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Die "Ode an die Freude" als Aufruf zum Action & Beethoven Neunte (9.) Film, nach der Neunten von Beethoven & Famous 4 Hinweise: wirklich revolutionäre Musik 14JAN14 & 19NOV12

 
DAS ist ein Musikstück, das zu Zeiten wird mich stoppen in meine Tracks und andere Zeiten machen mich wollen tanzen wie niemand passt und zu anderen Zeiten hebe meinen Geist und mich weinen. In diesen dunklen Zeiten für einige Nationen um die Welt, ich glaube, der Ukraine, der syrischen Rebellen und Flüchtlinge, der Familien der MH370, einmal in eine Weile ist "Ode an die Freude" genau das, was ihre Seelen hören müssen. Und vor allem für die Ukraine, mit der russischen Besatzungstruppen ukrainischen Krim, massiert an ihrer Grenze und russische Provokateure provoziert und die Förderung der gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen der ukrainischen Bevölkerung in der ganzen Nation, sich vorstellen, die Inspiration, wenn die Ukraine verabschiedet "Ode an die Freude" als Nationalhymne. Nur dieses Video ansehen, und klicken Sie auf den Link für weitere, schöne Menschen und ihre Versionen von diesem zeitlosen Klassiker. Und sicher sein, klicken Sie auf den ersten Link von NPR "All Things Considered" hören und fühlen, diese Geschichte zu sein .....

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Die "Ode an die Freude" als Aufruf zum Handeln

von NPR Mitarbeiter

14. Januar 2014 03.49 Uhr

8 min 59 sec

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Ein chinesischer Student an den Tiananmen-Platz 1989 Proteste, wo Lautsprecher spielen Beethovens Neunte Symphonie wurden manipuliert zu übertönen Regierung Sendungen.

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Kerry Candaele sagt er erinnert sich genau, wo er war, als er zum ersten Mal hörte Neunte Symphonie. Er war in seinen 20ern an der Zeit, in den 1970er Jahren, treiben die kalifornischen Küste in einem Auto, das er von einem Freund geliehen hatte. Er tauchte in einer Kassette fand er, und was er gehört sowohl schockiert ihn und befördert ihn.
Nun hat Candaele seine Obsession mit Beethovens Neunter in einen Dokumentarfilm gedreht:. Er folgt dem Neunten der ganzen Welt, nach Chile und China, wo sie sich eine Stärkung der Hymne der Solidarität, und in Japan, wo Aufführungen von DAIKU - der Große Nine - sind eine geschätzte jährliche Tradition.

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"Die mit Beethoven identifiziert Japanisch", sagt Candaele. "Wissen Sie, die Quintessenz der romantischen Figur des Beethoven als dieser Mann, der gefoltert wird und die Kämpfe und überwindet und erreicht schließlich diesen Höhepunkt des künstlerischen Schaffens mit der Neunten Symphonie - seine letzte Symphonie -. Drei Jahre bevor er stirbt" Es wurde diese jährliche Veranstaltung, bei der 5.000 Menschen manchmal, manchmal 10.000 Menschen, die singen in Deutsch für sechs Monate geübt haben, stehen zusammen im Dezember und singen die "Ode an die Freude '."
Candaele, der auch als Co-Autor ein Buch über das Thema mit Greg Mitchell, sprach vor kurzem . mit NPR Melissa Block über der Wickel Reise von Beethovens Neunter Candaele erzählt der neunten Geschichte - von der Nutzung durch den Tiananmen-Platz Demonstranten zu übertönen Regierung Broadcasts an seine Aneignung durch das Dritte Reich als triumphierenden deutschen Hymne - wie auch seine eigenen Gedanken auf Beethovens Absichten für die Musik. Hören Sie mehr von ihrer Unterhaltung an der Audio-Link (oben).

