Eco History
January 23, 2008, 9:02 am
Filed under: Deep Green, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Core Values | Tags: Bearing Witness, Direct Action, Ecology, Greenpeace, Greenwash, History, philosophy, Quakers, Rex Weyler
Filed under: Deep Green, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Core Values | Tags: Bearing Witness, Direct Action, Ecology, Greenpeace, Greenwash, History, philosophy, Quakers, Rex Weyler
When the first Greenpeace boat sailed across the Gulf of Alaska in 1971 toward the U.S. nuclear test site in the Aleutian Islands, the crew and their supporters in Canada had no idea that the campaign would launch a global organization. Irving Stowe, Quaker leader of the Don’t Make a Wave Committee that launched the campaign, belonged to a dozen such groups and believed that after a campaign the group should disband. His idea of keeping things simple and grassroots has merit, but as we know, that’s not how things turned out.
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