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Why was the Greenpeace Organization formed?

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Why was the Greenpeace Organization formed?

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  1. The origins of Greenpeace lie in the Peace movement and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament generally and particularly in the Don't Make A Wave Committee co-founded by Jim and Marie Bohlen and formed by an assortment of Canadian and expatriate American peace activists in Vancouver in 1970. Taking its name from a slogan used during protests against United States nuclear testing in late 1969, the Committee had come together with the objective of stopping a U.S. nuclear bomb test codenamed Cannikin beneath the Aleutian island of Amchitka, Alaska.

    Many of the founding members were members of the Society of Friends.[citation needed] The committee was affiliated with the Sierra Club but it withdrew its support when Jim Bohlen, a member of the committee, told journalists that the committee would send a boat to Amchitka to protest the nuclear test without it having been approved by the Sierra Club.

    The first ship expedition, inspired by the voyages of the Golden Rule, Phoenix and Everyman in 1958, was on the chartered west coast fishing vessel, the "Phyllis Cormack", owned and sailed by John Cormack of Vancouver, and called the Greenpeace I; the second expedition was nicknamed Greenpeace Too!.[6] The test was not prevented, but the voyage laid the groundwork for Greenpeace's later activities.

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