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February 2007 _____________________________________________________________ Contents Include:
_____________________________________________________________ Divine Strake action – deadline is February 7, 2007 This past month hundreds of concerned citizens gathered at public events in Nevada, Utah and Idaho, to demand that Divine Strake be candled. We thank all of those who have already taken the opportunity to voice their opinion. If you have not already, please consider sending in your comments before February 7, 2007. The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO) has released, for public comment, the Draft December 2006 Revised Environmental Assessment, for the Large-Scale, Open-Air Explosive Detonation Divine Strake at the Nevada Test Site. Public comments can be mailed, faxed or emailed. The deadline is February 7, 2007 Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ Divine Strake Petition - Demand a full review and formal public hearings regarding the purposed Divine Strake open-air detonation at the Nevada Test Site! The federal government has performed only a minimal Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed test. Tribes were not consulted and there has been no meaningful period for public comment, public hearings, or enough details about the purpose of Divine Strake . A full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) would remedy these concerns, allow public hearings and a detailed explanation related to the purpose of the Divine Strake detonation. Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ The Western Shoshone Nation responds to the threat of another explosion at the Nevada Test Site code named “Divine Strake” intended to simulate effects of a nuclear weapon The explosion is condemned as related to further development of a new generation of weapons of mass destruction and a violation of International Law, US law and Western Shoshone law, custom and tradition. Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ PFS files suit seeking to store nuclear waste Private Fuel Storage is not giving up on its quest to store nuclear waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah, according to court documents filed in a federal appeals court on 1/29/07. Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ Nevada Desert Experience invitation to converge on the Nevada Test Site: Many Faiths, One Heart - Mobilization March 27 to April 1, 2007 In response to the urgent threats of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, we are calling members of concerned groups to gather in the desert near the Nevada Test Site. We will be speaking out against nuclear proliferation at home and abroad and building momentum for nuclear abolition, which includes transforming the Test Site into a facility that serves human and environmental needs. Threats of nuclear weapons-related violence loom large in 2007. From the Bush Administration' s threats of war on Iran, to political fallout from the North Korean nuclear test, to the Divine Strake chemical detonation at the Nevada Test Site, to the new Complex 2030 plan to spend $150 billion on new nuclear weapons, this is a crucial time for collective action.
_____________________________________________________________ Indigenous resistance to coal mining and power on tribal lands still need your help Support Dine and Hopi Communities in Stopping Massive Coal Mining Plans - Massive mining plans underway at Black Mesa, Arizona have serious environmental, social, and human rights impacts. Send a letter today to the Office Of Surface Mining, asking them to extend the critical deadline to allow impacted communities adequate time to prepare their input on stopping a destructive coal-mining project. Read more >>> Dine (Navajo) traditional elders blockade power plant site - Sithe Global & DPA are proposing to build the Desert Rock power plant, a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Reservation. Dine supporters and community members have blockaded the road leading to the construction site. They are elderly women and youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night since mid December! Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy FY 2008 Budget: What to Look for in Request to Congress A press release by Alliance for Nuclear Accountability including analysis of Nuclear Weapons Activities, Nuclear Waste & Plutonium Disposition, and Environmental Cleanup The Department of Energy (DOE) FY 2008 budget request will be released on Monday, February 5, 2007. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a national network representing communities downwind and downstream from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, is concerned that spending on nuclear weapons and energy will divert funds away from environmental cleanup, radiation health programs and plutonium disposition. While the United States accuses other countries of pursuing nuclear weapons, the DOE budget proposal will demonstrate that the U.S. is massively retooling its own nuclear weapons research, testing, and production infrastructure to create new weapon designs and maintain thousands of warheads for many decades to come, in direct contradiction to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ Beyond Nuclear – working for a world free from nuclear power and weapons Beyond Nuclear was created because the world
is moving ever more rapidly toward an increased build-up and use
of nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. These twin nuclear threats
have been separated in the minds of the public for too long. The
goal of Beyond Nuclear is to change this dangerous misconception,
to dispel nuclear myths, and to lay out pathways to a world without
nuclear reactors and without nuclear weapons. Beyond Nuclear aims to educate new audiences about the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The project will promote positive, solutions-focused messages and provide guides to safer alternatives to these dangerous and obsolete technologies. Through concerted media campaigns, high-profile press work and using its stable of expert spokespeople, Beyond Nuclear will work to create a consistent, national media presence for these issues. Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ 106 organizations urge Congress to oppose GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Partnership) program We, the undersigned groups, oppose the Department of Energy’s new Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) variously on grounds of national security, local security, degradation of our obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, our responsibility for environmental and cultural resource stewardship, endangerment of public health, and because it will further hurt our stature of leadership in the world. As a community of concerned citizens and organizations nationwide, we work together to oppose centralized interim storage of commercial high-level radioactive waste – at any site. As time goes by, the values we share grow only stronger: • Concern for a scientifically sound, sustainable
basis for long-term disposition of It is a long history, over several decades, where all the so-called “temporary” storage sites have targeted low-income, often Native American communities, or lands sacred to Native Americans. Interim high-level storage is falsely sold as a jobs program to these poor communities, when the reality is that radioactive waste storage drives away more economic development than it brings. Read more>>> The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership initiative (GNEP PEIS) Public Comments will be accepted through April 4th, 2007 Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ Nanish Shontie urgently needs your help and invites your participation in a variety of ways. Nanish Shontie is a community on 17 acres of property
in the country in Western Oregon. It is a place where people have
an opportunity to learn from traditional native people about the
native way of living with Mother Earth. Nanish Shontie is helping
to build a bridge between the modern world and indigenous world
so that we may work together for the healing of Mother Earth. Nanish Shontie urgently needs your help and invites your participation in a variety of ways. Indigenous people believe that everyone and everything is put on Mother Earth with a purpose and a gift. If there is any way that you feel you may be able to help, please let us know. Read more>>> _____________________________________________________________ Corbin Harney needs our love, prayers and support - help raise $10,000 for his care Corbin Harney is a revered Western Shoshone elder who has brought spiritual healing to the world. Corbin has made invaluable contributions to many important political, environmental and indigenous struggles. Corbin should not go without in his time of need. With sufficient support, he will be able to get the personal assistance and medical care he deserves. Immediate needs also include the installation of a hot shower in Corbin's trailer and an emergency generator so that he will not be in the freezing cold and dark when the electricity fails. The goal is to raise $10,000 in the next three months. Read more>>>
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