[Debate] Fwd: March 11 2012 A call for a World Wide Human Chain -Remember Fukushima and Reclaim Nuclear Free Future

[Firoze Manji]

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> From: 泉かおり <kaori-izumi at ta3.so-net.ne.jp>
> Subject: March 11 2012 A call for a World Wide Human Chain -Remember Fukushima and Reclaim Nuclear Free Future 
> Date: 11 January 2012 17:16:52 PST
> To: firoze manji <firoze at fahamu.org>, marcela.ballara at gmail.com, Robin Palmer <rpalmer at mokoro.co.uk>, Flavia Donati <donati.flavia at tin.it>, Matthias Gruenewald <matthiasgruenewald at hotmail.com>
> 
> Dear everybody,
> 
> Below a call from a French NGO Sotir du Nuclear for a world wide human chain on March 11, 2012 to remember Fukushima and to reclaim a nuclear free future.  You can adjust the appeal for a similar action in your own country.
> Its memory is already fading away even in Japan, while we are still facing a risk of another accident at any time and Fukushima accident is far from its resolution.  Indeed our new year's day started with M7 earthquake hitting a large part of main land Japan, and yet another corruption scandal of national nuclear safety committee members.  I also learned that IAEA has already given a permission to Kenya to have nuclear power, a country which experienced a terrorist attack.  And the Japanese parliament agreed to export nuclear reactors to developing countries, Vietnam, Jordan, Turkey.  Money first before lives and power game as elsewhere.
> The most important issue for us is how to sustain and raise the morale among ourselves.
> 
> Please could you share the information through your network?
>  
> Kaori
> 
>>> French women support to Fukushima and all Japan women's sit in   http://groupes.sortirdunucleaire.org/Appel-a-mobilisation-sit-in-et
> 
>>> Abolition 2000 HP on human chain http://www.abolition2000.org/?p=1967
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> 
>>>>  English:  http://chainehumaine.org/English?lang=en
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>>>>  German :http://chainehumaine.org/Deutsch?lang=de
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>>>>  Italian :http://chainehumaine.org/Italiano?lang=it
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>>>> French http://chainehumaine.org/Appel-national-Le-11-mars,31
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>>>> 
> 
> National Appeal
> On March 11th, let’s act together to get rid of nuclear power
> 
> Backed by enormous financial resources, the French nuclear lobby has launched a gigantic campaign to discredit the idea of a possible nuclear phase out in France. The nuclear representatives have been very active in the media in order to prevent any possibility of questioning our energy policy during the 2012 presidential election.
> 
> March 2011 saw the beginning of the terrible Fukushima catastrophe. To this day because of damaged reactors, millions of Japanese people are still being exposed to nuclear radiation and the whole country will continue to be contaminated for thousands of years.
> 
> Exactly one year later, on March 11th, 2012, let’s act and stand together to denounce the risk of a nuclear catastrophe in France and say aloud ’’A nuclear phase out IS possible’’. Other European countries are getting rid of nuclear power, so why can’t we? Let’s react to show our solidarity with the people of Japan and with the generations of future victims.
> 
> Let’s join to form a huge human chain from Lyon to Avignon in the European region with the highest number of nuclear plants
> 
> A large majority of French people are in favour of a nuclear phase out. Yet, a ballot paper won’t be enough to force our leaders to start the necessary energy transition to free ourselves from our dependence on nuclear energy and fossil fuels.
> 
> Even though the German chancellor is in favour of atomic power, the German people united, and demonstrated in their thousands to achieve the decision of a nuclear phase out by 2022.
> 
> We too must establish a power relationship with our ruling elite who are cut off from their citizens and who, facing the major XXI century environmental issues, impose on us this nuclear danger and a head-in-the-sand policy. We are infuriated but above all we must stand united; the more, the stronger.
> 
> You can become a strong link
> 
> Human chains have been organised monthly- every fourth Sunday- in various places in the Rhone Valley since May 2011. In Montélimar, Bourg Saint Andéol, Avignon, Die, Roman, Tournon, Aubagne, Valence, Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne, … every time hundreds of people from different backgrounds have joined together in a friendly, family atmosphere and determined to make things change.
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> Let’s join us in the huge human chain between Avignon and Lyon on Sunday, March 11th, 2012.
> EVERY PERSON COUNTS, 
> AND WE COUNT ON YOU
> 
> 
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