Green and Nuclear Free -- A Community Gathering in Favor of Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, and Closing Vermont Yankee
Sunday, July 22, noon - 2 p.m., Brattleboro town common
Free admission.
Event co-sponsored by Citizens Awareness Network (CAN), the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance, and the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
Music by Charlie King (www.charlieking.org) and Derrik Jordan (www.derrikjordan.com).
"Charlie King is one of the finest singers and songwriters of our time," said Pete Seeger.
King performed at a June 3, 1979 rally attended by approximately 17,000 people (hundreds were arrested for non-violent civil disobedience) in favor of closing the Shoreham nuclear power plant in New York state. The Shoreham plant was soon permanently closed. Other nuclear plants that have been permanently closed following public protest include Yankee Rowe in Rowe, Mass. (which borders Windham County, Vermont); Maine Yankee (dismantled in 2005); Millstone 1; and Rancho Seco (closed by a referendum vote that everyone who lived near the plant was eligible to vote in).
At the July 22, 2007 rally Vermont state Senator Jeanette White, state Rep. Richard Marek, and Deb Katz of CAN will speak. This will be a fun, positive, family-friendly event.
At 2 p.m. on July 22 a group of people will carpool from the town common to Vermont Yankee to do an act of non-violent civil disobedience. We will notify the Vernon police well in advance. Others will come to witness and support those of us who will be risking arrest. Please contact us by July 8 if you are interested in doing civil disobedience.
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