Entertainment industry looking to help Sea Shepherd buy $1 million new boat

[flvegan]

LOS ANGELES, CA (Hollywood Today) 6/08/09 - In the Hollywood Hills last weekend celebs appeared in droves to raise money for “Whale Wars” star Paul Watson and his organization Sea Shepherd. The controversial battle between the government of Australia, Japanese fisherman and animal advocates continue as die-hard activists try to salvage ocean life.

With strong alliances in the entertainment community that harvests financial support from sympathetic artists as varied as Red Hot Chili Pepper’s singer Anthony Kiedis, Leona Lewis, Emily Deschanel, Richard Dean Anderson, renowned music producer Rick Rubin (everyone from Metallica to Johnny Cash) and Australian art-rock band The Red Paintings. The non-profit Sea Shepherd is determined to garner a new $1M boat.

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Despite lofty donations by Kiedis and others totaling $250,000 over the years, what the group yearns for, and the basis of these benefits, is to ascertain better equipment. Namely they want a new, faster super-ship to go against the considerably larger Japanese harpoon whaling vessels.

http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2009/06/09/whale-wars-sea-shepherd-nets-anthony-kiedis-and-rick-rubins-support/

BTW, the debut episode of Season 2 of Whale Wars garnered 1.2 million viewers.

The obligatory "donate here" link:

http://www.seashepherd.org/support-us/

[Pierre.Suave]

1. They need one of these...

:P

[flvegan]

2. I was telling LeftyMom the other day

that if things keep going well for them, they might be able to buy a frigate from the Ecuadorian Navy. That would be epic.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. It would surely give "Whale Wars" a whole new meaning...

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

4. To be fair, it was LK's idea.

Well, not getting it from Ecuador, but "they need a REALLY BIG ship so they can DESTROY the Nishin Maru!" according to LK.

He's an idea man. :rofl: