\n

This message is addressed to the Polish government, which has taken over the presidency of the EU Council and is hosting EU commissioners in Gda\u0144sk on this occasion. The main topic of talks in the ECS building is to be the most important actions for the next six months. Activists are demanding that one of them be the ratification of the Treaty by the Polish government and other EU countries.<\/p>\n\n

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Greenpeace has been a pioneer of photo activism for more than 50 years, and remains committed to bearing witness and exposing environmental injustice through the images we capture.<\/p>\n\n

To see more Greenpeace Photo and Video, please visit our Media Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A performance at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Kayaktivists in Gdansk, and a beach cleanup in Dakar, here are a few of our favourite images from around the world this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":72594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[141],"p4-page-type":[59],"class_list":["post-72593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about","tag-photography","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74906,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72593\/revisions\/74906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72593"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=72593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}