281_Anti nuke - Documentary Trailer

281_Anti nuke - Documentary Trailer from Uchujin

Uchujin -The Blog: I’m very pleased to be able to show the trailer for my new documentary “281_Anti nuke.” Post Fukushima, a young father and artist assumes a mask and the name ’281_Anti nuke’ and takes to the streets of Tokyo angering right wing users of the Internet.”

Filmed over more than a year after seeing his work everywhere in Shibuya and finally making contact with him, it was a delicate situation in which his identity was hidden from me at all times, even now I have never seen his face, I do not know his real name, where he lives or what he does for a job.
His fear of the police and the far right means that he is very careful to maintain his anonimity at all times.

Called by some the Japanese Banksy, a moniker that does not do this soft spoken man justice as his work and his motivation are uniquely his.

The full 20 minute film is currently being submitted to film festivals and so will not appear here for sometime, but if you are lucky you may be able to catch a private or preview screening around Tokyo. I’ll keep you posted.

Big thanks to:-
The musicians who let me use their music for free, Frying Dutchman, Árni Kristjánsson, Repeat Pattern and Fleck E.S.C.
The music in the trailer is taken from the amazing track “Human Error” by Frying Dutchman.
see the 20 minute live performance here if you haven’t yet I strongly recommend it!

Roth Management & Ryan Roth for liasing with 281, smoothing the course to the finished film and being a very nice man.

Ian Thomas Ash for all of his help and advice in the final stages of the film.

A special huge thank you to Erina Suto my co-producer/co-editor and translator without whom this project would have been impossible.
Love and Hugs always.

And, of course, Thanks to 281 for participating.

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5.1 MAYDAY NO NUKES COVERGENCE | Japan - Fissures in the Planetary Apparatus

Abolish Irradiated Labor Everywhere!

MayDay No Nukes Convergence

Wednesday May 1st 2013 4PM @ Union Square

(Gather at Northwest corner / look for the hazmat bloc)

Contact: info@jfissures.org  or 917-746-5735

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in 2011 shed light on the working conditions in all nuclear industries around the world. At the crippled power plant in Fukushima, Japan, thousands of workers are still working to contain the damage, while being exposed to high levels of radiation. The current labor conditions and cover-ups give little protection for the health of the hundreds of thousands of workers. We call for a solidarity with irradiated workers everywhere and for abolition of nuclear energy and weaponry that is built upon the sacrifice of human lives.Irradiated labor has expanded into people’s everyday life near the Fukushima plant due to the State negligence and TEPCO’s negligence.  Mothers, fathers are standing up to protect lives of the children, and the young people are raising voice to protect the future.

This May Day, join us and put on a hazmat suit to imagine the invisible radiation.

No Heroes.

No Robots.

No Guineapigs.

No Nukes.

MAYDAY NO NUKES COVERGENCE | Japan - Fissures in the Planetary Apparatus

5.25 MARCH & MUSIC FOR MUCKATY

Northern Territory, Australia

Tennant Creek
Saturday, May 25, 2013
12:00pm in UTC+09:30

May 25 marks six years since the Northern Land Council voted to nominate a site on Muckaty, 120km north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, to host a national radioactive waste dump.The nomination remains strongly contested by Traditional Owners and the Barkly region community.

The annual community rally will be held on May 25 in Tennant Creek. This year we will also be having a concert with performers including: Sandridge Band (Borroloola); Winanjjikari All Stars (Tennant Creek); Kylie Sambo, hip-hop artist (Tennant Creek and; Perfect Cult (Borroloola).

We will rally outside the Northern Land Council office at 12pm and March to Civic Hall for lunch. The concert will be from 2pm until about 6pm.

Supporters from across the Northern Territory and country are invited to attend. Organisations are encouraged to send a banner and flags along with representatives. If you are unable to travel to TC for the event please consider sending a banner or message of support to be displayed or read. Contact natwasley(at)gmail.com to arrange this.

More information about the nuclear dump proposal and campaign can be found at www.beyondnuclearinitiative.com

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Fukushima’s Catastrophic Aftermath: The Dangers of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation | Global Research

In her book titled “No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth,” nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 – 2012) said:

“Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse to cooperate passively with their own death.”

