Posted by Steve (in Anchorage, Alaska)
The Whales Broadcasting Corporation at “opening time” this morning.
So, today is the beginning of an interesting week here in Anchorage – where the International Whaling Commission Meeting will take place. Delegates and Greenpeace folks from all over the world are all arriving in Anchorage, gearing up for the start of the Commission meetings tomorrow morning.
We’ve just wrapped up the launch of our efforts here – housed in the “Whale Broadcasting Corporation” tent at the corner of 4th and K Streets in downtown Anchorage – with a press conference. Journalists and film crews from all over the world crowded the tent to hear all about what Greenpeace is doing here. In addition to all of our activities here in the tent (http://www.whaledefenders.org), we’re also observing the meeting, hoping to bring the IWC into the 21st century: to protect the whales, and not the commercial whalers.
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