“Greenpeace campaigners have been booted out of MacExpo in London after other exhibitors complained about their activities at the show,” Chris Williams reports for Infoshop News.
Williams reports, “MacExpo marketing director Matt Denton said Greenpeace were warned not to take photographs at other stands, and to stick to handing out leaflets on their own pitch. He said: ‘It was a valid stand with a valid message… they breached their contract.'”
“The Green My Apple stand will remain shuttered for the rest of the Expo, which runs until Saturday. Denton said the organisers would not be returning any of Greenpeace’s exhibitor fee,” Williams reports.
Williams reports, “Greenpeace volunteers have vowed to flout the ban tomorrow and return to MacExpo to continue the campaign without a stall.”
Full article here.
These Greenpeaceniks might have a point if Apple was some massive polluter instead of just a very a popular brand name which these militant “environmentalists” are using to generate free publicity. We’re all for a cleaner environment, but Apple ought to charge Greenpeace a PR fee. Apple doesn’t sell dirty CRT monitors, like certain cheapo Windows-centric PC box assemblers. Apple uses rechargeable batteries in iPods, instead of having millions of users constantly tossing AA batteries into landfills. Apple even offers purchasers of Apple Macs and Apple monitors free recycling of their old computer and monitor — regardless of manufacturer. The list goes on. Really, come on, Greenpeace, you’re as transparent as a lying three-year-old: quit trying to ride Apple’s coattails and get a life.
Information on Apple’s recycling programs and industry-leading environmental policies is available online at http://www.apple.com/environment
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and after they were kicked out they piled into their VW busses and drove away.
All terrorists organizations should be evicted! Keep throwing them out!
Since Greenpeace apparently reneged on their agreement not to proselytize the crowd or take photos, I don’t see how Al Gore or anyone else could denounce their eviction.
Greenpeace seems to have lost it’s way … publicity seems more important than planet saving …
Years ago I was all for Greenpeace. But now they seem to have lost their way and are more of a nuisance than anything else.
im going to pollute a little bit EXTRA just for greenpeace. Clean my mess up! HAHA
You republicans are idiots. Go back to your pc’s.
I am disappointed that an important organization such as Greenpeace does not do its homework and acts based on non-scientific data. We need an organization like them but we need them to focus on what really matters based on facts.
You democrats are pathetic. Greenpeace is one more example. I’m so glad I switched.
Wow, can’t people just do a little research? Having a nice website that talks about “recycling” doesn’t solve the problem.
We’ve seen iSights and things barred in other countries for the types of materials they use! The Greenpeace website says they are decent at recycling and downright BAD on everything else.
Stop apologizing for Macs all the time. Their tactics might not be good, but that doesn’t mean Apple is an environmentally friendly brand.
Apple over-reacted by evicting Greenpeace. The corporation, like most others, has a long way to go before Greenpeace or anyone aware of the environment can say that it is not polluting the planet with its products.
Stop being so narrow-mined and listen to some of the Green Peace arguments. Apple needs to clean up its act.. really. And I’m a great Apple fan (we have 5 in the house), but that doesn’t mean we can’t open our minds to a little criticism of Apple’s business practices.
Greenpeace are right. We ignore them at our peril. Literraly.
What does it matter? The human race will be dead in 100 years anyway. We’re too stupid to survive.
And that goes especially to anyone who replies “Speak for yourself” or words to that effect.
Given that Greenpeace’s recent campaign against Apple was so well publicised, it’s hard to imagine what was going through the mind of the person who allowed them to rent space at the Expo.
Surely they didn’t expect them to restrict their message to the benefits of cuddling whales ?
If Greenpeace had booked the space under a false identity, then there might have been some sort of excuse for Expo Events, the organisers, but the pre-exhibition publicity clearly shows ‘Green my Apple’ as one of the exhibitors, which makes it all the more embarrassing for them. The space was clearly sold to a known anti-Apple campaigning group and promoted as such.
Greenpeace is a campaigning organisation and deliberate disruption is one of their commonly deployed techniques to grab publicity on the backs of other’s efforts. This sort of action is not at all untypical for them and they will doubtless be planning to be more disruptive tomorrow.
Unfortunately Expo Events appear only to be able to see the pound signs and were unable to see the danger signs and as a result or their folly, Apple get the adverse publicity and embarrassment.
Apple aren’t overly keen on these Expos in the first place and I think that when the organiser can be so foolish, it’s likely to result in Apple scaling back future involvement or even pulling out altogether in favour of in-house special events for product launches and rely on the Apple stores to let customers see the range of goods for themselves.
Man, if we could all just share this peyote and hold hands, I’m sure we could see into each others souls and reveal the inner beauty that is within all of us to-oh fsck it, the goddam cell phone is ringing again.
What does it matter? The human race will be dead in 100 years anyway. We’re too stupid to survive.
Really? It’s 100 years now?
For the last 40-some years we’ve been “within” 10-20 years of environmental disaster and extinction. Hasn’t happened.
As for Apple, Greenpeace really needs to find a worthier target to protest (never mind that Greenpeace has long been a fringe kook group; the NRA has more credibility). If they think Apple and a few iSights are bad, they’re absolutely clueless on how the large-scale industrial world operates.
@John
“Greenpeace are right. We ignore them at our peril. Literraly”
John, getting an education is right. You’ve obviously ignored it at your own peril. Literally!
MDN word is WORD, as in John needs to find the spell checker and the grammar checker in his WORD application.
“For the last 40-some years we’ve been “within” 10-20 years of environmental disaster and extinction. Hasn’t happened.”
Some bad things have happened. For instance, the environmentalists had DDT banned, which led to hundreds of thousands of malaria deaths. Only recently did we discover that the reasons for the ban weren’t true.
They also got CFCs taken out of products, and recommended replacements which recently were discovered to be more pollutant than what they replaced.
They fight the Alaska and other domestic drilling, which causes us to bring oil in on giant boats like the Exxon Valdez.
They promised that recycling would clean up our landfills, and save money. It ended up costing much, much more.
The enviro-nuts have quite a track record.
Never have I seen a group of people followed so blindly. When I was a kid it was global cooling, then it was acid rain, then it was erosion, now it’s global warming.
The unprecedented 3″ of snow I got last night makes me wish for some global warming.
Mike K.:
It is generally acceptable to say something like Greenpeace are right if you specifically mean to refer to the individuals within the group and not just the group itself. Semantically, speaking, John’s sentence effectively means, those Greenpeace activists are right.
Grennpeace must change the name to red violence, those guys recieve donatives so they can travell over the world acting like if there are no rules for them. They are just that, a bouch of guys having fun.
Ahahaha stupid greenpeace. All their efforts are for nothing because the sun will explode in another few million years. (and all traces of microsoft will also be gone!).
fsck Greenpeace.
Goddammit I hate hippies. They say they want to save the Earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.