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YES NoPrevarication,…and, by PREVENTION,…you CURE CANCER. The cure is already ‘out there’, sadly MOST will only believe a doctor,…and their ever-present prescription pad!
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Interesting, Komen Pink Products campaign.
I hope that everybody will take notice.
If you really Know someone with Breast/Endocrine
“cancer” challenges…check, carefully, about their
use of DAIRY Products.
If you are really serious about this, you must know
these facts: Milk, particularly Cheeze and ICE CREAM
are CANCER FUELS….If you think you know something,
and you think Raw Dairy is better or O.K….or if you
think Organic Dairy is Better or O.K., well, you are
like I WAS: Sadly Misinformed, Propagandized by
a lifetime of advertising and political control by
the big dairy industry.
Do You think You, as a Woman, NEED Dairy, for your
possible Osteoporoesis? Well, congratulations, your
mind has been Entrained by the Advertising/Medical
industry which wants ALL of your Money for the damn
insincere AMA allopathic, pharmacidal “Doctors”.
Too Much Protein, particularly with the Growth
Hormone already naturally present in ALL Milk,
causes you to have Acidic or Acidotic Blood,
leaching the Calcium from your bones, to try to
balance the pH to safe levels for Life to Continue.
So the whole dairy-for-osteoporosis chant is a SCAM.
and SUSAN G. Komen sponsors M&M Milk Chocolate
Pink-for-Breast-Cancer-Chocolate….it depends on
your education depth on certain topics to truly
appreciate the deep demonic irony. Women have
been led by the Chocolate Addiction, Led by that
molten CHEESY yummy growth hormone.
I admit I Owe my knowledge on Dairy to Robert Cohen,
the notmilkman at notmilk.com.
We CRAVE Chocolate and Cheeze because the factors
are concentrated more than milk. Calves crave to
Nurse their Mamas, because milk contains CasoMorphin,
a natural opiate-type pleasure stimulator.
Yummy, Cheeze!, Yummy, ICE CREAM!!! MMMMMMmm!!!
But anybody serious about BREAST CANCER Must
learn why they are now quitting all Dairy Products.
and Whey Protein Isolate, banned. and and and.
Go to notmilk.com if you don’t have enough to READ.
Cohen is a scholarly collector of all dairy industry and
health related stuff. He’s Very Vegan these days, and
will share with you his path of transformation from
fat sickly to serious physical training as a vegan.
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Freeze Our Fukushimas!
October 7, 2011 – 10am to 12 noon EST National Call In Day to NRC
Call Toll Free
Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s
Public Hearing with Beyond Nuclear
****
1-877-533-7601 (passcode 5087356)
1-866-741-7099 (passcode 3340595)
1-866-732-2413 (passcode 8181837)
***
Webcast at http://video.nrc.gov
****
Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, the US government permanently closed a US reactor, the graphite-moderated Hanford N-reactor near Richland, Washington. Why? The antiquated reactor too closely resembled the design of the exploded Chernobyl reactor that blanketed much of the northern hemisphere in long-lived radioactive fallout.
Now following Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, more than 6,000 of you have co-petitioned with us to call upon the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to “Freeze Our Fukushimas” and shutter dangerously old and deteriorating General Electric Mark I boiling water reactors here in the US similar in design to the Fukushima Dai-ichi units. There, nuclear accidents have closed 24 miles of Japan’s coastline to human habitation and forced hundreds of thousands more Japanese to live in sickening radioactive contamination.
The NRC has scheduled a public hearing to take public comment on requested emergency enforcement actions to suspend operations at these increasingly dangerous Fukushima-style nuclear reactors. Speakers will include Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps (Beyond Nuclear), Dale Bridenbaugh (former GE engineer), Arnie Gunderson (Fairewinds Associates), Deb Katz (Citizens Awareness Network), Lou Zeller (Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League), Randy Kehler (Safe & Green Campaign), Michael Mariotte (Nuclear Information and Resource Service), Bobbie Paul (Georgia WAND) and more…
You can participate in this public meeting via the toll free telephone bridge lines or watch the live webcast from NRC headquarters.
Please mark your calendars and help us to mobilize a national campaign to hasten the closure of the most dangerous atomic reactors in America. Invite your friends, colleagues and post on listserves.
Freeze Our Fukushimas!
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Another Petition: The Fukushima nuclear disaster has forever destroyed the myth that nuclear power is clean or green: clean energy plants do not explode and release toxic radiation across the globe. That this accident occurred in a highly-industrialized country using U.S.-supplied technology only underscores the inherent danger of nuclear power.
For the past two years, you have requested that Congress increase the funds available for loans for new nuclear reactor construction by $36 Billion. Congress has not done so.
