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please share on websites, with listserves, in newsletters INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE April 26, 2011, 25th Chernobyl anniversary It’s time for groups and activists all over the world to plan protests and actions to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Each year, the French anti-nuclear network Sortir du nucleaire […]
28 Arrested During Annual Protest Weekend Four protesters arrested and charged with federal trespass at Ft. Benning, Georgia on November 20 and 21 were in court on Tuesday, November 23. Arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Hyles, Nancy Smith and Christopher Spicer pled not guilty. Their trial is set for January 5. Fr. Louis Vitale, […]
The periodic shipment of nuclear waste from a reprocessing facility in France to the burial dump at Gorleben, Germany, has long inspired mass nonviolent direct actions, and the scale and intensity of this year’s resistance eclipsed any previous mobilization. German anti-nuclear sentiment has been stoked by the government’s recent decision to extend the lifetime of […]
Hundreds of people were arrested October 29, protesting the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) on India’s west coast. The project is the crown jewel of the U.S./India nuclear partnership, and, if realized, it would be the world’s largest nuclear energy park. Six huge French-designed reactors producing 10,000 MW of electricity for Mumbai and Goa would […]
JOIN VETERANS FOR PEACE AND OTHERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON DECEMBER 16
Military police have again arrested nuclear abolitionists vigiling along a public highway outside the main gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where missiles to launch nuclear war are tested. California Highway 1 passes through the base, with the main gate actually in the interior of the sprawling installation along the coast north of […]
