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Press Release-November 11, 2012 Rally March Starting At Japanese
Consulate To Stop Reopening Of Nuclear Plants In Japan
Event: Rally Speakout To Stop Reopening Of Japan's 50 Nuclear
Plants
Place: 50 Fremont St. San Francisco
Time: 3:00 PM
Japanese, Japanese Americans and community labor activists will
rally and march on November 11, 2012 at the San Francisco
Japanese
Consulate to protest the plans of the Japanese government and
utility industry to reopen the closed nuclear plants in Japan.
Despite continued contamination at the Fukushima plant and failure
to secure it from a further earthquake the Japanese government
and major political parties continue to push to reopen the
remaining 50 plants.
The government has now admitted that the Oih nuclear plant which
was recently reopened despite massive protests has an active
nuclear
fault directly under the plant.
Speakers will report on the continuing plans to "decontaminate"
the Fukushima area and force the residents to move back to the
plant
as close as 4 miles. The government with the collaboration of the
International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA has proclaimed that the
area
and region around the plant can be reclaimed through "scrubbing
homes" and removing the topsoil of schools in the Fukushima
region.
There has been an epidemic of thyroid cysts in children in the
region and the continuing contamination of the region and world is
a serious
health problem despite the proclamations from the government,
utilities and nuclear industry that this catastrophe can be
contained
and overcome.
There will be a rally and march to the PG&E building which is
seeking to use sonar in the ocean around the Diablo Canyon nuclear
plant
to allow it's continued operation. In California, PG&E as well
as the Southern California Edison Company which operates the San
Onofre
nuclear plant continue to demand that the ratepayers pay for the
operation of the plant. The dangerous San Onofre has had leaks in
its tubes
and it is presently shutdown and has cost the people of California
over $300 million yet the California Public Utilities Commission
Chair
Michael Peevey and the CPUC board are refusing to permanently
close the plant. Instead they want the ratepayers and people of
California
to pay for the continued operation of these dangerous plants.
This rally and march has been initiated by the No Nukes Action
Committee which is part of the Nuclear Free California Network.
For more information go to
http://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/ or
email nonukesactioncommittee(at)
gmail.com
You can also phone Chizu Yamada at 510-495-5952
The Nuclear Free California website is at
www.nuclearfreecal.org
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