Sea Shepherd Film Showing In Sheffield

Sunday August 7th, 6:30PM
Upstairs in The Rutland Arms, Brown Street, Sheffield. S1 2BS

Screening of At the Edge of the World, a documentary about Sea Shepherd, plus vegan mars bars, cake and toasties!

Entry by donation.

All funds will go to Sea Shepherd towards freeing their ship from the Scottish Government to enable them to continue their campaign to save sea life!!

If you can't attend then please consider making a donation, see details here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193853310669060

www.seashepherd.org

Thanks,
Sheffield Sabs

sheffieldsaboteurs@live.couk

Sheffield Saboteurs

Comments

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I might be more sympathetic if...

28.07.2011 03:15

...they hadn't called their new ship the 'Brigitte Bardot' - a notorious right winger, who just happens to also be into animal rights. She's actually been convicted of inciting racial hatred 5 times and has often spoken out against immigration. And just to top it off Sea Shepherd paint a picture of a stereotypical blonde buxom woman on the front of the ship.

The very least SS need to do is apologise, rename their ship and issue a statement condemning racism - but I won't hold my breath...

Fuck racism and fuck stupid single issue campaigns with no wider analysis.

Ex-Sea Shepherd crew

Fair point

28.07.2011 10:45

Fair point, but, you're complaints only serve to hinder our aims on this post (which is to raise funds to help a group save animals). I assume you've (rightly) took this issue up with Sea Shepherd and I hope it gets resolved but either way Sea Shepherd needs to continue with its work and needs money to do that.
We didn't post this to start any kind of debate or discussion. Please come along if it's your cup of tea and don't if its not.
Cheers

Sheffield Saboteurs
mail e-mail: sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk

re: you're complaints only serve to hinder our aims on this post

28.07.2011 11:16

Surely it's Sea Shepherd stupidity which hinders the aims of your post?

Unless you don't mind sexism and racism and just care about the fish?

BTW many of us don't use facebook

priorities

Beware Sheffield Sabs...

28.07.2011 11:54

Your point of view above is at best highly suspect and at worst could be considered an apology for racism in the name of animal rights.

Suggesting that it's as simple as just coming if you don't mind the racist undertones (are they even undertones? Calling your ship after a racist is pretty blatant to me...) and staying away if you don't like them is politically naive 'animal rights' at best.

Antifa person

Clarification

28.07.2011 17:23

To clarify, Sheffield Saboteurs, all of its members and the poster of the above article and comments (me) are all 100% anti-racist & anti-speciesist.

If the above comment came across as too blunt its mainly due to the frustration that Indymedia followers never fail to bring with comments on Indymedia news.

If something is worthy of telling the world about, which this info about the naming of the Sea Sheperd ship is, then write a news page about it. If something isn't then don't distract attention from people articles with comments about it.

Sheffield Saboteurs
mail e-mail: sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk

Further clarification

28.07.2011 17:39

Just to make things even clearer, we also think that the naming of the 'Brigitte Bardot' and the 'Steve Irwin' were terrible mistakes and cant think why Sea Shepherd would name their ships after such people. Hopefully things will change soon.

Sheffield Saboteurs
mail e-mail: sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk

to Sheff Sabs

29.07.2011 10:11

How can you be anti-racist if you support an organisation which ignores the racism of key activists in the movement, and even rewards it by naming a ship after them.

By naming a ship after an well known racist, whose husband was closely involved in the National Front, it is clear that the Sea Shepard is institutionally racist.

Smash Racism

Sea Shepherd supporter

20.06.2013 16:16

Hi,
I am a Sea Shepherd supporter and fundraise in Cornwall where I presently reside. However, I am coming home to my birth place of good old Sheffield and saw your advert. I would love to know if you have a group fundraising for Sea Shepherd or will be having any other fundraising events as I would like to be involved when I come back there. Blessings, Nita.

nita smith
mail e-mail: nita9@hotmail.co.uk

sea shepherd

23.06.2013 17:42

Hi again,
I want to comment on what has been said here although this is an old post. I'm speaking as an outsider ( not yet a member of this group) so what I have to say should have no repercussions upon them. I am just sick to death of people who speak up for truth and for the voiceless being labelled racist. I am proud that sea shepherd named their ship after a woman who speaks out for truth and justice. She would presumably say the same about any person, regardless of race, creed or colour who murdered sheep in a most disgusting way for their feast days. Or anybody who were immigrants in a country and inflicted their laws and views on that country's native people. She was fined for speaking the truth, that doesn't make her racist. She has been supportive of Sea Shepherd and stood on the ice caps with the captain, putting herself between the hunters and the baby seals they were butchering to death. In my book that makes her a real life heroine who should get the recognition that she deserves, not hefty fines because the government's are afraid of upsetting the Muslem community in that country.

nita smith
mail e-mail: nita9@hotmail.co.uk