We ask you now to end taxpayer support for new nuclear reactors. Specifically, we ask you not to request any additional funds for the Department of Energy’s nuclear loan guarantee program, nor for the research and development of new nuclear reactors, in the FY 2013 budget and future budgets.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-taxpayer-subsidies-new-nuclear-reactors/nx1cDPsK
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great idea admin all this!!
err think i will repost this here so busby and the uk anti nuke movement can find it easily lol
Professor Wade Allison
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
“Life and Nuclear Radiation”
Ever since the Cold War with its threat of nuclear holocaust, radiation has been held in awe. But very few people die in nuclear accidents, in spite of the popular fear that they might. The scientific basis for current nuclear radiation safety is ripe for fundamental re-examination, not because of an impending expansion of nuclear power, but because it asks the wrong questions.
Wade Allison is Professor Emeritus at Oxford University. He is a nuclear and medical physicist with no connection to the nuclear industry. He is the author of “Radiation and Reason: the impact of science on a culture of fear”.
http://74.6.238.254/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=Wade+Allison+psychology+nuclear&fr=ie8&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Wade+Allison+psychology+nuclear&d=4923458753594529&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=f58c4cd1,4cb990f3&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=fXtiqJLNw7lYoI_VZjrV.A–
should be an interesting seminar, hopefully free tea and biscuits too? who could resist….wait for questions and ask what his sources are for his research into psychology? easy!!
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Wednesday 2 November 2011 | 4:15pm
Professor Wade Allison
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
“Life and Nuclear Radiation”
Hello all, I had a mysterious internet problem, now online again. Then I was in Somerset with the banners and the good will. It was a great demonstration, lots of fun.
Please be encouraged to attend these organised non-violent demonstrations, they are brilliant fun and very informative, as well as costing EDF a packet in policing (haha). EDF then gave the police out of date sandwiches for their courtesy lunches, how we laughed when I pointed out that this was surely against the law.
All this goodwill was blasted away when they drove into our camp on private land and were difficult to remove, though we did non-violently remove them, it was a breach of trust and a stupid move.
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Grace, good to see you around! So they didn’t arrest you
“If you think you’re too small to make an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.”
*peace
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good to see you doing the good stuff grace….some infill on wade for your friends and at the bottom a quick update! hope they domt pull the symposium!! lol!! im taking the day off
got a question to ask!! 
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heres the link..
http://enenews.com/oxford-physicist-increase-radiation-limits-100000-percent-radiation-safety-expense-mental-health-community-wellbeing-unjustifiable/comment-page-1#comment-140198
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Excellent, hello, I thought of you in Somerset, you should have come over, I learned so much using affinity groups, consensus is the way forward.
I am thinking of making and distributing on the seats in the lecture theatre a ‘program’ containing quotes and questions for the audience read, to absorb, to put to Wade.
Effects of Low Level Radiation.
Any suggestions, copy most appreciated
There are people here who can ask really good questions at the nesting site of the power structures.
I’d just get it all wrong and miss out quotation marks (lol).
Folded A4 to make A5 booklet – Oxford University – there’s got to be a live one in there!
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Stop TEPCO! Occupy Tokyo! https://www.facebook.com/OccupyTokyo?ref=ts
occupytogether.org
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Today-10am NRC hearing on Fukushima-style reactors
Beyond Nuclear
October 7, 2011 – 10am to 12 noon EST National Call In Day to NRC
Call Toll Free
Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s
Public Hearing with Beyond Nuclear
****
1-877-533-7601 (passcode 5087356)
1-866-741-7099 (passcode 3340595)
1-866-732-2413 (passcode 8181837)
***
Webcast at http://video.nrc.gov
****
Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine, the US government permanently closed a US reactor, the graphite-moderated Hanford N-reactor near Richland, Washington. Why? The antiquated reactor too closely resembled the design of the exploded Chernobyl reactor that blanketed much of the northern hemisphere in long-lived radioactive fallout.
Now following Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, more than 6,000 of you have co-petitioned with us to call upon the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to “Freeze Our Fukushimas” and shutter dangerously old and deteriorating General Electric Mark I boiling water reactors here in the US similar in design to the Fukushima Dai-ichi units. There, nuclear accidents have closed 24 miles of Japan’s coastline to human habitation and forced hundreds of thousands more Japanese to live in sickening radioactive contamination.
The NRC has scheduled a public hearing to take public comment on requested emergency enforcement actions to suspend operations at these increasingly dangerous Fukushima-style nuclear reactors. Speakers will include Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps (Beyond Nuclear), Dale Bridenbaugh (former GE engineer), Arnie Gunderson (Fairewinds Associates), Deb Katz (Citizens Awareness Network), Lou Zeller (Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League), Randy Kehler (Safe & Green Campaign), Michael Mariotte (Nuclear Information and Resource Service), Bobbie Paul (Georgia WAND) and more…
You can participate in this public meeting via the toll free telephone bridge lines or watch the live webcast from NRC headquarters.
Please mark your calendars and help us to mobilize a national campaign to hasten the closure of the most dangerous atomic reactors in America. Invite your friends, colleagues and post on listserves.
Freeze Our Fukushimas!
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Thank God I noticed your POST here iam.
