Rochelle- I join with Roger in Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse endorsement of this, and will work to get other Green Party activists active also. If not too late, I would put DeVors's name to the initiative in the headline, or maybe a sub-head, to show that it is not the work of an organization, but the act of a single legislator. That was not clear to me at first reading because it leads off with the coalition opposed before it talks to the initiative, which I found confusing. DEVORE NUCLEAR INITIATIVE WOULD REPEAL CALIFORNIA’S NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY LAWS; LOWER STANDARDS FOR WASTE DISPOSAL Single legislator seeks to undo state ballot initiative protections against economic impacts of nuclear power Something like that. Also, the initiative did not challenge nuclear power on safety, as DeVore points out, due to federal preemption, but the economic consequences of nuclear power, which is still a strong argument. Thank you for hearing me out, and take care, Don Eichelberger, Co-Chair Green Party of California Energy Working Group

From: Don Eichelberger <done7777@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Fwd: URGENT: [Fwd: NEED SIGN ON OF SUPPORT ASAP] Cal nuclear push

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Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:34:13 -0700 From: Roger Herried <rogerh@energy-net.org> Subject: URGENT: [Fwd: NEED SIGN ON OF SUPPORT ASAP] Cal nuclear push

This is a very short window, but urgent. Please forward to groups you know! Â

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: NEED SIGN ON OF SUPPORT ASAP Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:38:01 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: <mailto:beckers@thegrid.net>beckers@thegrid.net Reply-To: <mailto:beckers@thegrid.net>beckers@thegrid.net To: <mailto:rochelle@a4nr.org>rochelle@a4nr.org

Dear Friends

A sample press release is attached (WITH AN EMBARGO) and I would like to have all CA organizations listed to demonstrate united enviro opposition to this initiative (attached). I have also attached list of proponents of this initiative so you can see what we are up against so far.

We can also use business owners to sign on in opposition, but need this by Wed Sept 5th at latest.

In Peace

Rochelle Becker, Executive Director Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility <http://www.a4nr.org>www.a4nr.org PO 1328 San Luis Obispo, Ca 93406-1328

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, September 5, 2007 CONTACT: Rochelle Becker 858 337 2703 NUCLEAR INITIATIVE WOULD REPEAL CALIFORNIA’S NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY LAWS; LOWER STANDARDS FOR WASTE DISPOSAL A coalition that includes virtually every statewide environmental organization in California today called a nuclear power plant initiative filed by Assemblymember Chuck DeVore “a sneaky and duplicitous attempt to repeal California’s nuclear power plant safety laws and open the door for nuclear power plant construction throughout the state.” “This initiative: · Repeals the California nuclear power plant safety laws enacted in 1976; · Lowers the standards for safe disposal of highly radioactive nuclear wastes; · Permits construction of nuclear power plants in active earthquake zones; · Permits construction of nuclear power plants on the coast of California. “It does all these things under the false and misleading guise of fighting global warming,” coalition spokespersons said in a statement released today. The statement was issued as the Secretary of State’s office certified the measure to be circulated for signatures aimed a qualifying for the ballot next year. “The initiative attempts to make a case for nuclear power being an answer to global warming,” the coalition statement said. “Nothing could be further from the truth. · Diesel driven heavy equipment is used in the mining of uranium for fuel; · Diesel powered ships bring the uranium ore from mines in Australia and Africa; · The processing of the ore into fuel includes the burning of coal and the use of other pollutants; · The manufacture of massive amounts of steel and concrete generates substantial amounts of greenhouse gases; · Shipment of the steel and concrete is done in diesel spewing heavy trucks; · Operation of a nuclear power plant requires a constant source of new fuel, the mining and processing of which produce greenhouse gases; · Finally, when the plant is decommissioned there is the need to dismantle the highly radioactive structure and ship it someplace for storage. This also creates large amounts of greenhouse gases; · Then, after all this, we are left with the highly radioactive nuclear wastes and not place to put them for the hundreds of thousands of years they remain lethal. “So, contrary to Assemblymember DeVore’s claims, nuclear power is an extremely dirty, carbon-producing, greenhouse gas spewing technology. Assembly member DeVore’s motives truly were to fight global warming, he would have voted along with the majority of California’s legislators for the two most important pieces of legislation on the subject in the last session of the legislature.” The coalition went on to point out that DeVore is inaccurate, also, in his claim that nuclear power means energy independence for California. First, they point out that no nuclear fuel is mined in California. Second, they point out, most uranium mining today is done in Australia, Canada or in unstable African countries, including some that are dictatorships. Coalition organizations issuing today’s statement include: Rochelle Becker, Executive Director Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility: Don Eichelberger DJ Fix Independent Productions Green Uprising Blog www.greenuprising.blogspot.com Donny Fix del.icio.us book marks http://del.icio.us/donnyfix The Hegelian/Marxist goal is emancipation. Marx said it best in 1843: "Human emancipation wll only be complete when the real, individual man (sic) is absorbed into himself the abstract citizen; when as an individual man, in his every day life, in his work and in his relationships, he has become a species-being (politically accountabe to the whole); and when he recognizes and realizes his own power as social powers, so that he no longer separates this social power from himself as political power."