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PRESS RELEASE: India-Japan Nuclear Deal: World Wide Protest Planned

India-Japan Nuclear Deal: World Wide Protest Planned

Press Release

08 December, 2015
Countercurrents.org

During the Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Shinzo Abe’s visit to India, protests have been organised against the proposed India-Japan Nuclear Agreement between 11th to 13th December.

Protests have been announced all over India during Shinzo Abe’s visit this week. Farmers and fisherfolk whom this deal directly and immediately affects would be protesting in Jaitapur, Mithi Virdi, Kovvada and Koodankulam. Solidarity groups have also called for protests in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Nagpur, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad and other cities.

​Protests by civil society groups are also being organised in New York, London, Tokyo and other international cities, as this nuclear agreement has serious international implications.

​The deal with Japan is actually a missing piece in the massively destructive nuclear energy expansion that India has embarked upon after signing the disastrous Indo-US nuclear deal. The nuclear projects of America and France in Gujarat’s Mithi Virdi, Andhra Pradesh’s Kovvada and Maharashtra’s Jaitapur cannot proceed without an India-Japan deal, as these designs use crucial components supplied by Japan.

It’s important to oppose this agreement as it unleashes an insane and irreversibly destructive nuclear expansion, imposed through brutal repression and denial of local democracy. These projects are being strongly opposed on the ground by farmers and fisherfolk as they displace hundreds of thousands of people and endanger their safety and environment. Several eminent independent experts and former policy makers have also risen it protest highlighting the specific hazards of the new designs, the shoddy environmental clearances issues under political pressure, the lack of transparency and accountability in the nuclear sector, the non-independence of India’s nuclear regulator and the insistence of the foreign suppliers for not complying with the Nuclear Liability Act passed by the Indian parliament. After Fukushima, a number of countries have shifted away from nuclear energy and international commitments like this deal to import nuclear technology actually distort India’s sovereign energy choices.

People in Japan are also opposing this agreement for the sheer absurdity of Mr. Shinzo Abe selling nuclear technology to other countries even as ongoing nuclear accident in Fukushima takes a turn for the worse. We urge you to lend your support to this urgent cause and stop the India-Japan nuclear agreement that would push the country into a destructive spiral.

Here is the e-petition that more than 1100 people have already signed. Please sign and circulate.

https://www.change.org/p/mr-shinzo-abe-prime-minister-of-japan-international-appeal-against-japan-s-nuclear-export-to-india

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Here is the list of people to contact for protest:

Jaitapur:
Satyajit Chavan – satyajitchavan@yahoo.co.in | 8898770232

Koodankulam:
S.p. Udayakumar
Koodankulam@yahoo.com | 9865683735

Mithi Virdi/Ahmedabad
Krishna Kant
tokrishnakant@yahoo.co.in | 9427849310

Kovvada/Vishakhapatnam
Dr. EAS Sarma – eassarma@gmail.com | 99866021646

Nagpur:
Adv Prakash Meghe pmegh_61@yahoo.co.uk | 9890889391

Delhi:
Kumar Sundaram / Shabnam Shaikh
pksundaram@gmail.com | helpmankind82@gmail.com
9810556134 | 9971058735

Bangalore:
Jagadish G Chandra newsocialist.in@gmail.com | 080-26742616

Chennai:
Sundar Rajan – info@poovulagu.org | 9444082401

Mumbai:
Rajendra Phatarpekar / Vivek Sundara
sihnouk@gmail.com / viveksundara@gmail.com
9821062801 / 9833443319

Kolkata:
Dr Santanu Chakraverti – s.chacraverti@gmail.com | 9831034089

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
New York: Ayumi Imagawa – ayumitemlock@gmail.com
London: Amrit Wilson – wilson_amrit@yahoo.co.uk
Tokyo: Yasuo Maeda – maeda_yasuo_candle@yahoo.co.jp
Osaka: Yasuji Mitsubayashi – afvpb814@oct.zaq.ne.jp
NSW, Australia: Harsha Prabhu – go2harsha@yahoo.com.au
Istanbul: Pinar Demircan – demipinar@gmail.com 

