Greenpeace founder dies

Greenpeace founder dies

John Vidal
Tuesday May 3, 2005
The Guardian

He was a self-confessed beatnik, a bum, a hippy, a semi-trained journalist, a philosopher and an ecologist, but the last thing Bob Hunter said he ever imagined doing was co-founding a group that ended up as a multinational company with 2.5 million members, branches in 40 countries and a byword for environmental activism.
Mr Hunter, who died yesterday of prostate cancer aged 62, was a founding father of Greenpeace, and the most influential of all its early leaders. A radical young columnist on the Vancouver Sun newspaper, he had volunteered in 1969 to sail to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska in a barely seaworthy charter boat to try to stop the US testing an atomic bomb.
As the only person among the draft dodgers, peaceniks and political idealists who understood how the media worked, he filed lurid - and hilarious - columns to document the voyage.
"I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes," he said at the time. "But I ended up being first watch."



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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1475329,00.html

They're passing his corpse around with great delight. Now, what is that philosophy that they love to promote over there? The culture of....?

Their "culture of" is a fraud.

allowance which I had saved up and used the $5 to join Green Peace while the other kids where buying candy with their allowances at the White Hen. A long long long time ago.

Just because I'm getting older I don't want to be one of those, "Things were different back then" but they were. And America has disintegrated. All the good in America is/was Liberal. We used to do Walk-A-Thon's all the time. We'd get pledges per mile. All the money went to stop the Vietnam War, clean up the environment, save the animals being murdererd and eaten...

What heros people in Green Peace are/were back then. Doing things and challenging the establishment.

Everyhing good about America were liberals.

I dug up one of the original stckers GP sent to me. We were told to place these everywhere, which I did. Include was a post card which we sent to the Japanese Prime Minister. We had to put our own stamps on.

When you see them ramming a rubber raft against a heavy boat. But hell they are out there fighting for the planet. I think they are soooooooo cool.

My sincere condolences at the passing of there founder.

No internet, only Whore Media, SS police... We were really tough back then. Nothing but a bunch of pussys now-a-days.

nice people. Back then everyone hitch hiked and there was no murder of trouble.

These concerts would be full of people wearing Green Peace t-shirts. Can anyone guess the group of the bottom right ticket?

:)

When you could be close enough to actually see the performers!

you did many good things to be proud and you will be sorely missed.

:patriot: