campaigning. Staff Currently Greenpeace employs 60 staff in Sydney, Canberra and the Pacific. Permanent positions are publicly advertised History / Achievements · 1971 After first Greenpeace action the US abandons its nuclear testing grounds at Amchitka, Alaska. · 1975 France ends atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific after Greenpeace protests. · 1979 Last Australian whaling station closed. · 1982 Global whaling moratorium adopted by the International Whaling Commission. · 1988 Following Greenpeace
Sometimes called the “Forgotten Front1” or the “Forgotten War2” the battle for the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska was one of the bloodiest of WWII. With the Battle for Attu still fresh in their minds, on August 14th, 1943 the US military sent over 100 ships and 30,000 men to land on the island of Kiska to attack a Japanese force estimated at 10,000 men. What they found on the island wound up shocking the Allied Forces. HISTORY In December of 1941, the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor,