Greenpeace losses: leaked documents reveal extent of financial disarray
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/23/greenpeace-losses-financial-disarray
A close-up of the logo on the new Rainbow Warrior ship. Photograph: Alex Milan Tracy/Corbis
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Greenpeace is one of the biggest and most high-profile environmental campaigning groups, with more than 2,000 employees globally and thousands more volunteers. It is based in Amsterdam and has 28 offices around the world that campaign and fundraise independently, including Greenpeace UK, which earlier this year successfully sent six activists to climb to the top of the Shard, Europes tallest building, to send a message opposing Shells plans for oil drilling in the Arctic.
The leaked material also reveals that:
The groups public face and top campaigner, executive director Kumi Naidoo, admits that internal communications are a huge problem;
Naidoo, who was previously a apartheid campaigner, says staff have good reason to be upset at a range of problems;
Staff are concerned at being shifted from Amsterdam on Dutch wages to national offices on lower local wages, as part of a major restructuring effort to decentralise the group;
The group did not campaign to have one of its three ships, the Arctic Sunrise, released by Russia because the political circumstances would have made it a wasted effort.