Three great things you can do all over the state this week to CLOSE CA NUKES April 14-16. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 4/14-3 Great things to do to CLOSE CA NUKES Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:37:14 -0400 From: WEM <bgwem@igc.org> To: Don Eichelberger <done7777@sbcglobal.net> ========== Hi! There are three important antinuclear actions in California this week. Please participate! Briefly: San Francisco - 4/14 8:30-noon Rally; 9 AM public comment, at Calif. Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness @ McAllister, kitty-korner from San Francisco City Hall Sacramento - 4/14 c. 9:00 am (hearing starts whenever the Senate floor session adjourns) Senate Energy Committee hearing on Quakes & Nukes. State Capitol, 10th & L, Rm. 4203 San Luis Obispo - 4/16 noon Gathering at Avila Beach Pier - Demonstrate with Mothers for Peace near the Diablo Canyon power plant More info on Facebook @NO NUKES ON FAULTS Talking points, sample letters & links to more info will also be posted this week at [www.womensenergymatters.org](http://www.womensenergymatters.org) - see alert - April Actions. Myths explode in the radioactive wreckage of Fukushima; truth starts shining through the fog & mirrors… ---------- NUKES PREVENT REAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING NUKES BANKRUPT NATIONS WHY WON'T WALL ST. FINANCE NUKES? WHY DO TAXPAYERS HAVE TO GIVE LOAN GUARANTEES? WHY WON’T INDUSTRY INSURE NUKES? WHY DO TAXPAYERS HAVE TO PAY FOR DAMAGES?? THERE IS NO SAFE DOSE OF RADIATION: Nat’l Academy of Science warns that even the tiniest bits of radioactive materials can cause cancer, sterility, immune deficiency, birth defects, mental retardation, etc. etc. etc. through 10 half lives NUCLEAR MEDICINE IS A POOR EXCUSE FOR NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION THE FRIENDLY ATOM IS A SOCIOPATH EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLES WORK FINE, COST LESS, CAUSE LITTLE HARM & ARE READY RIGHT NOW Media Advisory ========== (feel free to forward to local news outlets) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April Action Committee Contact: Marc DePolo, Bardic Media 415 522 6644 marc@bardicmedia.com When: 8:30 am-Noon, April 14 What: Colorful Anti-nuclear Demonstration and Public Comment at CPUC Meeting Press conference: 12:00 noon, on steps of the California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Ave. at McAllister, in Francisco, CA. PUBLIC TO CPUC: CLOSE CALIFORNIA NUKES! ---------- San Francisco, California – In the midst of the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, and mindful of California's earthquake prone coast, the April Action Committee announced today that people will gather at the CPUC meeting on Thursday April 14 in San Francisco to demand the immediate phase-out of nuclear power in the state. The committee will hold a press conference on CPUC steps at noon. Many who have registered will make public comments inside the meeting, which begins at 9 am, and songs, speeches, signs and puppets will continue outside throughout the morning. This action supports the citizens who are testifying in Sacramento today before the Senate Energy Committee hearing, After Japan: Nuclear Power Plant Safety in California. An analysis of the Fukushima catastrophe released on April 4th by Green Audit, projects 200,000 new cancers in the local Japanese population of 3 million over the next 20 years, using the risk model of the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR). We join Japan's fishermen in calling for the shut down of all nuclear power reactors that present a clear and present danger to the world's oceans. PG&E's Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and the San Onofre reactors owned by S. Calif. Edison, are both on the coast, in areas that are far more populated and harder to evacuate than Fukushima. Both plants were licensed without evacuation plans; current plans fail to address the risk of tsunamis, newly discovered earthquake faults, increased population, traffic congestion, or evolving knowledge about the impacts of radiation. “Children and pregnant women are the most at risk from both routine and catastrophic radiation releases,” says local business owner Marc DePolo. "State officials need to take immediate steps to shut these reactors, as other countries are doing. When these plants were built, people didn't understand earthquakes or the dangers of radiation the way we do now. These things are like ticking time bombs." “With the San Bruno disaster, PG&E has lost what remained of the public's trust to protect public safety. Given the accumulation of highly radioactive spent fuel at sites on seismically unsafe ground the immediate shut down and decommissioning of Diablo Canyon is the only sensible thing to do.” Barbara George, Executive Director, Women's Energy Matters (WEM) pointed out, "California has a large glut of power through 2020, so we can close these unsafe energy sources immediately without adverse impact. Then we can put our attention on the real solutions to climate change — efficiency and renewables — instead of the dangerous distraction of nuclear power." WEM has been a public interest party in CPUC proceedings for ten years. * * * ---------- The April Action Committee is an ad-hoc group of concerned citizens that asks regulators and lawmakers to immediately begin the process of ending nuclear power in California. We are asking people to attend the Mother's for Peace Rally on April 16th, in Avila Beach adjacent to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant, near San Luis Obispo, south of San Francisco. We support their work to stop the Diablo re-licensing and their lawsuit. We ask Gov. Brown to immediately sign the state bill to require utilities to obtain 33% of state energy from renewable resources. To address climate change, we recommend immediate, massive investments in energy efficiency and renewables in order to immediately close nuclear power plants throughout the US and the world, and phase out coal powered plants as well. - 30 - View this email on the web here: http://mim.io/985301?fe=1&pact=3369564654 Unsubscribe: http://go.madmimi.com/opt_out?fe=1&pact=3369564654&amx=63043577 You can also forward to a friend: http://go.madmimi.com/forward/3369564654?amx=63043577 WEM | Fairfax, CA 94930