India-Japan Nuclear Deal: World Wide Protest Planned

Nuclear Hero Wanted! The 2015 Nuclear-Free Future Award

– Last Call for Nominations for the 2015 Nuclear-Free Future Award - Friends around the world: Please, take a moment and consider a nomination for our award! In your world you might find a hero of the nuclear age. Do not hesitate to bring him/her to our attention.

http://www.nuclear-free-future.com/…/139-nominierungen-fue…/

International Uranium
Film Festival Rio de Janeiro
Rua Monte Alegre, 356 / 301
Santa Teresa
Rio de Janeiro / RJ
CEP 20240-194
Brasil
www.uraniumfilmfestival.org
info@uraniumfilmfestival.org

http://www.dw.de/radioatividade-vira-tema-de-fe…/av-17963772
http://tvbrasil.ebc.com.br/…/radioatividade-e-o-tema-do-pro…

Nominierungen für den Nuclear-Free Future Award 2015 - Nuclear-Free Future Award Foundation


thanks to  Marcia Gomes de Oliveira of International Uranium Film Festival!

The Nuclear-Free Future Award on facebook –
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3.11 Fukushima Meltdowns Third Anniversary Events and Actions Complete Listing

International Events Listing for 3.11 Third Anniversary March 2014

The meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station occurred three years ago on March 11, 2011 (and the next few days thereafter).  For three years TEPCO has been bungling the remediation effort while the life and health of everyone on this planet has been seriously threatened by the uncontained release of radiation, especially in Japan. And it's going to go on for decades, if not centuries more.  Right now Daiichi is in a state of collapse from every angle: infrastructure weakened, manpower shortages, cooling systems deteriorating, lethally radioactive water storage leaks, contaminated groundwater rising to the surface, electrical systems highly vulnerable, all of this at risk of a major earthquake taking it out entirely.

In spite of all this, the PM is energetically pushing nuclear technology to India, Korea, Turkey and Vietnam. Japan's new Secrecy Law could make it a crime to investigate nuclear issues; and the harassment and jailing of Japanese anti-nuclear activists must stop!

Tepco's poisoning of the Pacific is studied the world over except for the U.S. and Japan. Most of us have no illusion that the water is safe and that the marine products are safe. We're giving up fish- BUT WE'RE NOT GIVING UP THE FIGHT TO FIX FUKUSHIMA and EVACUATE THE CHILDREN!!

We are taking to the streets to demand action. Not weak assurances of safety or outright lies. We want results. Here are a selection of events planned for 3.11 2014 that will bring your voice to the fore, that will let your concerns be heard, that will strengthen your heart, and your resolve.  There's no turning back; Fukushima is Here.

> 3.11 Fukushima Meltdowns Third Anniversary Events and Actions Complete Listing

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whats up: FUKU 3 Event Calendar :: 3rd YEAR ANNIVERSARY EVENTS WORLDWIDE

#FukushimaIsHere PHOTOS • 19 OCT 2013 - SF, PARIS, BOSTON, PERTH, TORONTO, MANLY, MELBOURNE...

 

Ocean Beach, SF California

Ocean Beach, SF California

Ocean Beach, SF California

Toronto, Canada

Paris, France

St Kilda Beach, Melbourne, Australia

St Kilda Beach, Melbourne, Australia

St Kilda Beach, Melbourne, Australia

Manly Beach, New South Wales, Australia

Cottesloe Beach, (Perth Area) Western Australia

Boston, Mass USA

  

Tazewell, Virginia, USA

Actions confirmed in U.S., Canada, India, Australia, France, Belgium....
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"FUKUSHIMA IS HERE" website
http://www.fukushimaishere.info/index.php
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Promotional video for "FUKUSHIMA IS HERE"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cwL9Kqt2FQ
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Fukushima is here: Californians to spell it out for the world to see
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15755470-fukushima-is-here-californians-to-spell-it-out-for-the-world-to-see
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"FUKUSHIMA IS HERE" event page on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/213378488825140/
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Fukushima Response Campaign on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/FukushimaResponseCampaign
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"Fix Fukushima" on facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/fixfukushima

10.19 MELBOURNE: Fukushima Is Here

Fukushima is Here | The Buzz

Fukushima Is Here. 

