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Greenpeace Film at IDFA Festival
The film How to Change the World  will premiere in the Netherlands at the De Balie  cinema in Amsterdam on 20 October and is to...
'Devil's Milk'
Firestone's Harbel Estate in Liberia is one of the world largest rubber plantations, employing around 14.000 people. The worker's...
Greenpeace archive enriched
In the mid-1980s Greenpeace Netherlands became much better known because of the attack on its ship, Rainbow Warrior, in 1985, as...
Electricity without atomic energy
Despite the call from the powerful German anti-nuclear movement to protest against the construction of the nuclear power plant...
(No) International Earth Day
In 1970, within a short period of time, two International Earth Days were launched. Both days were initiated by US civilians...
Inventory Greenpeace Netherlands online
The inventory of the archive of Greenpeace Netherlands is now available online. The archive is a rich source of information on...
Greenpeace International Films
The camera has shaped Greenpeace into what it is now. The Greenpeace Film Archive is housed at the IISH. It includes about 1,700...
Greenpeace International Film Archive
The Greenpeace Communications department moved from London to Amsterdam in 1996. As is often the case, the move deeply affected...
Dutch herring
In the seventeenth century the Dutch herring fisheries in the North Sea was the largest single fishery in Europe. For centuries...
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