‘Two Months of Injustice’ Global Day of Solidarity in New Zealand

The 'Oil Free Seas Flotilla' sends their support to the Arctic 30. The six yachts in the flotilla left Auckland, Kaikoura, Wellington and the Bay of Islands earlier this week. They will meet about 110 nautical miles west of Raglan where Anadarko is about to start exploratory oil drilling. From left to right (top row): Tim Foreman, Jeanette Fitzsimons, Christian Castillo, Daniel Mares, Niamh O'Flynn, James Rust, Andy Whittaker. From left to right (bottom row): Chris Davenport, Alister Robinson, Anigo Wignen, Henk Haazen and Greenpeace New Zealand Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid.

At events in 265 cities in 43 countries thousands of people take part in a day of solidarity to mark two months since the Arctic 30 were detained following a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling on September 18. A Russian court has charged the Arctic 30 (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance videographer and photographer) with both piracy and hooliganism.