The huge radiation is spreading globally. The highly dangerous radiation is spreading everywhere through the air that we breathe and the worlds oceans. Fukushima is a catastrophe for the whole world, not just Japan.

Join us in Melbourne on this global day of action. People from around the world will be making giant human mural signs on their beaches.

Saturday 19th oct
1pm
Corner The Esplanade & Cavell St Kilda

Bring banners, signs and costumes for a colourful display through the streets of St Kilda.

This will be followed by a giant mural on the beach that spells out the words

"FUKUSHIMA IS HERE"

http://www.fukushimaishere.info/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBrnjkFlqvs

We've marked October 19th as a global Day of Recognition: that radioactive contamination from Fukushima threatens life everywhere.

And it will for generations to come.

We need to begin public discussion of the grave threat we face in the massive amounts of radioactive contamination released into the air and leaking into the sea everyday since three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exploded in March 2011.

A 4th reactor unit also exploded, exposing a dangerous pool of spent fuel rods in a building that won't withstand another big earthquake. The cores have escaped their containment vessels and the situation at the site has been deteriorating rapidly all summer.

This nuclear crisis is not over.

The invisible dragon of Daiichi is loose, and will be for centuries. It's time to start talking about what this means for the world.

Stand with us on October 19th, in solidarity with the people of Japan. And here at home, let this be the wake up call we've been waiting for. We need to start demanding that our elected officials & agencies do what is necessary to test the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat.

In your heart you know this is important, you know you should do something.

We are all connected by bodies of water and we are mostly made up of water. We have one globally connected ocean and each of us has one body. All life was born in this ocean. She needs our help now. We need her help.

One ocean, One chance.

Join us on this beach, on this day. Help us align a thousand bodies in a message of great urgency:

FUKUSHIMA IS HERE.

Join us wherever you are on October 19th. Use any kind of sign, in any language, to cry out with us a message of great urgency:

FUKUSHIMA IS HERE.

Visit the ‘Fukushima is Here’ website for information about events taking place around the world.

For information about the Melbourne day of action, visit the ‘Fukushima is Here’ Melbourne Facebook page >

Fukushima Is Here Melbourne Action

Organize an Event at a Beach Near You

Would you like to organize a FUKUSHIMA IS HERE event at a beach or other location near you?

We'd like this to be a global event in as many locations as possible. The contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is spreading across the global. Whereever you are, FUKUSHIMA IS HERE.

Please contact us at contact@fukushimaishere.info to get set up as an organizer.

fukushimaishere.info

more: Fukushima Is Here - Organize at a Beach Near You

Global Solidarity for Fukushima | DiaNuke.org

Let’s raise alarm on the deepening crisis in Fukushima: a call for global solidarity

Join the Hydrangea protests by fasting every Friday.
Prepare for the upcoming ‘Fukushima is Here’ global event.
Raise awareness about Fukushima in your community.
Think what you can do at your own level to raise voice.
Join others locally/virtually to coordinate a chain of protest actions

Dear Friends,

Fukushima is far from being over. It is getting worse. With thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive water threatening to contaminate the Pacific ocean and even topple the crippled reactor, and 1400 tonnes of lethal spent fuel lying atop reactor no.4, Fukushima today is one of the biggest challenges humanity is faced with. The ongoing accident has not only proved nuclear safety an oxymoron, but has also highlighted the complacency, inefficiency and callousness of the industry-government nexus in a country like Japan which is regarded as very advanced – both in terms of technology and management. Such cover ups, denials, and unaccountability are not confined to Japan, but communities facing the radiation hazards along the entire nuclear chain have experienced it in every country of the world that has adopted this technology.

