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Sep-25-2011 13:03 
The Only Way To Oppose and End Nuclear Power, Is By Unifying Our Global Community
Jack Nounnan for Salem-News.com
Beyond the UN Special meeting
on Fukushima - All out effort now to help our Japanese activist friends thwart this latest high stakes play to usurp their abilities to end nuclear power in their country.
(ARCATA, Calif.) - What has just occurred at the UN always happens when ingrained power faces 'showdowns' over any loss of their domain.
Fukushima has exposed the worst of nuclear radiations to mankind, including overwhelming evidences of gross malpractices by the industry, government and its regulatory agencies, enough to bring repudiation by a huge majority of our worlds citizenry.
It has forced these criminal allies to battle, in fending off the momentum for ending nuclear power with this high profile UN stage in 'prepping' us for restarting their industry in Japan. Greater global unity is vital now in opposing any such moves!
We're seeing this task force of government, nuclear corporations; ICRP, IAEA and WHO, all before the UN (Which itself supports nuclear power) in support of this newly rigged Japanese government's determination to make their case for a 'perfected nuclear technology' to the world. This is a major battle we face!
Again and again, government /corp force their processes upon us as if to say there is something to be further discussed about continuing their capital crimes, beyond simply ending them.
This calls for an unprecedented globally integrated peoples movement in support of our Japanese counterparts who are otherwise left stranded, facing their ordeal of ignoring the already devastating situation they face, if we don't stand together. A crisis moment, for if this sham of 'clean energy' power is successful in forcing its way, not only condemning the Japanese people, struggling to survive, but essentially opening the door for nuclear advances around the world.
Governments prime device for maintaining power has always been to keep us divided, separating our chances of unity as certain as any military strategy to break through an adversaries lines. Now is our moment! We must have our globally connected participation as never before, with all anti nuclear people, their groups and our many allies working closely together to face this ominously structured, face saving UN appeal to overwhelm our rights and our lives in perpetuating radiation plaguing of our world. cause of vast millions of deaths and greater sufferings, poisoning our air, water, soil and killing or maiming parts of all life forms.
Quick history of our movement We've almost been this far before, while not quite focused on global ties and 'might'. . . as is being done with Climate Change. Movements for ending nuclear weapons and nuclear power have been intricately tied together since this all began with public awareness of the fallout threats in the 50's and we've had natural allies among Anti war and many of those fighting to sustain our life on earth.
Historically American protests against nuclear power were widespread, with less demonstrations and numbers of people involved than in Europe, but successful in stopping reactor constructions in California between 1964 and 1974. Not a smooth road, because of controversy over how to lead the movement, spawning disagreements over tactics in the Diablo Canyon battle, which ended in victory for the utilities. Such differences have been worked out since. . . in other movements for human rights and environment, learning from those past mistakes to be more inclusive in accepting of differences.
Germany, while battling the creation of nuclear industry at home, spearheaded the biggest mass movement of the 1970s and 80s.. while joining other nations 'peoples' movements in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, then again after Chernobyl. They're prime example of a people turning out in the hundreds of thousands at demonstrations to stop construction of nuclear plants and finding ways to make their government listen!
Several site occupations were attempted, their largest at Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant west of Hamburg; some 100,000 people contending with 10,000 police officers and confrontations. Other European nations joined in their own battles to stop nuclear constructions. July 1977 in Bilbao, Spain, had up to 200,000 people who protested.
By mid-1970's anti-nuclear activism had moved beyond local protests and politics to gain a wider appeal and influence. Although lacking coordination toward global organizing or having uniform goals, they gained great attention.
German determination and ability to protest. . . or at least not forget what they faced, brought a showdown with the 2010 governments decision to extension life span for nuke plants, the word out . . .and again, uprising and public demands, blockades of nuclear waste transport and 60,000 people forming a human chain between two reactors in southern Germany, just one day after the disaster of Fukushima! The Green Party had been striving for the immediate shut-down of all nuclear facilities. The SPD (Social Democratic Party), had pushed for a nuclear phase-out within ten years.
The Federal Government of chancellor Angela Merkel was forced to reinstate plans to shut all German nuclear plants by 2022, reversing the earlier decision to let them continue to run.
The Japanese Peace movement itself played a major role in forming a unified "Japanese Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs" in 54' to oppose Pacific nuclear weapons tests, gathering an estimated 35 million signatures calling for bans on nuclear weapons". You heard right, It's not a error!
This sham of governments continuing policy for condemning and eliminating their peoples is shown most effectively in this following video in shamefully attempting to 'program' minds.
you tube controversy Telling us it will be safe for the Japanese people to return home in a matter of days and that radiation levels should not be a health concern to the public.
Times Up!
No compromise! End Nuclear Power Now!
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Jim Falk, globalisation, technological change and the environment, nuclear technology, militarisation, and information technology.
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