Tag Archives: anti-nuclear

Labor Groups Protest Reopening of Rail Lines Near Fukushima via Counterpunch

Posted on 2016/12/15 by nfield

by WILLIAM ANDREWS […] The Joban Line was directly hit by the massive tsunami wave in 2011, sweeping train carriages away. Though parts of the line were quickly reopened that same year, two sections of the line—between Tatsuta and Odaka … Continue reading →

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Swiss Reject Plan to Speed Up Exit From Nuclear Energy via Fortune

Posted on 2016/11/30 by norma field

Swiss voters rejected a plan to force their government to accelerate the country’s exit from nuclear energy in a referendum Sunday, turning down an initiative that would have seen the last plant shut in 2029. A majority of cantons (states) … Continue reading →

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Documentary details citizen effort to close Vt. Yankee via Times Argus

Posted on 2016/11/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The documentary filmmaker heard in January 2010 that a group of activists were going to walk from Brattleboro to Montpelier — in the winter — to protest the continued operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Leppzer, 58, of … Continue reading →

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How a Nun, a Vet, and a Housepainter Stood Up to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons via The Nation

Posted on 2016/09/01 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Dan Zak’s Almighty reminds readers that the United States’ poisonous and very expensive history of nuclear-weapons production is far from over. Dan Zak’s Almighty: Courage, Resistance and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age is a must read for everyone in this … Continue reading →

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Margaret Thatcher aides used Prince William in media war via BBC News

Posted on 2016/07/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Margaret Thatcher’s senior aides used photos of a baby Prince William to try to distract attention from a 1983 anti-nuclear march, official papers reveal. Ministers feared protests might be so “widespread and powerful” that they could stop US cruise missiles … Continue reading →

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A New Wave Against the Rock: New social movements in Japan since the Fukushima nuclear meltdown via The Asia-Pacific Journal

Posted on 2016/07/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Abstract In the summer of 2012, following an accident at the Fukushima power plant in March 2011, 200,000 people filled the streets outside the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo. This new movement had much in common with contemporaneous movements … Continue reading →

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The lonely struggle of India’s anti-nuclear protesters via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/06/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Women are leading protests in Tamil Nadu state against a power plant – yet few people in India know the village they’re from, let alone support their cause Behind the Lourdes Matha church in Idinthakarai, a fishing village at the … Continue reading →

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Over Seventy Prominent Scholars and Activists Urge Obama to meet Hibakusha, Take Further Steps on Nuclear Disarmament via PEACE ACTION’S GROUNDSWELL

Posted on 2016/05/27 by kojimaaiko

May 23, 2016 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, DC   Dear Mr. President, We were happy to learn of your plans to be the first sitting president of the United States to visit Hiroshima this week, after the … Continue reading →

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Legendary No Nuker Michael Mariotte Passes On via EcoWatch

Posted on 2016/05/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Michael Mariotte was a giant in the No Nukes movement. From the 1980s on he has been at the forefront of some of the great Solartopia campaigns, writing, strategizing and moving us all. He was a major factor in defeating … Continue reading →

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Anti- Metsamor NPP campaign launched in Azerbaijan via AzVision

Posted on 2016/05/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Special Facebook page and event as wells as Twitter account were created to run the #StopMetsamor campaign. The initiators of the campaign appealed to the World Community, the UN and the IAEA to shut down the Metsamor NPP as it … Continue reading →

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