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Action Alert for ALL Bloggers EVERYWHERE:
I am organizing a STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE blogswarm for Tuesday, May 16th. I hope you all will participate in an effort to stop this test.
See more information at Green Jenni’s blog at:Jen’s Green Journal. Jenni has put together a nice post about the test.
Please register here or at Blogswarm
(Thank you to those that have already registered!)
Citizens of St. George, Utah held a rally to voice opposition to the Divine Strake test yesterday.
Several dozen participated. according to the Las Vegas Sun article. This was the first rally ever organized by these folks, who called me early last week to ask me questions about organizing rallies.
Another article appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune: Anti-Divine Strake rally draws fewer than hoped; opponents sign petitions.
Way to go, St. George!
This is a repost:
Action Alert for ALL Bloggers EVERYWHERE:
I am organizing a STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE blogswarm for Tuesday, May 16th. I hope you all will participate in an effort to stop this test.
See more information at Green Jenni’s blog at:Jen’s Green Journal. Jenni has put together a nice post about the test.
Please register here or at Blogswarm
(Thank you to those that have already registered!)
Tonight members of Utah groups participating in the May 28 action at the Nevada Test Site, along with other citizens, joined in a vigil to voice opposition to the Divine Strake Test being held next month at the test site. Channel 4 ABC News showed up and interviewed a few of the participants and filmed sign-holders and the Radical Cheerleaders.
Here are some photos:
While accounts and rumors of a delay in the Divine Strake Test are being circulated, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wants pledge that the test will be “safe”, and Rep Jim Matheson (D-Utah)is “satisfied” with a delay.
It seems that Greens are among the few demanding that there BE NO TEST AT ALL.
Today’s Salt Lake Tribune has an article on the hazards of such a test/blast.
An environmental consultant who has studied the Nevada Test Site says there is likely radioactive contamination at the location where the Pentagon plans to conduct a major explosives test, potentially dispersing the contaminants.
But Darwin Morgan, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which operates the Nevada Test Site, said extensive tests have shown the Divine Strake test site is not contaminated.
Like, I really believe the Defense Department.
Enough “stuff” already. Nevada Test site experiments are NOT SAFE! There is no reason for our elected officials to be even waivering on this! This is another example of our politicians holding out instead of making a concrete statement and decision. DEMAND A CANCELLATION.
Other articles in today’s news
Action Alert for ALL Bloggers:
I am organizing a STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE blogswarm for Tuesday, May 16th. I hope you all will participate in an effort to stop this test.
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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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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Read This: Postponement is not what we are after….CANCEL THE TEST!
The action will continue.
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.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 