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July 25, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark warned activists and campaigners in a speech on the deck of the Greenpeace environmental flagship Rainbow Warrior III last night to be wary of global “storm clouds” and the renewed existential threat of nuclear weapons. Speaking on her reflections on four decades after the bombing ... <a title="Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over global storm clouds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/25/keep-fighting-for-a-nuclear-free-pacific-helen-clark-warns-greenpeace-over-global-storm-clouds/" aria-label="Read more about Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over global storm clouds">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2025
Rongelap Islanders on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior travelling to their new home on Mejatto Island in 1985 — less than two months before the bombing. Image: ©1985 David Robie/Eyes of Fire He accused the coalition government of being “too timid” and “afraid of offending President Donald Trump” to make a stand on the ... <a title="David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/16/david-robie-new-zealand-must-do-more-for-pacific-and-confront-nuclear-powers/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2025
TVNZ 1News The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has sailed into Auckland to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior in 1985. Greenpeace’s vessel, which had been protesting nuclear testing in the Pacific, sank after French government agents planted explosives on its hull, killing Portuguese-Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira. Today, 40 years ... <a title="Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/11/dawn-service-held-40-years-on-from-rainbow-warrior-bombing/" aria-label="Read more about Dawn service held 40 years on from Rainbow Warrior bombing">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2025
By Russel Norman The iconic Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will return to Aotearoa this year to mark the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original campaign ship at Marsden Wharf in Auckland by French secret agents on 10 July 1985. The return to Aotearoa comes at a pivotal moment — when the fight to ... <a title="Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French bombing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/15/greenpeace-flagship-rainbow-warrior-to-return-for-40th-anniversary-of-french-bombing/" aria-label="Read more about Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior to return for 40th anniversary of French bombing">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as such, they were the ancestral home to the people of the Marshall Islands. As part of a team of Greenpeace scientists and specialists from the Radiation Protection Advisers team, we ... <a title="Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/10/tracing-radiation-through-the-marshall-islands-reflections-from-a-veteran-greenpeace-nuclear-campaigner/" aria-label="Read more about Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands: Reflections from a veteran Greenpeace nuclear campaigner">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The author of the book Eyes of Fire, one of the countless publications on the Rainbow Warrior bombing almost 40 years ago but the only one by somebody actually on board the bombed ship, says he was under no illusions that France was behind the attack. Journalist David Robie was speaking last ... <a title="‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior book" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/07/under-no-illusions-about-france-says-author-of-new-rainbow-warrior-book/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Under no illusions’ about France, says author of new Rainbow Warrior book">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2025
The first of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior crew and the return of Rainbow Warrior III 40 years later on a nuclear justice research mission. SPECIAL REPORT: By Shiva Gounden in Majuro Family isn’t just ... <a title="‘We’re not just welcoming you as allies, but as family’ – Rainbow Warrior in Marshall Islands 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/01/were-not-just-welcoming-you-as-allies-but-as-family-rainbow-warrior-in-marshall-islands-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re not just welcoming you as allies, but as family’ – Rainbow Warrior in Marshall Islands 40 years on">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
Asia Pacific Report In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tested by the United States, Greenpeace is calling on Washington to comply with demands by the Marshall Islands for nuclear justice. “The Marshall Islands bears the ... <a title="Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/four-decades-after-rongelap-evacuation-greenpeace-makes-new-plea-for-nuclear-justice-by-us/" aria-label="Read more about Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2024
ABC Radio Australia and RNZ You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. But what do you know about the environmental campaign ship’s last voyage before it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand on 10 July 1985? Where had it come from, why was it ... <a title="The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/13/the-last-voyage-of-the-rainbow-warrior-rongelap-podcast-series/" aria-label="Read more about The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series">Read more</a>
