Stop Consumers Energy and American Electric Power from Dumping High-Level Radioactive Waste on Native Lands!
STOP ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN ITS TRACKS!!!
STOP CONSUMERS ENERGY AND AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER FROM DUMPING HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES ON NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS!
Commemorate Earth Week 2001
& the 15th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe
THURSDAY, APRIL 26TH, 2001 -- RALLY & NONVIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE COOK NUCLEAR REACTorS IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN
Just off of I-94, one hour's drive west from Kalamazoo, just south of St. Joe/Benton Harbor, half-way between Stevensville and Bridgman, MI.
Driving directions from K'zoo: take I-94 west to exit 22/Stevensville; take a right on Red Arrow Highway, going a few miles south; at the stop light at the entrance to the Cook nuclear plant, turn left into Cook nuclear plant's employee overflow parking lot. Watch out for traffic as you cross Red Arrow Highway on foot -- the rally will be on the grass next to the big Cook nuclear plant entrance marquee.
Cook nuclear plant's owner, American Electric Power (AEP), is part of a nuclear utility company consortium called Private Fuel Storage (PFS). PFS is targeting the tiny, impoverished Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians Reservation in Utah to become the nation's high-level nuclear waste dump. Both AEP and Consumers Energy, which owns the Palisades nuclear reactor near South Haven, are also leading lobbyists in the effort to dump high-level nuclear wastes on Western Shoshone Indian land at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. If perpetrated, these dumps would represent one of the gravest violations against environmental justice in the U.S.
Hurried high-level atomic waste shipments could begin as early as 2003, even though the transport containers have never undergone full-scale physical safety testing. Emergency responders are neither trained nor equipped to deal with radiation releases from a severe transportation accident. High-level nuclear waste that is sitting still -- like that on the beach at Palisades -- is dangerous enough. Rushing it onto the roads and rails will lead to new and greater risks.
For more info., contact Kevin Kamps at Nuclear Information & Resource Service in Washington, D.C.: cell phone (202) 262-9518; e-mail: kevin@nirs.org; web site: www.nirs.org
This direct action is part of a National Day of Action taking place simultaneously in a dozen cities across the U.S. See the list of actions at http://www.nirs.org/actions.htm. To learn more background about the proposed Skull Valley Goshutes dump, see NIRS fact sheet "Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Nuclear Waste" at: http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/pfsejfactsheet.htm.
Kevin Kamps will tour southwest Michigan with a full-size replica of a nuclear waste shipping container from Tuesday, March 27th until Thursday, April 19th, in order to promote the April 26th rally at Cook nuclear plant. If you know of meetings, school classes, community groups, church congregations or others who would be interested to learn about the issue and the upcoming event, please contact Kevin to set up speaking presentations. Thanks!
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