Safe & Green Campaign

Safe & Green Action Alert

As the tritium levels rise, so does our need to step up efforts to PERMANTLY retire Vermont Yankee. The time is NOW to get involved. Below are several things you can do to close Vermont Yankee TODAY and FOREVER.

Check out our “Leaks and Lies” Rally and Forum on Sunday, February 21 in Brattleboro. See details below.

It is time to shut down Vermont Yankee. Let’s make it happen!

Chad Simmons
802.377.7403

Folding and Addressing Envelopes for Town Meeting Materials

Help us fold and address envelopes containing support materials that will be distributed to towns holding a vote during town meeting in early March. Join us from 7-9pm, Monday February 15 at the Brattleboro Co-op Meeting Room (Previously Dotties).

Phonebanking

We need your help to contact people across VT and urge them to contact their legislators. If you are willing to make some phone calls over the next two weeks, please contact Chad at 802.377.7403

Letters to the Editors

We need more letters in VT papers. If you can write one letter over the next couple of weeks, please use the talking points and the list from the Safe & Green website. Go to the Action Center.

Priority papers are: Rutland Herald, Bennington Banner, Valley News, Times Argus.

For questions or help, contact Chad at 802.377.7403

“Leaks and Lies” Rally and Public Forum

Where: Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro
When: Sunday, February 21
1:00pm-Gather for rally from Grove St parking lot
2:00pm-Public Forum at the Latchis Theatre

Join us for a rally and afternoon forum to discuss efforts to immediately close Vermont Yankee now in order to stop the current radioactive leak and to permanently retire the reactor as scheduled.

The forum will address the leakage from the reactor of ever greater concentrations of radioactive tritium into the groundwater adjacent to the Connecticut River, the Vermont Legislature’s response to Entergy’s loss of public confidence, the importance and feasibility of replacing Vermont Yankee’s electricity with power from safe, renewable sources, and the impact of the Vermont Yankee debacle on the larger debate in the U.S. about nuclear power.

These and other topics will be discussed by a range of public health, environmental, and nuclear experts including: Paul Gunter, executive director of the Washington D.C.-based nuclear watchdog group, Beyond Nuclear; David Dean, Vermont State Representative and Riverkeeper for the Connecticut River Watershed Council; Clifford Hatch, organic farmer in Gill, Massachusetts; Dr. Ira Helfand, co-founder and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Deborah Katz, executive director of Citizens Awareness Network; Clay Turnbull, staff member of the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution; and Chris Williams, organizer, Vermont Citizen Action Network.

This event is being sponsored and organized by the Safe & Green Campaign and co-sponsored by the Citizens Awareness Network (CAN) and Vermont Citizen Action Network (VCAN).

Art Energy Project

Looking for artists and performers to participate in a local community arts project whose theme is centered on the subject of nuclear power.

The public “kick-off” for ART ENERGY will be an all day event on March 6th at the River Garden in Brattleboro.

Everyone’s participation is encouraged, regardless of opinion, experience, or age. The plan is to encourage the making and exhibiting of art that expresses community members’ response to the theme of Vermont Yankee and the energy future of Vermont. Everyone in the greater Brattleboro area is invited to contribute in whatever medium they choose

There will be no charge for participation. Expenses for rent and supplies will be covered by free will donations. Starting early this spring, this artwork will be exhibited and performed locally and possibly in other locations around the state. Additional communities in Vermont will be encouraged to initiate their own versions of this project.

For more information, or to get involved, call Judy Zemel (802-254-3530) or email artnrg@sover.net

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