Posted to HP TY
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Presidential commission holds public meeting on nuclear waste disposal:
http://vtdigger.org/2011/10/06/presidential-commission-holds-public-meeting-on-high-level-nuclear-waste-disposal/
“Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency is looking forward to discussing solutions to the issue of disposal for high-level radioactive wastes, which are being stored at nuclear facilities around our region and the rest of the country with no permanent solution,” said John Giarrusso, planning and preparedness section chief at the Massachusetts agency and co-chair of the Northeast High-Level Radioactive Waste Transportation Task Force. “The Oct.12 Blue Ribbon Commission meeting in Boston is a great opportunity for state and local officials, along with the public, to express their views on this important issue.”
The Blue Ribbon Commission was established last year by the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the “back end” of the nuclear fuel cycle. The commission was created after the government canceled the Yucca Mountain National Repository Project in Nevada.
The public meeting will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 12 at Harvard Medical School Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston (Longwood). The meeting will include discussions on the draft report and soliciting comments from the general public. It also will include formal presentations, panel discussions and facilitated, small breakout groups for all interested attendees.
Contact
Cort Richardson
The Council of State Governments
802-229-5117
Mary Woollen
Blue Ribbon Commission
202-631-1645
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@midwestern
The principal solution is to stop making any more!
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Who can spot the flag waving policeman?
Great video cut together by a brilliant photographer who was there
Hinckley Point 3rd October
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHTXjaqetE&feature=colike
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exellent! see if we cant kick start the old anti nuke spirit here in uk!! the scottish look way ahead of the game if the scottish press is to be believed!! check out recent posts on dounreay!! peace
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This is really funny
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkG2qUuf08&feature=player_embedded
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this link is really funny is what I am trying to say,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gkG2qUuf08&feature=player_embedded
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Google OccupyLondon
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Occupy Tokyo! No more criminals like TEPCO!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/OccupyTokyo
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Location: Gainesville, Florida
Time: 8:30 a.m., October 12, 2011
Place: Downtown Bo Diddley Plaza next to Courthouse
Purpose: Occupy Gainesville
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Tuesday Town Hall Meeting Brings Non-Industry Nuclear Energy Speakers
Oct 10, 2011
The second town hall-style meeting on the “Lessons Learned from Fukushima” will bring two in-person and two teleconference speakers October 11 at 6:30 p.m. to San Clemente’s Community Center at 100 N. Calle Seville…
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For this week’s meeting, Daniel Hirsch of the nonprofit Committee to Bridge the Gap will attend the meeting. He is also a lecturer on nuclear policy at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. William E. Perkins, a board member of Los Angeles chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility will also be present at the meeting.
Perkins will share a portion of his 30 minutes with Dr. Helen Caldicott, a pediatrician by training and the former leader of PSR, a charity opposed to nuclear weapons and nuclear power. She will make a presentation by Internet video chat.
The program will also include a 25-minute video presentation from Arnold Gundersen of Burlington, Vt.-based Fairewinds Associates. Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, will be available by teleconference for public interaction.
…
http://www.sanclementetimes.com/view/full_story/15993563/article-Tuesday-Town-Hall-Meeting-Brings-Non-Industry-Nuclear-Energy-Speakers?instance=eye_on_sc
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I love these people. They have their eyes on the prize–unwavering.
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6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912; 301-270-6477; nirsnet@nirs.org; http://www.nirs.org
THE NIRS WHITE HOUSE PETITION–A NEW APPROACH….
RAISE YOUR VOICES AND SEND LETTERS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA THROUGH OUR SYSTEMS, NOT THEIRS!
ACT TO END TAXPAYER SUBSIDIES FOR NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS!
Dear Friends,
As you know, in late September, the White House launched a new website to enable people to directly petition the Obama administration. The White House promised a formal response to all petitions which received 5,000 signatures within 30 days.
NIRS decided to try out that site and created a petition that demands something President Obama has the clear power to do: to stop asking Congress for taxpayer subsidies for new nuclear reactors, beginning with the next federal budget.
As it turns out, the White House website and petition-signing process was flawed, cumbersome and enormously frustrating for many people. As of today, nearly 12,000 people (11,981 to be exact) tried to sign this petition directly through NIRS own servers. Thousands more tried to sign through Facebook, Twitter and the like. Only 3,815 of these thousands have been successful so far. THANK YOU to each and every one of you who signed and who tried to sign.
Now we’re going back to a tried-and-true approach: Please send a letter to President Obama, with the identical content as the petition
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DtUJ1SRp8X0QK3zplwfWDfQoQurUo3Li
(with one…
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extra line expressing frustration with the petition process). Let’s make sure all our voices are heard! And let’s not stop at 5,000 letters; let’s deluge the White House with your raised voices.
We do still hope to reach the 5,000 threshold for a formal White House response and we still encourage you to sign the White House petition here;
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZNJQpQ0uSTKXYicK22k9D%2FQoQurUo3Li
their system can only get better, it can’t possibly get any worse. People do get through, the leading petition–to legalize marijuana–has some 55,000 signers.
