Rex Weyler (born September 10, 1947) is an American/Canadian writer, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher in newspapers and magazines, and sometimes as a commentator on Canadian television. In the 1970s, Weyler served as the original director of the Greenpeace Foundation , and as a campaign photographer and publisher of Greenpeace Chronicles . He was one of the founders of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Weyler is the author of the original rights book ( Blood of the Land ), Greenpeace's history ( Greenpeace: The Inside Story ) and religious commentary ( The Jesus Sayings: A Search for the Authentic Message ). In the 1990s, he teamed up with a US patent for music tuning software and founded Justonic Tuning Inc. with its partner, Bill Gannon, to develop and market the product. He works as a freelance journalist, appearing in print, broadcast, and on the Internet.
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Life and education
Weyler was born in Denver, Colorado, September 10, 1947, to Jack Richardson Weyler, a petroleum geologist, and Joanne (Goodwin) Weyler, both from Santa Barbara, California.
Weyler attended Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Rosco C. Hill High School in Denver, Colorado; and Robert E. Lee High School (Midland, Texas). He studied in high school with the first daughter of Laura Welch Bush and the future of US Army General Tommy Franks. (See Tell Laura I Love Her to memoir Midland, Texas, c.1963-66.) Weyler graduated from Lee High School in 1966.
Weyler studied theories of physics, mathematics, engineering, and history at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
In 1969, Weyler and 41 of his fellow students were suspended for one semester of Occidental College for performing performances against US military recruiters on campus. The 42 students were accused of "disrupting normal college operating procedures," and were punished by a student-teacher disciplining body. Weyler never returned to university but traveled internationally and published his first book in 1969 with photographer David Totheroh, Taking the Road Today , a peaceful discourse with photographs of the winter in California Yosemite Valley.
Thirty-six years later, on April 5, 2005, the Center for Urban Environmental Policy on Occidental College campus conferred Weyler and Dennis Zane, a fellow organizer, the Alumni Community Action Award for their lifelong achievements in peace, ecology and social justice..
Weyler has three siblings. He married Glenn Jonathans in Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 1971 and immigrated to Canada in 1972. Weyler and Jonathans divorced in 1980. Weyler married Lisa Gibbons in 1991. They now live in Cortes Island B.C., Canada. Lisa Gibbons is an artist and youth educator with special needs. Weyler and Gibbons have 3 sons as well as foster parents, active in the BC Foster Parents Federation. Journalism
- 1973 with North Shore News in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, first as a photographer and reporter and later as Editor and Associate Publisher.
- 1975 and 1980, Weyler co-founded and served as publisher and editor of the original Greenpeace Chronicles newspaper. This is one of the first international environmental publications, with stories by writers Robert Hunter, Paul Watson, John C. Lilly, Kitty Tucker, Ben Metcalfe and David Garrick, and art and cartoons by cartoonists Ralph Steadman and Ron Cobb.
- 1979 and 1982, Weyler served in various ways as a publisher and author for the Boston-based New Age Journal based in Boston. He stands out among the editors and authors of Zen's popular Zen-oriented self-help book Chop Wood, Carry Water: Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life (Tarcher, 1984).
- 1998, Weyler and Joel Solomon formed the company to purchase and publish the Shared Vision Magazine in Vancouver, B.C. Weyler served as publisher and editor until 2001. They sold the magazine in 2002 to Dragonfly Media. Weyler retained his monthly column at Shared Vision until 2004 and in 2008 serves as Editor-at-Large.
- 2007, Weyler founded the Institute for Citizen Journalism to expand input into the international media.
In 2007 Weyler appeared regularly online at The Tyee. He has appeared on CBC, BBC, Air America Radio, and other radio networks with comments on ecology and current events. Her stories and photographs have appeared in Utne Reader, New York Times, National Geographic, The Liberal, and other journals.
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Greenpeace
Between 1973 and 1982, Weyler served as director of the Greenpeace Foundation, campaign photographer and reporter, and editor of Greenpeace Chronicles magazine. He was one of the founders of Greenpeace International in 1979.
In 1975, Weyler sailed on the first Greenpeace whale campaign. His photographs and news accounts from his original campaigns appear in National Geographic Smithsonian , New York Times Magazine , and other publications around the world. His photographs captured the start of the campaign of Greenpeace whales and seals.
He is the author of the first decade of Greenpeace, Greenpeace: The Inside Story (Raincoast, Rodale, 2004).
Since leaving Greenpeace in 1982, Weyler remains active on environmental and peace issues. In 1991, he helped arrange dioxin emission levels for pulp mills in British Columbia. In 2006, he served as Program Coordinator for the 2006 World Peace Forum.
Weyler is featured in the documentary Greenpeace: Making a Stand , the history of Greenpeace, including a dramatic modern campaign in Argentina that protects forestland from Wichi Indian, threatened by industrial soybean plantations.
See Greenpeace Founder, Character list in Greenpeace history, and Chronology of Greenpeace founding.
Book by Rex Weyler
- Weyler, Rex (2008) The Jesus Sayings: A Quest for His Authentic Message (House of Anansi Press, 2008): a book about Jesus' message and mission.
- Weyler, Rex (2004) Greenpeace: The Inside Story (Raincoast Books, Rodale, 2004): the history of Greenpeace's foundation in Vancouver, Canada, and the first decade of the organization . Finalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, 2004.
- Weyler, Rex (2004) Greenpeace: Individual Account (UK);
- Weyler, Rex (2004) Greenpeace: How Ecological Groups, Journalists, and Visionaries Change the World (USA).
- Weyler, Rex with Bill Gannon (1995) The Story of Harmony (Justonic Tuning Inc., 1995): The history of music technology, from Chinese bamboo to computer software, especially the pure history of harmonic music, tempered keyboard, and computer solutions for pure problems, only intonation of harmony.
