March 11 Actions Announcements

2-13-2012

We will post the March 11, Fukushima Anniversy Actions on this page. Check back for updates.

There are so many groups posting calendars of actions that we will post links to two of the most comprehensive instead of adding the same listings to ours:

Beyond Nuclear: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/CalendarUpdate_March7_MarchAgainstNuclearMadness_BN.pdf

NIRS Spring Actions: http://www.nirs.org/action.htm

Everywhere

'Nuclear Fallout' Flash Mob Event:

Monday, March 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM

Please join in

creating a series of worldwide

‘Nuclear Fallout’ flash mob ‘die-ins’

for the anniversary of the Fukushima disaster,

Monday, March 12, at 12:45 PM in each time zone,

traveling around the world.

This is a way to both honor

the future cancer victims of Fukushima

and bring attention to the delayed symptoms

(but very real dangers)

of nuclear fallout.

The idea is based on flash mob ‘die-ins’

organized by Greenpeace Switzerland

on May 25, 2011 (see video).

Read details about how to create

a Fallout ‘die-in’ with your friends on March 12, 2012,

where someone will walk among ‘the fallen’

carrying a ‘Nuclear Fallout’ poster,

which explains to onlookers

what they have just witnessed and why.

New York

3.11 Action NY "We Are Pregnant With Fear Of Radiation"

Sunday, March 11, 2012

. New York City. 1-3pm. Union Square Park.

This actions updates are at 3.11 Action NY "We Are Pregnant With Fear Of Radiation" FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/events/176712112434876/

The March:

1:00 PM Gather at Union Square (North side)

1:15 PM Announcements

1:30 PM “Human Error” performed by Brown Rice Family (Original by Frying Dutchman）

2:00 PM The March departs Union Sq – heading north.

4:00 Disperse at Central Park

Who can participate?

Everybody. We encourage diversity. Nuclear disasters affect all aspects of life.

The organizers will show solidarity with those who are engaged in reproductive care. You too can by dressing up as: pregnant women, mothers, fathers, maids, daycare staff, nurses, part-timers, madams, and anything you feel fit.

Even if you don’t bring anything, we will have extra signs and balloons for your enjoyment.

Please share your own anti-nuke activities, petitions, donation etc.

It will be a long (nearly 2 hours) walk. Retiring in the middle is okay. Comfortable shoes snacks and water are recommended.

Call for Action – March 11, 2012 1PM
呼びかけ - March 11, 2012 1PM

It has been almost a year since the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident.
大地震、津波に伴う原発事故から１年が経とうとしています。

Despite the “it’s safe” campaign played by the Japanese government, the crippled Fukushima Daiichi is far from the state of ‘stabilization’.
福島第一原発は政府による「収束」の虚言に反するごとく、今でも落ち着く気配はありません。

Ignoring the growing nation-wide anti-nuke resistance, the Noda Administration publicly states their will to restart nuclear reactors that are in test period. On top of it, Japan is eager to export nuclear technology overseas. It is a shameful behavior as a country where many people are still suffering the after effects of the nuclear disaster. The
radioactive substances, all which are the property of TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co.), are spreading in the wider area as we find out every day. Radiation equally contaminates the land, water, air and all living things.
野田政権は、「脱原発」を否定し、現在停止中の原発の再稼働を公言しています。さらに、原発の技術を海外に輸出する計画もすすめています。今でも事故の影響によって苦しむ人がたくさんいる中での、恥ずべき行為です。東京電力の所有物である放射能は、大地を、水を、空気を汚し、分け隔てなく、すべてのものを汚しています。

There are many who cannot evacuate. Radiation certainly is getting inside bodies of the people. Many forms of labor- especially reproductive care work is burdening a great damage, while many children continue to live in highly
contaminated area, banned to play outdoors. Families and communities are torn apart, and today many fissures are created in Japanese society. Such fissures are no longer contained only within the archipelago.
そんな中、今でも避難ができずに東北や関東で暮らす人々がたくさん居ます。いま放射能は確実に、そこに住む人々の体内に存在します。さまざまな労働が、とくに再生産労働が大きな傷を負っています。こどもが線量の高い地域で、外で遊べずに暮らしています。夫婦が、家族が離ればなれになり、コミュニティーが分離され、さまざまな亀裂が日本社会の中に走っています。その亀裂は、もう日本国内だけにとどまるものではありません。

On the first anniversary we will stand up from our loss and will fight to prevent further losses. Let us demand Japanese government that they take responsibility. Let us send alert to the US nuclear industry (the biggest of the global nuclear regime). Let us all walk in the streets of New York to end the nuclear energy!
１年後の今日、わたしたちは失った悲しみから立ち上がり、失われつつあるものを守るためのアクションをおこします。共に、日本政府に人間を棄てるなと訴え、アメリカの原子力産業に向けて警告を出しましょう。そして、すべての原発の廃止を求めてニューヨークの街を歩きましょう。

