LIVE: Nuclear free NZ and 50 years of Greenpeace

This year marks 50 years of Greenpeace in Aotearoa New Zealand. In this episode, we'll be joined by three special guests.

Journalist and long-time activist Nicky Hager joins us to talk about the successful Nuclear Free NZ New Zealand campaign of the late 1970s and 1980’s, and what lessons we can take from that campaign for the threats that we face today in the climate crisis.

Stephanie Mills is the National Secretary for NZEI teachers’ union. Originally a journalist, she was a key figure in Greenpeace for almost 15 years and in the successful campaign to end French nuclear testing at Moruroa in the 1990s.

Dan Salmon Is a filmmaker, sailor and author who worked with Greenpeace here in Tāmaki on an international campaign to clean up the tuna fishing industry, and once sailed on a yacht to Muroroa atoll to protest French nuclear testing.

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I always feel so proud that New Zealand has this anti nuclear stance. It is true leadership and sticking to our values beyond the pressures of our international allies. Nuclear energy will always be risky and NZ's features make it very likely an earthquake or tsunami could damage them. Sustainable, clean and free alternatives are now cheap and available, that is way!

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NZ’s blanket ban on nuclear was never the intended result for New Zealand. It was a ban on nuclear weapons, somehow it roped in nuclear energy and technology too. Time we seriously begin to look at nuclear energy. if Japan, and others can do it we can certainly learn from them. Having a policy written before the new advancements that came along is sadly hamstringing this country to the past.