Greenpeace Founded

Originally founded as "Don't Make a Wave Committee" in 1969, Greenpeace was officially formed in 1971 in Vancouver. "The organization had grown by the early 21st century to an international organization with five ships, 2.8 million supporters, 27 national and regional offices, and a presence in 41 nations. Among its thousands of dramatic protests, Greenpeace activists have infiltrated nuclear test sites, shielded whales from harpoons, protected fur seals from clubs and blocked ocean-going barges from dumping radioactive waste. The strategy was inspired by a confrontational but non-violent philosophy rooted in the Quaker concept of bearing witness and also in the nonviolent interventions of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr."