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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Green Peace and French Nuke Tests
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 16:53:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 16:53:40 1985
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> In article <733@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
> >continued development of nuclear weapons.  Green Peace has held demonstrations
> >in both Moscow and Washington opposing nuclear testing by the Soviet Union
> >and the United States, besides their actions in the Pacific against France.
> 
> Now this I did not know.  When did Greenpeace hold a demonstration in Moscow?
> What was the demonstration (a sit-in, protest march, riot?)  Did any Muscovites
> join them?  How did the Red authorities react?  Are the Greenpeace people still
> in Lubyanka prison?  How about their Russian partners, if any?
> 
> I really do want to know: I'm not asking these questions tongue-in-cheek.  I
> don't recall seeing anything in the media about this.
> 
> 						-- Rick.

Of course you didn't see anything in the media about this. It was there but
only in papers like the NY Times, and then in one of those little boxes
in the back pages.   You also didn't see anything about the conference
on Nuclear War sponsored by International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War broadcast on Soviet prime-time TV.
Green Peace hoisted a banner in Moscow some months ago:this was reported
in the NY Times.
As you are probably aware Green Peace has also held demonstrations against
Soviet whale and seal hunts.
Nor did you see anything about the letters to Rude Pravo, the Czechoslovakian
newspaper protesting Soviet deployment of more SS-20's in Czechoslovakia.
There is a Peace Movement in Eastern Europe largely sheltered by the
churches.  Recently Western Peace Groups met with key members of Poland's
Solidarity Movement to foster ties and the understanding that support
for Peace and non-violence need not mean opposition to human rights groups
and the struggles for autonomy represented by Solidarity.
 
Indeed, Lech Walesa has stated that he is seeking to emulate Gandhi's
methods of civil disobedience and non-violence rather than violent
revolution.
I have references for these events at home and will post them later.
           tim sevener  whuxn!orb