Southeast Action Camp Workshops, August 19-21, 2011

I participated in the Southeast Action Workshop in Zirconia, NC the weekend of August 19-21, 2011.  Forty-plus people from not only the southeast, but as far away as Chicago and British Columbia, came together for a series of workshops (I presented the videography workshop, and planted seeds about Proposition One in other workshops).  I videotaped several of the workshops, and interviewed several participants.  I’ve uploaded these videos to YouTube.  Here is the list:

Nuclear:

Atomic Appalachia Workshop presented by  Linda Modica, Asheville contact for Christian Peacemakers Team
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopgQP4Kn7E
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJ7Wnhf6NU
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLXslqdHy_g
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBYY4SEgPo
5- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7podgF8lAk

Mary Olson of Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Bill Fisk, formerly with FEMA, about probable results of a nuclear accident in Western North Carolina highways between Oak Ridge and Savannah River nuclear weapons/power facilities:
1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbK3U_asw1w
2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQy2BTi4SQ
3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6N0Siq5cs
4- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmw1DHI6-M

Here is a BRAND new song (sung by singer/songwriter Courtney Dowe).  http://prop1.org/history/2011/Radiation.Blues.4-2-2011.wav   Spread this far and wide.  We will be uploading the Radiation Blues video on YouTube in the next few days, when you will be able to see the beautiful face behind the glorious voice. 

This song is dedicated to Fukushima victims who are twice-nuked — Hiroshima or Nagasaki survivors who are already suffering health problems, and now have been exposed for the second time — and to ALL victims of radiation since 1945.  It is also dedicated to the Proposition One Campaign for global nuclear weapons abolition, and conversion of the nuclear weapons and nuclear energy economies toward carbon-free, nuclear-free energy and environmental restoration from the radioactive mess.  See http://prop1.org/prop1/ .

As a result, the “Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act” has been introduced each session since 1994 into the U.S. House of Representatives by Washington, DC’s Congresswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, continuously between 1994 to 2010. On March 19, 2009, she introduced HR-1653. It is now time for the bill to be re-introduced in 2011, and we are asking Ms. Norton to make some significant improvements.
 
During 2009 and 2010, Proposition One co-founder Ellen Thomas and a team from DC traveled 30,000 around the country learning about the entire nuclear chain, from uranium mines (reclaimed and not), to nuclear power and weapons plants, to radioactive storage facilities, and promoting voter initiatives everywhere. During that time they became convinced that we will never be sure of abolishing nuclear weapons until there are no longer nuclear power plants, which for sixty years have been producing weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. The travelers received excellent suggestions for improving the language of the proposed bill, which up till now hasn’t been getting much respect from Congress. Let us know you want to endorse these changes by writing to Ellen Thomas.

We will be meeting with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton this week to discuss the proposal for revisions to the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act when it is reintroduced this year, for the tenth time since 1994.  Please read the 3/10/2010 Letter to Eleanor Holmes Norton suggesting important revisions to the language of the bill and if you endorse these changes email Ellen Thomas.:

April 27, 2010 – I haven’t had a chance until now to blog (and I really shouldn’t do it now – I’m illegally parked, and the (now) seven walkers just passed me at the steady pace of three miles per hour), but I have a few minutes to say hello from The Road again on behalf of the Proposition One In 2010 Crew.

Photo: The Walkers, on day 6 of our Interfaith Peace Walk to New York  for Nuclear Abolition, which began at Independence Mall in Philadelphia on Earth Day – Thursday, April 22nd.