Beethovens berühmten 4 Hinweise: wirklich revolutionäre Musik

von NPR Mitarbeiter

19. November 2012 17.11 Uhr

12 min 58 sec

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Eine signierte Porträt von Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Ein neues Buch, eine neue Aufnahme und einige alte Instrumente, alle die sich an die denkwürdigen Satz in der Musik:. Die Eröffnung von 's Fünfte Symphonie
Matthew Guerrieri hat ein Buch über diese Symphonie geschrieben, genannt die ersten vier Hinweise: Beethovens Fünfte und die Menschen Imagination . Guerrieri schreibt darüber, wie Beethovens Stück schwang mit jeder vom Revolutionäre Romantiker und deutschen Nationalisten zu anti-deutschen Widerstandskämpfer.
So viele Menschen haben so viel Bedeutung gerade in den ersten vier Noten gefunden. Aber Guerrieri sagt, dass wir wirklich nicht wissen, dass alle viel von dem, was Beethoven von ihnen gemeint ist.
"Die häufigste Geschichte, die erzählt wird, ist, dass Beethoven angeblich gesagt, dass die Öffnung der Sinfonie war angeblich als Symbol für das Schicksal an die Tür klopft. Und ist wahrscheinlich eine Erfindung von seinem Biographen, obwohl wir nicht wirklich sagen ", sagt Guerrieri NPR Robert Siegel. "Die andere Geschichte geht um bei der Zeit, dass Beethoven es war, dass er das Anfangsmotiv aus dem Gesang eines Vogels bekommen hatte. Und diese Geschichte einfach irgendwie fiel weg, als das Schicksal Symbolik übernahm. Doch in Beethovens Zeit, und . Beethoven, dass wäre eigentlich ein ziemlich edlen Weg, um eine musikalische Idee gewesen " A Romantic 'Bombshell' Lieferung von Beethovens Fünfter In seinem Buch schreibt Guerrieri:

"Die Romantik [aus dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert] nie wirklich beendet ... Jedes Mal, wenn ein Singer-Songwriter zur Projektion von autobiografischen Authentizität gelobt, jedes Mal, wenn ein Filmstar drückt den Wunsch nach einem Projekt, das es" mehr persönliche, "jedes Mal, ein Flop wird anschließend als vor-seine-Zeit-Meisterwerk neu kategorisiert, sind alle diese Widerhall der Bombe der Romantik. Und eine seiner herausragenden Liefersysteme war Beethovens Fünfte. "

Beethovens Fünfte und die menschliche Vorstellungskraft

Hardcover, 304 Seiten

Der Autor fügt hinzu:. "Ich denke, dass die Romantik ist eine andere Sache, die wir einfach irgendwie für selbstverständlich, weil sie Art immer für uns da gewesen, aber es ist erstaunlich, wie viele dieser Ideen neu waren um die Zeit, dass Beethoven schrieb Musik die ganze Idee, dass die Musik beginnt dort, wo die Sprache aufhört -. welche ziemlich heutzutage ist ein Klischee -., das war eine sehr spezifische romantische Idee, und es ist eines, das dauerte auch die Idee, dass der Künstler irgendwie privilegiert Zugriff auf diese Dinge jenseits der Sprache, beim Zugriff auf das Erhabene, beim Zugriff auf Einblicke in die göttliche, aber Sie, es zu charakterisieren wollen. Viele der Ideen, mit denen wir über Musik sprechen sind diese Ideen. "
Und wie man diese vier Noten zu spielen? "Die beiden Dinge, die über mehr als alle anderen technischen Aspekt der Öffnung argumentiert worden sind, sind das Tempo und die Fermate, die Beethoven in der Öffnung stecken", sagt Guerrieri. "Eine Fermate ist eine unbestimmte Zeit - die Leiter kann, so lange er will, auf eine Note halten." Holding On And Letting Fly: Die Tempo Die Frage des Tempos geht zurück auf eine interessante Geschichte erzählt Guerrieri in seinem Buch. Das Metronom war eine Erfindung von Beethovens Tag, er wollte nicht auf sie zugreifen, wenn er seine frühen Sinfonien zu schreiben. Aber später, mit ihr in Berührung kam und liebte das Gerät. "Er kauft sofort ein und setzt sich und beginnt, geht zurück über alle seine alten Partituren und setzen in Metronomangaben", sagt Guerrieri. "Und er nahm ein Tempo für die Fünfte Sinfonie, dass auch heute klingt wirklich erstaunlich schnell." Die Einstellung wählte er 108 Schläge pro Minute - so schnell, so hart zu spielen, Guerrieri, sagt, dass die Menschen seit Jahrhunderten Theoretisieren darüber, warum Beethoven könnte seine eigene Symphonie mismarked haben. Ein gebrochener Metronom? Advancing Taubheit? Niemand weiß es. Dah-Dah-Dah-Duh Für "Sieg" Hier ist eine andere Geschichte Guerrieri schreibt über diesen ersten vier Noten: Im Zweiten Weltkrieg, die anti-deutschen Widerstand im besetzten Belgien brauchte eine einfache Graffiti-Symbol. Ein Belgier kam mit dem Buchstaben "V" Es stand ebenso für Victoire - "Sieg" in Französisch - und Vrijheid , oder "Freiheit", in Flämisch. "Sobald das" V "-Idee wieder auf die BBC und sie ihn zu benutzen in ihren Auslandssendungen wollten", sagt Guerrieri, "war es bei der BBC, dass sie die Idee hatte, die Kombination mit dem Morse-Code für" V " :. drei kurze und eine lange jemand bei der BBC klar, dass Spiele Beethovens Fünfte So beginnen sie könnten mit, dass als kleiner Tag, um zu symbolisieren, dass [etwas] würde ein pro-Ally, Propaganda-Sendung der BBC sein. ". A Weniger homogenisierte Fünfte

Es gibt eine neue Aufnahme von John Eliot Gardiners Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique verfügbar von Beethovens Symphonie Nr. 5 - die Revolutionären und romantischen Orchester oder der ORR. Sie spielen, was Gardiner als "Übergangs"-Instrumente: Sie sind nicht barock, aber nicht modern. Die Saiten sind gut, die Bögen nach innen krümmen. "Die primäre Ausdruck kommt aus dem Bogen - mit der rechten Hand, nicht mit der linken Hand", erklärt der Leiter. Die Hörner sind ventillose: "Es hat eine viel roher und einen viel weicheren Klang als die moderne Horn, denke ich", fügt er hinzu. Die Holzbläser "haben eine spezifische Klangfarbe, die ein Instrument unterscheidet - eine Flöte von einer Klarinette, eine Oboe und ein Fagott aus -. Differenzierter als Sie in einem modernen Sinfonieorchester finden werden" Die Pauken sind mit Hartholzstöcken auf Kalbsköpfen gespielt ", so gibt es eine viel mehr Schlagkante als die prall, plusher Klänge der Symphonie Pauken."
Das Ergebnis ist ein Orchester, das weniger homogenisiert klingt, mit weniger ein Samt Textur, als ein Orchester von modernen Instrumenten. "Ich nenne es viel mehr mehrsträngige, mehrfarbig", sagt Gardiner. "Es ist wie der Blick auf das Gewebe eines Teppichs, wenn man all die verschiedenen Stränge, die verschiedenen Farben, Gewebe übereinander, sondern als Eingriff und verschwommen sehen." All Things Considered "s Robert Siegel sagt, dass er insbesondere durch geschlagen neue Aufnahme Gardiner, da er seit vielen Jahren verbunden mit Originalinstrumenten - "Vegetarismus" Gardiner wirft spielerisch. "Na ja, ein bisschen eine weichere, nicht ganz so robust, Sound," Siegel reagiert. A Fünfte mit einem mehr "Human" Sound "Das ist ein Missverständnis", Gardiner sagt, "nicht auf Ihrer Seite, aber auf dem Weg so oft, dass diese Instrumente in einer milden, Edel Weise gespielt. Und es ist das Gegenteil. Für mich sind sie viel viszeralem, viel nachdrücklicher und Art viel mehr Mensch , in einer Weise, als die viel anspruchsvoller Mechanismen der modernen Orchester. " Gardiner sagt nachdrücklich, dass mit historischen Instrumenten ist nicht das Ziel an sich. "Ich habe nie diese Instrumente behandelt, als ob es eine Art von antiquarischen Stunt", sagt er. "Für mich sind sie ein Einstieg in eine andere Klangwelt von der, die wir die ganze Zeit hören." Wie für Gardiner Tempo, läuft seine erste Satz der Fünften Symphonie nur 6 Minuten und 39 Sekunden. Der berühmte Dirigent Arturo Toscanini schnell nahm 7 Minuten und 13 Sekunden für eine Aufnahme. Am anderen Ende der Skala: Im Jahr 1970 und dem New Philharmonia Orchestra spielte die Öffnungsbewegung der Fünfte in 9 Minuten und 14 Sekunden, so Gardiner und der ORR sind Raser. Kann ein Orchester eigentlich die Öffnungsbewegung an markierten Tempo Beethovens spielen von 108 Schlägen pro Minute? "Mit Schwierigkeiten", Gardiner lacht. "Es wird dazu neigen, durch so ein Mischmasch kommen. Dringlichkeit Aber es sagt, nicht wahr?" Ein revolutionärer Geist "So wie ich den Ansatz der Fifth Symphony Öffnungsbewegung", sagt Gardiner, "ist über die Französisch Revolution, die Beethoven sehr in zu der Zeit gefangen, und die Musik mit dem Französisch Revolution verbunden ist, und dass insbesondere Hymne [von Claude Joseph] Rouget de Lisle ", schrieb La Marseillaise : "Ich werde sterben, Schwert in der Hand, für die Rechte des Menschen und für die Ehre der Revolution und der Republik. "Wenn es in einem gewissen Sinne eine codierte Botschaft der Musik ohne Worte", sagt Gardiner, "dann haben Sie einen Zugang zu der Fünften Symphonie haben. Es muss nicht das Schicksal an die Tür klopft sein. Es gibt eine Rhetorik und die Aufregung, die ich bin mir sicher, ist implizit in Beethovens Notation. "

