9.15 NYC: HRN New York presents a seminar “Nuclear Power is NOT the answer to Climate Change”

Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer to Climate Change - YouTube

Published on Sep 19, 2014Nuclear experts and activists speak about issues associated with nuclear power – such as Fukushima, nuclear waste, uranium mining, human rights, health, economic, and technical issues – and discuss why nuclear energy is not “clean” energy nor a solution to climate change.
Speakers, in order, Tim Judson, Arnie Gundersen, Leona Morgan, Alfred Meyer, Marilyn Elie, and Mari Inoue. September 15, 2014 at UN Church Center in conjunction with the NYC People’s Climate March September 21st and the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 starting September 23rd. Video by Joe Friendly

On 15th September, Temple of Understanding, Peace Boat US, Human Rights Now, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nuclear Information and Resources Service, and Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition presents a seminar “Nuclear Power is NOT the answer to Climate Change”, the place to discuss issues of nuclear energy. Please see below for more information and contact us if you are interested in!

PDF version of information is availbale HERE

Nuclear Power is NOT the answer to Climate Change

CONTACT: Human Rights Now NY, September15HRN@gmail.com

WHAT: In conjunction with the NYC People’s Climate March and the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 in September, nuclear experts and activists will speak about issues associated with nuclear power – such as Fukushima, nuclear waste, uranium mining, human rights, health, economic, and technical issues – and will discuss why nuclear energy is not “clean” energy nor a solution to climate change. A Q&A session will follow the presentations.

WHERE: UN Church Center, 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Fl., NYC (44th St. & First Ave)

WHEN: Monday, September 15, 2014, 10AM-noon

WHO: Mr. Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education
Ms. Leona Morgan, Diné No Nukes
Mr. Pradeep Indulkar, Filmmaker
Ms. Marilyn Elie, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
Mr. Alfred Meyer, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Ms. Mari Inoue, Human Rights Now
Mr. Tim Judson, Nuclear Information Resource Service

Please pre-register by sending your name and affiliation to: September15HRN@gmail.com.
Open to the public. Admission is free. No UN pass is required to enter the building.

more: HRN New York presents a seminar “Nuclear Power is NOT the answer to Climate Change” September 15th | Human Rights Now Global Site

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9.23 NO NUKES DAY 川内原発再稼働するな！フクシマを忘れない！ さようなら原発☆全国大集会＆大行進 | 首都圏反原発連合

 UPDATE

【9.23 #NONUKESDAY 】開催見合わせのお知らせ 『代々木公園をはじめとするデング熱発症の事態に鑑み、三者共同による代々木公園での開催は見合わせることといたしました。』詳細は☞

http://t.co/kn0xYQdg1w

「9.23 NO NUKES DAY さようなら原発★全国大集会＆大行進」についての三者共同声明

　 第5回NO NUKES DAY（ノーニュークスデイ）として、さようなら原発★全国大集会＆大行進を9/23（火・祝）開催に向けて、首都圏反原発連合、さようなら原発1000万人アクション、原発をなくす全国連絡会の三者で準備を進めてまいりましたが、この間の代々木公園をはじめとするデング熱発症の事態に鑑み、三者共同による代々木公園での開催は見合わせることといたしました。
　今回の開催見合わせを踏まえ、今後については別途、三者でのNO NUKES DAY開催すべく企画を進めてまいりたいと思います。
　なお、さようなら原発1000万人アクションは、亀戸中央公園に会場を変更して12:30から集会及びデモを開催いたします。詳しくは、さようなら原発1000万人アクションのホームページ（http://sayonara-nukes.org/）をご覧ください。

 
 
2014年9月12日（金）

首都圏反原発連合（反原連）
さようなら原発1000万人アクション
原発をなくす全国連絡会

首都圏反原発連合声明

 
第5回 NO NUKES DAY中止の件

　9月23日に開催を予定しておりました第５回NO NUKES DAY【9.23 NO NUKES DAY 川内原発再稼働するな！フクシマを忘れない！ さようなら原発☆全国大集会＆大行進】は、首都圏反原発連合（反原連）、さようなら原発1000万人アクション、原発をなくす全国連絡会の主催三団体で協議を重ね、幾つもの個別プロジェクトを設置して、具体的な準備に取り組んできました。

　しかし、8月末、会場である代々木公園において、デング熱の国内感染が発生し、続いて他の公園でも感染者が確認され収束の見込みがありません。主催三者はこの事態を憂慮し、会場の変更、中止や延期など検討を重ね、9月11 日の三者実行委員会で開催についての最終的な協議を行い、三者共催の第5回目のNO NUKES DAYは中止という結論に至りました。

