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Funny anti-nuke protest with a serious message

Costumed locals march against Levy County nuclear plant plans The Independent Florida Alligator CAROLYN TILLO October 28, 2009

A three-headed pink flamingo, a witch and a fish were among about 35 protesters who marched Wednesday in downtown Gainesville to protest the proposed $14 billion nuclear power plant about 50 miles from Gainesville in Levy County.

The marchers were members of Sustainable Urban and Rural Florida(SURF), a community group that favors using alternative energy sources and is opposed to the plant’s construction. They donned costumes as part of a “Nukes are Monstrous!” parade………….. Christian Hansen danced along with the group in his pink flamingo costume. Hansen said his flamingo costume had three heads because nuclear waste leaked into the estuary where the flamingo fed.

He said nuclear waste works its way up the food chain and creates health hazards, but power companies and nuclear regulation committees continue to push off these problems.

“For 40 years they’ve been saying, ‘Oh, by the time these plants get decommissioned, we’ll solve this problem,'” Hansen said. “They haven’t.”

Jack Davis, an associate professor of history at UF, saw the protesters marching. He said the proposition to build the plant emphasizes that the state has no sense of social responsibility. http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_b0d6e5a8-c43b-11de-bcdb-001cc4c03286.html

October 30, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive