Archive for category: Movements and Social Change

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  India Rises up in Protest against Police Repression in Koodankulam

  Movements and Social Change March 23, 2012 11:25 am

  Protests underway all over India against the government’s repression of agitating people in Koodankulam.

   
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  “People’s Parliament” Passes Resolution in New Delhi Against Koodankulam Atrocities

  Movements and Social Change March 22, 2012 12:10 am

  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.

   
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  Yokohama Declaration for a Nuclear Power Free World

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Movements and Social Change February 6, 2012 2:11 pm

  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 [...]

   
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  Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environmental Movement

  Movements and Social Change January 4, 2012 10:47 pm

  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.

   
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  Koodankulam in Pictures: Fishermen Protest in Mid-Sea

  Koodankulam, Movements and Social Change November 21, 2011 4:48 pm

  Here are some pictures of the fishermen’s protest, sent to DiaNuke.org by Jeya Singh Fernando

   
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  Free the World from the Nuclear Chain: Xanthe Hall

  Movements and Social Change October 28, 2011 3:42 pm

  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 [...]

   
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  Fighting Back Against Nuclear Power

  Movements and Social Change September 29, 2011 8:31 am

  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 [...]

   
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  Mass protest in Tokyo against nuclear power: is some real change brewing?

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Movements and Social Change September 24, 2011 1:36 am

  By John Chan in World Socialist Website Some 60,000 people marched through downtown Tokyo on Monday in the largest rally against the nuclear power industry and the Japanese government since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant meltdown following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. It was one of the largest protests [...]

   
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  In Memorium: Rudi H Nussbaum

  Community Updates, Movements and Social Change, Radiation and Health September 9, 2011 9:08 am

  The global antinuclear movement recently lost one of its greatest activist-intellectuals known for his rigorous work and unputdownable committment – Rudi H. Nussbaum. DiaNuke.org had re-published his article ‘A Reckless Denial of Reality : Clinging to the Nuclear Option‘ along with Dr. V T Padmanabhan’s message on the occasion. Members [...]

   
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  The Day After: Why Hiroshima Matters Today

  Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Society August 8, 2011 1:22 am

  By Greg Mitchel Sixty-six years after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bomb is still very much with us, and controversy continues to swirl over the decision to obliterate the two Japanese cities — and, this year, how this helped make inevitable the coming of nuclear power plants, [...]

   
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  What it means to be an anti-nuke activist after Fukushima

  Movements and Social Change, Nuclear Energy August 7, 2011 4:38 pm

  Me, Xavier F., environmentalist and common citizen (Sortir du Nucleaire) My name is Xavier, I ‘am 38 years old. I lived in couple without children, in the North of Yvelines, in Parisian suburb. I’m from the South-West. I have long worked in the food industry, I worked in quality management. [...]

   
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  Rising voices from the world over: some active anti-nuke petitions

  Campaigns, Movements and Social Change July 29, 2011 12:16 am

  Fukushima: Protect the Children Children have already absorbed several times more than 1 mSv, and Fukushima residents are insisting that prefectural and local governments immediately act to reduce the cumulative radiation risk by relocating children temporarily or for longer periods to safer areas and closing schools early for summer recess. [...]

   
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  From Event to Aftermath at Fukushima: The Growing Awareness of the Radioactive Impact

  Movements and Social Change July 19, 2011 1:03 pm

    By Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute   In March 2011 as we all watched the explosions at the reactors of Fukushima Daiichi in the Tohoku region of Northern Japan, it was obvious that large areas and populations were being exposed to high levels of radiation from the explosive releases. [...]

   
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  Anti Nuclear Movement in Germany: Stronger than ever – weaker than before?

  Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Society July 11, 2011 3:34 pm

  Thadeus Pato, International Viewpoint,  June 2011. The movement against the nuclear plants has been one of the biggest mass movements of the 1970s and 80s in Germany. After a slowdown in the last 20 years, it has reappeared now like a phoenix from the ashes. Whilst in other European countries [...]

   
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  A first turning point in the crisis

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Society July 10, 2011 7:03 am

  By Pierre Rousset. IV Online magazine : IV438 – July 2011   Every day brings new revelations on the gravity of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daichi and on the mendacious policies which covered the activity of the nucleocrat lobby, on the breadth of the risks imposed on the population [...]

   
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  Japan’s New Wave of Protest Songs

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Movements and Social Change July 1, 2011 2:46 pm

  Twenty-three years after the flamboyant rocker Kiyoshiro Imawano riled Japanese power companies and electronics conglomerates with a series of antinuclear songs in the wake of Chernobyl, the singer, who died in 2009, is still generating controversy. Soon after the crisis began at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the earthquake [...]

   
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  After Fukushima: Asians for a Nuclear Free Asia

  Movements and Social Change, Resources July 1, 2011 2:02 pm

      Activists from 15 countries participating in the Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific meeting held at the Haja Center in Seoul announce a declaration for Nuclear Free Future, June 30. Some activists hold signs reading “Stop Nuclear” in their own language. (Photo by Ryu Woo-jong) The statement: Overcoming [...]

   
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  A ‘Nuclear Renaissance’, Climate Change and the State of Exception

  Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Society June 9, 2011 10:01 am

  In Jaitapur, we have already seen how the local village Panchayats (representative self-governance bodies) are gagged and overruled to clear way for Areva’s nuclear power park. Ironically, India’s nuclear deal with the US was touted as a deal between world’s oldest and biggest democracies. Read below Dr. Raminder Kaur’s brilliant [...]

   
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  Where is the nuclear abolition movement today?

  Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Society June 7, 2011 1:15 pm

            The vision of a world without nuclear weapons has not only inspired a widespread and important social movement in past decades,[1] but continues to do so today. Nuclear disarmament is currently a central demand of the world peace movement—a complex network of organizations drawn together [...]

   
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  How the Greens Learned to Love Nuclear Power

  Movements and Social Change, Nuclear and Society June 6, 2011 8:52 am

      Read Alexander Cockburn’s interesting take on Nuclear Power, Capitalist Greenwash and George Monbiot. Courtesy: the New Left Review   IN FUKUSHIMA’S WAKE: How the Greens Learned to Love Nuclear Power   In mid-march americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant in [...]