　日本国内の全ての原発が止まって9月15日で1年を迎えます。また、川内原発の再稼働が画策されるなか、再稼働反対の声を上げる重要な時期です。しかし、デング熱の感染が拡大し9/23の開催までに収束の見込みが立たない状況下で数万人規模の全国集会を野外（公園）では反原連としては開催は難しく、また、代々木公園での大規模集会に相当する収容力のある別会場(屋内)も無く、今回は中止がよいと考えました。

　反原連ではこれまでも参加者の安全面の確保を重視するという運営方針で、毎週金曜日の首相官邸前抗議や年に数回の週末の大規模行動において、誘導・警備スタッフの配置、お年寄りやお身体の 不自由な方、お子様連れなどを考慮したセーフティーブロックの設置、悪天候の場合の中止・規模縮小、夏の給水・冬のあたたかいお茶提供や転倒事故防止の雪かきなどを実施してきました。抗議やデモを、より敷居の低いものとして、幅広い層の大勢の人々が安全に参加できる器作りが大事であるという考えに基づいての事です。

　今後については、三者間でNO NUKES DAYの企画の継続の合意ができており、引き続き連携を図ってまいります。

　参加を予定されていた皆様には、ご理解賜りますよう宜しくお願い申し上げます。

2014 年9月13日（土）

首都圏反原発連合

9.23 NO NUKES DAY 川内原発再稼働するな！フクシマを忘れない！ さようなら原発☆全国大集会＆大行進 | 首都圏反原発連合

Abandoned uranium mines continue to haunt Navajos on reservation

CAMERON -- In 1957, Charley Colorado climbed down a uranium mine shaft near his ancestral sheepherding grounds and began hammering at a rock that would power the atomic bomb and help America stare down the Soviets.

Now, Colorado, 87, spends much of his time wedged between a medical oxygen tank and a twin bed, parked in an easy chair before a wood stove at his family's home on the high desert west of Gray Mountain, near Cameron. He has frequent blackouts and trouble breathing.

"We did our part to keep America free!" reads the 2014 Cold War Patriots calendar on the corner wall behind him. A mini U.S. flag juts from a clay pot nearby.

"They (said) that it wasn't dangerous," he wheezed in the Navajo, or Dine, language, "that it wouldn't cause problems.

"I guess that it did."

Decades after America's Cold War uranium binge, the Colorado Plateau remains scarred, poisoning and frightening a people who still live with the radioactive residue of 521 abandoned mines scattered across their reservation's 17.2 million acres, which is larger than West Virginia.

The U.S. promises a thorough cleanup, but at current funding levels, it could take generations to complete...

more: Abandoned uranium mines continue to haunt Navajos on reservation

reasons nukes can't save the planet | 9.21 PEOPLES CLIMATE MARCH, NYC: nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent

thanks to Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS!

Reason #1. Too Many Reactors, Not Enough Carbon Reductions
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Reason #2. Nuclear power costs too much.
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Reason #3. Nuclear Power Would Take Too Long.
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Reason #4. New Reactor Designs: Too Slow, No Demand.
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Reason #5. Too Much Radioactive Waste.
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Reason #6. Too Little Safety.
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Reason #7. Too Many Nuclear Weapons.

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Reason #8. Nukes are not carbon-free. 
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Reason #9 Nukes are not suited for warming climates.

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Reason #10 A Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free energy system is safer, cleaner, cheaper and faster at reducing carbon emissions.

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Join the nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent September 21!
http://peoplesclimate.org/nonuclearpower/

OUR MISSION – The nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent will have a visible, vibrant presence at the People’s Climate March. See below for our statement: Why We Are Marching On September 21, 2014, as well as a list of current organizational endorsers of the Contingent, useful websites for organizing materials and other resources, and more.

We are currently looking into permits for a pre-march rally on September 21 with a feeder march into the main march. Or we may simply have our own block to assemble in. In either event, we will be there in force. In addition, we plan to sponsor a national meeting of anti-nuclear climate activists on Saturday,  September 20 (again, location to be announced soon). These items will be discussed on the next organizing/mobilizing conference call.

Organizing/mobilizing conference calls are held every other Tuesday evening (8 pm Eastern time) through September. Next call is Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Contact nirsnet@nirs.org for number and call-in information.

No Nukes, No Coal, No Kidding!
WORK WITH US

NIRS - Climate March Home (Nuclear Free Carbon Free Contingent)

People's Climate March: nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nukefreeclimatefreemarch/

Nuclear Power and Climate: Why Nukes Can't Save the Planet.
NIRS' basic 1 sheet factsheet: Perfect for downloading, printing, and distributing (pdf format).http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/nukesclimatefact614.pdf

Just $10 will buy a flag for nuke-free contingent to People's Climate March Sept 21. http://t.co/IEvTTwR2fX

NIRS
http://www.nirs.org/
https://www.facebook.com/nonukesnirs

see also

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Why We’re Marching September 21, 2014 | GreenWorld

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you can't nuke global warming!

8.10 Point Reyes Station, CA: From FUKUSHIMA to SOLARTOPIA w Harvey Wasserman, EON, Dan Sythe and John Bertucci

Cultural Potholes Institute and EON cordially invite you to a discussion about Fukushima and its on-going local effects you won't hear about in the mainstream media...

From FUKUSHIMA to SOLARTOPIA

Creating a post-nuclear, post-carbon future

Sunday August 10 at 5:30 pm

At the Dance Palace, Church Space in Point Reyes Station

At the corner of 5th & B Streets  

Harvey Wasserman

Author, journalist, historian,   

Co-founder of MUSE - Musicians United for Safe Energy

Editor: nukefree.org            Solartopia advocate: solartopia.org  

Mary Beth Brangan & Jim Heddle

Co-Directors of EON, will present

A Sneak Preview of their forthcoming documentary 

SHUTDOWN: The California - Fukushima Connection

( ShutdownDoc.tv )

plus

DNA & Health Protection Post-Fukushima

Science-based tips for increasing your and your loved ones' resistance to the ongoing Fukushima fallout

Dan Sythe

Founder and CEO of International Medcom  

John Bertucci

Co-Founder, Fukushima Response Campaign

Citizen Monitoring of Fukushima Fallout

 Hors D'oeuvres, wine & beverages - Donations gratefully accepted

 

RSVPs are advised to: Mercede Ramjerdi

mercede415@gmail.com    415-488-7081

Solartopia.org | HarveyWasserman.com • Breaking Nuke News | NukeFree.org

EON - Home

Cultural Potholes | It's not what you do see; It's what you don't see!

IMI International Medcom, Inc.

Fukushima Response Campaign

Why We’re Marching September 21, 2014 | GreenWorld

Here at NIRS we’re already in crazy mode organizing and mobilizing for the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent to the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21, 2014.

This is the largest public event organizing effort we’ve undertaken in quite a long time–and we think it will have a huge payoff by making a large, visible, vibrant public statement that that the climate crisis must be addressed now, that nuclear power is no solution to global warming, that a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future is an absolute necessity for our nation and our planet.

Today we released a statement of the Contingent, titled Why We’re Marching on September 21, 2014. You can read it below, and you can download a pdf copy for printing and distributing in your community here.

more: Why We’re Marching September 21, 2014 | GreenWorld

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whats up: reasons nukes can't save the planet | 9.21 PEOPLES CLIMATE MARCH, NYC: nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent

9.21 PEOPLES CLIMATE MARCH, NYC: nuclear-free, carbon-free contingent | Nuclear-Free Carbon-Free

whats up: #BustTheMyth
you can't nuke global warming!

Take nuclear power support out of EPA's Clean Power Plan! Submit your comments now! Plus: People's Climate March--Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free outpouring

July 28, 2014

To all NIRS supporters,

As you surely know, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a new rule to reduce carbon emissions from electric power plants.

As proposed, the rule includes unnecessary and counterproductive support for existing and uneconomic reactors and provides encouragement for construction of new nuclear reactors as well.

These provisions must be removed from the final rule. Your action is essential to achieve this goal.

Please submit your comments to the EPA, urging it to remove all support for nuclear power from the final version of its Clean Power Plan.

If you'd like more background on the proposal, please see our July 16, 2014 letter here.

Please feel free to add your own comments and concerns to the sample comment language provided (some additional talking points are available here in pdf format).

Everyone everywhere can take part in this action. Because your comments may be posted by the EPA online, please do not include your phone number or street address.

There is plenty of time to comment--the deadline is October 16, 2014. We ask that you comment now, and use the remaining time to share this letter (you can find a shareable copy of this letter, and every NIRS Alert, on this page:http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/blastContent.jsp) and the action page with your friends and colleagues, and organize in your communities to encourage the largest possible outpouring of comments on this critical proposal.

Please note we do not oppose the EPA's proposal overall. Carbon reductions from power plants are absolutely necessary. We wish the proposal were stronger in the carbon reductions and renewables areas, and the nuclear sections certainly must go, but this proposal could be an important step toward achieving a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system. It certainly goes further than the U.S. Congress has been willing or able to go.So, please tell the EPA now: take all support for nuclear power out of its Clean Power Plan.

The EPA is holding public meetings on its proposal tomorrow and Wednesday in Washington, DC, Atlanta and Denver, and in Pittsburgh Thursday and Friday. Exact locations and other information are available at the EPA website here. The Sierra Club is sponsoring rallies at each location.And don't forget our separate petition with Credo Action on this issue here. If you haven't signed it yet, please do so now, and please help spread the word about this petition too. More than 11,000 people have signed it so far; we will be hand-delivering all the signatures to the EPA before the end of the comment period.

We also will be preparing much more extensive comments for organizational sign-ons in the next few weeks.

PEOPLE'S CLIMATE MARCH

Planning is zooming ahead for the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent to the People's Climate March September 21 in New York City. We expect a very large outpouring of people for the march generally and for the anti-nuclear contingent especially.

If you are within a day's drive of NYC, we hope you are planning to attend. We also encourage you to organize and mobilize in your communities, and encourage people to become "bus captains" to arrange bus transportation for your community. Please note that there is financial support available for such buses. Contact nirsnet@nirs.org for more information, or download a bus captain kit here.

Here are several web links that will be useful:

New Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent page on NIRS' website, with resources, materials and other information being updated frequently:http://www.nirs.org/climatemarch/climatemarchhome.htm

Facebook Groups page for the contingent. If you're on Facebook, we encourage you to join this growing group and to post your local information to help with outreach efforts:https://www.facebook.com/groups/nukefreeclimatefreemarch

Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent hub page on People's Climate March website:http://peoplesclimate.org/nonuclearpower/

E-mail Listserv for the Contingent: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nfcf-climate-march

We encourage you to share these links widely.

PLEASE DONATE

We don't normally put "please donate" in bold and caps; we don't really like asking for money at all. But funds are necessary to keep NIRS operating and to keep our campaigns going. It's summer, it's the doldrums, people understandably have other things on their minds. But our bills don't stop coming in, and the need for funding thus doesn't stop either. If you believe NIRS' work is helping you, if you believe that NIRS is standing up and taking action for what you believe in, then we ask you to please support us financially now. And if you don't believe that, please send me an e-mail at nirsnet@nirs.org and let me know how we're letting you down. We'll do our best to address your concerns.You can make a tax-deductible donation to NIRS here. Or you can send a check to NIRS, 6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912.

If you're going to the People's Climate March, you probably will want to carry a flag or sign. And if you can't go, maybe you'd like to make it possible for someone else to carry a flag or sign. If you'd prefer, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our Climate March page here--all funds collected through this page will be used entirely on materials for the Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent to the march. A flag only costs $10 to print, and even less when we can print them in volume! Your contribution will go a long way.

Thanks for all you do. Please take action now. It's important.

Michael Mariotte
President
Nuclear Information and Resource Service www.nirs.org
nirsnet@nirs.org

Stay Informed:

NIRS on the web: http://www.nirs.org

GreenWorld: (NIRS' daily blog chronicling nuclear issues and the transition to a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system) http://www.safeenergy.org

NIRS on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nuclear-Information-and-Resource-Service/26490791479?sk=wall&filter=12
http://www.facebook.com/nonukesnirs

NIRS on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/nirsnet

whats up: #BustTheMyth
you can't nuke global warming!

8.6 Hiroshima Day Action in Livermore, CA | Berkeley: From Hiroshima to California, From Nuke Nightmare to Solartopia!

Save the Date - August 6th Hiroshima Action in Livermore

We hope you can join us for this year's Hiroshima Day rally, march and action planned for the morning of Wednesday, August 6th. We are still deep in the planning stage of the event, so check back soon for more details...

Click here to download the Save the Date flier...

Tri-Valley CAREs

8.6 BERKELEY, CA: HIROSHIMA DAY - From Hiroshima to California, From Nuke Nightmare to Solartopia! with Harvey Wasserman and Cecile Pineda
Wednesday, August 6 (Hiroshima Day) at 7:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall—1924 Cedar St.
http://www.bfuu.org/events