If you need some more incentive to try again, check out this article from the American Nuclear Society (ANS)
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tVvklXWK%2B%2FKrjxhWnRCIyvQoQurUo3Li
about our petition and the nuclear industry’s counterpart. Although their petition has been pushed heavily online by Nuclear Energy Institute, Areva and now ANS, it still has only a relative handful of signatures. We want to stay well ahead of them!
Whether you’ve already signed the White House petition, or just couldn’t get through, we know our systems work! Please send your letter to President Obama,
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=quR6DEVx6MEMT2QywMDMB%2FQoQurUo3Li
demanding an end to nuclear subsidies, today.
International friends: as you know, what happens in the U.S. can certainly affect the entire world. You can participate in this letter…
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campaign, and we encourage you to do so.
Finally, after you send your letter, we hope you will make a tax-deductible contribution to NIRS.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Gax0mEl1aG0a8nMk1aZtf%2FQoQurUo3Li
Our online fundraising, which went up after Fukushima, dropped significantly the past two months–and your support is absolutely critical to our work. We’re not kidding when we say we can’t do this work without you. Your activism is crucial; but so are your donations of any size.
Thanks so much for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
http://www.nirs.org
Stay Informed:
NIRS on the web:
http://www.nirs.org
NIRS on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nuclear-Information-and-Resource-Service/26490791479?sk=wall&filter=12
http://www.facebook.com/nonukesnirs
http://www.causes.com/causes/49098-no-nukes-nuclear-information-and-resource-service
NIRS on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/nirsnet
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Next meeting 10/18/11 on San Onofre at San Clemente CC, will have:
live stream info
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@ADMIN…This Link-TV special just now rolling end-credits,
Earth Focus, is new today, and they touch on details of the story
such that the writers MUST have been monitoring here at enenews,
possibly one of the contributors….They had this listed as an Hour
on the schedule but it is only 41 minutes to end of credits, apparently.
The LINK-TV schedule says they will run this again
LINK-TV-channel 9410, 10 pm MDT today…
also Friday 21st, 2pm and again 5pm, (MDT),
and Saturday 6am…
I Hope this is OK, Promoting this TV show…Thanks!
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MIAMI, Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ahead of a vote by the Florida Public Service Commission on October 24, the mayors of South Miami and Pinecrest will speak out at 11:30 a.m. Thursday (October 20, 2011) against the current cost recovery scenario for nuclear power, which requires hundreds of millions of dollars in higher utility bills for Florida ratepayers in order to foot the bill for proposed new nuclear reactors that may never be built.
The City of South Miami, Pinecrest, and Biscayne Park – along with the Miami-Dade League of Cities – have passed resolutions opposing the early cost recovery law. The two mayors also will encourage Floridians who oppose paying up front for uncertain nuclear projects to speak out to the PSC through an online campaign.
News event speakers will be:
* Dr. Phillip Stoddard, mayor of South Miami, FL;
* Cindy Lerner, mayor of Pinecrest, FL;
* Jamie Whitlock, legal counsel, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and an attorney with Gary A. Davis & Associates; and
* Dr. Mark Cooper, senior fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, who has submitted expert testimony to the Florida PSC on the cost recovery issue.
TO PARTICIPATE: You can join this live, phone-based Florida news conference (with full, two-way Q&A) at 11:30 a.m. EDT on October 20, 2011 by dialing 1 (877) 270-2148. Ask for the “Opposition to Florida nuclear cost recovery” telenews event.
CAN’T PARTICIPATE?: A streaming audio replay of the Florida news event will be available on the Web at http://216.250.243.12/nuclear_ripoff.html as of 5 p.m. EDT on October 20, 2011.
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Japanese anti-nuke group marks 55th anniversary
*VIDEO*
A Japanese anti-nuclear organization has marked the 55th anniversary of its founding.The members have renewed their determination to work for the …
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/19_02.html
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Reminder for FLA:
The latest Florida bailout by ratepayers of the nuclear industry will be voted on at a Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting being held on October 24, 2011.
The mayors are also encouraging Floridians who oppose paying up front for uncertain nuclear projects to speak out to the PSC by sending a letter through an online campaign at http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8362.
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Japanese occupy Tepco’s site:
http://tepco.researchlab.jp/
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Brilliant
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Hi Grace, where? What?
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click the link
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Bank Transfer Day – 5th November, this is an Anonymous campaign.
f you are one of the 99% and you bank at one of the major banks change your bank account to a credit union account and make a real difference.
http://www.findyourcreditunion.co.uk/home
Mutual Financial Services – Find Your Credit Union
http://www.findyourcreditunion.co.uk
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@Grace
Already been there done that. Vote with your wallet, folks, even if your wallet is thin! It’s the fastest way to change things. (I banked with BOA before their crooked dealings with foreclosures).
