Friday, January 30, 2015

The Nuclear Free California Movement Rides Again! | NoNukesCA.net



Harvey Wasserman of Solartopia, editor of NukeFree.org, summed up the conference by stating, “Nuclear energy is dirty, dangerous, expensive, and outmoded. Nuclear Free California is leading our State into a clean, renewable energy future, and in doing so, we will shut down the most dangerous nuclear plant in the nation.”



Resistance is Fertile
Back in the 1970’s and ’80’s PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant was the California epicenter of an anti-nuclear movement that was sweeping the country. In 1981, in what was reputed to be the largest mass arrest in U.S. history, nearly 2,000 protestors were arrested at the famous Diablo Blockade.
Despite the massive and long-lived public opposition – not to mention countless construction mistakes and problems and the fact the site was near known earthquake faults – Diablo was eventually fired up in 1984. Some may say that shows the futility of mass direct actions and non-violent civil disobedience and that the Nuclear Free California movement failed. They would be mistaken...
more: The Nuclear Free California Movement Rides Again! | NoNukesCA.net


includes: PRESS RELEASE
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
For immediate release. January 28, 2015
CONTACTS: Linda Seeley, Spokesperson
805-234-1769
lindaseeley@gmail.com

Jane Swanson, Spokesperson
805-440-1359
janeslo@icloud.com

ACTIVISTS FROM THROUGHOUT THE U.S. AND JAPAN MEET IN SAN LUIS OBISPO TO DISCUSS STRATEGIES TO SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCES

During the weekend of January 23 to 25, activists from not only California, but throughout the United States and two from Japan, gathered in San Luis Obispo to discuss key nuclear issues and strategies for shutting down Diablo Canyon, California’s last operating nuclear power plant.

Recent revelations of possible collusion between plant operator Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to minimize the effects of the many earthquake faults under and around Diablo Canyon, new information about hazardous nuclear waste storage conditions and the ever-expanding renewable energy market make this a key moment to finally decommission the aging and dangerous nuclear plant sitting on the Central California coast.

The weekend events began on Friday morning with a Peace Walk from Diablo Canyon to the San Luis Obispo County Courthouse, led by Buddhist Monk Reverend Sawada of Nipponzan Myohoj. The evening of January 23 featured a kick-off meeting with speakers, videos, photos and music for both activists and the general public.

Meetings of a coalition of organizations under the banner of Nuclear Free California were held on Saturday and Sunday, facilitated by long-time activist Harvey Wasserman of Solartopia, Jaqueline Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation and Mary Beth Brangan of Ecological Options Network. Speakers from Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, World Business Academy, San Onofre Safety, RADCAST, SLO Clean Energy, Code Pink, No Nukes Northwest, No Nukes Action, PSR-Oregon and many others joined organizers Mothers for Peace and Nuclear Free California in giving presentations that covered a diverse range of issues and perspectives. There were also reports from Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds, Paul Frey of Frey Organic Winery, energy analyst Paul Gipe of Wind Works, lawyer Mike Aguirre, labor issues specialist Steve Zeltzer and Fukushima resident/activist Chieko Shiina who came from Japan for these meetings.

Topics ranged from current issues at Diablo Canyon to the nuclear weapons connection, Fukushima and a class action lawsuit against the Fukushima reactor manufacturers, radiation monitoring, transitioning to renewables, utilities reform, workers rights and creating a new job base and economy for post-Diablo San Luis Obispo County.

The meetings were attended by about 100 people – members of allied organizations affiliated with Nuclear Free California and individual citizens as well as award winning photographers, filmmakers, writers and media specialists — and became a convergence of energies, all directed towards shutting down Diablo Canyon and moving towards a nuclear free future. In the true spirit of our mission to protect our planet and our children, each meeting began with a blessing from Fred Collins, Tribal Administrator of The Northern Chumash Tribal Council, and was graced with a prayer vigil by Reverend Sawada.

