LIBRARY: Articles      Amchitka, The 1970 Concert that Launched
Greenpeace   Print  by Brian Robbins December 7, 2009  Joni
Mitchell, James Taylor, and Phil Ochs - Amchitka, The 1970
Concert that Launched Greenpeace  "Greenpeace is beautiful and
you are beautiful because you are here tonight ... you are not
on a death trip; you believe in life; you believe in peace; you
believe in now."  The late Irving Stowe, co-founder of
Greenpeace, addressing the audience at the initial Greenpeace
Benefit Concert 10/16/70  Here's one for the Christmas stocking
of everybody you know who gives a shit about the planet we live
on, folks. No fooling. Available only at, sales of Amchitka, the
1970 Concert that Launched Greenpeace will help fund future
projects by the international conservation organization. On top
of that, you get to hear two CDs' worth of previously-unreleased
live music by Phil Ochs, James Taylor, and Joni Mitchell. If the
past year's Woodstock nostalgia got you misty-eyed for the days
of your youth - or made