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Expand the ‘I have a scream’ – have fun -record it- post it – raise vibration – show solidarity
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/I%20Have%20A%20Scream%20flier2.pdf
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Anti-Nuke protest planned at Vermont Yankee on October 30th:
http://vtdigger.org/2011/10/27/anti-nuke-protest-planned-at-vermont-yankee-oct-30/
The People Serve Notice To Entergy Nuclear:
March 21, 2012
On October 30, 2011, citizens of Vermont and the tri-state region will serve Entergy its notice that March 21, 2012 is the final day of operation for the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor.
By its decision to refuel the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, Entergy Corporation is making a bold and arrogant statement that they do not intend to abide by Vermont state law and the will of the people. The state of Vermont has served notice and on Sunday, October 30th, the people will serve notice. The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant’s days of operation are numbered. We are repowering the people and repowering our tri-state community with sustainable energy.
Join us for a peaceful and spirited rally at the gates of Vt Yankee nuclear power plant
Sunday October 30
Noon
at Vermont Yankee, 546 Governor Hunt Road, Vernon, Vt.
Sponsored by: SAGE Alliance (an alliance of grassroots groups and individuals in Vermont and Massachusetts as well as individuals from Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire working together in a regional campaign to close Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.
For Carpooling in Chittenden County area, write yesearth1@gmail.com
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Sacred Sites Peace Walk for a Nuclear Free World comes to the Bay Area:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/27/18695623.php
Some of the peacewalkers are from Japan, fresh from the disaster at Fukushima. Nuclear energy can never be made wholly safe, they assert; especially nuclear facilities like Diablo that should never have been sited near earthquake and tsunami-prone zones.
Adds Seeley: “We’re walking in support and solidarity with the people of Fukushima. What happened at Fukushima, happens here, too—we are all connected.”
The general public is warmly invited to take part in the peace walk; volunteers may elect to walk for an hour, a day, or the entire walk. Discussing the walk on the Community Currency radio show, organizers Linda Seeley and Louise Dunlap, also expressed solidarity with the occupations and hoped that their walk would also visit the occupations along the way, including the ones in San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Oakland. In many ways the walk and the occupations are similar, in that they bring people together for a shared purpose and nurture community, building the vital foundation for social change.
They will be in Santa Cruz on Friday and some will probably visit the occupation. On Saturday, October 29th, they are scheduled to walk from the Resource Center for Non-Violence to visit a sacred site. [Some will also be speaking at the 1:00 pm Peace and Unity March at Watsonville Main Plaza (Main St. & East Beach)] In the evening at 6:30 pm there will be a Potluck dinner and informal sharing/storytelling at 612 Ocean St. (new RCNV building).
Sunday through Tuesday, they will be walking to and through San Jose. From Mission San Jose, they will head for Livermore on Tuesday. Wednesday, November 2nd, will bring them to Hayward. Thursday, November 3rd will they will walk to Oakland. Friday they will walk to Berkeley for an Evening Pot Luck Dinner, Speak Out & Discussion facilitated by Joanna Macy at the Berkeley Fellowship…
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I saw these folks marching through Oakland toward Berkeley. About 25 people participating today.
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cont.
Speak Out & Discussion facilitated by Joanna Macy at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, at Cedar and Bonita at 6 pm.
The last weekend of the walk will take them to Richmond on Saturday, November 5th, and on Sunday to Sogorea Te (Vallejo).
The invitation is open-
“Join us for all or part of this journey. Bring sleeping gear, water bottle, plate & fork, a good heart and good walking shoes, but PLEASE travel light.” Routes, schedules, and details at http://www.mothersforpeace.org and at http://www.canuclearwalk.com.
http://canuclearwalk.com/blog/
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Just want to say a great big THANK YOU to everyone who signed my petition to end the use of nuclear energy in the U.S.!!! I’m proud to be counted among you, and I’m grateful for your support. You folks are awesome!
Guess we need to work harder on spreading the word and educating the public. Lte’s, editorials, web posts, letters in response to web posts — lots of opportunities out there. That’s what I’ll be working on, anyway.
And B&B … little early for the wine, but hows about a mimosa?
I learned a lot, my family learned a lot – overall positive progress, even though we didn’t reach our goal.
Again – thanks to everyone who signed or otherwise helped to spread the word!
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Thanks for your dedication Erin. Perhaps we can help with some of your efforts in the future. Write in and let us know what you are doing and what you’ve learned if you have a minute.
And how about those Belgians?
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Hola Erin, thanks to YOU for your neverending efforts! Like admin said, today the Belgians made my day….what is a mimosa??
sounds good
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Thanks to you, too, B&B! LOL A mimosa is champagne and orange juice – a kind of brunch drink. Yummy!
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Yes – way to go Belgium! Let’s not let any more nations beat us Americans to the punch, folks! Let’s make the U.S. the next country to abandon nuclear power!
And I should’ve said this above, but an even bigger THANK YOU to enenews!!!!! It’s because of you folks that I could even start writing about this subject.
