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Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement for the Global Nuclear Energy
Partnership. (GNEP)The deadline for comments are April
4th, 2007- GNEP would encourage expansion of domestic and
international nuclear energy production
Honor
The Water, Respect The Water, Be Thankful For The Water,
Protect The Water - Indigenous Brothers And Sisters
Struggling To Defend The Ancestral Lands Of Indigenous Peoples
Demand
radiation standards that follow the precautionary principle
Environmental Justice Alert
Support
Dine and Hopi Communities in Stopping Massive Coal Mining
Plans - Massive mining
plans underway at Black Mesa, Arizona have serious environmental,
social, and human rights impacts. Send a letter today to
the Office Of Surface Mining, asking them to extend the
critical deadline to allow impacted communities adequate
time to prepare their input on stopping a destructive coal-mining
project. Read more >>>
Environmental
Justice Alert Dine
(Navajo) traditional elders blockade power plant site
- Sithe Global & DPA are proposing
to build the Desert Rock power plant, a 1,500 MW Coal Fired
plant in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Reservation.
Dine supporters and community members have blockaded the road
leading to the construction site. They are elderly women and
youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night
since mid December!
Tewa Women
United is a member of the BASE
community of organizations
Tewa Women United (TWU) started as a gathering of women from
the Northern New Mexico Pueblos, who believed in the inherent
power of Tewa women and who felt the need to enhance their
strengths through a circle of trust, love, hope, forgiveness
and sharing. TWU believes our true traditional past practiced
no separation of intellect and intuition - the head from the
heart, nor the separation of the people from their spirituality.
In order to nurture the harmony of all life with oneness of
spirit in the relationship of natural law, we must nurture
the future generations through our traditional way of spiritual
living.
Visit
the Tewa Women United website
Beyond
Nuclear – working for a world free from nuclear power
and weapons Beyond Nuclear aims
to educate new audiences about the connection between nuclear
power and nuclear weapons. The project will promote positive,
solutions-focused messages and provide guides to safer alternatives
to these dangerous and obsolete technologies.
NANISH
SHONTIE Nanish Shontie is a community
on 17 acres of property in the country in Western Oregon.
It is a place where people have an opportunity to learn from
traditional native people about the native way of living with
Mother Earth. Nanish Shontie is helping to build a bridge
between the modern world and indigenous world so that we may
work together for the healing of Mother Earth.
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150 people gathered
to welcome 25 Peace Walkers in a rally just outside
of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) to protest the proposed
"Complex 2030" plan, the "Reliable
Replacement Warhead" and the occupation of
Iraq. The Western Shoshone National Council welcomed
the gathering. Speakers included Carrie Dann, activist
and Shoshone elder, Fr. Louis Vitale, NDE, Colonel
Ann Wright, SEIU local leader Jane McAlevey, and
Catholic activist and actor Martin Sheen. After
the rally a procession led by the Western Shoshone
National Council representatives walked to the entrance
of the Nevada Test Site. Carrie Dann crossed the
line first and was soon joined by Fr. Louis Vitale,
Martin Sheen, Ann Wright and 35 other men and women
in this important nonviolent civil resistance. The
Nye county sheriffs detained the "trespassers"
in holding pens just inside the site. Visit
the Neveda Desert Experience website for more details
and photo's >>>
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3/12/07
U.S. Conducts Subcritical Nuclear Test at Nevada Test
Site
The
Divine Strake explosion has been cancelled but weapons
development continues!
An
interview with the manager of the Nevada Test Site on
current and upcoming nuclear weapons programs and tests
The
ABCs of Nuclear Disarmament
Tell
the Energy Department that you oppose reprocessing radioactive
waste!
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Nuclear
Weapons: student research and activism –
Troy, a high school Junior, as part of a year
long school project has researched and created
a website on nuclear weapons, their history and
destructive power. To encourage other students
to look at this issue we are highlighting this
website and hope that he will continue to study
and report on the affects of the entire nuclear
chain in creating these weapons including the
affect, of mining, developing and testing, on
indigenous people. Troy
say’s “Some solutions to these problems
would be to take action and get involved in protesting
against nuclear weapons. Have strong arguments
such as how it effects the environment, how it
destroys peace, how this issue wastes money, and
how this issue cause big problems such as war.”