In her article titled “Radioactivity: No Immediate Danger,” she coined a new word. “Omnicide” describes the ultimate human rejection of life. It’s “difficult to comprehend,” but it’s happening, she said.

She called industrial radioactive pollution “cumulatively greater than Chernobyl. We are now in a no-win situation with radioactive materials, where (it’s) acceptable to have cancer deaths, deformed children and miscarriages.”

Industry propaganda falsely claims nuclear power is clean and green. The nuclear fuel cycle discharges significant amounts of greenhouse gases.

It’s also responsible for hundreds of thousands of curies of deadly radioactive gases and elements in the environment annually.

“Claiming nuclear production of energy is ‘clean,’ ” said Bertell, “is like dieting but stuffing yourself with food between meals.”

Separately, she said:

“There is no such thing as a radiation exposure that will not do damage. There is a hundred per cent possibility that there will be damage to cells. The next question is: which damage do you care about?”

All toxic hazards are serious, she explained. Nuclear radiation is worst of all. It threatens all human life. “Our present path is headed toward species death – whether fast with nuclear war or technological disaster, or slow, by poison...”

more > Fukushima’s Catastrophic Aftermath: The Dangers of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation | Global Research

5.3,10,17,24 TOKYO • Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes

Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes

★0503大飯原発を停止せよ！首相官邸前抗議
大飯原発を停止せよ！全ての原発を廃止せよ！

日時：2013年5月3日(金)18:00～20:00 予定
場所：首相官邸前および永田町・霞が関一帯
●国会前スピーチエリアはなしで、官邸前とファミリーエリアのみになります。


<<STOP Oh-i Nuclear Plant !!! >>

Time : May 3rd (Fri) 2013 18:00 - 20:00
Place : Everywhere around the official residence of the Prime Minister, Nagata-cho & Kasumigaseki area

★ 0503 halt Oi nuclear power plant!
Prime Minister's Office before protests Halt the Oi nuclear power plant!

Abolish all nuclear plants!
Re: 5/3/2013 18:00-20:00 appointments
Location: 10 Downing Street and Nagatacho, Kasumigaseki 1 belt

-Without the Parliament before speech area, only 10 Downing Street and family area.

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Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes (facebook)

6.2 TOKYO :: 反原発☆国会大包囲 首都圏反原発連合 • NO NUKES DAY

 NO NUKES DAY

Let's get together to Tokyo from all over the country two days in June!

16:00〜19:00
国会議事堂周辺
※雨天決行。悪天候の場合は中止。
※予定は変更するの場合があります。ＨＰにて詳細をご確認ください。

「さようなら原発1000万人アクション」と「原発をなくす全国連絡会」の二つの 巨大デモが、国会大包囲に合流します！
国会包囲からの参加も大歓迎！
6月2日は全国から東京へ集まろう！

Huge demonstration of two "National Liaison Committee to eliminate nuclear power plant" and "10 million people primary action goodbye", will join the parliament large siege! 

 ★0602 反原発☆国会大包囲 首都圏反原発連合

From the Pacific Northwest to Fukushima: the long, tragic trail of failed General Electric Nuclear Plants - Cascadia TimesCascadia Times

Newly found court documents from long ago are raising fresh questions about the safety of nuclear reactors made by General Electric.

By Paul Koberstein and Robin Klein

The documents reveal that General Electric had not fully tested its then brand-new nuclear reactor technology when it introduced its first reactor in Eureka, Calif., in 1958.

GE engineers soon figured out that the company’s reactors had a number of defects, but it would be many years before GE let the public in on the secret. The old court documents show that for the next 16 years, while the GEengineers busily worked on understanding the bugs in its nuclear-powered machines, GE kept on selling them to unsuspecting electric utilities around the world with the idea of fixing them later, placing the defective machines in the backyards of communities without their knowledge or consent – a practice one federal judge later likened to a “sophisticated form of Russian Roulette...”

more > From the Pacific Northwest to Fukushima: the long, tragic trail of failed General Electric Nuclear Plants - Cascadia TimesCascadia Times

Beyond Nuclear - Remembering Chernobyl, 27 years on. "Life" in the exclusion zone.