What’s the best way to reach you – the tip submission form? Or is there an e-mail addy I’ve missed around here?
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Please sign this petition:
Taxpayers should NOT take on the risk of building new nuclear plants
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=801&s_src=sidebar
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sorry anne; stupid zip code required field thingie won’t let me, I am in England, and I wrote a great message too.
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American Dream Movement
Make Wall Street Pay Action
http://civic.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?submit=1&search_distance=30&search_zip=80501&action_id=258
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Denver Area Events
Saturday, 5 Nov 2011, 9:30 AM Make Wall St. Pay
Wells Fargo
28 registered participant(s) (300 maximum)
1242 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO 80301
Hosted by Audy Leggere-Hickey, jacqui goeldner, kathleen Markle, Don Devereux, jacque hendricks
Description MOVE YOUR MONEY EVENT and RALLY.
Actions speak louder than words. Expose the fraud expose the lies. Saturday, 5 Nov 2011, 10:00 AM
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Move Your Money Make them Pay JP Morgan Chase Bank
120th and Vrain JP Morgan Chase Bank
6 registered participant(s) (300 maximum)
4580 w 121st Ave
Broomfield, CO 80020
Hosted by kathleen Markle, Penelope R Walsh, Ken Chapin
Description Come join us while we hold JP Morgan Chase Bank accountable for having record profits while hoarding money by decreasing the money lent to small businesses. They have record number of foreclosures on their books(more than any other bank in the country). They are stealing our democracy by spending 50 million to fight common sense financial reforms, fighting against the 99%!
We will be informing people and asking them to Move their Money.
We are going to gather at the Chase Bank on 120th and Vrain St. Sat Nov 5 at 10:00 to hand out information about Chase and info on how to change banks. Please join us. Saturday, 5 Nov 2011, 10:00
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AM ***Make Big Banks and Wall Street Pay US Back! . . . For Crashing U.S. and World Economies!***
Meet @ Occupy Denver Site Near Big Bank Locations
33 registered participant(s) (5000 maximum)
Southwest corner of Broadway @ W Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80202
Directions: See the “Map” provided for this event meetup location when you signup with MoveOn.org. We’ll meet at the southwest corner of Broadway and W Colfax Ave, one block from the RTD terminal, so the light rail may be taken to the 16th St. Mall where the free mall bus will take you to the terminal . . . Parking is not free on Saturdays, but the usual business parking spots will not be taken if you want to chance it. Carpool if you can and bring quarters for up to five hours of onstreet parking.
Hosted by Laura Avant, Ken Connell, Saadia Behar, Snow Schaefer
Description ***Join our Wall St and Bank Accountability actions this Saturday Nov. 5 in downtown Denver! as we march and chant “The banks got bailed out, while we got sold out!” Handouts and signs will be available there for our info picketing to educate the public and bank customers as well as we the 99%.*** . . .
The Occupy Wall Street movement has put economic justice in the spotlight. More and more people are talking about how to hold Big Banks accountable — and how to rebuild the economy for everyone . . .
That’s why we’re getting together for “Make Wall Street Pay” actions on November 5 to do what we can locally to fight back against Wall Street. From helping homeowners fight foreclosures to encouraging municipalities, schools, and organizations to move their money to local banks to protesting at Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Chase, we’re coming together with our 99% allies for this national day of bank accountability actions . . .
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“The economy is broken. One out of every six Americans lives in poverty. The rich are getting richer and the middle class and poor doing worse. Meanwhile, Wall Street and the top 1% are getting record bonuses, earning record profits, and still refusing to pay their fair share. It’s immoral, unfair, and it’s destroying the American Dream.
“Across the country we are taking to the streets to show our anger and to hold Wall Street accountable.That’s why on Saturday, November 5, we will take action against the biggest offenders on Wall Street: Bank of America, Chase, and other Wall St. banks. We’ll demonstrate that we refuse to support their businesses if they do not support us and America by paying their fair share.
“We’ll visit their corporate headquarters, local branches, and town plazas with our message: Make Wall Street Pay! If they do not support the 99%, we’ll move our money elsewhere, damaging their business and their brand. By making Wall Street pay we’re one step closer to economic justice and a country where the American Dream is a reality.”
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Petition please sign.
http://www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/final_demand2_32882.html
friends of the earth to the big six energy companies.
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Excellent. Done!
Thanks for posting Grace
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13668 signatures so far….not bad, but we can do so much better!
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Hi Grace, I sent the link to the Transition Network UK, asking them to spread it far and wide. Hope that helps a little.
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http://www.oneworldnonukes.org/One_World_No_Nukes/Submit_the_letter.html
please read & share this letter and support the mothers of Fukushima trying to protect not just their children but yours too, through campaigning to avoid the burning of radioactive rubble in Japan which will re-eject the radioactivity from March’s disaster into the atmoshere…
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http://www.terraspheres.com/blogs/save-the-children-of-japan-from-radiation-worldwide-petition-led-by-bianca-jagger
go Bianca!