Harvey Wasserman of Solartopia, editor of NukeFree.org, summed up the conference by stating, “Nuclear energy is dirty, dangerous, expensive, and outmoded. Nuclear Free California is leading our State into a clean, renewable energy future, and in doing so, we will shut down the most dangerous nuclear plant in the nation.”
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Freeze our Fukushimas - Four years later, NRC rejects Beyond Nuclear and 10,000 co-petitioners' call to close Fukushima-style reactors | Beyond Nuclear


After nearly four years of behind closed doors deliberations, on January 15, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued its “Final Director’s Decision” rejecting the April 13, 2011 emergency enforcement petition filed by Beyond Nuclear along with more than 10,000 co-petitioners from around the country. The public emergency enforcement petition called for the immediate suspension of the continued operation of the General Electric Mark I boiling water reactors in the U.S. that are identical to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors units 1, 2 and 3 that exploded and melted down following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

more: Beyond Nuclear - Freeze our Fukushimas - Four years later, NRC rejects Beyond Nuclear and 10,000 co-petitioners' call to close Fukushima-style reactors

Monday, January 19, 2015

3.11 >> NO NUKES WEEK 2015 | Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes, Japan




NO NUKES WEEK 2015 coalitionagainstnukes.jp/?p=5796 【3月11日を中心にその前後を「ノーニュークスウィーク」とし全国で行われるアクションをつなぎ、共同行動を呼びかけていきます。】

[March 11 as "no new nuke Week" to connect the action that takes place across the country, we will call for joint action . ]

3.8 TOKYO :: NO NUKES DAY 反原発★統一行動 ~福島を忘れるな!再稼働を許すな!~ | 首都圏反原発連合



0308 NO NUKES DAY 反原発★統一行動 ~福島を忘れるな!再稼働を許すな!~ | 首都圏反原発連合

March 8 NO NUKES DAY -Unified Action Against Nuclear Power! Remember Fukushima & Halt Restarts!

Four years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011. As the government pushes for the restart of nuclear facilities, we, the three groups of Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes, Sayonara Genpatsu 10 Million People’s Action and Genpatsu wo Nakusu Zenkoku Renrakukai, call for unified action to aptly demonstrate popular opinion against nuclear power.



1.23, 24&25, 27: SHUTDOWN DIABLO - CA's Potential Fukushima; San Luis Obispo & San Francisco




▶ VIDEO: SHUTDOWN DIABLO - CA's Potential Fukushima*


via Harvey Wasserman (18 Jan. 2015) –
HI EVERYONE....
We are moving powerfully now to shut the last two nukes in California.
Citizen activism has shut reactors at Humboldt, Rancho Seco and San Onofre 1-2-3, and stopped proposals at Bodega, Bakersfield, etc.
Please now join us to bring California to a post-nuclear Solartopia.
Visit: NoNukesCA.net
You might also like this video on Diablo [included above]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfPZ5lj8x48&feature=youtu.be
And this radio show on feed-in tariffs:
http://prn.fm/solartopia-green-power-wellness-hour-12-30-14/

Shut Diablo Events: Jan. 23-27, San Luis Obispo & SF
UPCOMING FREE/OPEN/PUBLIC EVENTS TO SHUT THE DIABLO NUKES

Friday, January 23, 6-9 pm, San Luis Obispo:
Music & munchies to celebrate the fight for a nuke-free California
SLO Community Library

Saturday-Sunday, January 24-5, all day, San Luis Obispo:
A state-wide conference to strategize the fight to win a nuke-free California
SLO Grange, 2880 Broad Street ($25 requested but not required)

Tuesday, January 27, 6-9pm, San Francisco:
A Bay Area gathering to strategize the fight to win a nuke-free California.
At Local 2, 215 golden gate at Leavenworth. Near civic center BART.



*video information
http://youtu.be/WfPZ5lj8x48Published on Sep 17, 2014 by eon3 (EON - the Ecological Options Network)
Why decommission California's last-nuke-standing, PG&E's two aging, out-of-compliance nuclear reactors, built on multiple earthquake faults in a tsunami zone, run by the company facing multiple Federal indictments for safety violations in the San Bruno gas fire disaster?
Author, journalist and long-time nuke free activist Harvey Wasserman counts the 'whys.'


MORE INFO –


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STATEWIDE MEETINGS OF NUCLEAR FREE CALIFORNIA

To Shut Down Diablo Canyon!

