NUCLEAR POWER: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME IS OVER

Occupy is protesting the inequities that come from socializing risk onto the 99% and privatizing profits for the 1%. The collapse of housing and financial markets is a good example.

Nuclear power is another case of how the public pays for energy choices that favor corporate profits and control. Public dollars concentrate profits to nuclear corporations, warping energy choices to support centralized, capital intensive electric generation. Decentralized renewables and energy efficiency lose out. Read the rest of this entry »

A Call to Join the Organizing in doc format for download also

A CALL TO JOIN THE ORGANIZING

OF A

REGIONAL CAMPAIGN OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION

TO SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE

Sunday, August 28, 2011

11:30 am – 5:30 pm

at the Norwich Congregational Church

15 Church St, Norwich, VT (see directions below)

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Entergy filed suit in US District Court on Monday, 4/18/11, against the state of Vermont to prevent the state from closing the Vermont Yankee reactor on its March 2012 closure date. Vermont Yankee is the same make, model and age as one of the Fukushima reactors currently melting down. For more on this story in the Brattleboro Reformer, http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_17877492>http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_17877492–