{"id":2187,"date":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/2187\/twelve-nobel-prize-winners-beatle-pope-cant-wrong\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T04:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T04:08:57","slug":"twelve-nobel-prize-winners-beatle-pope-cant-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/twelve-nobel-prize-winners-beatle-pope-cant-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Nobel Prize Winners, a Beatle, and the Pope Can\u2019t All Be Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>On September 18, 2013, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested during a peaceful protest in the Russian Arctic. A week later, the entire 30-member crew of their ship was in a Russian jail awaiting trial on charges of hooliganism and piracy. The story of the Arctic 30, as they came to be known, was one heard around the world, and one that Peter Willcox writes about in his new book &#8220;Greenpeace Captain.&#8221; Read an exclusive excerpt here. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-large p4featured_image'><img src='https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/9405946e-gp04wpa_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg' alt=''Free the Arctic 30' Candlelight Vigil in Norwalk USA' \/><figcaption class='wp-element-caption'><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>The following was excerpted with permission from chapter 19 of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/GreenpeaceCaptain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenpeace Captain: My Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>by Peter Willcox with Ronald Weiss. Available from Thomas Dunne Books. Copyright \u00a9 2016.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maggy had been watching a live Greenpeace feed in our home in Maine, anxiously awaiting the moment when my head would pop out from behind the huge prison door. Just before I walked out, the video feed was lost and she missed the big moment. She didn\u2019t know I was out until I called her from the car to tell her I was drinking Alexander\u2019s brandy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While I was relieved to be out of jail, during the car ride from Kresty Prison to the hotel my joy was tempered by worrying about the reception I would receive there from the Arctic 30 who had been released before me. Would they blame me for their incarceration? I had certainly made decisions that contributed to our arrest and the arrest of the ship, but then again, not one of us had anticipated the muscular response from the Russians. As I exited the car and walked into the lobby of the hotel, my concern grew. Would they vent their anger at me, or would I just get the cold shoulder?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51437\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/94f57093-gp04z1a_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/94f57093-gp04z1a_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Willcox Detention Hearing in St. Petersburg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-51437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter looks on from his cell during hearings in St. Petersburg, Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first people I saw were my shipmates Sini, Camila Speziale, and Alexandra \u201cAlex\u201d Harris. They saw me in the same instant and immediately moved toward me with their arms raised. I realized the three were all opening their arms to me. Seconds later we were in a group hug. Their shoulders were anything but cold. It was the best I had felt in a very long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hotel had been selected by the police so they could keep an eye on us while we were out on bail. We assumed the hotel was bugged, and there was an undercover cop in a van parked across the street from the hotel. While we wanted to give him the finger, we would flash him the peace sign instead. That probably pissed him off even more. Having him there was their way of keeping us under pressure. The peace sign was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">way of saying, \u201cWe don\u2019t give a shit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although we were out on bail, we were still under indictment and not allowed to leave the city. It was kind of like being in purgatory, but after being in prison it was still a major improvement in living arrangements. I was able to see my wife, my daughters, Skype with friends, and \u2014 of course \u2014 be interviewed by newspapers, websites, and TV and radio broadcasters all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this same time, Putin was preparing a mass amnesty bill. Officially, the amnesty bill was to commemorate the 20th\u00a0anniversary of the Russian constitution. The reality was the bill was an attempt to polish up Russia\u2019s record on human rights just weeks before the start of their Winter Olympics. Our lawyers were hoping that the Arctic 30 would be included in the bill, but no one knew for sure who was included or not. The more publicity we got, the better the chance we\u2019d make it into the bill, so we focused on that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In prison we had been cut off from the outside world. We were pretty much in the dark (literally, in some cases) and just trying to keep our spirits up. There were a few TVs in prison, but since the government controls the media we didn\u2019t see any news covering the efforts to put pressure on Putin to release us. We got some reports via our lawyers, Greenpeace, letters and, eventually, phone calls with loved ones, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every written word we received in the prison was read by the Russians and translated into Russian before we got them. Everything we received had typed notes with Russian translations that were taped or stapled to the originals, including the \u201cFree the Arctic 30\u201d greeting cards made by eight-year-old children in Africa. I still have a stack of them with all of the Russian translations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><cite>Peter Willcox, writing with Ronald Weiss in the forthcoming book &#8220;Greenpeace Captain&#8221;<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that we were on the outside, it was just becoming apparent to me (and to the rest of the Arctic 30) just how much publicity we were getting. It\u2019s an amazing feeling to realize that hundreds of \u201cFree the Arctic 30\u201d