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America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped.
Yet Congress and the White House may still want to use our money for fund atomic power.
America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped.
The $36 billion in loan guarantees once proposed by Obama for the 2012 budget come as every penny is being slashed from programs for veterans, the young, elderly and impoverished, as well as for protecting the environment and researching new technologies.
Given the economic failure of atomic power, it's likely no new reactors will be built here without these giveaways.
In 2007 the Bush Administration proposed a $50 billion guarantee package that was defeated by a national grassroots movement.
Key to that campaign was NukeFree.org, founded by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash. With MoveOn.org, Greenpeace, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, BeyondNuclear, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other national and regional groups, they delivered 120,000 signatures to Congress and sponsored a lobby day that helped shrink the guarantees to $18.5 billion.
Now Raitt, Browne, Nash, John Hall, David Crosby, Kitaro and others will be part of a MUSE2 concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre south of San Francisco on August 7. The all-day show will benefit Japanese disaster victims and recall the hugely successful 1979 Musicians United for Safe Energy "No Nukes" Concerts that rocked New York City after the accident at Three Mile Island.
MUSE2 and the stop-the-guarantees campaign aim to finish the job of burying an ever more unsustainable atomic industry.
Today the guarantees are missing from House Appropriations bill, but could re-surface in the Senate. Some believe the turmoil around the budget will preclude the Senate from doing an appropriations bill, and that the guarantees might surface in a Continuing Resolution. "For the guarantees to resurface, some pro-nuclear Senator will have to try to slip them in," says Michael Mariotte of NIRS. "But we'll be watching."
And a fully empowered national movement could be in good position to kill those guarantees and the unwanted future of US nuclear power along with them.
Slashing social services, environmental protection and so much more to pay for new nuclear plants is not the way to a sustainable green-powered Earth. Your action at this critical moment could make all the difference.
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America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped.
The $36 billion in loan guarantees once proposed by Obama for the 2012 budget come as every penny is being slashed from programs for veterans, the young, elderly and impoverished, as well as for protecting the environment and researching new technologies.
Given the economic failure of atomic power, it's likely no new reactors will be built here without these giveaways.
In 2007 the Bush Administration proposed a $50 billion guarantee package that was defeated by a national grassroots movement.
Key to that campaign was NukeFree.org, founded by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash. With MoveOn.org, Greenpeace, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, BeyondNuclear, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other national and regional groups, they delivered 120,000 signatures to Congress and sponsored a lobby day that helped shrink the guarantees to $18.5 billion.
Now Raitt, Browne, Nash, John Hall, David Crosby, Kitaro and others will be part of a MUSE2 concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre south of San Francisco on August 7. The all-day show will benefit Japanese disaster victims and recall the hugely successful 1979 Musicians United for Safe Energy "No Nukes" Concerts that rocked New York City after the accident at Three Mile Island.
MUSE2 and the stop-the-guarantees campaign aim to finish the job of burying an ever more unsustainable atomic industry.
Today the guarantees are missing from House Appropriations bill, but could re-surface in the Senate. Some believe the turmoil around the budget will preclude the Senate from doing an appropriations bill, and that the guarantees might surface in a Continuing Resolution. "For the guarantees to resurface, some pro-nuclear Senator will have to try to slip them in," says Michael Mariotte of NIRS. "But we'll be watching."
And a fully empowered national movement could be in good position to kill those guarantees and the unwanted future of US nuclear power along with them.
Slashing social services, environmental protection and so much more to pay for new nuclear plants is not the way to a sustainable green-powered Earth. Your action at this critical moment could make all the difference.
America's budget crisis has the world economy at the brink. Social Security, Medicare, aid for needy children, environmental protection and much more are being chopped.
The $36 billion in loan guarantees once proposed by Obama for the 2012 budget come as every penny is being slashed from programs for veterans, the young, elderly and impoverished, as well as for protecting the environment and researching new technologies.
Given the economic failure of atomic power, it's likely no new reactors will be built here without these giveaways.
In 2007 the Bush Administration proposed a $50 billion guarantee package that was defeated by a national grassroots movement.
Key to that campaign was NukeFree.org, founded by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash. With MoveOn.org, Greenpeace, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, BeyondNuclear, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other national and regional groups, they delivered 120,000 signatures to Congress and sponsored a lobby day that helped shrink the guarantees to $18.5 billion.
Now Raitt, Browne, Nash, John Hall, David Crosby, Kitaro and others will be part of a MUSE2 concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre south of San Francisco on August 7. The all-day show will benefit Japanese disaster victims and recall the hugely successful 1979 Musicians United for Safe Energy "No Nukes" Concerts that rocked New York City after the accident at Three Mile Island.
MUSE2 and the stop-the-guarantees campaign aim to finish the job of burying an ever more unsustainable atomic industry.
Today the guarantees are missing from House Appropriations bill, but could re-surface in the Senate. Some believe the turmoil around the budget will preclude the Senate from doing an appropriations bill, and that the guarantees might surface in a Continuing Resolution. "For the guarantees to resurface, some pro-nuclear Senator will have to try to slip them in," says Michael Mariotte of NIRS. "But we'll be watching."
And a fully empowered national movement could be in good position to kill those guarantees and the unwanted future of US nuclear power along with them.
Slashing social services, environmental protection and so much more to pay for new nuclear plants is not the way to a sustainable green-powered Earth. Your action at this critical moment could make all the difference.