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-- crew biography --
It is a dream being back on board the Warrior and working with old friends again. From the mid 1980's up till the early 1990's I campaigned onboard this ship against nuclear weapons at sea. The people involved in that work were incredible and there wasn't a nuclear submarine or nuclear warship roaming the Pacific that didn't know about Greenpeace and the Nuclear Free Seas campaign. I left Greenpeace to return to South East Asia where I was born, and worked with activists in the region. The struggle of Burma and its people, who want their country back from the military regime controlling the country, became a part of my life for the next seven years. Eventually I returned back to my family in the UK. Still part of, and working in, the human rights and environmental movement of SE Asia, I took a job at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which is one of the very few organisations that actually gets out there in the field. They are, in my opinion, on the frontline of environmental investigations. For the past four years, EIA and Telapak, our partner in Indonesia, have exposed and confronted the governments and criminal syndicates behind illegal logging. This work continues, of course, as does our work to expose the timber smuggling from SE Asia to Europe the United States, Japan and China. It's through the EIA/Telapak campaign, and working with Greenpeace activists in the UK, that I find myself back on board the Rainbow Warrior. There's a movement growing both in producer and consuming countries against destructive logging, and it doesn't matter what organisation you work with because we all play a role. The issue of illegal logging is huge and being part of this movement to fight the corruption and forest crime is what it's all about. Having the Warrior on the case is one of the best things to happen, both for the issue and for bringing people together. |
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