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Utah Peace and Social Justice Organizations Announce Joining Interntl Coalition to Protest Blast

Posted on May 10, 2006 | Leave a comment

Shundahai Network, People for Peace and Justice of Utah, Desert Greens – Green Party of Utah,
PomPomsnotBombBombs, Blue Sky Institute Joint Press Release – May 10, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Utah Peace and Social Justice Organizations Announce Joining International Coalition to Protest Divine Strake Detonation

This Mother’s Day we honor our Mother Earth, we grieve with the mothers who have lost children to war, and we stand with mothers everywhere who want to protect their children from the fear, the violence and the insidious health effects of weapons testing.

Shundahai Network, People for Peace and Justice of Utah, The Green Party of Utah – Desert Greens, PomPomsnotBombBombs, and the Blue Sky Institute have joined the Stop Divine Strake Coalition, to pressure the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Nuclear National Security Agency to cancel the Divine Strake detonation currently still scheduled for June 2. (There are conflicting reports of a delay until June 23)
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Quarantine Wal-Mart

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Back in January I wrote about The Ruckus Society’s developed campaign with other organizations to “quarantine” Wal-Mart.

Ruckus is teaming up with Jobs with Justice and ACORN to bring a National Quarantine of Wal-Mart. On Friday, June 2, during Wal-Mart’s annual shareholders meeting, thousands of concerned citizens dressed in hazmat suits, and armed with yellow caution tape, will be putting Wal-Mart sites across the country under “quarantine”.

Learn more about how you can participate in this action at Quarantine Walmart.

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Nevada Test Site, Nuclear Testing

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Today in my Peace History posting is a timely item from 1980 when a federal judge in Salt Lake City, Utah, found the U.S. government negligent for its above-ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada from 1951 to 1962.


The land of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with craters from nuclear testing

Fallout Maps from Nuclear Testing:
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More Divine Strake Postponement News

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Read This: Postponement is not what we are after….CANCEL THE TEST!

  • Nevada blast test put on hold amid court fight – CNN
  • Test-blast battle not over yet: Activists are not claiming victory over delay of explosion – Deseret News
  • Hatch wants pledge blast will be safe – Salt Lake Tribune
  • Divine Strake blast postponed: Test won’t happen for at least three weeks, agencies acknowledge – The Spectrum

    The action will continue.

    STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE!

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    Today in history

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    May 10

    1857
    Beginning of the Sepoy Rebellion in Meerat, India; becomes known as the Great Mutiny against British Imperial rule.
    1872
    Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency, by the National Equal
    Rights party.
    1910
    British government jails Tom Mann for six months for urging soldiers not to shoot striking workers.
    1920
    England: Dock workers refuse to load armaments for use by Allies against Russia.
    1940
    The South registers its first full year without any reported lynching.
    1967
    Captain Howard Levy jailed three years for refusing to train U.S. soldiers for Vietnam.
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    Postponing the Divine Strake Test? Hmmm….

    Posted on May 9, 2006 | Leave a comment

    People, especially politicians, are all excited because the DoE came out today with the statement that the Divine Strake test is being postponed until later in June.

    But in the Salt Lake Tribune article, there is one paragraph that reads:

    The Energy Department’s partner in the test, the Defense Threat Reduction
    Agency, denied any delay late Monday.
    “As far as we’re concerned, we’re still saying June 2,” said Irene Smith, a
    spokeswoman for DTRA in Washington. “We have not received any direction that
    would cause us to change the June 2 date at this point.”

    Hmmm….

    Another thing that bothers me is politicians stating that they are “satisifed” with the delay.

    Satisifed with the delay????

    No one should be satisfied until the test is entirely CANCELLED.

    The action will continue.

    STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE!

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    Thousands of Utahns Comment to BLM

    Posted on May 9, 2006 | Leave a comment

    Thousands of people sent in their comments to the BLM during a public comment period to oppose proposals to build a rail route or a loading facility to service the proposed high-level nuclear waste storage site, Private Fuel Storage (PFS) in western Utah. I sent in my early last week.

    The State of Utah alone filed over 40 pages of documentation and legal arguments against the proposal.

    Here are two articles I found today:

    Utah attacks PFS nuclear waste plan: State joins thousands in sending comments to BLM

    BLM swamped with comments on N-waste

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    ACTION ALERT: STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE

    Posted on May 9, 2006 | 5 comments

    I have posted here in the past couple of weeks my involvement in the planning of an action to Stop the Divine Strake. I am releasing the Action Alert today for an International Day of Action at the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone Land on Sunday, May 28. People will be at the event from all over the country.

    Here are the details:
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    Today in history

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    May 9
    1933

    First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany

    1967
    In April, Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army due to his religious convictions. He angered many Americans after claiming, “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” He was stripped of his heavyweight boxing title and his license to fight.
    In June, a court found him guilty of draft evasion, fined him $10,000, and sentenced him to five years in prison. He remained free, pending numerous appeals, but was still barred from fighting.

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    Diebold voting machine demonstrations – and updated info on Utah’s voting machines

    Posted on May 8, 2006 | Leave a comment

    Kathy Dopp has sent this out:

    TODAY there will be a Diebold voting machine demonstration in the hall of the Park City Municipal Building on Marsac Ave in Park City.
    Please attend. The Summit County Clerk’s website is: http://www.summitcounty.org/clerk/

    Also, please consider taking these positions:

    1. Utah Counties are looking for poll workers for the primary and general election. There is a mandatory training session which will be very educational to attend to see what procedures will be in place for the election using the new Diebold voting machines, and

    2. Diebold has contacted Utah Job Service to hire technicians to work with its voting machines here in Utah during elections.

    Please apply or volunteer for these jobs as they will be good places to observe the process. There will be a required training session soon for poll workers who are paid $8/hour (at least in Summit county).
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