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The 'Ode To Joy' As A Call To Action & Beethoven Ninth (9th) Film; Following The Ninth & Beethoven's Famous 4 Notes: Truly Revolutionary Music 14JAN14&19NOV12

 
THIS is one piece of music that at times will make me stop in my tracks and other times make me want to dance like nobody is watching and other times lift my spirit and make me cry. In these dark times for some nations around the world, I think of Ukraine, of the Syrian rebels and refugees, of the families of MH370, 'Ode To Joy' once in a while is just what their souls need to hear. And especially for Ukraine, with Russian troops occupying Ukrainian Crimea, massed on their border and Russian provocateurs provoking and promoting violent clashes between the Ukrainian people across the nation, imagine the inspiration if Ukraine adopted 'Ode To Joy' as their national anthem. Just watch this video, and click the link for more, beautiful people and their versions of this timeless classic. And be sure to click the first link to hear and feel this story from NPR's 'All Things Considered'.....

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The 'Ode To Joy' As A Call To Action

by NPR Staff

January 14, 2014 3:49 PM

8 min 59 sec

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A Chinese student at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, where speakers playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony were rigged up to drown out government broadcasts.

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Kerry Candaele says he remembers exactly where he was when he first heard 's Ninth Symphony. He was in his 20s at the time, in the 1970s, driving up the California coast in a car he'd borrowed from a friend. He popped in a cassette he found, and what he heard both shocked him and transported him.
Now, Candaele has turned his obsession with Beethoven's Ninth into a documentary film: . He follows the Ninth around the world, to Chile and China, where it became an empowering anthem of solidarity, and to Japan, where performances of daiku — the Great Nine — are a cherished annual tradition.

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"The Japanese identified with Beethoven," Candaele says. "You know, the quintessential romantic figure of Beethoven as this man who is tortured and struggles and overcomes and finally reaches this pinnacle of artistic creation with the Ninth Symphony — his final symphony — three years before he dies. "It became this yearly event where sometimes 5,000 people, sometimes 10,000 people, who have practiced singing in German for six months, stand together in December and sing the 'Ode to Joy.'"
Candaele, who also co-wrote a book on the topic with Greg Mitchell, recently spoke with NPR's Melissa Block about the winding journey of Beethoven's Ninth. Candaele recounts the Ninth's history — from its use by Tiananmen Square protesters to drown out government broadcasts to its appropriation by the Third Reich as a triumphalist German anthem — as well as his own thoughts on Beethoven's intentions for the music. Hear more of their conversation at the audio link (above).