Visit
Troy’s Nuclear Weapons website and leave
a message for him and other students >>> |
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Over nine years in the
making, "Trespassing" is a feature-length
documentary film that poetically examines our
fight for survival. By focusing on the battle
around nuclear storage in the United States, the
film carefully unpacks a deadly controversy around
land rights, uranium mining, nuclear testing and
the disposal of nuclear waste. Find
out more about this film >>> |
Corbin
Harney is featured
in this film |
PFS
files suit seeking to store nuclear waste - Private
Fuel Storage is not giving up on its quest to store nuclear
waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah, according
to court documents filed in a federal appeals court on 1/29/07
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11, 1988: Reclaim the Test Site I
- 10 days of protest and direct
action organized by American Peace Test, a predecessor
to Shundahai Network, demanded an end to nuclear testing
at the Nevada Test Site, a massive outdoor laboratory
and national experimental center for testing nuclear
weapons larger than the state of Rhode Island. The actions
resulted in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of
arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C.
in U.S. history. |
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3/7/07
ACTION HALTS HUGE BOMB BLASTS AT LIVERMORE LAB SITE
300 Officials
Block Radioactive Weapons Test In Altamont Hills
Community - Members, Environmentalists Hail Air
District Decision to Revoke Permits Following Citizen's
Challenge
Safety
Alarms at Nuclear Weapons Factory
20
Community Groups sign letter to Congress RE: Global
Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)
Indigenous
World Uranium Summit Declaration Demands Worldwide Ban
on Uranium
100+
Groups Call on Congress to Oppose High-Level Radioactive
Waste Dumping Plan in Ohio
Tribe
Keeps Fighting for Treaty Rights
- And despite
being turned back in lawsuit after lawsuit for decades,
the Western Shoshone won't rest until the U.S. government
honors a 19th-century treaty that, according to the
tribe, entitles it to reclaim ancestral lands extending
from California through Nevada and Utah to Idaho.
January 2, 2007
Friends
of the Earth blocks British nuclear submarine base in
Scotland
December 14,
2006 Coalition
Opposes Bush Administration Plan for New Nuclear Weapons
November
23, 2006 Native
American fights corporations -
For more than 30 years, Carrie Dann, a native Shoshone
American, has been fighting the US government for her
people's rights to their ancestral land.
Read
more >>>
Read
the full pdf report >>> From
the Western
Shoshone Defense Project
Atomic
Mirror launches “Valentines to Tlatelolco:
The Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Path to a Nuclear
Free World” a year-long
campaign to thank the world’s first nuclear
weapons free zone for showing us the way.
Movement
Building 101: In our
organizations, we need to emphasize activities that
get people working together with others in a sustained
way, and where an increasing number of people are
learning the skills needed to initiate and carry
through work themselves.
Why
A future for the nuclear industry is risky -
a report prepared for the nuclear industry, January
2007 (pdf)
THE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FY 2008 BUDGET: WHAT TO
LOOK FOR IN REQUEST - a
press release by Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
including analysis of Nuclear Weapons Activities,
Nuclear Waste & Plutonium Disposition, and Environmental
Cleanup 2/1/07
A
new report for Congress weighs replacement warheads
against extending existing ones
Three
new studies on the effects of nuclear weapons and nuclear
war
EPA
Proposes to Broaden Categorical Exemptions from NEPA
Review
Action
Alert - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples
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Nucnews
- daily article updates on nuclear waste issues
- 3/5/07 Administration
posture prompts fear of new nuclear blasts at
Nevada Test Site Utahns voice opposition to
the possibility of new blasts
- 2/22/07
Feds Cancel Divine Strake Explosion Reno
Gazette-Journal, NV
- 2/22/07
Opponents of Divine Strake React to Cancellation
KCPW, UT
- 2/22/07
Defense Agency Kills Divine Strake Test Explosion
Salt Lake Tribune, UT
- 2/22/07
DTRA Press Release
- 2/21/07
Divine Strake Opposed St. George Spectrum,
UT
- 2/21/07
Iron County Opposes Divine Strake Blast
Deseret News, UT
- 2/20/07
The Results of Divine Strake are Already Known
St. George Spectrum, UT
- 2/16/07
Lawmakers Back Resolution Slamming Divine Strake
Deseret News, UT
- 2/13/07
10,000 Responses to Divine Strake Test St.
