NETHERLANDS/Rotterdam:Photo; Greenpeace activists are over powered by a policeboat as they try to prevent the Dutch hired vessel NDS PROGRESS from leaving her berth in Rotterdam harbour. The ship is carriying U.S. military equipment, bound for the Gulf adding to the arms build-up to war against Iraq.
©Greenpeace/Bas Beentjes
Rotterdam harbour this morning was the latest scene of opposition to the military build-up in the Gulf. Activists in canoes and inflatables are attempting to prevent the cargo ship MVAS Progress, leaving port. The ship is loaded with U.S. military equipment bound for the Gulf.
I am on board the Rainbow Warrior in Rotterdam harbour, we are currently along side a cargo ship loaded with U.S. war supplies headed for the Gulf. We have been here since seven this morning and already many activists have been arrested, but the Rainbow Warrior is holding its position and we are blocking the ship from leaving port and heading for war.
I am on board the Rainbow Warrior in Rotterdam harbour, we are currently along side a cargo ship loaded with U.S. war supplies headed for the Gulf. We have been here since seven this morning and already many activists have been arrested, but the Rainbow Warrior is holding its position and we are blocking the ship from leaving port and heading for war.
Despite huge European opposition in public and political circles, military equipment is flowing freely through the continent on its way to the Gulf.
We traveled through the night, straight off an action in Antwerp harbour where we tried to block a U.S. military cargo ship from loading with supplies for the war. When we arrived in Rotterdam this morning the police had already surrounded the area. In fact, as I was getting dressed in all my wooly clothes, I looked out the port hole and could see a police van following us along the shore.
We traveled through the night, straight off an action in Antwerp harbour where we tried to block a U.S. military cargo ship from loading with supplies for the war. When we arrived in Rotterdam this morning the police had already surrounded the area. In fact, as I was getting dressed in all my wooly clothes, I looked out the port hole and could see a police van following us along the shore.