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Just came across this:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8606
“Tell the BRC: Protect people, not the nuclear industry
UPDATE, November 3, 2011
While we’re not sure of the exact reason (we believe your comments most likely simply overloaded the BRC’s e-mail servers), it is clear that the BRC did not receive most comments submitted from October 27-October 31. The BRC says it has now fixed the problem, and has extended the comment deadline until November 7, 2011. Please re-submit your comments now, or, if you didn’t get a chance to before the original Oct. 31 deadline, please submit for the first time!
October 27, 2011
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (BRC) was formed by President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu in the wake of the administration’s sensible decision to end the proposed Yucca Mountain, Nevada radioactive waste project.
The BRC was not charged with finding a new site for the nation’s high-level radioactive waste; rather, it was charged with examining the potential options for coping with the massive waste problem now on our hands.
Unfortunately, the BRC was stacked with nuclear industry interests and its final draft report, which relies heavily on the long-discredited notion of establishing new “interim” storage sites for radioactive waste, seems much more interested in assuring continued generation of radioactive waste than addressing its fundamental problems. Establishment of new “interim” storage sites, with no permanent solution for radioactive waste storage in site, would simply result in mass waste transportation campaigns that would needlessly endanger millions of Americans–a concept that in the 1990s correctly led to the coining of the phrase “Mobile Chernobyl.” In addition, the BRC draft report does not explicitly reject the dangerous and dirty practice of reprocessing nuclear waste, as it should.”
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Reminder: the deadline for comments is tomorrow!
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Gorleben Castor Resistance in Germany 2011
A big number and high variety of actions is expected for November 24-27, 2011, due to the 13th transport of high level active atomic waste (the so-called Castor transport) from the reprocessing unit (plutonium factory) La Hague in France to the temporary repository in Gorleben, German…
The shipment contains the radioactivity of 44 Fukushima disasters, Greenpeace says..
http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Gorleben_Castor_Resistance_in_Germany_2011
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Great link Cataclysmic,
lots of actions, we really need to get organised – be your own organiser, I’m looking for some resources on how to organise a peaceful protest, I’ve seen them somewhere, crazee interwebs, when I find them, I’ll post them, meanwhile, thinking caps on……
GLOBAL FUKUSHIMA ACTION DAY –
Don’t wait for someone else to organise something, get started, be creative, be obstructive, have fun.
http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Global_Fukushima_Action_Day_2012
Please could you sign this, planning permission deadlines extended until early December……
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petitionagainsthinkleycaug2010/
Thank you All – Emancipate, Empower, Energise.
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Looking to get something going here in Chicago-preferably the next time enough of a heads up is given that Obama’s gonna be back in town.Even better if visiting his buddy who owns the 11 crap piles that surround me! Also trying to think up some fitting bumper stickers for Com Ed trucks(?)lol!
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Petition – a bit like voting really…..
http://www.nirs.org/petition2/index.php?r=sb
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Public Square: the debate over nuclear energy in Virginia:
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/2011/nov/06/tdmain12-public-square-the-debate-over-nuclear-ene-ar-1438237/
To participate in the Public Square
After the Aug. 23 earthquake near Mineral, the debate over the safety of nuclear energy has been reignited.
At the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s next Public Square, you’re invited to hear from proponents and opponents about the costs and benefits of nuclear energy. Then, you’ll be invited to offer your questions and comments.
This event is free and open to the public.
The Public Square will be moderated by Thomas A. Silvestri, head of the Richmond Media Group, which includes the Richmond Times-Dispatch, TimesDispatch.com, Richmond.com and Richmond Suburban Newspapers.
When: Nov. 15, 7-8:30 p.m.
Where: The Times-Dispatch’s downtown offices, 300 E. Franklin St.
Parking: Parking will be available in The Times-Dispatch’s parking deck.
Details: Visit Times
Dispatch.com, search: Public Square. Or contact Robin Beres at (804) 649-6305 or mberes@
timesdispatch.com.
Online: Watch live on Times
Dispatch.com.
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NRC staff will take comments on proposal for new Fermi plant:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-newnuke-michigan,0,2702111.story
FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich.—
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff says there are no environmental reasons to reject DTE Energy Co.’s application to build a nuclear power plant next to its existing Fermi 2 plant in southeastern Michigan.
The NRC’s staff has released a report for public comment on its analysis of plans for the Fermi 3 plant. The complex is near Monroe and Lake Erie in Monroe County’s Frenchtown Township, northwest of Toledo, Ohio.
The staff will discuss the analysis and take comments Dec. 15 at Monroe County Community College.
The Monroe Evening News says (http://j.mp/vPmQM1 ) the proposed cooling tower is larger than the two serving Fermi 2.
DTE says it’s considering a 1,600 megawatt reactor. Fermi 2 is 1,100-megawatts.
Opponents say the plant would harm wetlands and feed toxic algae in Lake Erie.
