Film: Rainbow Warriors in Waiheke

The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke tells the story of Greenpeace pioneers who saved whales around Iceland and campaigned in the Pacific against nuclear testing. Their adventures ended in 1985 when the French Secret Service bombed and sank their ship –thereby boosting the movement to ban nuclear weapons from the South Pacific. At the time of its sinking the ship had been about to sail to Moruroa in French Polynesia to protest against continuing nuclear testing by the French on that isolated atoll.

Rien Achterberg, crew member, will share his memories and reflections on this part of our anti-nuclear history. 

Organised by Peace Action Network Whakatu in association with Quakers in Nelson