Summary

THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP GREENPEACE IS ACCUSING THE US NAVY OF RAMMING ONE OF ITS SHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS. GREENPEACE SAYS ITS SHIP WAS CONDUCTING A NON VIOLENT PROTEST OF A TEST OF THE TRIDENT TWO MISSILE SYSTEM.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 332781
Story Slug GREENPEACE TRIDENT pROTEST (1989)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format TVD
Date 12/05/1989
Archive Time 24:26
TRT 2:50
Supers Peter Bahouth Exec Dir, Greenpeace USA Andrew Davis Greenpeace DC
Video Description WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE, SOT, SOT, NEWS CONFERENCE CUTAWAYS,
Description THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP GREENPEACE IS ACCUSING THE US NAVY OF RAMMING ONE OF ITS SHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS. GREENPEACE SAYS ITS SHIP WAS CONDUCTING A NON VIOLENT PROTEST OF A TEST OF THE TRIDENT TWO MISSILE SYSTEM.
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) 00:00 Booth. I'm the Executive Director of Greenpeace here in the US. 00:06 Greenpeace is an international environmental organization. US Navy made its position clear yesterday by ramming our vessel in international waters while it was in the midst of a peaceful protest against the trident to missile system, this was clearly an intentional, premeditated attack which put our vessel and its crew in serious danger. I think the videos will adequately demonstrate this to you. 00:41 We have a message for the Navy. 00:44 We are going to take legal action. 00:48 The Navy will have to pass damages, and they will have to answer for their flagrant violations of the rules of navigation and for their bullying. But we have another message, which we want to make even stronger, and that is that we are going to stop the trident to missile system in its tracks. It is a dinosaur, and frankly, we'll be doing both the Navy and the taxpayers a favor by canceling a 22 billion misguided missile project. 01:25 Thank you. Back with a small d encompasses a wide variety of of matters. George Bush cannot go off one day and say he applauds peaceful protest in Eastern Europe and the next day do this to us. He's Commander in Chief of the Navy. We are involved in peaceful protest. It is a time honored tradition in this country, and we are all sitting here applauding the fact that it is becoming a tradition in socialist societies. So it's, it's, no, I don't think that we are seeking some, some extra democratic effort. This is the democratic effort. We are doing it. People are giving contributions to our organization because they support the work that we do. Given us permission to change our course. The Navy just screwed up their zeal to stick it to Greenpeace was more important to them than the navigatable rules of the road, and it seems to me that that is just unacceptable. We clearly state our intention to involve ourselves in non violent and peaceful protest, and they failed to meet us in that regard, the
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Keywords

GREENPEACE
US NAVY
NAVY RAMS GREENPEACE SHIP
TRIDENT II
PEACEFUL PROTEST
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