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Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson has ... been filmed carrying a baby seal to safety from hunters in 1977. Not only does the seal in the film clip not move at all, but its fur is clean and well-combed. Both of these facts suggest that Watson actually "saved" a stuffed seal. Watson has been involved in other publicity stunts. As head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,. a more violent offshoot of Greenpeace, Watson distributed to media sources in the mid-1980s a film of himself broadcasting a call for help from his ship radio.
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What has made Greenpeace such a high-profile target for the Justice Department is its ability to train and organize its activists and the attention-grabbing, creative props it uses in its stunts. All of this -- training, props, and organization -- can be traced back to this "Action Warehouse." Since Attorney General Ashcroft brought suit against Greenpeace, the warehouse appears to be dormant and Greenpeace had little presence during major protests including those at the IMF meetings in Washington, D.C., last month.
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Greenpeace has no true founders. Eleven men participated in the Amchitca voyage which has been considered the founding event. However, many people believe that Bob Hunter is the founder. He came up with the idea to dye the seals and assembled the “Don’t make a wave committee.” Greenpeace’s first project was to voyage to the Alaskan island Amchitca to bear witness, or to silently protest by being at the place that something was taking place. They were at this time called the “Don’t Make a Wave” committee. They were only eleven men and a small, old boat set out to stop something being supported by the whole American Government.
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Greenpeace has labeled Exxon Mobil the "No. 1 climate criminal" and taken particular exception to the oil company's insistence that fossil fuels aren't the main cause of global warming. Greenpeace protesters spilled red wine on tables at an oil-industry meeting in London in February 2003 where Lee Raymond, Exxon Mobil's chief executive officer at the time, was the guest of honor. In May that year, activists chained themselves to the main gate of Exxon Mobil's headquarters in Irving, Texas, where executives were gathering for the company's annual meeting.
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Greenpeace then threatened lawsuits against Danish television, but decided instead to sue the two journalists most responsible for compiling the devastating information. One of these reporters is Leif Blaedel, a recipient of the prestigious Cavling Prize for Danish journalism; when Greenpeace threatened him with legal action, elements in the Danish press began to turn against the environmentalist organization and its popularity slipped. Leif Blaedel's written exposes of Greenpeace's tactics led even the Danish pro-environmentalist paper, Information, to condemn the organization in 1986. One Greenpeace lawsuit over the documentary is currently in progress in Norwegian courts, with the group citing lost members and contributions as damages. Ironically. such legal actions appear to be costing Greenpeace a substantial sum of money and thereby affecting its campaigns.
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Greenpeace does not solicit or accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties. Greenpeace neither seeks nor accepts donations which could compromise its independence, aims, objectives or integrity. Greenpeace relies on the voluntary donations of individual supporters, and on grant-support from foundations.
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