While the crisis in Fukushima aggravates, we are also witnessing an attitude among the governments and nuclear promoter agencies like the IAEA to reverse the lessons of Fukushima and the upsurge of popular disapproval that the accident had generated initially. The nuclear establishments everywhere are trying to manufacture a sense of normalcy, nuclear industry is busy projecting fictitious claims of nuclear renaissance, and the corporate media has resumed repeating its old pro-nuclear cliche’s. However, concerned citizens and the presently/potentially affected communities are protesting despite all efforts to gag such voices. Massive protests have recently forced the governments to abandon nuclear plans and shut down reactors in the US and China, while Taiwan is heading for a popular referendum on nuclear power. Common people in India, mostly farmers, fisherfolk and tribals are bravely facing brutalstate repression for their peaceful movements against nuclear projects that stand to threaten their safety and livelihoods.

A coordinated international protest is required today to highlight the worsening situation in Fukushima and to raise awareness about the catastrophe’s lessons. We all need to raise our voices together to demand an end to nuclear insanity. We should learn from the experiences of horizontal mobilisations in the recent years and start a chain of imaginative actions at personal and collective levels.

We, some self-motivated friends, from US, Canada, France, Australia, Belgiumand other countries are willing to do some actions. Linked through human connectedness and our concerns for a safe, sustainable, equatable and better world, are starting a fast every Friday starting week in solidarity with the hydrangea ongoing Fridays in Japan where friends have been protesting and praying for a nuclear free world. We are doing this to raise awareness in our own countries and to underline the shared concern. We have been following the unfolding catastrophe in Fukushima since the beginning and it has made us realise the value of shared dreams and struggles to save our planet.

We would observe fast on Friday and would try reaching out to people through various means that we hope to experiment with and learn along our way. We would urge others also to expand this chain and initiate their own imaginative actions according to their convenience and local contexts.

Here are some tentative actions that we have thought, to make this initiative more effective:

- collect solidarity message for Fukushima in our communities and send them to friends in Japan.
- prepare information brochures/pamphlets on Fukushima and distribute it while we are on fast.
- put up photo exhibition on Fukushima on the venue where we observe our fast. Friends can choose any public/cultural/religious place to observe the fast.
- the Friday fasts can be continued for any length decided by friends according to their own convenience, capacity or local social/political context
- we would jointly and independently share our experiences and urge others to join, share their suggestions and solidarities.

This is an open call from our hearts, to rise up and speak out about Fukushima. We understand that actions like these can only sustain and succeed if there is flexibility and space for everybody to improvise and take forward the chain.

Global Solidarity for Fukushima | DiaNuke.org

Urgent international petition calling for immediate action on the uncontrolled radioactive discharges at Fukushima

Urgent international petition calling for immediate action on the uncontrolled radioactive discharges at Tepco’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

• This is clearly not an appropriate time for Japan to restart nuclear plants or export nuclear technology
• The ocean, the source of life, must not be contaminated further

We hereby petition the Japanese national government and related entities to undertake the following commitments.

1. Clarify the Japanese government’s responsibility concerning the radioactive discharges into the ocean. Concentrate fully on dealing with this issue, and suspend all activity aimed at restarting nuclear plants in Japan and exporting nuclear power reactors to other countries. Japan’s new post-Fukushima regulatory standards do not take into account the possibility of uncontrolled radioactive releases into the ocean. Processing applications to restart nuclear plants in Japan under these conditions can result in additional uncontrolled releases and must be suspended.
2. Implement maximum efforts to prevent further contamination of the ocean. Install tanks for the storage of the contaminated water that are more robust and sustainable in order to prevent leakage. Deliberate discharge of the contents of the radioactive water in tanks into the ocean absolutely must not be permitted.
3. Bring together the combined wisdom of independent experts with no vested interests from within Japan and internationally (i.e. domestic and international independent expertise) and ensure its practical implementation.
4. Ensure transparency. Make all government meetings concerning this issue public, including the meetings of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Radioactive Contamination Discharges Countermeasures Committee. Immediately hold a public assessment of the proposed ice wall strategy.
5. Retract Prime Minister Abe’s following statements made at the International Olympic Commission (IOC): “The situation is under control.” “The effects of the [radioactive] discharges are completely blocked within the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's harbor.”

