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Traprock Homepage By Kathryn Casa | Vermont Guardian posted March 24, 2006 NEWFANE — As patriots go, Dan DeWalt looks the part. With his ponytail and winter beard, a pair of breeches and a musket would put him right into character in 1775. But it was no act earlier this month when DeWalt fired the… Continue reading Impeach! The shot heard ‘round the world

Traprock Homepage Between Half-million and One Million People Protest against Anti-Immigrant Law in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, March 25, 2006 – Over 500,000 people filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles today. City officials are saying it is the largest demonstration they have ever seen. Both the Mayor and the Chief of police attended the… Continue reading Over Half Million Protest Anti-Immigrant Law in Los Angeles

Traprock Homepage Iraqis endure three years of death and destruction Paying the price of U.S. empire March 24, 2006 NICOLE COLSON looks at conditions in Iraq three years after the U.S.-led invasion. THE U.S. military marked the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq with an attack on the city of Samarra that was supposed… Continue reading Iraqis endure three years of death and destruction – Paying the price of U.S. empire

The Independent Safety Assessment for New York Story – Episode Two- When we last wrote- US Representatives from New York had introduced legislation requiring an Independent Safety Assessment (of the size and scope of that performed at Maine Yankee in 1996) be done at the Indian point Nuclear Power Plants. Senator Hillary Clinton extracted a… Continue reading ISA 4 Indian Point -Episodes Two and Three

Traprock Homepage Activists speak out on the campus struggle for… College Not Combat March 17, 2006 OVER THE past year, the student-led struggle against military recruiters on campus has been a high point for the antiwar movement. Earlier this month, the anti-recruitment struggle suffered a setback when the U.S. Supreme Court–by an 8-0 decision that… Continue reading Activists speak out on the campus struggle for… College Not Combat

NEW YORK NUCLEAR PLANTS TO GET INDEPENDENT SAFETY ASSESSMENT Date: March 11, 2006 1:25:03 AM EST New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution VT . NH . ME . MA . RI . CT . NY – POST OFFICE BOX 545, BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT 05302 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2006————————————–Contact: Raymond Shadis – 207-882-7801 OFFICE of… Continue reading NEW YORK NUCLEAR PLANTS TO GET INDEPENDENT SAFETY ASSESSMENT

Vt. plant concerns Northampton Tuesday, March 07, 2006 By FRED CONTRADA fcontrada@repub.com NORTHAMPTON – Warned that an accident at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant could make Hurricane Katrina look like a shower, the City Council last week authorized Mayor Mary Clare Higgins to convey the city’s concerns to the Vermont Public Service Board. Several residents,… Continue reading Vt. plant concerns City of Northampton

Feds put Vermont Yankee uprate on hold due to excess vibration By Kathryn Casa | Vermont Guardian posted March 7, 2006 BRATTLEBORO — Federal regulators have frozen the Vermont Yankee power increase at 105 percent after a measurement on Saturday recorded vibrations that exceeded acceptable levels, the Vermont Guardian has learned. “The data forwarded to… Continue reading Feds put Vermont Yankee uprate on hold due to excess vibration

In memory of Ken LaRoche, how sweet the sound. CONTENTS: National Items* Regional & Local Items- 1- Walk to Entergy Offices, & Tea Sunday, 2/26 Brattleboro 2- NRC Meeting at Latchis Theater, Wed. March 1, 7pm 3- WHY? Whose Responsibility is It? 4- Delay payment; NEXT OPPORTUNITIES, TMI, Chernobyl 5- Nonviolence with Randy Kehler, 3/5,… Continue reading February News and Upcoming Events

Traprock Homepage Politicians and the press bash Islam over anti-cartoon protests The racist crusade against Muslims February 17, 2006 LEE SUSTAR explains why Arabs and Muslims are right to be furious at the West’s racist attack on Islam. THE CONTROVERSY over a Danish newspaper’s publication of caricatures of Muhammad has highlighted the scale of the… Continue reading The racist crusade against Muslims