{"id":738,"date":"2007-05-21T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T17:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=738"},"modified":"2007-05-21T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T17:28:30","slug":"defending-whales-dispatch-from-brooklyn-nyc-bakesale-headquarters-of-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/defending-whales-dispatch-from-brooklyn-nyc-bakesale-headquarters-of-the-world-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Defending Whales: Dispatch From Brooklyn, NYC: Bakesale Headquarters Of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/whales.greenpeace.org\/profile\/ErikWhaledefender\">Erik<\/a> (in New York)<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/assets\/graphics\/whale-bake-sale-banner\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7941578@N05\/476802994\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/cookies_.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nOur first two batches of sugar cookies. <\/p>\n<p>(Erik writes to Dave: Dang, sorry the bakesale report seems to have slipped between the cracks)<\/p>\n<p>On the last weekend in April, people across the United States organized bakesales for the whales, in a push to generate grassroots pressure directed toward the US delegation to the IWC.<\/p>\n<p>Now the results are in: In schools, churches, and public parks, at parades and community get togethers, and at at least one motorcycle shop in Nevada, 350 bakesales were held, with all 50 states represented (and Washington DC and Puerto Rico, too)! The nationwide effort was coordinated from US Greenpeace Online Organizing (GOO) headquarters in Brooklyn, and was made possible through the help of the very dedicated US Frontline team. Together we generated over <b>40,000<\/b> petitions, letters, and phonecalls to the White House. \n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/2007\/05\/dispatch_from_brooklyn_nyc_bak.html\" title=\"Dispatch From Brooklyn, NYC: Bakesale Headquarters Of The World\">Continue reading Dispatch From Brooklyn, NYC: Bakesale Headquarters Of The World&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Erik (in New York) Our first two batches of sugar cookies. (Erik writes to Dave: Dang, sorry the bakesale report seems to have slipped between the cracks) On the last weekend in April, people across the United States organized bakesales for the whales, in a push to generate grassroots pressure directed toward the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}