Tag: rainbow warrior
French nuclear tests: ‘I bury people nearly every day, what was...
By Matthew Scott, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
The day began with a video, showing a disparate collection of arresting images - the drowned...
35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind
Flashback: Tagata Pasifika's John Pulu talks to Oscar Temaru in 2016.
By David Robie
One of the champions of the South Pacific’s nuclear-free and independence campaigners,...
From nuclear refugees to climate justice – the Rainbow Warrior legacy
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie, who sailed on the original Rainbow Warrior to Rongelap atoll and is author of the book Eyes of Fire.
Thirty...
Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Thirty five years ago this week in another life Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on...
NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing,...
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow...
Crimes NZ: David Robie on the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
From RNZ's Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
On 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace environmental ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an Auckland wharf by two bombs...
Thousands in NZ don’t believe official Christchurch terror attacks story
By Ben Strang of RNZ News
Thousands of New Zealanders do not believe the official version of the mosque terror attacks in Christchurch.
About 5 percent...
Oil victory thanks to NZ ‘people power’, says Greenpeace chief
By Rahul Bhattarai
Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman praised the “people power” that gained an important victory in the “oil war” when the Rainbow Warrior...
Gallery: From fighting nukes to stopping oil – Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior 3, will arrive in Auckland tomorrow on the next stage of her "Making Oil History" tour...
Radio 531pi’s Brian Sagala talks nuke-free Pacific with David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 531pi Breakfast Talanoa host Brian Sagala has talked about the Rarotonga Treaty with Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie.
"It...
Journalist tells of Rainbow Warrior bombing, Pacific fallout on ABC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Pacific environmental and political journalist David Robie has recalled the bombing of the original Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior 33 years ago...
Blood in the Pacific: 30 years on from the Ouvéa Island...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Max Uechtritz
On Saturday, 30 years ago in 1988, I smelled death for the first time – literally.
A sickening, almost suffocating, stench...
Rainbow Warrior takes on fresh eco mission to Papua, Indonesia
By Astari Pinasthika Sarosa in Jakarta
The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is sailing throughout Indonesia - including West Papua - as a vehicle for environmental...
Strip medals from French Rainbow Warrior saboteurs, says Star-Times
Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata profiles the legacy of activism from the 1985 Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Video:...
5 mind-boggling things about Pilger’s doco The Coming War on China
With dozens of US military bases encircling China with a "giant noose," and America's historic nuclear presence in the Pacific region, a war between...
Tribute to a free and independent Pacific media
REVIEW: By Erica George of Amnesty International NZ
"Mainstream journalism has failed to communicate not only peace, but also human rights in ways that have...
World leaders still ‘hiding behind fossil fuels’, says Rainbow Warrior skipper
At the helm of Greenpeace environmental campaign vessels for more than 30 years, Peter Willcox talks with Kendall Hutt about climate change and his...
Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller
The Arctic 30's thank you message after their release in November 2013 - cited in Peter Willcox's new book out next week. Video: Greenpeace
Review...
Putting state terrorism in context – the Rainbow Warrior follies
Reviewed by Jeremy Agar of CAFCA and published on Nuclear Free and Independent Day.
EYES OF FIRE: The Last Voyage Of The Rainbow Warrior,
by David...
Twelve Nobel Prize winners, a Beatle, and the Pope can’t all...
On September 18, 2013, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested during a peaceful protest at a Gazprom oil platform in the Russian Arctic. A...
Hollande ‘turns page’ on French N-tests but admits health harm
Compensation for the victims of three decades of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific was a focus of President François Hollande's visit to...
Veteran Rainbow Warrior activist, global eco advocate to co-lead Greenpeace
This video interview with Bunny McDiarmid was by the Pacific Media Centre's Alistar Kata to mark the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the...