Author: Chuckjones

Bush’s oil industry buddies, not consumers, are the real problem Addicted to oil profits February 10, 2006 | NICOLE COLSON examines the Bush administration’s claim that America is “addicted to oil.” IN HIS State of the Union address, George W. Bush said America was “addicted to oil.” The U.S., Bush said, must reduce its dependence… Continue reading Addicted to oil profits

July 28, 2004 Town of Gill, Massachusetts Vote of Concern regarding Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power: The Gill Selectboard, as a community adjacent to the power plant and within its evacuation zone, considers the engineering assessment to which NRC agreed as inadequate to provide protection to its citizenry. It is therefore the order of this board… Continue reading Sample Letters to VT Public Service Board on Vernon Reactor Increase

Traprock Homepage http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060106/NEWS08/601060367/1018/NEWS Schofield uranium find prompts call for probe January 6, 2006 By Rod Ohira Honolulu Advertiser Staff Writer A coalition of environmental and Native Hawaiian rights groups are calling for an independent investigation and disclosure by the Army of depleted uranium munitions use in Hawai’i based on recently obtained information confirming its presence… Continue reading DU find in Hawaii promts call for probe

Case dropped against Yankee activists December 20, 2005 By DANIEL BARLOW Southern Vermont Bureau BRATTLEBORO — Trespassing charges against seven women arrested last month during a protest outside of Vermont Yankee’s corporate offices have been dropped by Windham County State’s Attorney Dan Davis. The women had pleaded innocent to the charges in Brattleboro District Court… Continue reading Case dropped against Yankee activists

VY protesters dismissed from court By BOB AUDETTE Reformer Staff BRATTLEBORO — Charges were dropped against the seven people who were arrested last month for protesting at Vermont Yankee’s corporate offices. The state’s attorney on Monday dismissed charges of unlawful trespass against. Terry Carter of Brattleboro, one of those arrested on Nov. 7, said she… Continue reading VY protesters dismissed from court

Today is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773. Did you know that before Massachusetts settlers dumped tea in the harbor to resist government from afar, women spun and resisted publicly in Boston. Join us in resistance. Please consider joining a HUMAN chain reaction begun on this anniversary of the Boston Tea… Continue reading Dec. 16, Boston Tea Party – Dec. 17 Entergy Tea Party!

Mistake at Vernon Reactor — VT State Nuclear Engineer Challenges Entergy On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, Bill Sherman, Nuclear Engineer for the State of Vermontchallenged Entergy Nuclear engineers calculations that project safety during uprate conditions proposed at the New England’s 33-year old reactor in Vernon,… Continue reading Mistake at Vernon Reactor — VT State Nuclear Engineer Challenges Entergy

Courtesy of Socialist Worker http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/569/569_16_Iraq.shtml#Ramadani By Eric Ruder, reporting from London December 11, 2005 Sami Ramadani on the latest “milestone” election in Iraq “The elections won’t change things” SAMI RAMADANI was for many years an exile from his native Iraq as a political refugee from Saddam Hussein’s regime. Today, he is an outspoken opponent of… Continue reading Sami Ramadani on the latest “milestone” election in Iraq

Traprock Homepage Published December 6, 2005 Police steal and threaten in sex worker raids On 6 October 2005, over 40 police and immigration officers raided 55 flats in the Baker Street area of central London. 70 sex workers were held and questioned, some for up to five hours. Women working as “maids” for the working… Continue reading Rounding up Women in the UK – In any name, this equals harassment of the vulnerable.

Campus officials target student antiwar activists’ right to dissent “Our movement won’t back down” By Eric Ruder and David Thurston | December 2, 2005 | Page 12 STUDENT ACTIVISTS across the U.S. are challenging the U.S. war in Iraq–and military recruiters on their campuses. Along the way, they’re finding that they also have to fight… Continue reading “Our movement won’t back down.”