President Putin wants to be remembered in Russian history books as a nation builder. If his government continues to persecute gentle and kind hearted GreenPeace activists, young idealists who want nothing more than clean water and clean air and a protected Arctic, Vladimir Putin will be labelled a polluter and a fool! If those Greenpeace kids are pirates than I am the re-incarnation of Jesus Christ!
Joseph Raglione
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Subject: Protecting the environment isn't piracy
Date: Thu 10/10/13 6:13 PM
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Joseph,
28 Greenpeace activists and 2 journalists have been charged with piracy for protecting the Arctic from drilling.
Don’t let their voices be silenced.
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A Russian court has just formally charged 28 Greenpeace activists and 2 freelance journalists with piracy. Two Canadians are among them.
If convicted, each could face up to fifteen years in a Russian prison. All for the crime of peacefully protesting oil drilling in the Arctic. It’s the most serious threat to Greenpeace’s environmental work since French secret service agents bombed and sunk the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior — killing a crew member — back in 1985.
But we didn’t back down then and can’t back down now — no matter how far those in power go to silence the people who speak out against Arctic oil drilling and environmental destruction. With your support, we can stop drilling in the Arctic just like we stopped French nuclear weapons testing three decades ago.
If you have been waiting for the right time to make a gift to Greenpeace, this is it. More than ever, we need your support to help save the Arctic and for all the work we do to protect the environment. Please chip in whatever you can today. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
The scene from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise three weeks ago was almost unbelievable.
Using a helicopter and ropes, fifteen armed Russian special forces agents boarded the ship and started rounding up everyone onboard, assembling them on the helideck and taking control of the ship. The crew was eventually moved to the main area of the ship and put under guard while the ship was towed to the Russian city of Murmansk.
It was in Murmansk where, just last week, the last of the Greenpeace activists were charged with piracy. They’re not pirates. Peaceful protest isn’t piracy. It’s the voice that our environment desperately needs right now.
Don’t let that voice and the voices of those charged with piracy in Russia be silenced. Please help support our work to save the Arctic and protect the environment by making a gift today.
Greenpeace doesn’t take money from corporations or governments so that we can stay independent and do what’s necessary to protect the environment. Especially when corporations and governments are the ones threatening our environment in the first place.
We rely entirely on financial support from people like you to do the work that we do. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Thanks for all you do.
With thanks,
Christy Ferguson
Arctic Campaign
Greenpeace Canada
P.S. A Russian court has just formally charged 28 Greenpeace activists and 2 freelance journalists, including 2 Canadians, with piracy for protesting Arctic drilling. Please make your most generous contribution today and support our work to save the Arctic and protect the environment. |
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