Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - ELECTION THEFT FROM GEORGIA TO DICTATORSHIP & SHUTTING INDIAN POINT & ALL OTHER NUKE REACTORS

Beyond Nuclear on Solartopia Green Power and Wellness House, hosted by Harvey Wasserman:

ELECTION THEFT FROM GEORGIA TO DICTATORSHIP  &

SHUTTING INDIAN POINT & ALL OTHER NUKE REACTORS

We start with the election fiasco in Georgia that is meant as the prototype for the Trump theft of the 2020 election this fall. 

With voting machines designed to fail and eradicated polling stations, the Georgia GOP made sure that thousands of citizens of color could not vote. 

This is Trump’s model for permanent dictatorship in 2020.

We then CELEBRATE the shut-down of Indian Point Nuke #2. 

We’re joined by legendary activists SUSAN SHAPIRO, KEVIN KAMPS, PAUL GUNTER, TIM JUDSON & CYNTHIA FOLKERS who explain the glories of this long-overdue shut-down in great detail.

We’re also joined by Ohio's JOE DE MARE who explains the sickening thieveries of Ohio’s atomic “bailout” and the mobster legislature's latest insane attempt to make Ohio the nation’s radwaste dump.

The nuke industry just stole $1 billion from Ohio ratepayers and used it for stock buybacks.  Ohio could long ago have gotten 100% of its electricity from wind and solar.

Instead the state sinks in a fossil nuclear morass.  And unless American activists can overcome the rigging of its elections, it will only get worse.

Listen to the audio recording, here.

6/10/20: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik Radio's "Loud & Clear"

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording, here.

First of Kings Bay Plowshares 7 is sentenced

From The Nuclear Resister:

A revered elder of the American anti-war movement was sentenced on Monday, June 8 to time served for her part with six other Catholic peace activists in the April 4, 2018 Kings Bay Plowshares nonviolent direct action for nuclear disarmament. Elizabeth McAlister, age 80, had already spent more than 17 months in Georgia county jails following her arrest.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, McAlister appeared for sentencing via video from her daughter’s home in Connecticut, surrounded by her three children, their partners and her six grandchildren. Judge Lisa Godbey Wood presided from federal court in Brunswick, Georgia.

McAlister was also ordered to pay a special assessment of $310 and restitution of $33,503.51, assigned jointly and severally to all the defendants. Out of consideration for her lifetime of voluntary poverty and lack of material assets, the court did not impose a fine, but mandated a minimum payment of $25/month towards restitution. McAlister was also placed on three years of supervised probation. 

Read the full article.

BEYOND NUCLEAR VS. NRC

Appeal to 2nd highest court against NM dump

Today, Beyond Nuclear's legal counsel, Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Atlanta, GA, initiated a lawsuit at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (logo, left). It challenges Oct. 29, 2018 and April 23, 2020 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rulings. Those rulings were in favor of licensing Holtec International's so-called consolidated interim storage facility, targeted at southeastern New Mexico, for up to 173,600 metric tons of irradiated nuclear fuel. That is more than twice what currently exists in the country, and 2.5 times what is targeted to be dumped on Western Shoshone land at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

NRC has been flouting both the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as Amended, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act, as Beyond Nuclear has alleged since 2016. See our press release here, and legal filing here.

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6/3/20: Beyond Nuclear on Sputnik Radio's "Loud & Clear"

News, #antinuclearprotests, #environmentalracism, #michigan, #nuclearenergy, #nuclearracism, #nucleartesting, #nuclearwaste, #radioactiveracism, #savannahriversite, #usnucleartesting

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording, here.