We stand in solidarity with the growing anti-nuclear movements in Japan, as well as all the people who are living under the threats of nuclear plants, uranium mining, nuclear waste dumps, and military industrial complexes. We stand with the women in Japan who continue their autonomous struggles while living under the threats of
radiation.
私たちは日本で拡大し続ける脱原発運動に連帯します。原子力、ウラン鉱山、核廃棄物などの存在に生活を脅かされている人たちに連帯します。日々の家事労働の中で放射能汚染と闘いながら、権力と立ち向かい生存をかけて自立的な草の根運動を続けている日本の人々、特に女性たちに連帯します。

We say no to all the forms of control over our lives.
生きものを犠牲にするな。わたしたちの生存を支配するな。

We are pregnant with fear of radiation.
私たちは、放射能の恐怖を身ごもっている。

Let us liberate our bodies from the control of nuclear energy!
わたしたちの身体を、原子力、資本、戦争による支配から解放しよう。

California

Honoring Fukushima Survivors: From the Heart Poetry Gathering

San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace invites members of the public to gather to remember and to express our support for the survivors at a poetry gathering.

Date: March 11, 2012

Time: 3:30 p.m.

Location: Steynberg Gallery

1531 Monterey St.

San Luis Obispo

Following the honoring of Fukushima survivors in Mission Plaza marking the one-year anniversary of the tragic events in Fukushima, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace invites members of the public to gather to remember and to express our support for the survivors at a poetry gathering.

All poets are invited to participate.

Poets Featured: Dian Souza, Kevin Clark, Michele Flom will read from Kathleen Flenniken’s new book, Plume

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Encinitas, California. Sunday, March 11, 2012, 8:00am until 11:00am.
A walk and rally in Encinitas, starting at Swamis Seaside Park, marching up South Coast Hwy for 1 mile to B St. making a left turn to Moonlight State Beach. There, they will gather and form a human chain as far down the beach as possible. There will be drum circles and refreshments.

Event begins at 10am, the march will take approximately 30 minutes and the rally and drum circles go until 1pm.

San Diego and Temecula residents, please join us to close down San Onofre! Call (619) 813-3113 for more information.

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Link for action posted below:

http://residentsorganizedforasafeenvironment.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/311-fukushima-remembered/

Florida

Remembering Fukushima/Protecting Florida: Sunday, March 11, 2012. 10:00am until 12:00pm. Progress Energy , 299 1st Ave N, St Petersburg, Florida.

On the one year anniversary of the beginning of the Fukushima- Daichi nuclear disaster,we will be gathering in front of the corporate office of PE to honor the suffering of the Japanese people in this ongoing catastrophe. We say the beginning of the disaster because alas, it is not over. Fukushima is still spewing radiation into the environment and the government, the scientists, the technicians do not know how to stop it. Is this type of event something we are willing to chance here in Florida? Destruction of our homes, aquifer, environment, health, lives and the end of the tourism industry that keeps our economy alive. Progress Energy's plans to build new plant in Levy County are unacceptable and the instability of the Crystal River plant, that leaks radiation periodically must be remedied. Protect what you love, join us, and let PE see the power of the people. We will be heard, we will stop the development of further nuclear power plants in Florida. Expect us.

Contact Christine Wall wavemakerc@gmail.com or send message by Facebook.

North Carolina

Asheville:

Join WNC PSR 03/11/12 Charter Bus to join this Nuclear-Free Future Vigil

Dear Friends, WNC PSR is sponsoring a day-trip so that people from WNC can stand together with people in the Waynesboro and Shell Bluff communities in Georgia, where for the first time in 39 years the federal government has approved a new nuclear power reactor license -- to expand the existing Vogtle reactor site from 2 reactors to 4.

SUNDAY, MARCH 11 also happens to be the first anniversary of the terrible nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. The community in Georgia is holding a commemoration and vigil for the victims of that nuclear catastrophe -- and inviting people from across the US to join with them in continuing to stand for a NUCLEAR-FREE Future.

The vigil will be a legal, peaceful event -- and folks from WNC will travel down, participate, and travel back on the same day in a Tour Coach with a professional driver. The cost per seat is $25. Some scholarships are available.

RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW -- we need to know the level of interest so we can proceed with the bus reservation.

REPLY on EMAIL to Mary Olson -- maryo@nirs.org or for more information call 828-252-8409.

If you can't make it, please consider making a donation to support someone else going!

We hope you will forward this message on -- and share / post the attached flyer -- THANK YOU!

International Events

'Nuclear Fallout' Flashmob Event: