From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V10 #33 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Saturday, February 25 2012 Volume 10 : Number 033 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] Lucy Lawless, activist ["Kym Taborn" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Lucy Lawless, activist It has also given her the most media coverage she has had since her accident before the Jay Leno show. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "HJ Hewitt" To: "xena list" Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:12 PM Subject: [chakram-refugees] Lucy Lawless, activist > Well, 20 years ago Lucy had that bit part as "Jane Redmond" in RAINBOW > WARRIOR... and I've heard of actors getting so immersed in the parts they > play that they start thinking and acting as if they were that character. > Maybe this is a belated instance of that phenomenon... > > By the way, she says it's because of her 3 kids-- how old are they now? > ========================================================= > This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. > To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with > "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. > Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. > ========================================================= ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:12:01 -0600 From: HJ Hewitt Subject: [chakram-refugees] Lucy Lawless, activist Well, 20 years ago Lucy had that bit part as "Jane Redmond" in RAINBOW WARRIOR... and I've heard of actors getting so immersed in the parts they play that they start thinking and acting as if they were that character. Maybe this is a belated instance of that phenomenon... By the way, she says it's because of her 3 kids-- how old are they now? ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:45:44 -0600 From: HJ Hewitt Subject: Fwd: [chakram-refugees] Lucy Lawless, activist > From: "Kym Taborn" > > It has also given her the most media coverage she has had since her > accident before the Jay Leno show. Uh huh... but it has, even more, brought international coverage to what would only have been a minor incident in a just another port in a small island nation. GO, LUCY! TEXena Greenpeace member ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:58:39 +1300 From: Graeme Subject: [chakram-refugees] Yet another update on the story Ice drilling madness: Lawless http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10787896 Lucy Lawless with Greenpeace activist Raroni Hammer protesting from the Shell-contracted ship's drilling tower. Photo / AP Expand Lucy Lawless with Greenpeace activist Raroni Hammer protesting from the Shell-contracted ship's drilling tower. Photo / AP Hollywood star and eco-warrior Lucy Lawless says she has accepted the prospect of criminal charges and potential career damage after illegally boarding a ship to protest against oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean. The Xena: Warrior Princess star and six other Greenpeace protesters sneaked onto the Shell-contracted Noble Discoverer at Port Taranaki at dawn yesterday, climbing its 53-metre drilling tower and hoisting banners which read "Stop Shell" and "Save the Arctic". The group are attempting to prevent the Liberian-flagged ship from drilling three exploratory oil wells in the remote and ecologically fragile Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. The drill ship is due to leave for the region via Seattle this weekend. Speaking to the Weekend Herald from the "uncomfortable" peak of the ship's tower, Lawless said: "I'm a mother, I don't do this stuff. But I feel I have to stand up and be counted and act on behalf of my children and grandchildren." Greenpeace is particularly upset that Shell is capitalising on ice melt in the region to seek more oil reserves. Lawless said: "To see the melting of the sea ice not as a warning to humanity but as an invitation to drill for more of the stuff that caused the problem in the first place is the definition of madness. What Shell is doing is climate-change profiteering." Police last night said the protesters would be left where they were after earlier arresting one member of the protest party who was not on board the ship, and climbed the tower to speak to the activists. New Plymouth area commander Blair Telford said the protesters were "clearly breaking the law" but were in an isolated location on board which allowed both the port and the ship to operate normal business. "We have considered various options and we have the skills, capabilities and equipment to deal with all options. However safety remains paramount and we won't needlessly jeopardise the safety of our staff, the crew of the ship or the protesters." Lawless noted that her stunt-training for Xena had prepared her for the task of climbing the ship's tower. "I feel like I have been training for this all my life. We will be here for as long as it takes." Asked whether criminal charges could threaten her future acting projects, she said: "It could. But I can only be myself." Shell's oil spill response plan for the expedition was approved by United States environmental safety authorities last month. But Greenpeace climate campaigner Steve Abel argued that its response methods were untested in Arctic waters. GNS Science exploration geophysicist Chris Uruski said that since the Gulf of Mexico disaster oil giants were acutely aware of the consequences of a major oil spill near fragile ecosystems. "I think that the fact that a spill is enough to endanger the very existence of BP - and it's not exactly a small company - that's incentive enough to make sure that those things don't happen." Shell said its commitment to basic principles of environmental safety was "unwavering". A request for further comment from Shell New Zealand was not replied to. The Noble Discoverer has a 105-day window for drilling while the ice retreats, but it has to stop drilling after 67 days to ensure it has time to fix a well blowout. By Isaac Davison 5:30 AM Saturday Feb 25, 2012 ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V10 #33 **************************************