[Imc-aotearoa-video] Earth Care for Responsibility and Beautiful Waiheke Island

[strypey at riseup.net]

Kia ora Baraka

Is it possible for people to get hold of the two videos you mention for possible
independent video showings in other centres?

RnB
Strypes

baraka at peace.fm wrote:
> HI hope alls well, thanks those who have forwarded info and enthusiasm for
> Peace Not War, Aotearoa.
> I will be visiting our crew in Uk from July for a bit and hope to be back
> in Aotearoa for the New Year. We have some great plans for the coming
> Summer's festival season and meanwhile wish every one here all the best
> for Southern MidWinter celebrations and your future peace efforts.
> Whilst in Aotearoa PNW & da 100thmonkeyProductions have put together a few
> little dvds and also have strengthened connections on this side of the
> great oceans.
> Both "Earth Care For Responsibilty" which includes footage from Climate
> Change's RECLAIM K'ROAD and "Beautiful Waiheke Island" are regularly
> screened at the Waiheke Cinema courtesy of Waiheke Tv - These and other
> short vids  will be shown over the next few months at various events
> around the UK. We hope to be providing visuals for next years events here
> in Nz also.
> Those of you who don't know, the PEACE BOAT from Japan arrives Downtown
> Auckland, December 23rd for one day only. (Google them for more info -
> RHOMBUS amongst others have played as guests with them)
> I will be in touch before then however, with  more details of our
> involvement and would love it if you could help in any way with those
> celebrations!
> Heres one from the archives...
> Peace, Baraka
> 
> 
> ...........................................................................
>  From Harpers magazine online edition,
> 
> http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000017
> 
> In 1985, the Rainbow Warrior, a vessel operated by Greenpeace, was
> blown up in Auckland harbor. It had been sent there to protest French
> nuclear testing in the Pacific. It subsequently emerged that the
> bombing—which killed a photographer on board—was a French government
> operation. The man who ran it, according to French press accounts,
> was Louis-Pierre Dillais, a lieutenant-colonel in the General
> Directorate for External Security.
> 
> Today Dillais is a senior executive at FNH USA (Motto: “The place
> where legends are made.”), a McLean, Virginia-based subsidiary of a
> Belgian arms maker. FNH USA, it turns out, has contracts to supply
> weapons to a number of American government agencies, including the
> Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI.
> 
> In Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior, David Robie
> reports that in early July 1985 Dillais checked into the Hyatt
> Kingsgate Hotel which overlooked Auckland Harbor. He checked out on
> July 10, the day of the bombing, and left New Zealand two weeks
> later. By Robie’s account, Dillais drove the inflatable craft that
> delivered the two bombers to their deployment spot in the harbor.
> 
> The New Zealand authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of
> Dillais but he was never detained (only two of the conspirators,
> Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, in the bombing were ever
> convicted.) Dillais was reportedly protected due to his high-level
> political connections.
> 
> In the years following the bombing, Dillais turned up in news stories
> as the head of an espionage unit that worked directly for the French
> defense ministry. According to a 1996 account in the Times of London,
> was suspected of diverting cash from Saudi arms sales to presidential
> candidate Edouard Balladur. It’s not clear when he arrived in McLean,
> but two years ago a documentary film crew from New Zealand’s TVNZ
> tracked him down there and asked him about Rainbow Warrior incident.
> “”I’m sorry for the loss of life,” he reportedly said. “It was an
> unfortunate accident. I’m sorry for the family, but what can you do?”
> 
> A search at FedSpending.org shows that FN Herstal, the Belgian parent
> company, received $8.6 million in U.S. federal contracts in 2005, the
> last year for which data is available. FNH USA received $118,000 in
> contracts that same year.
> 
> Last September, Greenpeace send a letter to the Assistant Secretary
> of Homeland Security, Julie Myers, and asked that Dillais be deported
> due to his role in Rainbow Warrior’s bombing. Thomas Wetterer,
> Greenpeace’s general counsel, noted that FNH USA had been awarded a
> contract the year prior to provide combat rifles to the Special
> Operations Command. “The press release announcing the contract points