"Most of the people who live in the villages around the Zone have diseases caused by radiation. Most of them are old, and their level of mortality is really high." So writes photographer, Arthur Bondar, based in Kiev, Ukraine, who started to visit Chernobyl in 2008, and has returned frequently in the past five years to photograph the villages and the people living near the exclusion zone. He found intense suffering and a resignation to the inevitable fate of living in a highly radioactive area. Read more and view Bondar's photos.

Beyond Nuclear - Remembering Chernobyl, 27 years on. "Life" in the exclusion zone

Chernobyl / Fukushima :: Help us hold nuclear companies accountable for nuclear disasters like Chernobyl & Fukushima | Greenpeace

Greenpeace (@Greenpeace on twitter) 

Help us hold nuclear companies accountable for nuclear disasters like #Chernobyl & #Fukushima: act.gp/11HSqKZ (4.26.13)

General Electric, Hitachi and Toshiba designed, built and serviced the reactors which directly contributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, yet these companies have not paid one cent of the cost for the reactor failures.The cost of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is estimated at $250 billion US dollars...

SIGN THE PETITION

Fukushima Nuclear Warning: Worth it Then - YouTube

Fukushima Nuclear Warning: Worth it Then - YouTube

San Onofre: Los Angeles votes to oppose reactor restart without public hearings

LA council joins other SoCal cities in concern over safety

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to ask federal regulators not to allow the restart of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors before the formal public process to determine whether Edison’s experimental restart plan is safe and all needed repairs or replacements are completed.

The resolution by District 5 Councilmember Paul Koretz and District 11 Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, which passed 11-0, expresses support for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to:

make no decision about restarting either San Onofre unit until it has fully reviewed public safety through a prudent, transparent, and precautionary process, has allowed independent experts and the public ample opportunity to comment, and has confirmed that Southern California Edison has completed any resulting mandated repairs, replacements, or other actions necessary to guarantee both short and long-term safe operation of San Onofre . . . [The City also encourages the NRC] to take the time needed to independently determine whether or not the information, analysis and actions provided by Southern California Edison constitute a solid technical basis for the adequate protection of the public and resumption of operations.

LA joins a long list of Southern California cities that have expressed concerns about the safety of restarting either of San Onofre’s twin reactors. Both reactors have been shut down for almost a year, after a leak of radioactive steam led to the discovery of widespread and unprecedented damage to the reactors’ recently installed replacement steam generators.

Edison has proposed to the NRC that it be allowed to restart reactor Unit 2 at partial power and run it as a five month test followed by two years of  intermittent shutdowns and startups. Edison has also requested a license amendment with a “no significant hazard” provision that would allow restart with a public hearing to be held only after the fact. NRC staff have given preliminary approval to Edison’s request, but are taking public comments on the proposal through May 15.

“There is a growing consensus from cities in the Southland that Edison’s restart plan amounts to a dangerous experiment that gambles with the safety of millions of Southern Californians,” said S. David Freeman, former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and a senior consultant to Friends of the Earth. “There are serious questions about what went wrong at San Onofre, whether it can be fixed, and whether it is safe to operate that can only be answered adequately in a formal legal proceeding.”

Cities that have passed resolutions or sent letters of concern to the NRC include Del Mar, Encinitas, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, San Clemente, Santa Monica, Solana Beach, Vista, Berkley and Fairfax. In addition, the San Diego Unified School District board passed a similar resolution.

Acting on a petition from Friends of the Earth, the NRC is conducting two official proceedings which could require Edison to seek a full license amendment with adjudicated public hearings, expert testimony and rules of evidence.

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Contact: Bill Walker, Friends of the Earth: (510) 759-9911
Paul Michael Neuman, office of Councilmember Koretz: (213) 473-7005

San Onofre: Los Angeles votes to oppose reactor restart without public hearings | Friends of the Earth

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Los Angeles City Leaders Oppose San Onofre Restart - Fountain Valley, CA Patch:

The Los Angeles City Council today voted to oppose the restarting of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which was taken off-line in January 2012 after a leak was discovered in one of the reactors.

In a resolution approved today on a 11-0 vote, the City Council urged the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to refrain from making a decision on whether to start up the reactors before public hearings have been held.

The city is asking that the commission "take the time needed to independently determine whether or not the information, analysis and actions provided by Southern California Edison constitute a solid technical basis" for restarting the plant and ensuring the public's safety will be protected.