Beethoven's Famous 4 Notes: Truly Revolutionary Music

by NPR Staff

November 19, 2012 5:11 PM

12 min 58 sec

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An autographed portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of 's Fifth Symphony.
Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this symphony, called The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination. Guerrieri writes about how Beethoven's piece resonated with everyone from revolutionaries to Romantics, and German nationalists to anti-German resistance fighters.
So many people have found so much meaning in just those first four notes. But Guerrieri says that we really don't know all that much of what Beethoven meant by them.
"The most common story that is told is that Beethoven allegedly said that the opening of the symphony was supposedly symbolizing fate knocking at the door. And this is probably an invention of his biographer, although we can't really tell," Guerrieri tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "The other story going around at the time that Beethoven wrote it was that he had gotten the opening motif from the song of a bird. And that story just sort of fell away as the fate symbolism took over. But in Beethoven's time, and to Beethoven, that actually would have been a fairly noble way of getting a musical idea."
A Romantic 'Bombshell,' Delivered By Beethoven's Fifth
In his book, Guerrieri writes:

"The Romantic era [of the early 19th century] never really ended ... Every time a singer-songwriter is praised for projecting autobiographical authenticity, every time a movie star expresses the desire for a project that is 'more personal,' every time a flop is subsequently recategorized as a before-its-time masterpiece, all these are reverberations of the bombshell of Romanticism. And one of its pre-eminent delivery systems was Beethoven's Fifth."

Beethoven's Fifth And The Human Imagination

Hardcover, 304 pages

The author adds: "I think that the Romantic era is another thing that we just sort of take for granted, because they've kind of always been there for us. But it's amazing how many of these ideas were new around the time that Beethoven was writing music. The whole idea that music picks up where language leaves off — which is pretty much a cliche nowadays — that was a very specific Romantic idea, and it's one that lasted. Also, the idea that the artist is somehow more privileged in accessing these things beyond language, in accessing the sublime, in accessing glimpses of the divine, however you want to characterize it. A lot of the ideas we use to talk about music are these ideas."
And how to play those four notes? "The two things that have been argued about more than any other technical aspect of the opening are the tempo and the fermata that Beethoven stuck in the opening," says Guerrieri. "A fermata is an indefinite hold — the conductor can hold onto a note as long as he wants."
Holding On And Letting Fly: The Tempo
The question of tempo relates back to an interesting story Guerrieri tells in his book. The metronome was an invention of Beethoven's day; he didn't have access to it when he was writing his early symphonies. But later, he came into contact with it and loved the device. "He immediately buys one and sits down and starts going back over all his old scores and putting in metronome markings," Guerrieri says. "And he picked a tempo for the Fifth Symphony that even today sounds really, astonishingly fast."
The setting he chose was 108 beats per minute — so fast, so hard to play, Guerrieri says, that people have been theorizing for centuries about why Beethoven might have mismarked his own symphony. A broken metronome? Advancing deafness? Nobody knows.
Dah-Dah-Dah-Duh For 'Victory'
Here's one other story Guerrieri writes about those first four notes: In World War II, the anti-German resistance in occupied Belgium needed a simple graffiti symbol. A Belgian came up with the letter "V." It stood equally for victoire — "victory" in French — and Vrijheid, or "freedom," in Flemish. "Once that 'V' idea got back to the BBC and they wanted to start using it in their overseas broadcasts," says Guerrieri, "it was at the BBC that they had the idea of combining it with the Morse code for 'V': three short and one long. Somebody at the BBC realized that matches Beethoven's Fifth. So they could start using that as a little tag to symbolize that [something] was going to be a pro-Ally, propaganda broadcast from the BBC."
A Less Homogenized Fifth

