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The entire nuclear fuel chain involves the release of radioactivity, contamination of the environment and damage to human health. Most often, communities of color, indigenous peoples or those of low-income are targeted to bear the brunt of these impacts, particularly the damaging health and environmental effects of uranium mining. The nuclear power industry inevitably violates human rights. While some of our human rights news can be found here, we also focus specifically on this area on out new platform, Beyond Nuclear International.

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Monday
Nov142016

ND: 1 Injured After Armed Man Drives Truck Through Dakota Access Pipeline Protest

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In North Dakota, water protectors resisting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline say an armed white man drove his truck through a crowd of Native American protectors, running over one woman and then firing live bullets into the air, during a demonstration Saturday at a worksite near Mandan. Local authorities are investigating the incident. This comes after 37 people were arrested on Friday, as water protectors maintained multiple highway blockades. The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to make a decision within days about whether it will grant a permit allowing Energy Transfer Partners to drill underneath the Missouri River.

(As reported by Democracy Now!)

Monday
Nov142016

Coalition for Peace Action (PA): TOMORROW: Bucks County Supports Standing Rock!

Action alert from The Coalition for Peace Action (which played a key role in the March for a Clean Energy Revolution, and a preceding summit, during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA last July):

Bucks County Supports Standing Rock, Peaceful Vigil

Tomorrow, Tuesday November 15!

[SEE THE FLIER HERE]

The Coalition for Peace Action's Bucks County, PA Chapter is co-sponsoring a vigil in Solidarity with Standing Rock on Tuesday, November 15 at 4:30 PM at the United Christian Church (Levittown, PA). See below for more details. We hope you can join us in solidarity!

Sincerely,


Erica DeKranes
Assistant Director
Coalition for Peace Action &
Peace Action Education Fund
40 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
609-924-5022
edekranes@peacecoalition.org

Monday
Nov142016

Day of Action against Dakota Access Pipeline, Arcus Center for Social Justice & Leadership, 205 Monroe St., Kal., MI, Tues., Nov. 15, 10 AM

Beyond Nuclear sent this action alert to southwest MI, where it is very engaged in nuclear power issues:

Dear Friends and Colleagues in/near Kalamazoo,

I just received this notification below from CredoAction, so thought I'd share it. I hope you can attend this Day of Action against the Dakota Access Pipeline, at the Arcus Center for Social Justice and Leadership, 205 Monroe St., Kalamazoo, tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 10:00 AM.

(If you don't live in Kalamazoo, please see the announcement here, and join the action nearest you -- or organize one of your own!)

Two of the groups on the front lines at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation and treaty lands in North Dakota -- Indigenous Environmental Network and Honor the Earth -- have long stood with the anti-nuclear power movement to oppose high-level radioactive waste dumps targeted at Native American lands (such as Western Shoshone Indian land at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, long targeted for a national dump by U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI); beginning in 1995, as a U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee member, Upton has done the nuclear power industry's dirty work, including leading industry's advocacy in favor of the Yucca dump on Capitol Hill; this only intensified when Upton became Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee; he has been handsomely rewarded with large-scale campaign contributions by the nuclear power industry ever since). As the Friends of the Earth action alert about tomorrow put it, "The Indigenous peoples’ centuries-long fight for cultural survival is at stake. As we contemplate four years of a Trump Administration, a few things are clear: we have to keep fighting. And we have to show up for each other." (Erich Pica, a Distinguished Alum of WMU from Watervliet, is President of Friends of the Earth.)

Marshall, Kalamazoo, and all communities downstream of the late July 2010 Enbridge tar sands oil spill into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River know all too well that oil pipelines can fail catastrophically, and that Enbridge's corporate character leaves a lot to be desired. Enbridge, yet again, is playing a big role in forcing the Dakota Access Pipeline through Standing Rock Sioux Tribe treaty lands, against the tribe's will.

Thanks.

---Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear & Don't Waste Michigan

CredoAction alert for Kalamazoo:

Tuesday in Kalamazoo: Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. #NoDAPL


Join a massive national day of action against the Dakota Access pipeline by attending a protest in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Donald Trump’s presidency will be be a disaster for many of the people and things we care about most – including indigenous rights and the climate. We will fight with everything we’ve got to stop Trump’s dangerous and reckless agenda, but right now we also have to keep the pressure on President Obama to do what’s right while he’s still in office and stop the Dakota Access pipeline.

