Greenpeace Voyage to Amchitka to stop hydrogen bomb testing 1971

[Annces]

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Sampling of pictures and text from the book Greenpeace, text by Robert Hunter and photographs by Robert Keziere. Greenpeace and Greenpeace Too sailed to Amchitka island, part of an island chain near Alaska, in order to block the United States from testing a hydrogen bomb. Fall of 1971

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. Thanks. I remember when it happened---Lordy,those were the days.

[BobTheSubgenius]

2. I still have the button from that campaign.

Greenpeace was more or less founded around Bob Hunter's kitchen table in Kitsilano, which was kinda the Haight-Ashbury of Vancouver. Damn, it was a great town in those days, and he was one of the greatest people in it.

[Annces]

3. It seems like something that happened

in a very short time period, this kind of awakening. And then it was overrun or went back down into the depths again. Also many of the men on that 1st trip were really from the more mature generation, and much more serious type people, along with the more younger hippy types.