Fort Lauderdale Rally for Nuclear Free World - Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011
The Silver Nightingale
Coalition Against Nukes – Florida Rally For a Nuclear Free Future
Saturday, October 1, 2011 in Fort Lauderdale
Stranahan Park (E. Broward Blvd. and N. Andrews Avenue)
10 AM - 1 PM
Part of the Coalition Against Nukes National Day of Action for
America’s Nuclear Free Future
The Florida Coalition Against Nukes – Florida National Day of Action
rally will be Saturday, October 1, 2011 at Stranahan Park, from 10:00am
until 1:00 pm, This is part of a coordinated series of rallies
nationwide that have been organized by The Coalition Against Nukes
www.CoalitionAgainstNukes.org
This grassroots action was initially inspired by Fukushima Daiichi
meltdowns. It was intensified by the August 23 magnitude 5.8 earthquake
that caused two reactors at Virginia’s North Anna nuclear plant to shut
down. Twelve reactors up and down the eastern US reported “unusual
events” to the NRC. Then, on August 28, Hurricane Irene demonstrated
powerfully that electrical power and transportation routes can be
disrupted over a very large area—for days and weeks.
In July, an incident was reported at FPL’s Turkey Point reactors,
located just 20 miles south of Miami. Little information was given at
the time, except the statement that findings would be released in
weeks! These reactors are 40 years old, and have just received a
non-researched 20-year extension to operate! A serious accident there
could permanently contaminate much of South Florida within a 50-mile
range, rendering Miami/Dade and Broward Counties, and the Keys
permanently unlivable. FPL/Progress Energy is applying for licenses to
build 2 more reactors on that same site. And we as taxpayers and
customers will be forced to foot the bill for this, regardless of
whether they are built. Voting on this by the Florida Public Service
Commission on October 24th.
In New York, Entergy’s aging, leaky, 40-year old Indian Point nuclear
reactors, with uncorrected safety concerns yet under consideration for
additional 20-year relicensing by the Obama Administration. They are
located near 2 fault lines, just north of NYC in a very densely
populated area. Twenty million people live within 50 miles of Indian
Point in NY, New Jersey and Connecticut. There is no effective
evacuation process should an accident occur there.
We stand with the people of Japan who are suffering this ongoing
nuclear disaster and with all other localities in which here are
nuclear generating plants, and we say: We cannot and will not let that
happen here!
WHEN: Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 10:00am – 1:00pm
WHERE: Fort Lauderdale - Stranahan Park, 10 East Broward Blvd
WHO: Representatives from Florida environmental groups (Citizens
Allied for Safe Energy; Clean Energy Coalition) will be giving
information and gathering signatures; Speakers from area Universities.
Performers: Japanese Taiko Drum Troup Fushu Daiko; DJ Sway Miranda;
Musician/Poet: The Silver Nightingale; Poet: The Newsense;
Photography/Model: Queen B/Britani Dee, Model; Video for Documentary:
Five Ten Films; Endorsement: North Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard.
WHY: The health impacts of Fukushima are far from over. We are
forced to watch Japan succumb to growing medical and environmental
catastrophes that will unfold for generations, and may equal or surpass
the damage of Chernobyl. Fukushima made it very clear what happens when
back-up systems fail, government withholds information, and Industry is
in charge of safety.
The American public must be roused to the danger of the nuclear power
industry and the cozy regulatory milieu, including hasty relicensing of
old plants, lack of security and permanent storage for radioactive
waste, insufficient evacuation plans, billions in taxpayer subsidies,
and more.
“Consider the economic consequences of a meltdown at Indian Point from
an earthquake. New York, the world’s financial capital, could be
rendered virtually uninhabitable,” said Dr. Helen Caldicott, co-founder
of Physicians for Social Responsibility and keynote speaker for the NYC
Rally.
“Fukushima fallout is traversing the Northern Hemisphere, turning up in
milk, food, and water; on tourists in airports, and products in
shipping bays around the world,” Caldicott said.
Priscilla Star, the executive director of Coalition Against Nukes,
lives downwind across the Long Island Sound from Millstone Power
Station’s nuclear reactors in Waterford, CT.
“We hear from Japanese people affected by Fukushima every day at the
Coalition Against Nukes Facebook page,” said Priscilla Star, executive
director. “They’re afraid to abandon their homes and businesses, but
afraid to stay while they get increasingly sick with symptoms of
radiation sickness,” she said. “They’re frightened for their children
and it just breaks your heart.”
“We have 104 nuclear reactors here in the US, as well as earthquakes,
tornadoes and hurricanes. We’re just as vulnerable,” Star said.
Fort Lauderdale Organizer Contacts:
Curt Valmy no-n...@om-tech.com 954-650-5049;
Jessica Landa lady...@yahoo.com 813-679-6846
Additional rallies will be held in Fort Myers, St. Petersberg and
Tampa. Other Florida cities are in process of joining.
National rally co-sponsors include: Friends of the Earth, NYC Sierra
Club, Greenpeace, Ralph Nader, New York Physicians for Social
Responsibility, NYPIRG, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Helen Caldicott
Foundation, IPSEC, Beyond Nuclear, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
Westchester Citizens Awareness Network, Shut Down Indian Point Now,
Time’s Up, ECOFEST, Rock the Reactors, and more.
Rally info and updates www.CoalitionAgainstNukes.org To contribute,
volunteer, or get more info, email NYCR...@CoalitionAgainstNukes.org
call 631-377-1560
NYC RALLY SPEAKERS:
Dr. Helen Caldicott – Keynote
Dr. Caldicott is a pediatrician who has devoted the last 38 years to
education about the health hazards of the nuclear age. She is the
co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Brent Blackwelder, President Emeritus, Friends of the Earth, and the
most senior environmental lobbyist in Washington D.C.
Former US Congressman John Hall represented NY's 19th District,
including Indian Point. Singer, songwriter and co-founder of Musicians
United for Safe Energy--MUSE
Harvey Wasserman anti-nuclear activist, author of SOLARTOPIA!: Our
Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030
Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear.
Karl Grossman, investigative journalist, author, and professor at SUNY
Old Westbury, recipient of the George Polk, James Aronson and John
Peter Zenger Awards
Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 2000, NY Director of Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation and its UN representative
No Nukes!
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