NUCLEAR POWER: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS OVER

Occupy is protesting the inequities that come from socializing risk onto the 99% and privatizing profits for the 1%. The collapse of housing and financial markets is a good example.

Nuclear power is another case of how the public pays for energy choices that favor corporate profits and control. Public dollars concentrate profits to nuclear corporations, warping energy choices to support centralized, capital intensive electric generation. Decentralized renewables and energy efficiency lose out. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve Been Served Rally @ The Gates
Sunday, October 30 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Gates of Vermont Yankee
546 Governor Hunt Rd, Vernon, VT
As the Entergy Corporation again prepares to feed the crumbling, stumbling VY reactor…5 months before the scheduled closure date of March 21, 2012, citizens will be there en masse to communicate one thing: Entergy, you’ve been served.

We will not allow this reactor to operate beyond its scheduled closure date. It is time to close up and clean up. Join us Sunday, October 30 at Noon to demonstrate loudly, clearly and peaceably.
Stay tuned for more details.

Director of German Environment Agency to present Germany’s renewable energy roadmap and lessons for Vermont

WHO: Jochen Flasbarth, President of Germany’s Federal Environment, similar to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Arne Jungjohann, Director for the Environment Program in the Washington, DC office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
WHEN: Monday, October 10-Wednesday, October 12, 2011.

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RESCHEDULED: 8/28 Norwich VT Meeting will be Sunday Sept. 18 in White River Jct. VT:

WHEN: Sunday, September 18, 2011: 10:00 am ­ 4:00 pm, WHERE: Bugbee Senior Center, 262 North Main Street, White River Jct., VT WHAT: A CALL TO JOIN THE ORGANIZING OF A REGIONAL CAMPAIGN OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TO SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE, 

Initiated by: Randy Kehler, Bob Bady, Nancy Braus for Safe and Green Campaign; Debra Stoleroff, Chris Williams, Robin Cappuccino, David Detmold for the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance; Deb Katz and Chris Williams for VT Citizens Awareness Network; Hattie Nestel for the Shut it Down Affinity Group, Denis Rydjeski and Betsy Eldredge for the Sierra Club of the Upper Valley.

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September 12^th at 6pm at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.  Join Amherst Shut It Down for a family affirmative, community action!

Puppet parade, radical marching band, street theater and direct action.

Creative action planning at the Amherst, MA common @ noon on sat. aug. 20 and 27, and sept. 3^rd and 10th

More info: amherstshutitdown@gmail.com     Anyone with something positive to contribute to this action is welcome to come and help, and we would love your support.  We are a totally grass roots, no budget,  mostly single- mother group organizing family-friendly actions to shut down Vermont yankee.

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I am taking part in an event which could benefit very much from exposure to active New Hampshire citizens such as those who visit your website. Would you consider adding our event to your page? We will be picnicking and rallying at the Seabrook NH Nuclear Power plant on August 21st to bring awareness and opposition to the dangers of nuclear power as our energy source. We will be gathering at the plant’s North Gate starting at noon, then we will parade to its South Gate. Attached is a flyer with more information– If you could post the flyer or our event details we would be grateful– Let us know if this is possible, or whether you require any more information.

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A Call to Join the Organizing in doc format for download also

A CALL TO JOIN THE ORGANIZING

OF A

REGIONAL CAMPAIGN OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION

TO SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE

Sunday, August 28, 2011

11:30 am – 5:30 pm

at the Norwich Congregational Church

15 Church St, Norwich, VT (see directions below)

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A Call to Action Camp in doc format for download also

PLEASE JOIN US!

In a People’s Campaign to Close Vermont Yankee

We’re pleased to be holding a

CLOSE IT DOWN! ACTION CAMP

at

Wheelock Mountain Farm

on the

evening of Friday, Sept. 9th and all day Saturday Sept. 10th

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7-23-11 Clamshell reunion meeting notes in doc format for download also

Clamshell Alliance 2011 Reunion

On July 23, 2011, thirty-eight anti-nuclear organizers met at World Fellowship in Conway NH to discuss resistance, particularly focused on the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant (VY) in Vernon on the Connecticut River at juncture of VT, NH & MA. These are notes from the meeting: those attending, commitments made by the end of the day, morning (large group) and afternoon (break out and large group) discussions. (Notes taken by Lynn Chong, Shel Horowitz, and Randy Kehler; organized by Sharon Tracy.)

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Engineers give data to the people. Following the devastating earthquake in Japan this year and its dangerous impact on nuclear power plants in Fukushima, a network of engineers has banded together to create wireless radiation sensors for the Japanese community. But limitations to radiation sensor technology and stockpiling of key components in other nations threatens to stall opportunities to help. Spanish wireless sensor manufacturer, Libelium, is working on a low-cost solution, a prototype radiation sensor that can be deployed quickly, providing local communities with the technology necessary to assess their risks and manage any potential harms. http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aabawh.htm
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