“We are pirates of compassion hunting down, hunting down and destroying pirates of profit.”

— Paul Watson

Worldfest video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhqmF-RBu4
quote honored on XOEarth award http://xoearth.org/humpback-whale/

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