protests demanding your release have taken place in dozens of countries around the world. Words can\u2019t describe it, so I won\u2019t try. The bottom line is that the international reaction makes me believe that what\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace is doing is deeply appreciated and important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of people had protested in front of numerous Russian embassies. Letters from statesmen, world leaders, religious leaders, celebrities, actors, and media figures from every corner of the globe joined in the effort to release us. It\u2019s an impressive list, and it\u2019s not just the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">length <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the list that\u2019s amazing, it\u2019s the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">breadth <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of it: twelve Nobel Prize winners. Paul McCartney. The Pope. Madonna. (It\u2019s not too often that the Pope and Madonna are in agreement on anything!) Angela Merkel, Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, and David Cameron. Desmond Tutu. Even the V.P. of Iran, Dr. Masonmeh Ehtekar (she\u2019s also the head of Iran\u2019s EPA) supported us. The list goes on and on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One protest letter that was especially important to me was written to Putin by Pete Seeger, the family friend, folksinger, and my boss on the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clearwater <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so many years before. It was Pete who put me on the path I was still following years later. Pete passed away at age 94\u00a0just a few weeks after I got back to Maine, so I never saw him again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you\u2019re in prison you have a lot of free time on your hands. Often you find yourself thinking about happier times and places and people that you miss. A lot of those times were with Pete, singing and sailing and saving the river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was hard on Maggy to have me imprisoned in a hostile country, particularly since it happened such a short time after we were married. And a good chunk of that time I had been at sea on other actions. For her part, she always put up a brave front, and never stopped fighting for our release. She helped organize rallies from Maine to Connecticut, wrote letters and editorials, and urged governors and senators to write Putin. Maggy was a real emotional anchor for me during this stormy period of false dawns and dark threats. She\u2019s an amazing woman and I\u2019m lucky to have finally landed her.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51434\" style=\"width: 809px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/c81db8b6-gp0sto5va_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51434\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/c81db8b6-gp0sto5va_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Willcox Meets His Wife at St. Petersburg Airport\" width=\"799\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-51434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete reunites with his wife Maggy at the St. Petersburg airport after being released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of us in Saint Petersburg (the Arctic 30, family, friends, lawyers, diplomats, and supporters) were holding our breath until the amnesty bill was passed. When it passed, it released close to 25,000\u00a0prisoners \u2014 some petty criminals, some political prisoners, all kinds of people \u2014 but <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not us<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The bill did not include \u201chooligans\u201d \u2014 our \u201ccategory of criminal.\u201d It was, yet again, another shock and disappointment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, there was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hope. A few days later, the Duma (the Russian legislature) passed an amendment to the bill that included those charged with hooliganism \u2014 that meant us, and Pussy Riot, among others. We were greatly relieved, of course. We were close to home free. (\u201cHome\u201d and \u201cfree,\u201d two words that will always mean a little more to me now.) Still, we had to wait for the inevitable paperwork to get processed, getting our passports back, etc. Who knew how long that was going to take? It looked like \u201cI\u2019ll be Home for Christmas\u201d wasn\u2019t in the cards, but we were hoping to be back in time for New Year\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51433\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/a2477b79-gp0sto62z_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/a2477b79-gp0sto62z_web_size_with_credit_line.jpg\" alt=\"'Arctic 30' Wish Supporters a Happy New Year\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-51433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete did indeed make it home in time for New Year&#8217;s. Here he holds a sign reading &#8220;Happy New Year&#8217;s&#8221; in Russian as a thank you to those who supported the Arctic 30.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a video called \u201cThank You\u201d that Greenpeace put together after we were released. It shows highlights of the protests all around the world, and then we \u2014 the Arctic 30 \u2014 thank all of the people who took action to secure our release. (You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Af_gI_kzEqU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch it<\/a> yourself.) I think I speak for all of us when I say that if it were not for all of their support, we might still be languishing in a Russian prison somewhere. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you. Thank you. Spasibo. Spasibo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/static\/smp\/greenpeace-captain\/?utm_source=greenpeacecaptainbk&amp;utm_medium=landingpage&amp;utm_term=na-greenpeacecaptainbk&amp;utm_content=na-read-authorprofile&amp;utm_campaign=9781250079541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the forthcoming book &#8220;Greenpeace Captain,&#8221; available April 19, 2016.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following was excerpted with permission from chapter 19 of &#8220;Greenpeace Captain: My Adventures in Protecting the Future of Our Planet,&#8221;\u00a0by Peter Willcox with Ronald Weiss. 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