Rainbow Warrior. Just because.

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The war is wider and has been going on longer.

This shoudln't be forgotten.

per wikipedia:

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Rainbow Warrior is the name of a series of ships operated by Greenpeace. The first ship was sunk by the French secret service (DGSE) in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, on 10 July 1985. The current ship using the name was launched in 1989.

Rainbow Warrior was used as a support vessel for many Greenpeace protest activities against seal hunting, whaling and nuclear weapons testing during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In early 1985, she was in the Pacific campaigning against nuclear testing. At the begining of the year, she evacuated some Marshall Islanders who were living on an atoll polluted by radioactivity from past American nuclear tests.

She then travelled to New Zealand to lead a flotilla of yachts protesting against French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia. During previous nuclear tests at Mururoa, protest ships had been boarded by French commandos after trespassing into the shipping exclusion zone around the atoll. For the 1985 tests, Greenpeace intended to monitor the impact of nuclear tests and place protesters on the island to do this, in violation of the law. The French Government infiltrated the Canada based organisation and discovered these plans.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Warrior

Other sections include: The Bombing, The current Rainbow Warrior, The name. A quick and inspiring read, imho.

There was a very cool (imho) tribute in song the late 80s by a band called White Lion. "Little Fighter." Lyrics are a good read too:

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Are you cryin tonight?
Are you feelin all right?
I told the world that you were dooooooooowwwwwn on your luck

You were one of a kind
One who'd never give it up
Even when they put a priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice on your head

**Pre-Chorus**

Has anyone heard the tales you tell?
Or seen the scars you wear?
Did anyone speak up when you fell?
Does anybody care?

**Chorus**

Rise again little fighter

And let the world know the reason why

Shout again little fighter

And dont let it impair the things you do


And you were one with the courts
And a reason to be
You were a fighter for peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeace on this earth

And you were never afraid
You put your life on the line
And you were always so looooooooonnng out on the sea

**Pre-Chorus**

Without a weapon in your hand
You came to fight a war
They took your life but didnt know
That you will never die

**Chorus**

Rise again little fighter

And let the world know the reason why

Shout again little fighter

And don't let it impair the things you do


**Solo Buildup**

Are you feelin all right?

Coz I caaaaaaaaaaaare, caaaaaaaaaaare


*(phenomenal) guitar solo*


**Breakdown**

Run along little fighter
Oh coz I was there beside you
Never stop believin, so rise

Rise

RISE!


**Chorus**

Rise again little fighter

And let the world know the reason why

Shout again little fighter

And don't let it impair the things you do


Rise again little fighter (Don't stop believin)
And let the world know the reason why
Shout again little fighter (And keep on movin)
And don't let it impair the things you do


Yea, don't let it ever end the things you do
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damn

[niyad]

1. I do remember--and point out that the french secret service blew her up

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2. yep, and French prez Mitterand admitted as much in the end

that wiki description mentions it

[SpiralHawk]

3. The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors

The rainbow story is told many ways and in many different places around the world, including on Turtle Island (North America). It has been glimpsed in vision and told for hundreds of years, from dozens of perspectives.

Among the many ancient versions are the visions and stories of Padmasambhava of Tibet, Eyes of Fire of the Cree, Black Elk and Crazy Horse of the Lakota, Quetzalcoatl of the Toltec, Plenty Coups of the Crow, Ku’Kulkan of the Maya, Monteczuma of the Aztec, the Peacemaker of the Haudenusaunee (Iroquois), and Weetucks of the Wampanoag. Though they lived at different times and in different places, they shared a sense of what would unfold.

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-9.html