Hope you can join this march and rally tomorrow (Sunday), starting at the Japanese Consulate on Fremont between Market and Mission, 3 P.M. See you there, Don -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Press Release-November 11, 2012 Rally March Starting At Japanese Consulate To Stop Reopening Of Nuclear Plants In Japan Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:35:39 -0800 From: Steve Zeltzer <lvpsf@igc.org> To: NFC NFC <nirs@sanonofre.com> 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 <http://gmail.com/> You can also phone Chizu Yamada at 510-495-5952 The Nuclear Free California website is at www.nuclearfreecal.org <http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/> --