We do not always win - but sometimes we prevail. Mark Engler celebrates a daring victory.
In April, on the cold waters outside of Seattle, a swarm of one-person boats – a flotilla of paddlers in bright yellow, blue, lime green and red vessels – surrounded a massive oil rig.
These were the Kayaktivists, some 500 people in all. The towering platform they targeted, known as the ‘Polar Pioneer’, belonged to Royal Dutch Shell.
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