FW: message from famous theatre director Nicholas Kent

[Pushparayan M]

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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:06:34 +0530
Subject: message from famous theatre director Nicholas Kent
From: pushp...@gmail.com
To: pushp...@hotmail.com


http://www.tricycle.co.uk/festivals/the-tricycle-goes-nuclear/

 

Thank you. I have signed it

Very best and continue the good work

Nicolas

 

Dear Nicholas (if I may)

I just wanted to say how much I appreciated and enjoyed the 'Bomb' plays.

Please show your support to the peaceful anti-nuclear protests at this very critical time when the reactors are due to be commissioned in a matter of weeks. There are so many serious issues involved including the charges laid on protesters. The nationalist ideology is so strong that it has hijacked the fact that this is a global and human matter, especially so when alternatives are available. I think international solidarity is sorely needed. Please see below, sign and circulate widely. Thank you

best wishes

Raminder

 

GLOBAL HUNGER STRIKE

IN SOLIDARITY WITH

CONCERNED CITIZENS AND PEACE ACTIVISTS AGAINST

THE DANGERS OF THE KOODANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

On May 1^st, peace activists in south India embark on an indefinite hunger strike. Despite official promises, their demands about the legality and safety of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant have not been met.

This is a peaceful struggle to the death.

The Indian government has announced that the first reactor at Koodankulam will go critical in May/June.

More than 55,000 people have been falsely charged including for sedition.

This is a travesty of democracy.

Sign the petition and express your support for those forced to live next to nuclear reactors in a tsunami, volcanic and earthquake zone where there is a water shortage.http://www.change.org/petitions/pm-manmohan-singh-cm-jayalalithaa-tamil-nadu-state-government-india-drop-charges-against-activists-institute-ind-environmental-committee

Organise, protest, contact media, human and environmental rights organisations, social networks, politicians, locally and globally including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (http://pmindia.nic.in/feedback.php) and Chief Minister Jayalalitha (Chief Secretaryc...@tn.gov.in, cmc...@tn.gov.in)

Demands

· Release all anti-nuclear peace activists from prison unconditionally

· Withdraw all false charges against tens of thousands of people

· Institute an independent and transparent national committee on hydrology, geology and oceanography of the region

· Conduct disaster management and evacuation exercises everywhere in 30 km radius of KKNPP

· Share a copy of the secret inter-governmental agreement between India and Russia in 2008 on liability

· Divulge relevant information about KKNPP nuclear waste and management

· Respect the democratic rights of people to oppose the KKNPP peacefully and non-violently.

This appeal is not from any movement under a ‘foreign hand’ but from people holding hands in solidarity across the world. As Chernobyl and Fukushima have shown, nuclear dangers are a global and human concern, not simply a national one.

Wind power is already providing double the amount of electricity than from nuclear reactors and at a fraction of the cost, including even to the Koodankulam nuclear township.

This call is for people power and alternative power.

NOT NUCLEAR POWER.

Further resources on www.dianuke.org