Earlier this month, officials of Southern California Edison, which owns the majority of the power plant, asked the commission for permission to start up one of the reactors at 70 percent power starting June 1.

The utility wants to then power down the nuclear plant after five months to allow for inspections of the facility's steam pressure tubes while a long- term repair strategy is developed.

After the inspection, the reactor would resume operating at 70 percent power. The company said it would use the collected tube data to determine an appropriate power setting for the long term.

According to Edison, vibrations that led to premature wearing of steam pressure tubes in the reactors don't occur at 70 percent power.

Los Angeles joins several other cities including Del Mar, Encinitas, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, San Clemente, Santa Monica, Solana Beach, Vista, Berkeley and Fairfax in opposing the restarting of the plant. The San Diego Unified School District has also come out against the plan.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. denounced Edison's plan as "dangerous and premature."

S. David Freeman, a senior adviser of the environmental group Friends of the Earth, also asked the commission today to delay making a decision.

"There is a growing consensus from cities in the Southland that Edison's restart plan amounts to a dangerous experiment that gambles with the safety of millions of Southern Californians," said Freeman, who previously ran the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

"There are serious questions about what went wrong at San Onofre, whether it can be fixed, and whether it is safe to operate that can only be answered adequately in a formal legal proceeding."

The plant has been shut down since January 2012, when a small, non- injury leak occurred in one of the reactors. Another unit was undergoing maintenance and not operating at the time.

An investigation found that vibration caused premature wear in steam generator tubes.

The commission has promised to hold a public meeting in Southern California before any final decisions are made on a restart plan. The agency and SCE have repeatedly said they won't restart the plant until they are sure it is safe.

- City News Service

15 Nuclear Reactors on New Madrid Fault Line -- Society's Child -- Sott.net

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4.24 LACEY PUBLIC MEETING re OYSTER CREEK closure/ new nuke?

As the closure of Oyster Creek Generating Station inches closer, Lacey and state officials continue to work on the concept of constructing a new facility locally and will be seeking public input on Wednesday, April 24 at the Lacey Middle School.

Officials from the townships of Lacey, Ocean and Barnegat recently met with the state Department of Planning Advocacy to discuss the next phase of locating a new generating facility in Lacey Township come 2019, when the operation of Oyster Creek will cease.

“As far as moving forward, it’s important,” Mayor David Most said. “This is a long process and I’m looking forward to the state and the different organizations coming together looking for input from all our residents.”

The state is looking to have public meetings in each of the three towns, Township Administrator and Municipal Clerk Veronica Laureigh said. The meeting will update each community on the status of the project and there will be informational round tables.

The public meeting will include two sessions for residents — from 4 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

Public Meeting to Discuss Replacement of Oyster Creek - Barnegat-Manahawkin, NJ Patch

Mithivirdi: Massive Protest Against Proposed US-imported Reactors on April 26 | DiaNuke.org

Angry at the flawed and incorrect EIA report submitted by NPCIL in March and adamant that they will not allow this dangerous technology in their backyards, residents from Mithi Virdee, adjoining villages and from Bhavnagar city will hold a protest meet and a rally. The rally to be held at the Bhavnagar Town Hall will be held on April 26th and will coincide with the 26th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. Thousands are still affected by the Chernobyl events and a large portion of the region is still uninhabitable.

Protesting farmers during the public hearing held earlier this year – Photo courtesy Indian Express

Concerned people from the region do not want such a repetition of the events in their region and have called for a cancellation of the project. The project has envisaged the installation of 6000MW electricity generation by installing American made Westinghouse-Toshiba AP 1000 reactors. The technology used in these reactors is suspect and many leading international nuclear experts have called it a “unsafe” and potentially dangerous technology.

The rally comes in the backdrop of various other factors such as the proximity of the site to the worls largest ship breaking complex at Alang. In fact Alang has had a long and chequered history of dangerous accidents involving hazardous chemicals. The coastal regions around the Alang costline extending for about 16kms is already highy pollued with toxic waste. On the other side of Mithi Virdee is another problem – coal mining and a thermal plant which results in hige pollution as well.

more > Mithivirdi: Massive Protest Against Proposed US-imported Reactors on April 26 | DiaNuke.org