The uncontrolled radioactive discharges into the marine environment as a result of Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident are alarming. It is essential to undertake urgent measures to stop the leaks of contaminated ground water and to deal with the high-level contamination leaking from the storage tanks.

This situation is so serious that one can almost say yet another serious accident has occurred.

Countermeasures to effectively contain the leakage of the water used to cool the molten fuel remaining in the reactors are yet to be put in place. There are serious doubts about the technical and economic efficacy of the proposed ice-wall strategy.

The ocean, the source of life, must not be contaminated further. This is a serious international issue. Those who fish for their livelihood are raising their voices in anger against this contamination of the ocean.

It is absolutely self-evident that Tepco is not capable of dealing with this situation. But the Japanese government is not engaging with the problems head on. Instead, the nuclear regulatory authorities are allocating their manpower to processing applications from electric utilities to restart their nuclear power plants. The Ministry of Economy and Trade continues to hold secretive closed-door meetings with industry, providing a market-place for general contractors to lobby for contracts. In addition, Prime Minister Abe flies around the world playing top salesman for the export of Japan’s nuclear power reactors.

To address this urgent situation, the government must now actively draw upon international expertise and make maximum efforts to prevent further uncontrolled radioactive discharges into the ocean.

Release of part of the radioactivity into the ocean after treatment of the contaminated water is being considered. This must be prevented at all cost. There must not be any deliberate discharge into the Pacific Ocean.

This is clearly not an appropriate time for Japan to restart nuclear plants or export nuclear technology.

At the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presentation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated, when addressing the radioactive discharge issue, that “The situation is under control.” “The effects of the [radioactive] discharges are completely blocked within the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's harbor.”On the contrary, the contaminated water continues daily to leak, the government’s measures to deal with the problem are woefully inadequate, and the extent of the effects of uncontrolled radioactive discharges are not known. Prime Minister Abe’s assertions are therefore groundless.

Contact:
Green Action
Suite 103, 22-75 Tanaka Sekiden-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8203 Japan
E-mail: info@greenaction-japan.org

Organizations calling for the petition:
Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, FoE Japan, Mihama-no-Kai, Fukuro-no-Kai, Lawsuit Group to Shut Down the Ohi Nuclear Power Plant, The Nuclear Regulation Authority Citizen Watchdog

SIGN NOW: Urgent international petition calling for immediate action on the uncontrolled radioactive discharges at Tepco's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

4.26-28 Chernobyl Day

Chernobyl-Day
from uranium mine to nuclear waste,
everyone is concerned by nuclear power!

In the world today, thirty-one countries are using nuclear power to produce energy, which represents more than 400 reactors. How many people do know that a chain of dirty, pollutant and uncontrolled fuels hides behind nuclear plants, which is described as "virtuous cycle" by the nuclear industry?

Each step of this chain generates considerable radioactive pollutions, leads to incessant dangerous transports, exposes the population to extreme risks and produces nuclear waste that stays radioactive and dangerous for millions of years.

Together, let’s prevent the nuclear industry from poisoning our lives and break the nuclear chain!

From Friday 26th to Sunday 28th of April 2013
3 days of action
to highlight the uranium road

Chernobyl Day

Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation

GLOBAL RESEARCH ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER SERIES

Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War

The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation

Michel Chossudovsky (Editor)

I-Book No. 3, January 25  2012

Global Research’s Online Interactive I-Book Reader brings together, in the form of chapters, a collection of Global Research feature articles and videos, including debate and analysis, on a broad theme or subject matter. 

In this Interactive Online I-Book we bring to the attention of our readers an important collection of articles, reports and video material on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe and its impacts 

> Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation | Global Research