Women actually oppose nuclear power, with 51% opposing and 42% supporting. Men support nuclear power by 30 points more than women do. Women oppose nuclear power by 24% points more than men do. That is one of the bigger gender differences that I have ever seen on an issue.
What is needed is a Copernican revolution. We used to think the sun went around the Earth and were proven wrong. Now we assume that life and the planet revolves around us humans — we are the centre of it all. The revolution needed is for us to recognise that the web of life and our wellbeing is dependent on the wellbeing of this planet. We humans are but part of the web, entirely dependent on a healthy planet. Our moral responsibilities must include those to the planet.
Protests underway all over India against the government’s repression of agitating people in Koodankulam.
Currently Jan Sansad has decided to focus on this issue which is a symbol of misplaced development priorities of the country as well as the undemocratic manner in which such policies are implemented by the government in its March 23rd, 2012, protest at Jantar Mantar.
This formal statement was released officially by twenty-two women’s organizations in South Korea on January 13, 2012.
Adopted on January 15, 2012 The 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and related melt down at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has led to great suffering for the people of Japan and has increased radioactive contamination across the globe. It has also sounded a warning bell throughout the world [...]
Patriotism, it’s said, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. A worthy example now making its way into the national spotlight is the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), which is making strained national security arguments on Capitol Hill to pave the way for a $2 billion federal bailout. If USEC had a sound product or argument, this subsidy might be defensible. USEC has neither.
From primary school teacher to renewable-energy revolutionary, Ursula Sladek took the power out of the hands of the energy giants and gave it to the people of Schönau in the Black Forest. Olivia Edward tells her story.
We will either make peace with the earth or face extinction as humans even while we push millions of other species to extinction. Continuing the war against the earth is not an intelligent option.
Soli Sorabjee’s opinion on Liability Rules and CSC
Arun Kaliraja B When Japan was struggling to contain the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, the climate talks started in June 2011 in Bonn, Germany. On 14th June India tabled its proposal to include ‘nuclear power’ under the green technology when there is a major shift in the global opinion against [...]
Summary of 11/19 ‘Wakayama Ladies Against Nukes’ Meeting: Ms. Nita’s evacuation to Wakayama from Fukushima & Dr. Yamazaki’s report Cathy Iwane is a native of California, who has lived in Wakayama, Japan for 25 years. Ashtanga Yoga keeps Cathy vibrant & healthy; presently, she’s studying to become a yoga teacher. [...]
Here are some pictures of the fishermen’s protest, sent to DiaNuke.org by Jeya Singh Fernando
Nuclear Power and the Bomb are inextricably linked through an atomic chain. The nuclear era began in Germany, so we have a specific responsibility to end it sooner rather than later. We talk about abandoning nuclear energy or abolishing nuclear weapons. But this is not enough. They are only the [...]
Where Occupy and No Nukes Merge and Win!!! Harvey Wasserman, on Commondreams.org The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing—and saving—the world. Through the astonishing power of creative non-violence, it has the magic and moxie to defeat the failing forces of corporate greed. [...]
Women as a group suffer significantly more from the impact of ionizing radiation than do men. Today Nuclear Information and Resource Service published a Briefing Paper that focuses on a dramatic fifty-percent greater incidence of cancer and fifty-percent greater rate of death from cancer among women, compared to the same [...]
Esther Vivas The starting point for today’s debate is to note that humanity is in a global ecological crisis that is an intrinsic part of the systemic crisis of capitalism. And one of the differences from past economic crises, from that of the 1970s or the crash of 1929, is [...]
ONE OF the paradoxes about India is that while the elite express fears about democracy and governance, local communities keep reinventing democratic questions with enthusiasm. One can think of many events from the battle over mining in Odisha and Karnataka to the struggle over corruption. One kind of thought experiment [...]
by MICHAEL LEONARDI As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Industry, and Obama administration continue to push nuclear energy as safe and clean, a grassroots insurgency is growing from the awakening depths of the growingly vociferous American maelstrom. Fukushima’s three meltdowns continue to emit over a billion bequerels of radioactivity a day [...]
The otherwise subservient womenfolk of Koodankulam were the strength behind the movement against the government, finds Jeemon Jacob in Tehelka The men in and around coastal villages of Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu always believed that they were the ones in control and never spared a thought to the contribution that [...]
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Dear Prime Minister, are you listening to the right people, Sir?
Koodankulam: Statement of Justice A P Shah
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