San Luis Obispo Conference
January 23 – 25
&

San Francisco Strategy Meeting

January 27

We hope you’ll be joining us! ( Download flyer PDF )

January 23, Friday
Kick-Off Meeting for both active NFC members and the general public

∗9 am: Sawada-Shonin, Japanese monk, will be doing a symbolic and prayerful walk from Diablo to the City courthouse. Please join!
∗ 6 pm – 9 pm
San Luis Obispo Public Library, 958 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Tales of Diablo
Music and munchies, discussion
Code Pink, Harvey Wasserman and others

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January 24, Saturday
Nuclear Free California Strategy Meeting to Shut Down Diablo Canyon

9 am – 6 pm – Grange Hall

2880 Broad Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Agenda: Presentations on what’s now happening re Diablo Canyon followed by formulating a state-wide strategy
FEE: $25 (covers both Saturday and Sunday plus Saturday lunch)
Saturday dinner is an additional $20
Pre-registration required. Contact: Mary Beth Brangan Marybeth@eon3.net
Do you prefer turkey or vegetarian lunch; chicken or vegetarian dinner ?
Payments may be made Saturday morning via credit card, check or cash or tohttp://mothersforpeace.org/donate
Additional donations to Mothers for Peace are welcome to help cover meeting hosting expenses!

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January 25, Sunday
Building the Network – Nuclear Free California, Nuclear Free West Coast and Pacific Rim Alliance

9 am – 5 pm – San Luis Obispo Public Library, 958 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
lunch on your own in the downtown San Luis area
Agenda: Continuing discussion re Diablo Shutdown;
Presentations and Reports from Organizations
FIT, CCAs and Munis
& Discussion on the effects of and responses to the ongoing Fukushima crisis
Accommodations: SLO Mothers for Peace has some accommodations in private homes. If you would like a home stay, please contact: Elizabeth Brousse embrousse@att.net
Hotels and other accommodations in San Luis Obispo:
TripAdvisor.com
airbnb.com vrbo.com

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January 27, Tuesday



San Francisco
SHUT DOWN DIABLO Strategy Session
Extra OccupyForum at Local 2 from 6 – 9 pm, 215 Golden Gate up the block from the corner of Leavenworth, near Civic Center BART
Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman, Dennis Bernstein,
Linda Seeley, Larry Fahn, Cynthia Papermaster

SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON
JOIN US TO WIN A NUKE-FREE CALIFORNIA!!

Shutdown Diablo Conference – Save the Dates!
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We hope you’ll be joining us at the Nuclear Free CA meeting on January 24-25 in San Luis Obispo, ( Download flyer PDF )
We’ll have an exciting conference to develop a strategy to shut down Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors – our own potential Fukushima. Located in San Luis Obispo, on the beautiful California coast, two aging reactors are savagely fissioning adjacent to 13 earthquake faults in a tsunami zone and operated by PG&E, currently charged with over 30 federal felonies for criminal mismanagement. It’s time to shut them down – and to insist on the safest possible management of the deadly radioactive waste. Diablo Canyon nuclear waste canisters have conditions for cracking after only two years of use!
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Saturday, January 24th - Develop a statewide strategy to shut down Diablo Canyon and to manage California’s tons of deadly radioactive waste safely as possible!
9am – 6pm – San Luis Obispo Grange, 2880 Broad St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Catered lunch & dinner. Sat. lunch included in registration fee. Dinner $20 per person
Saturday evening: Speaker from Fukushima, music, videos, poetry
Conference cost: $25 – no one refused for lack of funds – http://mothersforpeace.org/donate
RSVP’s required: by Jan. 17 for Saturday lunch and dinner arrangements Marybeth@eon3.net – Please indicate vegetarian or chicken main entrée for lunch & dinner
Sunday, January 25th – Help build the Nuclear Free West Coast and Pacific Rim alliance in response to the ongoing Fukushima tragedy. We will discuss topics covered Saturday in more depth as well as additional items.
9am – 5pm – San Luis Obispo City-County Library, 958 Palm Street, SLO 93401. (We will try to make remote computer access possible for those unable to attend in person on Sunday.)
Sunday lunch is on your own at one of the many nearby restaurants.
Accommodations: SLO Mothers for Peace has some accommodations in private homes. If you would like a home stay, please contact: Elizabeth Brousse embrousse@att.net
Hotels and other accommodations in San Luis Obispo:
TripAdvisor.com
airbnb.com vrbo.com
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1. You don’t have to attend both days. Saturday, January 24th, is going to be devoted exclusively to creating a statewide strategy to shut down Diablo Canyon.
Sunday’s agenda is more expansive and includes the whole West Coast and Pacific Rim.
2. On Saturday evening, there will be a program featuring speakers from Fukushima with updates from Japan, along with poetry and music.
3. The meeting is going to be highly interactive, with lots of opportunity for creative participation in the ultimate strategy to SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON!
Mothers for Peace and EON – the Ecological Options Network are proud to be part of this coalition to make our state and our world safer for the future generations!
Looking forward to seeing you!
Nuclear Free California Agenda Committee



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