> out that. ‘The United States Special Operations Command plans,
> directs, and executes special operations in the conduct of the War on
> Terrorism’,” he wrote. The irony of this could hardly be clearer.”
> 
> On 9 Nov 2006, Greenpeace received a reply stating that the request
> had been forwarded to the DHS Office of Investigations and to the FBI
> for “appropriate action.” Since then, there’s been no further word
> about whether an investigation has formally been launched. “The Bush
> Administration should be setting a much higher standard for the
> people they’re doing business with,” Mark Floegel, a Greenpeace
> investigator, told me. “They shouldn’t be buying arms from state-
> sponsored terrorists.”
> 
> I left a message for Dillais at his office at FNH USA. He failed to
> return my request for comment.
> 
> ((sent to us from Nz Big Guy, Jason. London))
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  From Harpers magazine online edition,
> 
> http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000017
> 
> In 1985, the Rainbow Warrior, a vessel operated by Greenpeace, was blown up in 
> Auckland harbor. It had been sent there to protest French nuclear testing in the 
> Pacific. It subsequently emerged that the bombing—which killed a photographer on 
> board—was a French government operation. The man who ran it, according to French 
> press accounts, was Louis-Pierre Dillais, a lieutenant-colonel in the General 
> Directorate for External Security.
> 
> Today Dillais is a senior executive at FNH USA (Motto: “The place where legends 
> are made.”), a McLean, Virginia-based subsidiary of a Belgian arms maker. FNH 
> USA, it turns out, has contracts to supply weapons to a number of American 
> government agencies, including the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland 
> Security, and the FBI.
> 
> In Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior, David Robie reports 
> that in early July 1985 Dillais checked into the Hyatt Kingsgate Hotel which 
> overlooked Auckland Harbor. He checked out on July 10, the day of the bombing, 
> and left New Zealand two weeks later. By Robie’s account, Dillais drove the 
> inflatable craft that delivered the two bombers to their deployment spot in the 
> harbor.
> 
> The New Zealand authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of Dillais but he 
> was never detained (only two of the conspirators, Alain Mafart and Dominique 
> Prieur, in the bombing were ever convicted.) Dillais was reportedly protected 
> due to his high-level political connections.
> 
> In the years following the bombing, Dillais turned up in news stories as the 
> head of an espionage unit that worked directly for the French defense ministry. 
> According to a 1996 account in the Times of London, was suspected of diverting 
> cash from Saudi arms sales to presidential candidate Edouard Balladur. It’s not 
> clear when he arrived in McLean, but two years ago a documentary film crew from 
> New Zealand’s TVNZ tracked him down there and asked him about Rainbow Warrior 
> incident. “”I’m sorry for the loss of life,” he reportedly said. “It was an 
> unfortunate accident. I’m sorry for the family, but what can you do?”
> 
> A search at FedSpending.org shows that FN Herstal, the Belgian parent company, 
> received $8.6 million in U.S. federal contracts in 2005, the last year for which 
> data is available. FNH USA received $118,000 in contracts that same year.
> 
> Last September, Greenpeace send a letter to the Assistant Secretary of Homeland 
> Security, Julie Myers, and asked that Dillais be deported due to his role in 
> Rainbow Warrior’s bombing. Thomas Wetterer, Greenpeace’s general counsel, noted 
> that FNH USA had been awarded a contract the year prior to provide combat rifles 
> to the Special Operations Command. “The press release announcing the contract 
> points out that. ‘The United States Special Operations Command plans, directs, 
> and executes special operations in the conduct of the War on Terrorism’,” he 
> wrote. The irony of this could hardly be clearer.”
> 
> On 9 Nov 2006, Greenpeace received a reply stating that the request had been 
> forwarded to the DHS Office of Investigations and to the FBI for “appropriate 
> action.” Since then, there’s been no further word about whether an investigation 
> has formally been launched. “The Bush Administration should be setting a much 
> higher standard for the people they’re doing business with,” Mark Floegel, a 
> Greenpeace investigator, told me. “They shouldn’t be buying arms from 
> state-sponsored terrorists.”
> 
> I left a message for Dillais at his office at FNH USA. He failed to return my 
> request for comment.