Wednesday
Sep212011
Fukushima survivors and Japanese activists call for protest at UN HQ for nuclear power abolition -- join us!
Image courtesy of Green Action JapanThis event has its own Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140320216063913Date and time: Thursday, September 22, 5pm to 6 pm
Location: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (47th Street and 1st Avenue, New York City) -- enter at 2nd Avenue & 47th Street -- near to the United Nations HQ
On September 22nd, a high-level meeting on nuclear safety will be held at the United Nations HQ.
On that same day New York City is joined by a delegation from Japan calling for an end to nuclear energy worldwide, and calling for the UN to stop promoting nuclear energy. This, in the aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.
Ever since March 11, 2011, the people of Japan have been struggling desperately to demand their government take more responsible measures to protect people's -- especially children's -- health from Fukushima's radioactive fallout. Also, the global nuclear establishment, including the US government, states that nuclear power is here to stay, and there is no alternative to it - whatever the cost for our lives. This is not acceptable, especially given the safer, cleaner, and ever more cost effective alternatives of renewables and efficiency.
Please join us and raise our voices together to challenge the United Nations for the abolishment of nuclear energy.
On that same day New York City is joined by a delegation from Japan calling for an end to nuclear energy worldwide, and calling for the UN to stop promoting nuclear energy. This, in the aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.
Ever since March 11, 2011, the people of Japan have been struggling desperately to demand their government take more responsible measures to protect people's -- especially children's -- health from Fukushima's radioactive fallout. Also, the global nuclear establishment, including the US government, states that nuclear power is here to stay, and there is no alternative to it - whatever the cost for our lives. This is not acceptable, especially given the safer, cleaner, and ever more cost effective alternatives of renewables and efficiency.
Please join us and raise our voices together to challenge the United Nations for the abolishment of nuclear energy.
Delegation from Japan includes:
Sachiko Sato, an organic farmer from Fukushima, Japan with her 13- and 17-year old children
Kaori Izumi, director of Shut Tomari, Hokkaido, Japan
Yukiko Anzai, organic farmer, also from near Tomari Nuclear Power Plant in Hokkaido, Japan
Aileen Mioko Smith, Executive Director of Green Action Japan, a veteran anti-nuclear campaigner
PRINT YOUR POSTERS TO HOLD AT THE PROTEST RALLY: http://fukushima.greenacti on-japan.org/
HEAR THE DELEGATION SPEAK EARLIER ON THE SAME DAY AT 12PM: http://www.facebook.com/ev ent.php?eid=120290221404116
September 21, 2011