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tpaneth's blogNuclear Power Crisis 2011: Citizens AppealSubmitted by tpaneth on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 7:13pm.
Three Mile Island, a reactor that had been on line 13 months, melted down in 1979. If there had not been citizen action focused on calling nuclear technology into question that accident would have passed by unnoticed, as had other serious accidents in prior years.
The early days of the nuclear age were a time of conflict. My generation grew up during the war on Vietnam and has grown middle-aged and even old, watching conflicts harden in a nation that is fully committed to an unparalleled competitive materialism that walks hand in hand with the preparation for and waging of wars. Ten Years Later, We're Still Fighting Against Senseless WarSubmitted by tpaneth on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 3:15pm. Published on Friday, February 15, 2013 by Common Dreams
 Ten years ago I arose at 5:30 am in my small town of Arlington, Massachusetts to be out the door of my house to get to our town center where, as bus captain, I was meeting our 7 a.m. bus to New York City. We were going to protest the coming war on Iraq. It turned out to be the largest series of protests ever to take place on the same day, on the same issue. Around the world, in nation after nation and in every capital city, people gathered in the protests known as “The World Says No to War.” In New York, Richie Havens took to the stage with his Woodstock classic “Freedom.” Bishop Desmond Tutu spoke, Peter Seeger sang “Over the Rainbow” and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee spoke of no longer greeting people’s needs with a closed fist, but an open hand. It was a freezing cold day, we New Englanders were dressed in our many layers. We were literally praying that the leaders would heed our people’s wisdom, which as we know ten years later, they did not. Don’t discount protests against Iraq warSubmitted by tpaneth on Sun, 09/23/2012 - 7:54pm.Boston Globe - Letter - September 23, 2012 I write to set the historical record straight. In his Sept. 16 letter “With ‘God’ on our side, we’ve blundered into wars,” John L. Hodge states that there was “relatively little public protest” against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  |
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