There's a new recording available of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 by John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique — the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra, or the ORR. They play what Gardiner calls "transitional" instruments: They're not baroque, but not modern. The strings are gut; the bows curve inward. "The primary expression comes from the bow — with the right hand, not with the left hand," the conductor explains. The horns are valveless: "It's got a much rawer and a much more mellow sound than the modern horn, I think," he adds. The woodwinds "have a specific timbre which distinguishes one instrument — a flute from a clarinet, and an oboe from a bassoon — more differentiated than you'll find in a modern symphony orchestra." The timpani are played with hard wooden sticks on calfskin heads, "so there's a much more percussive edge than the plump, plusher sounds of the symphony timpani."
The result is an orchestra that sounds less homogenized, with less of a velvet texture, than an orchestra of modern instruments. "I call it much more multistranded, multicolored," says Gardiner. "It's like looking at the weave of a carpet when you can see all the different strands, the different colors, woven one upon the other, rather than meshed and blurred."
All Things Considered's Robert Siegel says that he was particularly struck by Gardiner's new recording, since he has for many years associated original instruments with — "Vegetarianism?" Gardiner interjects playfully.
"Well, kind of a softer, not quite so robust sound," Siegel responds.
A Fifth With A More "Human" Sound
"That's a misunderstanding," Gardiner says, "not on your part, but on the way that so often these instruments are played in a bland, precious way. And it's the opposite. To me, they're much more visceral, much more emphatic, and kind of much more human, in a way, than the much more sophisticated mechanisms of modern orchestras."
Gardiner says emphatically that using period instruments isn't the goal in itself. "I've never treated these instruments as though it's a kind of antiquarian stunt," he says. "To me, they're a point of entry into a different sound world from the one that we hear all the time."
As for Gardiner's tempo, his first movement of the Fifth Symphony runs just 6 minutes and 39 seconds. The famously fast conductor Arturo Toscanini took 7 minutes and 13 seconds for one recording. At the other end of the scale: In 1970, and the New Philharmonia Orchestra played the opening movement of the Fifth in 9 minutes and 14 seconds; so Gardiner and the ORR are speedsters.
Can an orchestra actually play the opening movement at Beethoven's marked tempo of 108 beats per minute? "With difficulty," Gardiner laughs. "It will tend to come through as a mishmash. But it suggests urgency, doesn't it?"
A Revolutionary Spirit
"The way I approach the Fifth Symphony's opening movement," Gardiner says, "is via the French Revolution, which Beethoven was very caught up in at the time, and the music associated with the French Revolution, and that particular hymn [of Claude Joseph] Rouget de Lisle," who wrote La Marseillaise: "I will die, sword in hand, for the rights of man and for the glory of the revolution and the Republic.
"If it is in some sense a coded message of music without words," Gardiner says, "then you've got an entry point to the Fifth Symphony. It doesn't have to be fate knocking at the door. It gives a rhetoric and excitement which I'm sure is implicit in Beethoven's notation."

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Sea Shepherd E-News: Operation Zero Tolerance 15MAR13

HERE is an update on Sea Shepherd's Operation Zero Tolerance, including video of the Japanese whaling fleet's acts of violence against Sea Shepherd and the whales of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Please support Sea Shepherd's Operation Zero Tolerance with a donation if you can, just click the link. And be sure to check out the Sea Shepherd video page at http://www.seashepherd.org.au/zero-tolerance/video.html

http://youtu.be/M31RJqpuoZg  Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd, We cannot thank you enough for your amazing support throughout Operation Zero Tolerance. It would not have been nearly as successful without you. Our mighty vessles are finally en route to their homeport of Melbourne and scheduled for arrival next week, following our most successful Antarctic whale defence campaign to date. Sea Shepherd Australia still need your support as all four ships were heavily battered during their long and arduous ordeal in the Australian Antarctic waters defending our magnificent whales. Once More Into the Southern Ocean Breach! The events that unfolded before the end of campaign were like watching a bad horror movie - when the heroes turn their back and the credits are about to roll, the killer rises up again, this time with harpoon in hand to kill another defenseless whale. Find out what crazy events unfolded before the end of the whaling season. Sea Shepherd Fleet Sets Sail for Homeport After being escorted out of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by Sea Shepherd Australia, the Japanese whaling fleet made an about-face and headed back toward the whale sanctuary, though not for practicality. Read the rest of this article! Again, we cannot show our gratitude enough to all of you that have shown tremendous support throughout Operation Zero Tolerance. We are very excited to welcome our crew home next Wednesday into Melbourne, and are looking forward to having ship tours start up again soon after they arrive. We would love to see you all down there! Thanks to you, this has been our most successful campaign and we have gained so much more support and awareness for the plight of the whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. This illegal slaughter will no longer go unnoticed and you can help us continue to fight poachers worldwide, ending this once and for all! For the oceans, Jeff Hansen Australian Director Shop & Support Show your support for the Oceans with an Operation Zero Tolerance T-shirt! Wishlists Our Ships and Crew  Need You!  Video Check out footage from Operation Zero Tolerance! Give Photo Gallery Check out amazing photos from this season! Follow Us Sea Shepherd Australia 7/288 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Vic 3065, Australia Tel: +61 3 9445 0323 Email: australia@seashepherd.org    Share on Facebook Not on our list? Sign up for the Sea Shepherd e-News!

