A talk by Takaaki Morikawa at Greenfield Community College, 4/29/2011 Takaaki Morikawa, a survivor of the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, shared his personal history of the event using a power point presentation and a film dramatically illustrating the devastating effects of the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mr. Morikawa’s presentation described […]
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MASKED PROTESTORS DISRUPT NRC MEETING IN BRATTLEBORO
Thursday, 05/24/12 7:34am Masked protestors gather at the front of the room, where NRC officials had planned to speak.
SHUT IT DOWN BRINGS HEALTH FACTS TO ENTERGY HEADQUARTERS
BRATTLEBORO, Vermont—Carrying facts about the dangers of radiation and nuclear power and attired as medical professionals, women of the Shut It Down Affinity Group appeared at Entergy headquarters Monday to alert officials to the necessity of closing their Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. Brattleboro police commanded by Lieutenant Robert Kirkpatrick arrested eight women […]
VERMONT SCHEDULES TRIAL FOR WOMEN WHO WANT TO SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE
The State of Vermont has scheduled a trial the week after Thanksgiving for civil resistance at Entergy Corporation’s Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. The actions of six women arrested August 30, 2011 for unlawful trespass when they padlocked the main gate will be weighed by a jury beginning November 27. The state’s action […]
HELEN CALDICOTT APPLAUDS SHUT IT DOWN AFFINITY GROUP’S EFFORTS TO SHUT DOWN VERMONT YANKEE
NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts—Applauding continuing actions of the Shut It Down Affinity Group to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vermont, Dr. Helen Caldicott of Australia had lunch with Shut It Downers on Sunday, March 24, before exhorting an audience of 200 in First Churches to close all nuclear power plants for good. […]
A statement from the Shut It Down Affinity Group during the week of April 15-22, 2013 on the 50th anniversary of the Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are here today, on the 50th anniversary of the letter from Birmingham Jail, the manifesto of Martin Luther King, Jr. as he invoked the necessity of repeated resistance to the evils surrounding him. We are surrounded by the evils of Vermont Yankee: the invisible evils of radiation, stored spent fuel rods, leaks of radioactive […]
CONTINUING PROTESTS AT VERMONT YANKEE, APRIL 15-22
Shut It Down Affinity Group actions in the week of April 15-22. Shut It Down Affinity Group held actions daily at Vermont Yankee in the week of April 15-22. In small groups of 2, 3 or 4 women, they walked onto Yankee property and read statements at the inside gate before being arrested by Vernon […]