Yuzuru Oshihara/Greenpeace Japan/AP
A Greenpeace banner reading: "1.2 billion yen of tax money for whaling?"
A Greenpeace banner reading: "1.2 billion yen of tax money for whaling?"
Greenpeace Activists Plan to Clash With Japanese Whale Hunters
November 19, 2008 01:30 PM
by
findingDulcinea Staff
The flagship of Japan’s controversial whaling fleet left for the Antarctic on Monday, as members of Greenpeace planned to interrupt the ship’s annual research expedition.
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