In 1970 “a scrappy band of peace activists” in Vancouver formed the Don’t Make a Wave Committee, soon to be known as Greenpeace. For co-founder Bob Hunter, the aim was to “‘mindbomb’ the world to form a new ‘global consciousness.’” The next year the intrepid group chartered a fishing boat and set off to an island west of Alaska to stop American nuclear weapons…
Sharon Batt
Sharon Batt is a writer and adjunct professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University. She was active in the breast cancer movement during the 1990s and is currently completing a book on patients’ groups and funding from the pharmaceutical industry.