Appeal for international solidarity
P.Mac Adaim | 26.03.2008 14:42 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Health
Activists organise blockade to prevent test drilling for Uranium in Nianfors, North Sweden. We appeal for your support!!
During the last three months local activists have been involved in a dispute with a drilling company over prospecting for uranium close to a small village called Nianfors in north east Sweden.
Nianfors is located in a breathtakingly beautiful valley at the foot of the Majsaberget Mountain, the area is renowned for it's forests, crystal clear lakes and rivers which provide habitat for a wide range of wildlife, flowers. insects and funghi.
In a bid to prevent test drilling activists have set up camp and have set up a blockade to prevent test drilling going ahead. The weather conditions this time of year are tough, some nights the temperature reaches -20 the snowfall can be up to 30cm deep, but people dress heavily and the comradery is wonderful, so the spirit is strong. We make food, sing songs and tell stories among ourselves to pass the time.
Any comrades who happen to pass this way are welcome to join us, everyone is welcome (Except test drilling companies!).
Our website is in Swedish and English, so hopefully you can read about our campaign. We have posted an online Petition and appeal to our comrades to extend the hand of international solidarity and sign it.
We can prevent this, but we need all the support we can get, so please circulate this message to as many other comrades as you can. Say 'NO TO CORPORATE PLUNDERING OF OUR PLANET - NO TO NUCLEAR POWER!'
In comradeship
Pól Mac Adaim
Our site : www.nianfors.nu/engvers.html
Our online Petition :
http://www.nianfors.nu/engjustnu.html
http://www.nianfors.nu/engvers.html
Nianfors is located in a breathtakingly beautiful valley at the foot of the Majsaberget Mountain, the area is renowned for it's forests, crystal clear lakes and rivers which provide habitat for a wide range of wildlife, flowers. insects and funghi.
In a bid to prevent test drilling activists have set up camp and have set up a blockade to prevent test drilling going ahead. The weather conditions this time of year are tough, some nights the temperature reaches -20 the snowfall can be up to 30cm deep, but people dress heavily and the comradery is wonderful, so the spirit is strong. We make food, sing songs and tell stories among ourselves to pass the time.
Any comrades who happen to pass this way are welcome to join us, everyone is welcome (Except test drilling companies!).
Our website is in Swedish and English, so hopefully you can read about our campaign. We have posted an online Petition and appeal to our comrades to extend the hand of international solidarity and sign it.
We can prevent this, but we need all the support we can get, so please circulate this message to as many other comrades as you can. Say 'NO TO CORPORATE PLUNDERING OF OUR PLANET - NO TO NUCLEAR POWER!'
In comradeship
Pól Mac Adaim
Our site : www.nianfors.nu/engvers.html
Our online Petition :
http://www.nianfors.nu/engjustnu.html http://www.nianfors.nu/engvers.html
P.Mac Adaim
Homepage:
http://www.nianfors.nu/engvers.html
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London to Geneva anti-nuclear walk starts Chernobyl Day, Sat 26 April
26.03.2008 22:16
Ceremony to mark Chernobyl Day will kick off London to Geneva anti-nuclear walk
You are warmly invited to join Footprints for Peace on Saturday 26 April for the start of their three-month, 1500km International Peace Walk towards a Nuclear-Free Future, from London to Geneva through France.
The day has special significance as it marks the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The opening ceremony will take place at Battersea Park Peace Pagoda, London from 9.30am (nearest tube: Sloane Square). The walk will set off shortly after the hour-long ceremony.
All are warmly invited to attend to remember those who have lost their lives and those still suffering from the Chernobyl tragedy 22 years ago. We of course also remember all those affected by the nuclear industry; from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear bomb test veterans to communities affected by the uranium mining industries; from victims of ‘depleted’ uranium (DU) munitions used in Iraq and the Balkans to all the children who have contracted leukaemia as a result of living close to nuclear power stations.