In recent weeks, nearly 400,000 CREDO members have signed the petition urging President Obama to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, and thousands more have made calls. A decision on the pipeline’s final permit is expected to be made any day now. It’s time to disrupt business as usual and take this fight to the next level.

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, we’re joining our friends at Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, 350 and dozens of other indigenous rights, progressive and environmental groups for a massive #NoDAPL day of action. Thousands of people will join protests across the country to demand that the Army Corps of Engineers stop the Dakota Access pipeline – and there’s an event planned near you in Kalamazoo.

Can you join the event in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15?

What: Day of Action against the Dakota Access pipeline
Where: The Arcus Center for Social Justice and Leadership, 205 Monroe st., Kalamazoo
When: 10:00 AM

If you are planning to attend the event in Kalamazoo, please RSVP now so local organizers know how many people to expect and can follow up with you with any final details you need to know.

The Army Corps of Engineers fast-tracked the Dakota Access pipeline without proper consultation, and as a result, bulldozers are approaching Standing Rock as we speak. Now it’s time for them to take action to make it right. These coordinated, massive demonstrations across the country will make it clear that our movement will not allow indigenous rights, our water or our climate to be sacrificed. We will fight this pipeline until it is stopped for good.

Will you be at the action in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15? Click here to RSVP.

The fight against the Dakota Access pipeline is the biggest climate and indigenous rights fight happening in the country right now, and this movement is one of the most courageous stands against a fossil fuel project our country has ever seen. Together, our activism stopped the Keystone XL pipeline just over one year ago today. Now, we need to use our power to stop Dakota Access.

We will continue to fight until native sovereignty is honored, indigenous rights are protected and the federal government values our communities, water and climate over fossil fuel profits. Thank you for fighting with us.

Click the link below to RSVP for the action in Kalamazoo on Tuesday Nov. 15.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-day-of-action-and-solidarity

See you in the streets,

Josh Nelson, Deputy Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Monday
Nov142016

Freedom Socialist Party: Your support needed for Standing Rock delegation

Dear friend,

Native American leaders at Standing Rock, North Dakota have issued an urgent call for people to come help the effort to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will jeopardize the country's water supply by running toxic oil conduits under the Missouri River. Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party are responding to this call by sending two organizers immediately.

I am asking for your financial assistance to send these two dedicated activists to Standing Rock on short notice.

Standing Rock spokespeople are particularly looking for volunteers who can publicize their message broadly and provide concrete help preparing encampments for winter. Our delegation fits the bill.

Gina Petry, the Organizer of Seattle Radical Women will record interviews with Native women warriors leading the fight, along with youth and other activists on the front lines. Patrick Burns, a union carpenter, has been asked to lead a construction crew on site. He also brings a message of solidarity from activists in organized labor. Both volunteers are from Seattle and will be in North Dakota for a full week, starting November 14.

Normally, we would do fundraising ahead of time for such a trip, but given the urgency of the situation, with mass arrests and frigid weather blowing in soon, we decided to get our organizers on a plane immediately. The trip will cost upwards of $2,000.

Please make your donation today! This is a concrete way to support a fightback following Trump's election. If donations exceed the cost of the trip, additional funds will be sent to the Water Protector Legal Collective, which is desperately in need of money to cover bail and legal costs for arrestees.

Stay tuned for reports from our contingent in Standing Rock over the coming week. If you know someone they should connect with while in North Dakota, please email RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com or call FSP National Secretary Doug Barnes at 206-985-4621.

Please also contact us if you would like to interview Gina or Patrick after their return or have them make a presentation to your union or community organization.

In Solidarity,
Ann Rogers, Chippewa elder
Comrades of Color Caucus of
Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party

Freedom Socialist Party
Keeping you up to date.

Our mailing address is:

Freedom Socialist Party
4710 University Way NE, #100
Seattle, WA 98105


Telephone: 206-985-4621

Monday
Nov142016

Camp of the Sacred Stones: We Cannot Negotiate for the Water