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jan 2, 1971 - Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver, British Columbia

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In 1971, a small team of activists set sail from Vancouver, Canada, in an old fishing boat. Their mission: to protest underground nuclear testing by the US military at Amchitka, a tiny volcanic island off western Alaska.

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jan 2, 1971
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~ 54 years ago

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