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 Followup-To: alt.activism.d Date: 18 Jul 1995 00:51:15 GMT Organization: PACH Lines: 47 Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Resent-From: rich Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu /** headlines: 104.0 **/ ** 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 ** End of text from cdp:headlines ** *************************************************************************** This material came from PeaceNet, a non-profit progressive networking service. For more information, send a message to peacenet-info@igc.apc.org *************************************************************************** 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 Followup-To: talk.environment Date: 31 Jul 1995 00:54:17 GMT Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line Lines: 34 Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu Keywords: environment press [Greenpeace Press Release -- Redistribute Freely] Via Environet, the Greenpeace BBS 415-512-9108 ================================================================= 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. ####