You’ve Been Served Rally @ The Gates
Sunday, October 30 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Gates of Vermont Yankee
546 Governor Hunt Rd, Vernon, VT
As the Entergy Corporation again prepares to feed the crumbling, stumbling VY reactor…5 months before the scheduled closure date of March 21, 2012, citizens will be there en masse to communicate one thing: Entergy, you’ve been served.

We will not allow this reactor to operate beyond its scheduled closure date. It is time to close up and clean up. Join us Sunday, October 30 at Noon to demonstrate loudly, clearly and peaceably.
Stay tuned for more details.

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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On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster – and six weeks after the devastating nuclear disaster in Japan – nine Nobel Peace Laureates are calling upon world leaders to invest in safer forms of renewable energy. The six women Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, and Jose Ramos Horta   have sent an open letter to 31 heads of state whose countries are currently heavily invested in nuclear power production, or are considering investing in nuclear power. http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/media-room/article/no-to-nuclear-power

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Amherst officials are calling for the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and decontaminating the Vernon, Vt., site by next March. Acting on a citizens resolution submitted by Thomas Lindeman of Spencer Drive and Richard Stein of Berkshire Terrace, the Select Board Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of joining 51 other communities that are formally opposing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s 20-year license extension of the plant.

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_theme=dhgb&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_docid=136C0AAE1A9461E0&p_text_direct-0=document_id=%28%20136C0AAE1A9461E0%20%29&p_product=DHGB

Germany’s utility companies want “swift and complete” abolishment of nuclear power in the wake of the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima reactors, says their umbrella organization. The technology should be phased out by 2020 or at the latest by 2023, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries, BDEW, said on April 8th following a board meeting. Up until today the organization had been fully behind nuclear energy, but the events in Japan caused the dramatic U-turn.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42498245/ns/world_news-europe/

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