nancy busarelo's List: Greenpeace research paper

• As a nonprofit organization Greenpeace is funded by grants from individuals and charities, but to maintain independence it refuses money from governments, corporations, and political parties.
• the organization is probably best known for its nonviolent direct action campaigns. These contentious campaigns, which are designed to create memorable images and engage public interest
• Greenpeace has contributed towards globalization in the sense that it has encouraged people to perceive the world as one place; it stresses the idea that actions taken in a community have global consequences, and uses this premise to inform its strategies and motivate its members
• Greenpeace promotes the autonomy of individuals on a global scale; it encourages individuals to conceptualize themselves as global citizens whose rights and responsibilities extend beyond the borders of the community or nation-state, and to bring about global change through local interactions with corporations, governments, and the general public.
• Greenpeace would counter that many current laws and industrial practices favour short-term economic goals over sustainability and health, and thus pose what is ultimately a greater threat to the autonomy of people worldwide.

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• When rock music came to prominence in the 60s, it was accompanied by a strong  sense of optimism, a belief that rock-n-roll could change the world
• When rock music came to prominence in the 60s, it was accompanied by a strong  sense of optimism, a belief that rock-n-roll could change the world
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  This same belief in the ability of a small group of dedicated, creative,  and passionate people to make the world a better place has always driven  Greenpeace.

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  Whether or not any form of pop music can change the world is perhaps still up  for debate. What’s certain, though, is that music can and always has inspired  the people who actually do change the world. That’s definitely true of  Greenpeace’s founders, and is still true of the activists who get involved with  Greenpeace campaigns today.
• In the summer of 2009, our solar panel-equipped, biodiesel-fueled truck, the  Rolling Sunlight, went on the Warped Tour and powered the tour’s non-profit  booths with clean, green solar energy. Punk/activist heroes Anti-Flag stopped by  our booth to play a few shows from time to time, and even sported our t-shirts  on stage. This helped get thousands of young concertgoers to sign up to work  with Greenpeace and urge President Obama to be a leader on climate change  policy.
  

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  As  it turned out, all my angst was unnecessary. Time has proven my post-trip  despair to be utterly mistaken. The trip was a success beyond anybody's wildest  dreams. That bomb went off, but the bombs planned for after that did not. The  nuclear test program at Amchitka was cancelled five months after our mission,  and some scholars argue that this was the beginning of the end of the Cold War.  Whatever history decides about the big picture, the legacy of the voyage itself  is not just a bunch of guys in a fishing boat, but the Greenpeace the entire  world has come to love and hate.

• In 1971, motivated by their vision of a green and peaceful world, a small team  of activists set sail from Vancouver, Canada in an old fishing boat. These  activists, the founders of Greenpeace, believed a few individuals could make a  difference.