It is time to send out a loud and clear message that we will not allow our world and our future to be further blighted by a deadly radioactive legacy and the risk of nuclear war, supposedly in the name of fighting climate change, 'keeping the lights on' and protecting national security.
Please join us for an hour, a day, a week or the entire walk!!
Please note: this is a drug and alcohol free walk.
Schedule for Day 1 - Chernobyl Day, Saturday 26th April 2008
9.30 - Opening ceremony marking Chernobyl Day
10.30am - Walk from Battersea Park south along Albert Bridge Rd
12.30 - Wandsworth along A3
1.30 - Lunch at Richmond Park: Kingston Gate entrance
2.30 - continue walking along London Rd A307 Kingston-upon-Thames
3.30 - A307 / Portsmouth Rd Thames Ditton
4.30 - Finish in Esher
If you plan to walk with us, please bring your own lunch and drinking water, rain gear or sun hat, any flags or banners you want to carry, lots of friends and good spirits!
Further details, flyers, itinerary, etc can be found here:
http://footprintsforpeace.tripod.com/E08/EW/NFFWindex.htm
Blog archives from last year's very successful 86-day walk from Dublin to London here: http://peacehq.tripod.com/peacehq_2007/act/000016/act000016-000.html
Footprints for Peace homepage: http://footprintsforpeace.tripod.com/index.htm
For further details, please contact the walk organisers:
Kerrie-Ann (K.A.) Garlick: 07881 425 531 or Marcus Atkinson: 07807 727 201
e-mail: ka [at] footprintsforpeace.net ; marcus [at] footprintsforpeace.net
You are warmly invited to join Footprints for Peace on Saturday 26 April for the start of their three-month, 1500km International Peace Walk towards a Nuclear-Free Future, from London to Geneva through France.
The day has special significance as it marks the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The opening ceremony will take place at Battersea Park Peace Pagoda, London from 9.30am (nearest tube: Sloane Square). The walk will set off shortly after the hour-long ceremony.
All are warmly invited to attend to remember those who have lost their lives and those still suffering from the Chernobyl tragedy 22 years ago. We of course also remember all those affected by the nuclear industry; from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear bomb test veterans to communities affected by the uranium mining industries; from victims of ‘depleted’ uranium (DU) munitions used in Iraq and the Balkans to all the children who have contracted leukaemia as a result of living close to nuclear power stations.
It is time to send out a loud and clear message that we will not allow our world and our future to be further blighted by a deadly radioactive legacy and the risk of nuclear war, supposedly in the name of fighting climate change, 'keeping the lights on' and protecting national security.
Please join us for an hour, a day, a week or the entire walk!!
Please note: this is a drug and alcohol free walk.
Schedule for Day 1 - Chernobyl Day, Saturday 26th April 2008
9.30 - Opening ceremony marking Chernobyl Day
10.30am - Walk from Battersea Park south along Albert Bridge Rd
12.30 - Wandsworth along A3
1.30 - Lunch at Richmond Park: Kingston Gate entrance
2.30 - continue walking along London Rd A307 Kingston-upon-Thames
3.30 - A307 / Portsmouth Rd Thames Ditton
4.30 - Finish in Esher
If you plan to walk with us, please bring your own lunch and drinking water, rain gear or sun hat, any flags or banners you want to carry, lots of friends and good spirits!
Further details, flyers, itinerary, etc can be found here:
http://footprintsforpeace.tripod.com/E08/EW/NFFWindex.htm Blog archives from last year's very successful 86-day walk from Dublin to London here:
http://peacehq.tripod.com/peacehq_2007/act/000016/act000016-000.html Footprints for Peace homepage:
http://footprintsforpeace.tripod.com/index.htm For further details, please contact the walk organisers:
Kerrie-Ann (K.A.) Garlick: 07881 425 531 or Marcus Atkinson: 07807 727 201
e-mail: ka [at] footprintsforpeace.net ; marcus [at] footprintsforpeace.net
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Homepage:
http://footprintsforpeace.tripod.com/index.htm