Thursday, July 10, 2008

Free Junichi and Toru!


The first real job that I ever had was working at Greenpeace. It was an incredibly rewarding and challenging experience. Although I don't work with them directly now, I receive regular updates on their campaigns and thought I should share a recent update:

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Free our activists!

Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki are charged with stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence of a whale meat smuggling operation. The activists requested a Japanese government investigation into the scandal, and the Tokyo public prosecutor agreed there was sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. His investigation has now concluded. The only persons charged are the Greenpeace activists who presented the evidence.

Our activists are innocent of any crime. They have been arrested for returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers, and exposing a fraud that may reach high into the Japanese government agencies that run the whaling program. Please write to the Japanese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and demand the activists’ immediate release."

If you would like to send a letter as I have, just click here.

(Green)Peace.
Nuri

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