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Tami Edwards is a young Canadian who returned to Vancouver in
July 1994 after a six-month tour on board the ocean-going tug MV
Greenpeace - a tour that started in Singapore. Tami's mother had
been an activist in the 70s - a regular participant in the first
generation of Greenpeace actions.
Tami's voyage, and her reactions to it, summarise better than
statistics why Greenpeace takes to sea... |
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She saw "huge storeys-high factory trawlers vacuuming up the fish stocks, looking more like actual floating death factories than anything you can imagine... the North Sea when it was packed so full of boats harvesting fish that it looked like a city at night - a big traffic jam... a terrifying shipment of radioactive plutonium loaded on to a carrier in Cherbourg, France... the ramming of the boat by a Japanese coastguard just past the 12- mile limit". Tami was moved to action. She was arrested for hanging a protest banner on an oil rig off the coast of Norway, and for chaining herself to a barricade in the Great Lakes of Canada. She was detained for days by the Russians in the Kara Sea as Greenpeace investigated sunken nuclear submarines. She's completed five Greenpeace tours over three years, and plans
more. Why?
Hundreds of people like Tami crew the Greenpeace boats every
year. Thank God someone is making waves! |
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