- Weyler, Rex (1986) Song of the Whale (Doubleday, 1986): The study of whales. Paul Spong, and Greenpeace campaign to stop the international whaling hunt
- Weyler, Rex with Rick Fields, Peggy Taylor, Rick Ingrasci (1984) Chop Wood, Carry Water: Finding the Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life (Tarcher); a book on the spiritual traditions of the world applied to modern life.
- Weyler, Rex (1982) Blood of the Land (Everest House, 1982; Publisher of the New Society, 1992): History of American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier case.
- Weyler, Rex with Robert Hunter (1978) To Save the Pope, photographs and comments from the early Greenpeace (Chronicle Books) campaign.
- Weyler, Rex with Daphne Marlatt and Robert Minden (1975) Steveston Recollected , photographs and oral history of the Japanese Community in British Columbia (UBC, Provincial Archives, not printed).
- Weyler, Rex with David Totheroh (1969), Taking the Street Today , anti-war commentary and natural photographs (1969, not printed)
Rex Weyler has contributed to: People Power , ed. Robert Cooney and Helen Michalowski (New Society Publishers, 1987); Beyond Hypnosis Lee Pulos (Omega Press, San Francisco, 1990); Shorelines (Kingfisher Press, B.C., 1995); Witness, Twenty-Five Years in the Frontline of the Environment (Andre Deutsch, London, 1996); Greenpeace: Changing the World , ed. Conny Boettger, Fouad Hamdan (Rasch & RÃÆ'¶hring, 2001); The Book of Letters: 150 Years of Personal Correspondence , by Paul and Audrey Grescoe (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2002).
Selected articles and essays
- Green Spin: Are We Gaining Ground or Blowing Smoke (2006) - Critics of "green consumers, and environmental hype.
- Somalia: Free Market Wasteland (2004) - who dumps toxic waste off the coast of Somalia?
- Delivering 'Framed' John Graham (2007) -US trying to extradite a Canadian native Tuchone
- Holy Blood, with Fries (2006) -Mary Magdalene stabbed by Popes, Nazis, and pop fiction writers.
- The No-Conspiracy Theory (2003) -A murder, plot, and theft on the world stage
- Why Are We Still Hunting Seals? (2005) -Critic of the Canadian Harp seal hunting
- Greenpeace Gets Name (2004) -Making Greenpeace 1970 in Vancouver
- Bob Hunter 1941-2005: A Unique Genius (2005) -memoir of Greenpeace co-founder Robert L. Hunter.
- How to Change the World (2007), Vancouver Sun, citizen action leads the social movement
- Ordinary Courage (2007) -Weyler's Earth-Day Sermon, Unitarian Church, Vancouver
- Tell Laura I Love Her (2004) -Lived in Midland, Texas in the 1960s, and reunions decades later
- Freedom: Baba Olatunji, 1927 - 2003 (2003)
- Weyler's article, essay on The Tyee
- Weyler essays are reprinted on rexweyler.com
Movie appearance
Greenpeace: Making a Stand (2006) documentary adaptation of Weyler's book, Greenpeace: the Inside Story, following a campaign in Argentina. Omni Films, producer Leigh Badgley; premiere at Global Television, Canada, 2006.
Sharkwater, featuring documentary by Rob Stewart, 2007; Rex Weyler appears as an environmental expert.
American Warriors, produced by Alison Maclean, Tomboy Productions, 2005; Weyler emerged as a native American history writer, presenting his book Blood of the Land.
Ikon Gerakan Hijau - Greenpeace Co-Founder Rex Weyler, Legacy Petra Kelly, Ralph Nader & amp; Matt Gonzalez; diproduksi oleh Justice Vision and Democracy University, 2005.
Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson (2011): a documentary about the early Greenpeace action along with Paul Watson.
Awards and honor
Finalist of- , Shaughnessy-Cohen Award for Political Writing; 2004.
- Weekly Publishers, "Best Book of 2004," Greenpeace: The Inside Story.
- Finalist, Hubert Evans Award for Non-Fiction, BC Book Awards, 2004.
- Alumni Community Action Award, Center for Urban Environmental Policy, Los Angeles, April 2005.
Note
Additional readings
- Vancouver Observer, Rex Weyler Earth Day speech texts, "Ordinary Courage"
- Who Kills Anna Mae? (2005) - on the website of the Defense Committee of John Graham, native of Vancouver Sun; The Indian Movement, the FBI, the informants, and the murder allegations.
- The World According to Rex Weyler, Interview, The Independent (London), 5 Oct 2004
- Interview with Rex Weyler, Gauntlet, University of Calgary, 2004
- Green Piece, Matt Nippert, New Zealand Listener, November 20, 2004
- Pirates vs. Patriots, Conscious Choice (2004) -US target environmental groups for special prosecution, forest activists charged with "sailor sailors".
- Greenpeace International, "Movement, Memes, and Mindbombs," (2004) -Weyler discusses Saul Alinsky, Gandhi, protest tactics, and media strategy.
- Waves of Compassion, Utne Reader (2003) - The history of Greenpeace, the founders and early campaign
- Weyler on the Intentblog post on Deepak Chopra's blog site
- "Process Because," Quote, Blood of the Land, on FreePeltier.org
- "Siege Status," Quote, Blood of the Land, on FreePeltier.org
- "Who Goes There," Quote, Greenpeace: Inside Story
External links
- Official Rex Weyler Website
- House of Anansi Press - Weyler, author,
- The Raincoast-Weyler book, author,
- Citizens Journalism Institute, John Graham's case
- Citizen Journalism Institute
- Rex Weyler, photo download, Raincoast Book
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- Rex Weyler on IMDb
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