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The Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided.
And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Putin orders
Russia's oil rigs to move north. But in September 2013, 30 men and
women from 18 countries - the crew of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise -
decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the
Arctic. But their protest is met with brutal force and they are
charged with piracy and face 15 years in Russia's prison system.
Ben Stewart - who spearheaded the campaign to release the Arctic 30
- tells an astonishing tale of passion, courage and survival.
There is a saying in Russian jails. Ne ver ne boysya ne prosi:
don't trust, don't fear, don't beg. Don't trust because life here
will always disappoint you. Don't fear because whatever you're
scared of, you are powerless to prevent it. And don't beg because
nobody ever begged their way out of a Russian prison cell. The plan
was to attach a Greenpeace pod to Gazprom's platform and launch a
peaceful protest against oil being pumped from the icy waters of
the Arctic. However, heavily armed commandos flooded the deck of
the Arctic Sunrise and the Arctic Thirty began their ordeal at the
hands of Putin's regime. Told in the activists' own words and for
the first time, this is a dramatic and inspiring story of
incarceration and the ensuing emotional campaign to bring the
protestors home.
The official account - complete with full-colour illustrations - of
how four ordinary people managed to expose the government's
hypocrisies through a nationwide guerrilla advertising campaign.
Seeking to highlight the hypocrisy of our politicians on Brexit
four friends armed with nothing more than ladders, roller brushes
and a treasure trove of damning statements from our leaders slapped
up the politicians' biggest lies on billboards around the country.
This guerrilla operation wasn't easy, but it wasn't long before the
British public enabled them to take things into their own hands -
and the rest is history. Leave the EU or remain? An apparently
simple question divided the nation in historic fashion. Many of us
believed the words of these politicians. By putting up their quotes
as billboards, self-styled 'Led By Donkeys' had clear intentions -
to compare the promises that have been made across the years with
the damning reality.
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