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May 13, 2005

A mouth-piece for milions

Suspicions aside, friday the 13th has been another highly succesfull and productive day.

We have four more activists on board two from switzerland,one mexican and a American bringing our numbers of international activists up to 12,with our four korean friends 16 all up.Its all hands on deck ,getting camp ready for sunday the 15th our proposed eviction date.

Our days here may be numbered but a cyber action calling the mayor of Ulsan to scrap plans for the whale meat factory, has attracted 33,000 people - a greenpeace record! This is yet another cause for celebration.

Thank you very much on behalf of the whale embassy.

Unfortunately the server then crashed, a victim of our succes.

Both the Greenpeace sydney and two American offices have done succesfull direct communication at Korean embassys telling them clearly 'the world is watching'. There was a sucesful meeting with our lawyer this morning who has a lot of history, with korean protesting.He gave us very good advice and we feel relitivly confident about our safty in the hands of the korean police. We were also flat out organising a raft of events for tommorrow; Marek from Czech who is filming a whale docomentry and Stufke from slovakia will embark on a whale watching trip tommorow with K.F.E.M on a charted marine police boat. Sadly the chances are slim of spotting either a whale or dolphin,though they remain optamistic. Having said "will cook for reggae music", I was nominated to be chef for our evening barbacue tomorrow with our friends from K.F.E.M.,a celebration of succesfuly working together and many days hard work. Jan from Germany will be the chef's helper who's cooking is also exsquiste.

Today a few of us handed out leaflets for a free kids english lesson tommorow, Korean kids are very cute and I look forward to it, we have also recruited some english teachers and aim to make it a fun event with a whale and dolphin theme.

K.F.E.M also held a meeting and screening here tonight for their new members ,which consisted of constant clapping and signing of t-shirts.

Thank you for all the overwhelming support you have all shown - it gives us a lot of strength.

We are a mouthpeice for every one of you,

Raoni

Posted by at May 13, 2005 06:40 PM

Comments

awsome, sounds like your winning.
keep it up

Posted by: mario at May 14, 2005 01:58 PM

Good luck to you all. Watching your progress daily at least once and especially now with the 15.having arrived here in NZ.Reassuring that your numbers have grown and you are a force to reckon with-especially with all that support around the world!
Lots of love to you all,Maike


Hi Supi,
Hope you have a whale of a time sorting out these fishi Korean poachers,blindfold politicians and destructive money sharks.
Kia Kaha
Dad

Posted by: maike at May 15, 2005 01:16 AM