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GREENPEACE RALLIES TO PROTEST JAPANESE WHALING
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October 2, 1989
WASHINGTON, (GP)--The international environmental group
Greenpeace and whale supporters everywhere will take part in five
rallies around the country to protest Japan's continued slaughter
of whales in the face of international condemnation.
A kick-off rally in Los Angeles on Oct. 7, followed by rallies
in Chicago on Oct. 14, Boston on Oct. 21, New York on Oct. 27,
and Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, will deliver a message to
Japanese whaling fleets and government officials that the issue
of saving these threatened marine mammals is still a nationwide
priority.
Greenpeace activists and artist John Perry will inflate the 125-
foot-long, 50-foot-high whale named Flo at 10 a.m. Thursday in
front of the Federal Building at 11000 Wilshire Blvd. to announce
the national rallies at which Flo and a life-size, inflatable
minke whale petition will be present.
The kickoff rally will start at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, on
Santa Monica Beach south of the pier at the end of Ocean Blvd.
The rally will include speakers Campbell Plowden, who exposed
Chilean pirate whaling and chained himself to a Peruvian whaling
harpoon, actor Peter Strauss, and cetacean artists Michael Ward
and Charles Lynn Bragg. David Wakeling, the lead singer of the
English Beat and General Public, will perform with a reggae band.
A large turnout of whale lovers is expected to sign the petition
whale to halt Japanese whaling.
Japan is presently the largest remaining whaling nation in the
world and is expected to kill at least 400 Minke whales this year
alone. They do so in violation of an International Whaling
Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling by calling
their hunt "scientific" and then selling whale meat for multi-
million-dollar revenues.
At the June meeting of the IWC in San Diego, a resolution
condemning Japan's research whaling proposal was passed for the
second year in a row. The IWC Scientific Committee revealed
startling low numbers of many whales around the world despite
some 20 years of protection.
Contacts: Traci Romine, Greenpeace Los Angeles: 213/287-2210
Sally Shoup, Blair Palese, Greenpeace Washington, DC:
202/462-1177
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