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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
There are moments in life when something so shocking, so seemingly impossible happens, that you forever remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard about it.…
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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Join the Environmental Movement
The author of this article is a Greenpeace volunteer group leader. To get involved and volunteer with Greenpeace, check out Greenwire. When I was little, I remember telling my parents that I…
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Choked in Smoke: This Is What It’s Like Living in the Thick of Indonesia’s Haze
This story was originally published by Greenpeace International. My wife and daughter should be at our home in Pekanbaru, Riau, on the east of Sumatra right now. It’s been more…
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I’m Vegan — Here’s Why I’m Fighting to Change the Tuna Industry
Dong Yu 1518 was an isolated island in a watery world: a long-distance vessel that had been at sea for months fishing for tuna in the Pacific Ocean. And I was…
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Not Just Tuna: The Truth Behind Chicken of the Sea’s Label
Most cans of tuna on supermarket shelves hold dark secrets: exploited fishermen, dead sharks, and dying oceans. Workers have reported being beaten, abused and forced to work on ships for…
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Intact but Not Untouched: What I Learned From an Indigenous Community’s Fight to Save Canada’s Boreal Forest
A metal-hulled outboard motorboat took me the last two hours of my three-day journey to one of the last intact forests in North America, in Canada’s Boreal forest. In the…
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How I Came to Believe We Need to Change Tuna
This story was originally published by Greenpeace International on September 9, 2015. The moment we heard we were boarding our first fishing boat, I was so overwhelmed with excitement and…
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Meet a #ShellNo Activist: Kristina
The Ask When I got the call to participate in the Portland bridge action, I was thrilled to stand up to Shell. I wasn’t given much information about what I’d…
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Putting It All on the Line to Say #ShellNo
It was the morning of July 30, and we had been on rope for about 30 hours. The Fennica had just retreated in shame after confronting climbers, kayakers, and onshore…
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The View From the Bridge
Four lanes of traffic—honks, waves, fingers in the shape of a ‘v’ for peace or victory. Cars stop for a moment as hands reach out with bags of fruit and…