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Article: “Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough is Enough”
http://nuclear-news.net/2011/11/08/radiation-airport-scanners-us-govt-backs-corporate-profit-rather-than-public-health/
Bi-partisan Petition (as found in Comment Section):
http://www.senatenj.com/index.php/doherty/tsa-petition/sign-the-petition-help-stop-invasive-tsa-screening/7149
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Petition to Evacuate Fukushima.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/evacuate_fukushima/
2600 about signed + 1300 signed (thank you Laurent Figus and his friends) + many more to come … this petition will be sent to all Japanese embassies around the world on December 14th, as an early “poisoned” xmas gift from us to them! I plan to ruin their xmas holidays. Then to ruin their new year, we will bring it to the house of Representat…See More
Petition EVACUATE FUKUSHIMA 福島の子供を守れ
http://www.ipetitions.com
Greetings from Tokyo Children of Fukushima are running out of time. The Japanese Government are carelessly allowing these children to get exposed
Petition EVACUATE FUKUSHIMA 福島の子供を守れ
http://www.ipetitions.com
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URGENT PETITION – Aavaz
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_fukushima_children/?aWKNbbb
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Signed it!
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Thanks so much for posting this link, Grace! I signed.
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Today…Nuclear Hotseat Podcast today really does feature Dr. Janette Sherman on the effects of radiation. She’s a physician, author and activist, and the Contributing Editor of Chernobyl—Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature. To take part in the live Q&A call in today, Tuesday, November 8 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific time at: 712-432-1100, PIN: 324564#.
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Lots of actions from Friends of the Earth.
This one is scheduled for Thursday 10th November.
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/press_for_change/edf_33274.html
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Already went by, but interesting
http://moshimoshimo.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/buddhist-monks-at-eiheiji-temple-raise-an-alarm-over-nuclear-power-cherish-our-lives-the-way-of-living-that-we-dont-choose-nuclear-power-generation/
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—>WHERE: SPOKANE, WASHINGTON
—>WHY: Radioactive chemical waste could travel through Spokane
—>DATE: Public meeting in Spokane starts at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 16th at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park.
—>INFO: “If proposals get final approval to use Hanford as a radioactive chemical waste dump site, city officials say a lot of that waste could be traveling right through Spokane.
Spokane City Leaders say two pending proposals by the United States Department of Energy have remained on the table to use Hanford as a national radioactive chemical waste dump for the last 8 years. They say the plan includes the transportation of more than 12,000 truckloads of radioactive waste. They say many of those could come through Spokane on Interstate 90.”
http://www.krem.com/news/local/Radioactive-chemical-waste-could-travel-through-Spokane-133403408.html
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THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING NIRS ON GIVE TO THE MAX DAY!
BACK TO WORK: PLEASE SIGN AVAAZ PETITION TO EXPAND EVACUATIONS AND PROTECT CHILDREN IN JAPAN
November 10, 2011
Dear Friends,
Thank you to everyone who supported NIRS on Give to the Max Day yesterday! We appreciate it greatly; results below.
But first, at the urging of the growing Womens’ Movement Against Nuclear Power in Japan (worthwhile in-depth article on this here), the international organization Avaaz.org yesterday posted a new petition to expand evacuations in Japan and protect the children of Fukushima.
Avaaz has a wide reach (and NIRS and Japanese groups began promoting this yesterday on Facebook, Twitter and the like), and this petition already has 100,000 signatures!
We hope you’ll add your name now here. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FnidSGEOY57CpG%2Bv4tNJ3hCD9NagAJ0Y
Give to the Max Day results
Unfortunately, we didn’t win any major grant awards, although we came very close in the 4-5 pm hour. A local religious group, Little Lights Urban Ministries, edged us out that hour (we believe, although we haven’t been able to confirm, that we came in 2nd that hour). Little Lights also handily beat all DC-area non-profits overall as well with 729 donors totaling more than $37,000. We came in 24th in total number of donors overall, beating hundreds of much larger organizations. …
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We raised $7,000 from 118 donors–our largest one-day online total ever. So again, thank you so much! We also appreciated all the comments people left on our Give to the Max site. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NVzYgJ3HY7pHxQlQKQbLMBCD9NagAJ0Y
Your support and activism are what keeps us going.
If you missed out yesterday, you can, of course, still donate. We won’t complain….http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LrR5H7DJQ7NqH%2Frs
And don’t forget to add your name to the Avaaz.org petition here.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=crUPXeWhICVo2IL36tcCSRCD9NagAJ0Y
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
http://www.nirs.org
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Japan (worthwhile in-depth article on this here),
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=caSTdNWC8YBP%2FOVmVvpl3hCD9NagAJ0Y
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We Are The 99% event
Bridge on Westbound Arapahoe @ 38th St., 3853 Arapahoe Ave. (Map)
Boulder, CO 80303
Thursday, November 17th, 3:30 PM
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=123874&id=32795-19938697-oQ_jDqx&t=2
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Also check out the ‘Envolved‘ section on Enformable.com for upcoming public meetings.
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