Warriors of the Rainbow

“Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”

― Cree Indian Prophecy

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Stories from the Rainbow Warrior Videos

CREE INDIAN PROPHECY Warriors of the Rainbow by Eye's of Fire Last century an old wise woman of the Cree Indian nation, named "Eyes of Fire", had a vision of the future. She prophesied that one day, because of the white mans' or Yo-ne-gis' greed, there would come a time, when the earth being ravaged and polluted, the forests being destroyed, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, the fish being poisoned in the streams, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to exist. There would come a time when the "keepers of the legend, stories, culture rituals, and myths, and all the Ancient Tribal Customs" would be needed to restore us to health, making the earth green again. They would be mankind's key to survival, they were the "Warriors of the Rainbow". There would come a day of awakening when all the peoples of all the tribes would form a New World of Justice, Peace, Freedom and recognition of the Great Spirit. MORE GREED ? POLLUTION ? BLACK WATERS ?

Harmony Lambert, one of our New Hands on Deck, has native American roots and was raised in the Chumash native American tradition. In the 7th episode of our web mini-series, Stories from the Rainbow Warrior, Harmony retells the story of the Warriors of the Rainbow, and talks about the meaning of activism. 

The book which inspired the naming of the Rainbow Warrior was William Willoya's Warriors of the Rainbow, available from Amazon here: http://act.gp/vIzlI6

William Sykes supervised the construction of the new Rainbow Warrior. Join him on a tour of the ship as he discusses the unique sailing rig, the process of landing a helicopter on board and shows us around above and below decks.

Anyone who thinks life at sea on a Greenpeace ship is glamorous should take a look as the Rainbow Warrior sails straight into a perfect North Sea gale between Stockholm and Bremen. 

Pablo from 'The New Hands On Deck' is hit by sea sickness, along with other crew members and the Swedish guest artist Regina Lund.

Before leaving the ship Regina sings "Rainbow Star" - a song she entered the Swedish music competition 'Melodifestivalen' in 2007.

See the previous episode where Regina Lund is getting onboard Rainbow Warrior in Stockholm: http://youtu.be/2p4hIXUq1jE 

Whenever you ask a person who has been on a Greenpeace ship, who the most import person aboard is, they always answer; the cook. So in this 9th Episode of Stories from The Rainbow warrior, we meet Walter Rodrigues and explore life in the galley.

Martti tells the story of of how he went from an unhappy sailor working for an oil company to a sailor on a Greenpeace-ship who became an activist and how this choice in life and taking part in making a difference makes him feel.

The Rainbow Warrior sails into a Force 7 gale to test her sailing rig against the elements. 

En route from Bremen to Barcelona we kept looking for dolphins all the way from the English Channel and in the Bay of Biscay, but only when we reached the Strait of Gibraltar we were met by a large group of dolphins playing and swimming in front of the ship. They put on such a great welcome that was definitely worth waiting for.

SEE ALL THE GREENPEACE WARRIOR VIDEOS HERE

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Detained in Russia

September 26, 2013

A Russian court has ordered that 10 Greenpeace activists, including an American ship captain, be held in custody for two months while the Russian authorities determine whether a protest last week at an offshore oil rig in the Arctic was an act of piracy. Russian border guards took control of the Arctic Sunrise, Greenpeace’s ship with 30 activists aboard, in international waters last week. MORE

Thirty crew members of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise are in prison in Russia, because they took peaceful action against oil drilling in the Arctic, intending to change the grim future we are constructing for ourselves and the planet with our addiction to fossil fuels. Today, the world’s leading authority on the science of climate change released a report that shows the concerns of the Greenpeace activists are completely justified.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has assessed all of the recent climate science and found worrying signs of accelerating impacts, especially in Polar regions:

• In the past decade (2002-2011) the Greenland Ice Sheet melted at a rate six times faster, on average, than the decade before.
• Antarctic melting was five times faster.
• Since 1993 sea-levels have risen twice as fast as in the past century on average.
• Arctic sea-ice extent has also diminished significantly faster than projected. MORE

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“Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”

― Cree Indian Prophecy

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