Rainbow Warriors: Legendary Stories from Greenpeace Ships

by Maite Mompo

Overview

Following the lives of the three ships with the name Rainbow Warrior, this book, written by a long-serving Greenpeace activist, tells the inside stories of life on board and recounts some of the ship's most exciting adventures and actions.

It is at once a narrative of real life on board, a history of some of the most famous vessels in the world, and also a history of Greenpeace itself, which goes beyond the oceans and touches on many aspects of the organization's work. In the end though it aims to bring out the personal stories and firsthand accounts of the ships' adventures—tales from the high seas, full of action and daring but also of humanity and great compassion.

Starting with the early life of Greenpeace and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior I by the French secret service through to the imprisonment of the Arctic 30 by the Russians, the stories are brought to life with photos from the Greenpeace archives, maps, and nautical charts. The most symbolic items belonging to the ship's historical inventory are be also included.

Maite Mompo has been a Greenpeace activist for over ten years. With the sea in her blood she started on a small boat, the Zorba, and then moved on to crew for the Arctic Sunrise, Esperanza, and Rainbow Warrior. Spending half her year at sea, she has sailed from pole to pole, taken part in numerous actions, and has put herself "between the harpoon and the whale."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780261720
Publisher:	New Internationalist
Publication date:	10/14/2014
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Susi Newborn 9

Preface Bunny McDiarmid 11

Prologue 13

1 Beginnings 15

Stories from the past

Birth of a myth

A book called Warriors of the Rainbow

The return of a Warrior

2 The nuclear madness

Introduction

The day of the two suns

Bikini, the lost paradise (1946)

Rongelap, the dawn of twilight (1954)

Operation Exodus (1985, 2010)

Moruroa Peace boats versus nuclear bombs

The last trip to Moruroa (1995)

3 Between the harpoon and the Whale 51

Humans and Whales

Whales and the Rainbow Warrior

Stories from Norway

A very tough campaign (1999)

Ten years on (2009)

Between the harpoon and the whale

(Arctic Sunrise, Antarctica, 2005)

4 Poison and hope 69

Introducing Crizel

Toxic-free Asia Tour (1999-2000) Bhopal

Shipbreaking

River and sea pollution

Incineration

Landfills

A clean future

Crizel's story

Hope

5 In defense of forests 85

Introduction

Save or delete? Bloodwood (Spain, 2002)

A question of Honour (Spain, 2003)

Paradise on Earth To the beat of drums (Papua New Guinea, 1997)

Riots in Papua (2006)

On the road to Bali (Indonesia, 2007)

6 Expect the unexpected 105

Introduction

Of stowaways and casteways

Running away from Cuba (Caribbean Sea, 1992)

The Djibouti boys (Middle East, 2001)

Mayday in the middle of the night (Western Mediterranean, 2006)

Emergencies on hoard A hole in the hull (South Pacific, 2005)

Maite alarm (Cyprus, 2006)

Humanitarian missions The Great Tsunami (Indonesia, 2005)

Beirut under bombs (Eastern Mediterranean, 2006)

The story of Chile Willy (Chile, 1996)

7 Prestige 125

Introduction

The great escape (Rainbow Warrior II, 1980)

Rise to glory (Sirius, 1982)

The oil-tanker disaster (Rainbow Warrior II, 2002)

An assault (Esperanza, 2004)

The winds that blow these days (Rainbow Warrior II and Arctic Sunrise)

8 Wars and walls 141

Introduction

Action against the Iraq War (Spain, 2003)

The Voyage of wars and walls (Eastern Mediterranean, 2006) Lebanon & Israel (Lebanon)

Israel and Lebanon (Israel)

The divided island (Cyprus)

The Strength of a wind (Croatia)

9 Pirates! 157

On piracy

Ship pirates

In the pirates' sights (Middle East, 2007)

Navigating pirate waters (in transit, 2010)

Fishing pirates

What gets thrown overboard (Tasman Sea, June 2004 - June 2005)

The sleeping kids (Italy, 2006)

Stories of bluefin tuna (Mediterranean Sea)

The expulsion from Marseilles (France, 2006)

A white lily (Croatia, 2006)

Encounters on the high seas (north of Libya, 2007)

Red hot (south of Malta, 2010)

10 The planet we live on 179

Humanity's greatest challenge (Earth, 21st century)

In the Land of the Long White Cloud (New Zealand/Aotearoa, March 2008)

Sails is be free (Netherlands, November 2008)

The Copenhagen experience (Norway & Denmark, December 2009)

The fingers of humanity (Israel, July 2010)

The story of the Arctic 30 (Russia, September-December 2013)

11 The circle of life 209

The last Rainbow Warrior missions (East Asia, 2011)

The voyage to Fukushima (Japan)

The last campaign (South Korea, June 2011)

Of Rainbows and Warriors

Farewell to a Warrior, welcome to a Rainbow

The circle of life

Epilogue 232

Glossary of nautical terms 233

Chronology of stories 235

Index 236