Guest Speakers were Neil and Linda from Greenpeace. Neil showed us a short film which summed up almost 50 years of history in a few minutes. The film covered how Greenpeace was formed in 1971 in response to U.S. atom bomb tests and the major campaigns it has run since including opposition to whaling, mining in the Antarctic, toxic dumping at sea, illegal logging and burning fossil fuels. Greenpeace now has 2.8 million supporters worldwide and 130,000 in the U.K. alone.
Greenpeaces’s main values are independence, Internationalism, Direct Action and Non Violence. Current campaign priorities are Climate Change, Oceans, Ancient Forests, Pollution, Biodiversity, Human Rights and Peace. The main methods used are Investigation and research, finding solutions, talking to people with power, public engagement, and use of the law, bearing witness, direct communication and direct action.