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26 September 2006

Karin

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Karin  |  Deckhand/Activist  |  Sweden

1. All time favorite book

Yaser Kemal's book about Memed in Turkey in the early 1900Â’s. The brave boy with the open and loving heart inspires me.

2. Music that makes you jive.

Jari's home mixed Hejsanhejsanhejsan det har ar Radio Goteborg-cd.

3. What are the words you live by?

Follow the feeling in your stomach when you have a decision to make. And don't be scared.

4. If you could live your “perfect life”, where would you be, and what would you be doing?

I would be on a Greenpeace ship as a skipper in periods of three months and in between that I would be finding, fixing and selling old stuff that people threw away. I would live with friend in a house by the see.

5. So far, which part of this Baltic Cod campaign has been most memorable?

When we pulled up the illegal nets and attached our banner to the boji. Hard work and just as annoying and on the spot as I like when we do it.


6. What was your worst fear coming on-board the Arctic Sunrise to join this campaign? That I would be seasick all trip. But that hasn't come true.

7. Describe you personality in three words.

Strong will, calm and melancholic.

8. What is your most memorable Greenpeace moment?

I have many, but a very amusing one was when I went with this ship, the Arctic Sunrise, to south of Sweden to clean oil from the beaches after a leak in a ship. We worked together with the Civil defense in the region. The first morning we, all of the crew, came by foot to the meeting spot, laughing and chatting. There we found them lined up in strict groups listening to the orders of the officer. They all looked the same with their camouflage clothes and green hats. Totally silent.

As we approached them the officer welcomed us in a humble way, obviously full of respect. He introduced us to his men, saying that we, Greenpeace, had now arrived to help them with this task. He asked his men to listen to us, since we are experts on this kind of problem.

And there we stood, in our dirty badly matched hippie clothes (since you take what you find on the ship), glancing at each other, never done anything like it before. I had never seen raw oil, even the less did I have any clue of how hard it would be to get it from the beach. But we nodded back in respect and the cooperation went smoothly like we had done it thousands of times together before.

   

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