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Winona LaDuke inducted to Women’s Hall of Fame

Posted on January 27, 2007 | Leave a comment

Winona LaDuke was named this week as a 2007 inductee to the National Women’s Hall of Fame earlier this week. Winona LaDuke was the Green Party candidate for Vice President of the United States sharing the Ticket with Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000.
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Raise a red flag on EnergySolutions

Posted on January 26, 2007 | Leave a comment

EnergyPollutions and supporters are up to no good.  This came in from HEAL Utah:

Yesterday, the Utah Senate Natural Resources Committee voted to remove the oversight of all publicly elected officials from nuclear waste expansions at EnergySolutions.  Senate Bill 155 (Waste Amendments), sponsored by Sen. Peterson (R-Nephi), prevents all future Governors, Legislatures, and Tooele County commissioners from ever stopping any expansion at EnergySolutions’ current dumpsite.

 
The staggering implications of the legislature removing itself and all other elected officials from decisions to bring more nuclear waste to Utah are perhaps only overshadowed by the willingness of certain legislators to rewrite state law for one company.
 
A massive public outcry is the only thing that can stop this.  Please join us in opposing Senate Bill 155 at a press conference next Wednesday at the Capitol:
 
What: “Red Flag” Press Conference
When: Wednesday, January 31st, 11:00AM-Noon.
Where: Foyer at east entrance to the West Building, Utah State Capitol.
 
Afterwards, stay at the Capitol to deliver your red flag to your legislator.

Why “red flag?”  Sen. Gene Davis (D-Salt Lake) said yesterday he supported SB 155 because the public can still raise “red flags” through the regulatory process, and regulators can take those concerns to the legislature.  Clearly, Sen. Davis and others would prefer to send their constituents off to state regulators rather than listen to their concerns directly. 
 
But if EnergySolutions can get legislators to rewrite state laws for them and citizens are told to bring their concerns elsewhere, that should raise a red flag for all of us.  Join us on Wednesday to do just that and demand that the approval process for nuclear waste dump expansions maintains oversight from elected officials accountable to the people of Utah.
 
Besides attending the press conference, please also:
1) Contact your state senator and urge him or her to oppose SB 155 when it comes to a full senate vote (to find your state senator’s contact info, visit http://www.le.state.ut.us/maps/amap.html)
2) Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.  For our letter to the editor page, visit http://www.healutah.org/get-involved/how-to-write-a-letter-to-the-editor.
3) Stop by our office next Monday or Tuesday at 6:00pm to help make red flags.  (Our office is located at 68 S Main St on the 4th floor).
 
If the Divine Strake hearings have taught us anything, it’s that regulators are often immune to public comment.  It is only through demanding accountability from our elected leaders that we have made any headway in stopping that test. 
 
Please join us on Wednesday to let our legislators know we expect them to hold the interests of Utahns above those of a wealthy nuclear waste dump’s. 
 
On a somewhat brighter note, we know we don’t have to but we want to thank all of you who attended Gov. Huntsman’s Divine Strake hearing last night.  Even if the concern, outrage, pain, and heartfelt emotion expressed in the personal stories and comments last night fall on deaf ears at the federal agencies conducting this test, the evening certainly made the will to fight stronger in the 200 of us who were in attendance.  Check out Channel 2 tonight at 10:00PM for a story on Utah’s Downwinders inspired by last night’s hearing.
 
Thanks for everything you do,
 

John Urgo
HEAL Utah, Outreach Director
68 S. Main St, Suite 400
SLC, UT 84101
(801) 355-5055

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Meanwhile, in Afghanistan

Posted on January 25, 2007 | Leave a comment

While the Bush Regime continues force more troops into Iraq, it also continues its bullying of the rest of the world by beefing up troops in Afghanistan, much to the surprise of soldiers and their families:

U.S. Troop Buildup Planned For Afghanistan: Heavy Spring Fighting Expected As Taliban Stages A Comeback

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Reasons to NOT supporty Hillary Clinton for President (in case you were thinking there were)

Posted on January 25, 2007 | Leave a comment

Cindy Sheehan states it best:

Hillary for President?
By Cindy Sheehan

Monday 22 January 2007

Senator Hillary Clinton is running for president.

Twelve people killed in a helicopter crash Saturday in Iraq. Thirteen other service members reported killed in other incidents. Two more on Sunday and two more on Monday.

Twenty-nine people dead in the last three days in a war that the senator has supported since she first voted “yea” to give Bloody George carte blanche to invade Iraq and with her continuing support via her “yea” votes on giving the war addict in the White House the key to the treasury.

Soon after Camp Casey, in August 2005, I was meeting with some Hollywood people who pretended that they supported me, but really were big money donors and supporters of Hillary. I was told that the senator was really against the war, but she was waiting for the politically correct time to come out against it. I was told that she was the best hope for the Democrats in 2008, and I should give her a break.
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Thoughts on Abortion

Posted on January 25, 2007 | Leave a comment

A Maine physician has had a post published on Common Dreams:What it Meant When Abortion Was Illegal.

He describes the anger and frustration on the part of his father, a physician who was also a Republican, family man, and well respected community member, when he couldn’t save a 16 year old from an abortion-gone-wrong by an unskilled abortionist in the early 1900’s.

The article speaks for itself.

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Divine Strake Hearing Comments

Posted on January 24, 2007 | Leave a comment

Excerpts:
Listen to the entire hearing
Written Text:
Eileen McCabe, sister radical cheerleader
Sound files:
Pete Ashdown,2006 U.S. Senate Candidate
Cindy Bur, local activist
Shea Pickelner, sister radical cheerleader
Rupert Steele, Goshute Tribe

**CANCEL** THE DIVINE STRAKE! STOP WEAPONS TESTING ON WESTERN SHOSHONE LAND! END NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION!

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Divine Strake Test Hearing

Posted on January 24, 2007 | Leave a comment

Tonight is the Governor of Utah’s Public Hearing on the Divine Strake Test:

Utah State Capitol, West Building, Room 135 (Main Floor, NW)
450 N. State Street, 5:30 – 8:30 PM

The Divine Strake experiment is proposed by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO) and outlined in their “Draft December 2006 Revised Environmental Assessment, for the Large-Scale, Open-Air Explosive Detonation Divine Strake at the Nevada Test Site.”

Governor Huntsman will make introductory remarks at the Salt Lake City hearing and January 24th and a court reporter will record all public comments at both meetings. The Governor will include a transcript of the hearings in his comment letter to the NNSA/NSO opposing the Divine Strake experiment.

Dianne Nielson, (801) 536-4402
Executive Director, DEQ
Donna Spangler, (801) 536-4484
Public Information Officer, DEQ

Pom Poms Not Bomb Bombs plans to make an appearance as folks arrive for the hearing.

**CANCEL** THE DIVINE STRAKE! STOP WEAPONS TESTING ON WESTERN SHOSHONE LAND! END NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION!

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Reaction, News and Commentary on Bush’s State of Union Address

Posted on January 24, 2007 | Leave a comment

Liberal AND Conservative:

Bush gives State of the Union
Bay Area delegates give Bush’s State of Union an ‘F’Democrats deplore president’s address
Bush Continues to Unite the World… Against Him
Bush Health Proposal in State of the Union Message Won’t Make Insurance Affordable
Community conversation: President Bush’s State of the Union address
President Bush, State of Union: New Orleans, Not Burma
Bush State of the Union addresses on energy: yada, yada, yada

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Reaction to President Bush’s State of the Union address

Skeptics say energy proposal unrealistic: Push to use more ethanol finds detractors on both sides of the issue

Minutemen Blast President Bush’s State of the Union Address

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Rocky Goes to Washington and will speak at anti-war rally there

Posted on January 19, 2007 | Leave a comment

Rocky to ‘highlight’ D.C. anti-war rally
Speech of SLC mayor is advertised as an example of how unpopular Bush policies are – even in Utah
By Heather May
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 01/19/2007 12:37:43 AM MST


Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson speaks at an anti-war… (Ryan Galbraith Tribune file photo )

He has made national news – twice – for protesting President Bush in Salt Lake City. Now, Rocky Anderson will have a national stage to castigate the commander in chief.
Salt Lake City’s mayor will speak at an anti-war rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27, sharing the microphone with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and the father of a military officer who refuses to deploy to Iraq.
The demonstration – expected to draw hundreds of thousands in the largest anti-war protest since November’s elections – is being organized by the New York-based United for Peace and Justice in response to Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq.
The rally will call on Congress to “end Bush’s war and bring the troops home,” according to organizers.
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News on Sundance Opening

Posted on January 19, 2007 | Leave a comment

Redford praises documentary films
Screenings kick off with fiery statement
‘Chicago 10’ meant to stir up youth protest

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