From mosa@netcom.com Wed Jul 19 09:54:25 1995
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 09:31:48 -0700
From: mosa@netcom.com (Michele Lord)
To: dave@sgi.sgi.com
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: FRENCH TESTS AND NZ/AUSSIE ACTION
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Date: 18 Jul 1995 00:51:15 GMT
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** Topic: FRENCH TESTS AND NZ/AUSSIE ACTION **
** Written 12:16 PM Jul 17, 1995 by newsdesk in cdp:headlines **
From: IGC News Desk <newsdesk>
/* Written 11:55 PM Jul 12, 1995 by leahmcb@earthlight.co.nz in igc:grns.usa.forum */
/* ---------- "FRENCH TESTS AND NZ/AUSSIE ACTION" ---------- */
From: Leah McBey <leahmcb@earthlight.co.nz>
Dear friends,
An update on the NZ and Australian response to the French tests at Mururoa:
After a whole day caucus in Wellington, the NZ Prime Minister, Jim
Bolger, is allowing the possibility of sending an NZ navy vessel to the
test site at Mururoa. It will not be a frigate, he says, but possibly a
supply vessel.
This is in response to mounting public pressure and political concern
from opposition parties and MPs in his own team, many of whom are
considering an invitation from MPs in the Australian Federal government
to stage a joint action by sailing to Mururoa.
It is also now clear that there will be a flotilla of yachts sailing from
NZ into the test site to support our protests against resumption of
tests. They will no doubt act as moral support for the three
Greenpeace protesters who escaped during the arrest of the rest of the
protest team when French commandos boarded their vessel and, using tear
gas, took the group to a neighbouring island.
The three who took off in an inflatable are holed up somewhere on the
test atoll and have enough supplies to last about 6 weeks.
Please consider taking part in the joint actions via email and fax, to
put the type of pressure on Chirac which will allow him to step down
while saving face.
>From the Deep South Greens -
Leah McBey
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From mosa@netcom.com Wed Aug 2 17:25:54 1995
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:23:31 -0700
From: mosa@netcom.com (Michele Lord)
To: dave@sgi.sgi.com
From: Greenpeace (via Jym Dyer) <jym@remarque.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: GP: Cook Islands Sends Traditional Canoe to Join Peace Flotilla
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Date: 31 Jul 1995 00:54:17 GMT
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Keywords: environment press
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24 July 1995
COOK ISLANDS SENDS TRADITIONAL CANOE TO JOIN PEACE FLOTILLA
Rarotonga, July 20th 1995:- The Cook Islands Government and
Parliament has unanimously endorsed sending a vaka (traditional
Polynesian double hulled outrigger canoe) to Moruroa to protest a
resumption of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Henry told a Greenpeace delegation at
an official reception today that the vaka would best symbolise
the opposition of Polynesians to nuclear tests. It is proposed
that a Government MP join the vaka, while other MPs join either
the New Zealand Government vessel, the Tui, or a ship chartered
by Australian and New Zealand MPs.
Greenpeace last week appealed for an international peace flotilla
to oppose nuclear testing at the Moruroa test site. The SV
Rainbow Warrior docked in Rarotonga today for 48 hours to thank
local activists for their support; it will sail for Fiji on
Saturday. After repairs, the Warrior will voyage to Moruroa to
lead the peace flotilla. Another Greenpeace ship, the MV
Greenpeace, will leave Barcelona on Monday to join the Rainbow
Warrior and the Greenpeace yacht Vega, which is currently
monitoring the test site from outside the 12 mile exclusion zone.
Further information: Stephanie Mills +872 1300312 on board the SV
Rainbow Warrior.
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