GREENPEACE FEB10 NEWSLETTER

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Students: Prove Yourself

Greenpeace is looking for the next generation of student leaders who are ready to stand up and protect the planet. Are you up for the challenge? If you’re a current undergraduate student and passionate about protecting the environment, we want YOU to join us.

The Greenpeace Organizing Term is a semester of advanced training for student activists. We’ve just opened our Summer ’10 and Fall ’10 applications. An opportunity of a lifetime awaits you, please don’t wait. Spaces fill up quickly so apply today.


Nuclear Power: A Dirty and Dangerous Distraction

President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion in federal loan guarantees for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the United States in nearly three decades. Greenpeace is extremely disappointed in the President’s decision to back nuclear power. It’s a dirty and dangerous distraction from the clean energy future he promised America.

Wall Street will not back nuclear power. The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has already determined that these loans stand a greater than 50% chance of default. But it appears the President is only listening to nuclear industry lobbyists.

Antigua, Be a Whale-Friendly Nation

Year after year, Japan lobbies to persuade the 88 countries that make up the International Whaling Commission to vote against the whaling moratorium. They will try anything to reestablish commercial whaling.

But, thanks to public pressure and the fear of lost tourism revenue, in 2008 the Commonwealth of Dominica announced they would be a whale conservation nation and no longer vote with Japan. Now the islands of Antigua and Barbuda are on the cusp of making the same decision.

Please take action and encourage the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda to do the right thing and vote for the whales, not against them.

Protect Bering Sea Canyons

When members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council looked out of their hotel and around the meeting rooms, they were reminded of the deep sea canyons in the Bering Sea that they're failing to protect. Greenpeace cleverly reminded them on newspapers, napkins, pens and t-shirts.

Last week, the NPFMC met in Portland, Oregon to discuss whether any new protections are needed within the approximately one million square miles of the ocean managed by the Council. The Council is dominated by fishing interests and, historically, management has favored industrial fishing over protecting the health of the ocean ecosystem.

Greenpeace is advocating for marine reserves. It’s the only way we can save the Bering Sea before it’s too late and the last remaining coral is finally destroyed by a factory trawler.


Whaling should be on trial, not the people opposing it

It's been almost two years since the politically motivated arrest of Junichi and Toru — the Greenpeace activists known as the Tokyo Two — for their roles in exposing the corruption and lies woven into the fabric that holds the whaling industry together. As the trial began this week, Greenpeace USA was one of many offices worldwide supporting the Tokyo Two at a Japanese embassy. We delivered new information to Japanese officials and demanded that the Japanese government respect the civil and political rights of its citizens, Junichi and Toru.

Before the verdict has even been rendered, a working group of the United Nations Human Rights Council has already ruled that the defendants' human rights have been breached by the Japanese justice system. A quarter of a million individuals, dozens of legal experts and human rights groups, such as Amnesty International, have all expressed equal concern.

Show your support for Junichi and Toru by taking action today. Tell the Japanese Embassy that you stand beside Junichi and Toru as co-defendants.






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