i can't even open the threads re: the antiwhaling spy ships

[xchrom]

sitting in port.

knowing those beatiful creatures are dying while people talk is more distressing than i have words for.

[wtmusic]

1. Live webcam of Greenpeace ship Esperanza

hunting down the hunters:

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/live-webcam/

There is hope.

[xchrom]

4. oh i'm totally WITH the esperanza --

i was being specific for a reason.

the esperanza shouldn't be alone. -- that's all.

[flvegan]

12. She's not. Sea Shepherd is sailing the Steve Irwin

into the sanctuary as we speak. The Steve Irwin is a chase and intervention vessel.



You can read about Operation Migaloo here:

http://www.seashepherd.org/migaloo/index.html

[Sugar Smack]

14. Incidentally, have you read Hayduke Lives?

Paul Watson's mentioned in the last scene, swimming toward the ship. It's a great scene. I love Edward Abbey. I read The Monkeywrench Gang 5 times. Don't tell Agent Mike. :D

[flvegan]

16. I most certainly have.

I need to get my copy of both out of storage and read them again, now that you mention it.

[Sugar Smack]

24. They have six or so ships at this point, right?

I haven't worked for Sea Shepherd for like 10 years. I was working on a confiscated converted Norwegian whaler.

[xchrom]

19. thanks for the info -- i do try to keep up with the positive and active efforts

and have donated this year -- 08 and last to the sea shepherd efforts.

[Sugar Smack]

20. You know, if you donate a thousand bucks

or so, you can campaign with them. I wish I'd had it when I was working with them in NC. I worked in the galley of the Sea Shepherd III & then in Alaska. But I never got to go on a campaign. I would have liked to paint the baby seals with the nontoxic paint they used. :loveya:

[xchrom]

21. i'm so jealous!!! -- i WISH i had a G

for them.

i give to them in smaller amounts -- but i do it.

[Sugar Smack]

22. Me too. I was friends with Lisa, Paul's second ex-wife.

Not great friends, but I'd dated her brother for 10 years. She was awesome.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I agree. Talk is cheap, and lives are being lost. It is sickening, at the very least.

[xchrom]

3. thanks.

[xchrom]

5. shameless kick

[SoCalDem]

6. I cannot bring myself to open any animal cruelty thread

:(

[xchrom]

9. yeah i pass many nowadays myself.

there's just something about animal cruelty that gets to me in a way nothing else does.

[Richard Steele]

7. I know how you feel. K&R

[xchrom]

10. thanks --

i'm gonna make another visit soon -- i'll let you know.

[Richard Steele]

13. Cool beans! Try to bring some of that warm weather with you, if you can.

Can you believe it was below freezing 2 nights in a row here?
That's just nuts!

I moved here to get AWAY from that sort of nonsense, knowhutImean?

[xchrom]

17. well right now they are trying to drown us.

i mean seriously drown us.

but other wise -- i'll pack up some sun and bring it with.

[Rockholm]

8. It is sickening.

[xchrom]

11. indeed.

[Kajsa]

15. It is awful.

The time to talk has passed.

We need action to protect these gentle giants,
NOW!

;(

[xchrom]

18. i'm with you -- but for this year -- the japanese have won.

that puts them in good standing for next.

[wtmusic]

23. The Japanese are on the ropes

Had to abandon killing right whales, and more bad press than any year in recent memory.

I would hardly call this year a victory for the Japanese whalers -- and it will be worse if GP and SS catch up with them.