This Friday, July 10, the climbers will receive confirmation at Wellington District Court about what charges they are facing for the action.
Coincidentally, this is also the 30th anniversary of the day when French secret service agents, on orders from their government, planted two bombs on the hull of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior, and sunk it.
Photographer Fernando Pereira, who was part of the crew, was tragically murdered in the blast.
The bombing will be commemorated with a photo exhibition, celebrating New Zealand’s history of activism and protest, at The Cloud on Auckland’s Waterfront starting this Friday.
Before it was sunk, the Rainbow Warrior had been preparing to lead a flotilla of NZ boats to protest against France’s nuclear testing programme at Moruroa in French Polynesia.
Climate campaigner Simon Boxer says the coincidental timing of the court appearance and the 30th anniversary is fitting.
“In 1985, the Rainbow Warrior crew were preparing to leave their families, their jobs and their homes, to get onto a ship, sail across the Pacific and into a nuclear testing zone in Moruroa, with the sole aim of stopping a nuclear explosion there,” he says.
“Today, nuclear tests in the Pacific have been halted, thanks to all the people who kept standing up in the thousand different ways it takes to change the course of history.
“Our four activists who climbed Parliament House a couple of weeks ago are a continuation of that legacy. They’re willing to take on legal risks in order to stand up for the most urgent issue that the planet has ever faced – climate change – at a time when our government is letting us all down terribly.”
Yesterday the government announced the climate change target New Zealand will be putting on the table at the Paris Climate Conference in December.
It is equivalent to cutting emissions to just 11% below 1990 levels.
Boxer describes the new target as a “con job” that is actually worse than what was pledged six years ago at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, when the NZ government said it would conditionally cut emissions to 10-20% below 1990 levels by 2020.
“But the most shocking thing is not that the government is putting forward such a low target – it’s that at the moment even 11% is not achievable because there is no plan going forward,” he says.
“The way we’re heading, and by the government’s own figures, the increase in New Zealand’s total emissions by 2020 will be almost 30% worse than it was in 1990.”
Brave souls every one.
Is there some way to contribute to their defence? Need more like them.
10 July 2015
30 Year Anniversary of Terrorist Attack against
GreenPeace Rainbow Warrior 10 July 1985
Blowing Up Paradise 2005
shown on BBC TV
details
French nuclear attacks on South Pacific
French Secret Service terrorist attack against Greenpeace
Murder of Greenpeace crew member 10 July 1985
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IMDB.com (rated 7.3 out of 10)
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Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
Rainbow Warrior (1955)
formerly trawler Sir William Hardy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Warrior_(1955)
Green Peace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace
Eyes Of Fire: The Last Voyage Of The Rainbow Warrior
by D Robie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Robie
CAUTION:
Under $urveillance by $CIA$KGB$ $FBI$FSB$ $NSA$NKVD$ STASIO (STASI ASIO) $MI6$MIB$
OVER 40 YEARS for
Pro Peace Anti War
Pro Environment Anti Nuclear
Sentiments and Activities
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