John Hocevar, from Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior, writes about the assault on the Greenpeace staff blog:
“We are in Valletta Harbor in Malta. We learned that there were two vessels here owned by Fuentes, the tuna tycoon who controls over half the bluefin catch in the Mediterranean. We decided to board the vessel to inspect the cargo and documentation. Three women, Emma, Rita, and Liz, were the first to volunteer.
After the vessels refused our polite request to allow us access, Emma stepped on board to press the point. She was immediately attacked – they punched her, pulled her hair, picked her up and threw her overboard. One person hurled a large wooden pallet which whistled by our heads, and another tossed a full bucket of paint into one of our boats. If either of those had hit their intended targets, someone could have been seriously injured, but fortunately no damage was done.”
This all reminds me about the video which shows peaceful environmental activists who were protecting an old-growth forest in Tasmania, Australia, being violently attacked by timber workers.
Peaceful environmental activists who were protecting an old-growth forest in Tasmania, Australia, have been violently attacked by timber workers as they were blocking the road for them.
The timber workers attacked the car that the protestors were using to block the road using a sledgehammer and kicking in its windows. They later dragged out a 22-year-old protestor and kicked him repeatedly.
The brutal attack was caught on tape by one of the protestors:
This 38-year old-video which shows a lion being reunited with his two childhood owners has already been seen by millions on video sites like YouTube. And now it has come to Green Blog (Yes, we are suckers for cute movies).
The lion named Christian was bought from an exotic animals department in Harrods in 1969 by the two Australians John Rendall and Anthony Bourke for 250 guineas. They took him home and raised him in their flat.
Narrated by Harrison Ford, “Can’t Close Our Eyes” outlines the threats we face from destroying the world’s natural life support system and the reasons we still have for optimism.
Below are some of the best Green videos of the week, collected by the Ecolive.TV community.
How Far We’ve Come – END ALL CRUELTY This video is dedicated AnimalLib, and to all the other animal activists on youtube who lost their accounts and their videos for raising awareness against animal cruelty. Help us to protect the animals.
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Map reveals extent of human damage to oceans
Marine ecologist Ben Halpern shows us the map he unveiled at the AAAS meeting in Boston last week, which shows the impact of different human activities on oceans worldwide.
Raising the share of renewable energy from 8.5% to 20% in the overall energy consumption is a necessary contribution to the global fight against climate change and towards better control over our energy dependence. The EU is a world leader in the use and deployment of technologies that exploit renewable energy sources, providing over 350.000 jobs and an annual turn-over of € 30 billion.
A saxophone made from a pipe, a film case, part of a balloon, and a bit of air pump hose ; A group of printers modded to play songs together ; A combination of disposable chopsticks, aluminum cans, and other items that a kid uses to play the Hanshin Tigers fight song Living green recycle.
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This video is dedicated AnimalLib, and to all the other animal activists on youtube who lost their accounts and their videos for raising awareness against animal cruelty. Help us to protect the animals.
Raising the share of renewable energy from 8.5% to 20% in the overall energy consumption is a necessary contribution to the global fight against climate change and towards better control over our energy dependence. The EU is a world leader in the use and deployment of technologies that exploit renewable energy sources, providing over 350.000 jobs and an annual turn-over of € 30 billion.
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