Sea Shepherd Call to Action: Your Signature Needed Fast 22FEB13

SEA SHEPHERD needs people to sign their petitions on the We The People website by 28 FEB 13. One is asking the U.S. government to grant save haven to Capt Paul Watson. The other is calling on the American government to impose economic sanctions on Japan in response to Japanese whaling, in violation of international law, in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Click the links below to sign the petitions, and more information on these issues is available on the Sea Shepherd website and at Sea Shepherd Needs Your Help To Save Whales & Help Captain Watson 29JAN13 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/sea-shepherd-needs-your-help-to-save.html

Time is running out! ACT FAST − the deadline is February 28th and we urgently need your signature on two petitions to help Captain Watson and the whales! The United States government has created a quick and easy way for the people's voice to be heard − and you don't even have to be a US citizen or resident to voice your opinion! Official petitions can be created on White House's website, and once a petition receives 100,000 signatures within 30 days, it elicits an official response from the President. This is urgent! We need the President of the United States to seriously consider the following: Take strong action to stop the Japanese from killing whales in the Southern Ocean Antarctic Whale Sanctuary: http://wh.gov/Vnbu Provide safe haven to Captain Paul Watson, Founder of Sea Shepherd:http://wh.gov/VnRf It only takes two minutes. Please sign these petitions. You can be part of an historic effort to provide safe haven to one of the greatest environmentalists of our era AND enact real change via the United States government to see whaling in the Southern Ocean Antarctic Whale Sanctuary come to an end!     Anyone over age 13 can sign the petitions and you do not have to be a US citizen. However, you must create an account on the White House's website, but only name and email are required fields.Please sign and share today! Time is running out! For the oceans, Your friends at Sea Shepherd Conservation Society P.S. We only have until February 28th to gather the required 100,000 signatures! For more information on this situation, please visit our website.

Sea Shepherd E-News: Operation Zero Tolerance 6FEB13

UPDATE on Operation Zero Tolerance and a video of Capt Paul Watson in ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp) from Sea Shepherd....

Dear Craig, Thanks to you we have managed to ensure the illegal Japanese whalers have killed no whales this season. Operation Zero Tolerance is living up to its name! That was the first January that zero whales have been killed! With your continuing support of Operation Zero Tolerance, we are sure we can make this campaign a massive success. Please keep us in Antarctic waters as long as necessary and donate to the Whales Navy. SSS Bob Barker Tailed by the Attack Dog of the Whaling Fleet Following the first no-kill January, the SSS Bob Barker found itself being tailed by the Japanese whaler's ship the Shonan Maru 2. In order to escape the armed Japanese Government vessel, which is known as the attack dog of Japan's illegal whaling fleet, the SSS Bob Barker travelled into the Australian territorial waters of Macquarie Island. The Macquarie Base commander had been notified by the Australian Antarctic Division to expect the potential arrival of the Shonan Maru No. 2. Learn what happened next... Australian Government Orders Japanese Whalers to Leave Australian Waters The Japanese security vessel, the Shonan Maru No. 2, which is carrying armed coast guards, entered the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone around Macquarie Island in pursuit of the SSS Bob Barker. The Australian government has officially notified the Japanese government to order their vessel to remain outside of Australian waters. Find out if the whalers followed the orders... With increasing support from the Australian government, due to your zero tolerance of whales being murdered, we are getting that much closer to keeping the Whale Sanctuary safe. Unfortunately it's not over yet, but with your help I truly believe we can make this campaign live up to its name- Operation Zero Tolerance! For the oceans, Jeff Hansen Australian Director	Captain's Blog Regular updates from our four inspiring captains! Photo Gallery Check out the amazing photos coming in from Operation Zero Tolerance! Give Video Catch all the videos from Operation Zero Tolerance! Follow Us
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Sea Shepherd Needs Your Help To Save Whales & Help Captain Watson 29JAN13

HERE are the links for the We The People petitions started by Sea Shepherd and the reasons behind the petitions. More information on this is available at Sea Shepherd E-News: What you can do for the oceans 1FEB13 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/sea-shepherd-e-news-what-you-can-do-for.html

Conservation Group Launches Two White House Petitions; Has 30 Days to Collect 100,000 Signatures

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the world’s leading direct-action conservation non-profit, today has filed two petitions on the White House  “We The People” page of the website which seek the U.S. Government’s support in upholding conservation law regarding protecting at-risk whales in the Antarctic’s Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and with ensuring safe haven for the organization’s respected founder, Captain Paul Watson.

The first petition is titled, “Take strong action to stop the Japanese from killing whales in the Southern Ocean Antarctic Whale Sanctuary” and can be found at:http://wh.gov/Vnbu. The full text of the petition language follows:

“The President must take swift and decisive action against Japan's illegal whaling.

Under the Pelly Amendment and the Packwood-Magnuson Amendment, the President has the power to apply economic sanctions against Japan for its continued whale slaughter in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary. The United States asserts that it resolutely opposes whale hunting by Japan, but does little to actually bring a halt to the practice.

The U.S. State Dept. has declared: “We remain resolute in our opposition to commercial whaling, including so-called ‘scientific’ whaling, in particular in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary established by the International Whaling Commission. In this context we wish to emphasize that lethal techniques are not required in modern whale conservation and management.”

The second petition is titled, “Provide Safe Haven to Captain Paul Watson, Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society” and can be found at: http://wh.gov/VnRf. The full text of the petition language follows: 

We request the U.S. not extradite U.S citizen Paul F. Watson.

There are two active Interpol Red Notices issued against Captain Watson at the request of Costa Rica and Japan. Underlying these notices are non-lethal acts in defense of marine life suffering from illegal shark fishing and whaling operations. The warrants are politically motivated.

Captain Watson is a world-renowned and highly respected leader in environmental issues. In 1999, he was awarded President George H.W. Bush’s "Daily Points of Light" Award and in 2000, he was named one of Time Magazine’s “Top 20 Environmental Heroes of the 20th Century.” In 2012, he became only the second person ever to be honored with the Jules Verne Award for environmentalists and adventurers. Captain Watson is a national treasure.

According to the procedures on the “We the People” White House Petitions page, Sea Shepherd has until close of business on February 28^th (30 days) to garner 100,000 bonafide signatures from individuals 13 years and older who support these motions in order for the White House to consider taking action on the petitions.

Sea Shepherd has been engaging in interventions on the high seas in defense of marine wildlife for 35 years and for the last eight seasons against Japan’s Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) — a front for illegal, government-subsidized whaling — all within the confines of the law and without causing serious injury. Launching of the petitions is the latest effort by the conservation group to fight the ICR’s efforts to kill whales in a designated sanctuary and persecute the group’s founder, Captain Paul Watson.

“The majority of citizens in the free world have demonstrated time and again they are against the killing of intelligent, sentient whales, particularly when it involves killing in an internationally designated sanctuary,” said Scott West, Director of Investigations for Sea Shepherd. “Now is the time for everyone who values majestic marine wildlife in our oceans to sign this petition and encourage the Obama Administration to act to protect these at-risk whales who should not have to be subjected to harassment and a cruel, painful death from grenade-tipped harpoons shot within the confines of a sanctuary,” he added.

The second petition, which focuses on the legal status of Sea Shepherd founder, Captain Watson, asks for him to be provided safe haven in the U.S. Captain Watson is currently at sea as an observer with this season’s current Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign, on the SSS Steve Irwin. He cannot make landfall due to being the target of two ‘red notices’ issued by Interpol put forth at the request of Costa Rica and Japan, which seek to extradite him to those nations for trial on trumped up, politically motivated charges related to defending marine wildlife from poachers.

“Captain Watson is an eco-hero doing the job of enforcing marine conservation law that governments have shown they lack the political will or economic means to do,” said Susan Hartland, Administrative Director, Sea Shepherd. “He has won countless awards including President George H.W. Bush’s ‘Daily Points of Light Award’ for his conservation work and should be on a list of national heroes, not on Interpol’s “Red List,” she said. “The charges against him are clearly politically motivated and we, as a society, should be asking why, instead of Captain Watson, are the illegal whale poachers and shark-finners not being targeted by authorities and put on Interpol’s ‘Red List’?,” she added.

To sign “Take strong action to stop the Japanese from killing whales in the Southern Ocean Antarctic Whale Sanctuary,” go to: http://wh.gov/Vnbu. Credit: White House We The People Petition Page

To sign “Provide Safe Haven to Captain Paul Watson, Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,” go to:http://wh.gov/VnRf.  Credit: White House We The People Petition Page

SEA SHEPHERD, CAPTAIN WATSON & THE WHALES THANK YOU!

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