George Spectrum, UT
- 2/11/07
TV: Editorializing is a Risky Business Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
- 2/10/07
Utah House Committee Unanimously Opposes Nevada
Test Deseret News, UT
- 2/10/07
Newsman Defends On-Air Strake Comments Deseret
News, UT
- 2/9/07
Bishop Not Deciding on Divine Strake Yet
ABC 4, UT
- 2/8/07
Senate Notes its Objection to Strake Deseret
News, UT
- 2/8/07
Huntsman: Divine Strake Could Lead to More Testing
in Nevada ABC 4, UT
- 2/8/07
ABC 4 Hand Delivers Viewer Comments to the Department
of Energy in Las Vegas ABC 4, UT
- 2/8/07
Officials Again Protest Divine Strake Explosion
Salt Lake Tribune, UT
- 2/7/07
Divine Strake Resolution Fast-Tracked Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
- 2/7/07
Utah Says, “No” to Divine Strake
New West, MT
- 2/7/07
Legacy of Radiation Illness Stirs Objection
to Nevada Bomb Test Washington Post, D.C.
- 2/6/07
Governor Huntsman Takes Divine Strake Opposition
to Washington D.C. ABC 4, UT
- 2/4/07
Dozens Protest Detonation of Non-Nuclear Bomb
at Test Site Nevada Appeal, NV
- 2/4/07
Activists March in Carson City Las Vegas
Review-Journal, NV
- 2/1/07
Government’s Fallout Prediction Inaccurate,
Divine Strake Foes Say Las Vegas Review-Journal,
NV
- 2/1/07
Kane Joins Fight Against Divine Strake Salt
Lake Tribune, UT
- 2/1/07
Man Who Influenced LDS Church to Oppose MX Missile
Program Hopes to Kill Divine Strake ABC
4, UT
- 2/1/07
Same Old Bomb Salt Lake City Weekly, UT
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is dedicated to breaking the
nuclear chain by building alliances with indigenous
communities and environmental, peace and human rights
movements. We seek to abolish all nuclear weapons and
an end to nuclear testing. We advocate phasing out nuclear
energy and ending the transportation and dumping of
nuclear waste. We promote the principles of Environmental
Justice and strive to insure that indigenous voices
are heard in the movement to influence U.S. Nuclear
and environmental policies. All of our campaigns and
events incorporate the values of community building,
education, spiritual ceremonies and nonviolent direct
action.
Environmental
Justice Now directly assists indigenous
communities affected by nuclear issues, ensuring
their voices are heard on the national level.
Nuclear
Free Great Basin fights the dumping
and transportation of nuclear waste in the Great
Basin bio-region by linking communities, businesses
and activists in a common strategy to stop the construction
of nuclear waste dumps.
Action
for Nuclear Abolition works for complete
nuclear weapons disarmament and closure of the Nevada
Test Site to all nuclear programs except for containment
and clean up. To this end we organize educational
gatherings and nonviolent direct actions increasing
public awareness and involvement.
opposes all nuclear weapons
research, development, testing and production. We actively
seek to close down the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear
weapons programs except for radioactive contamination
containment and cleanup. Shundahai Network also opposes
all nuclear waste dumping on indigenous peoples lands.
We are fighting to halt the proposed high-level nuclear
waste dumps at Yucca Mountain and Skull Valley Reservation.
We work to educate about the dangers of radioactive
waste transportation and promote a safe and sane energy
policy based on conservation and renewable resources.
To this end, Shundahai Network organizes and participates
in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations, workshops
and conferences.
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With
radiating waves, a skull and crossbones and
a running person, a new ionizing radiation
warning symbol is being introduced to supplement
the traditional international symbol for radiation,
the three cornered trefoil. Read
more >>> |
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