“Pre-emptve” arrests of environmental campaigners
(UK) Undercover police scandal: why we urgently need a judge-led inquiry, The Ecologist, Dan Glass 21st January, 2011 With daily revelations about police spying on activists, we need an independent judicial investigation into the scale and nature of infiltration and use of agents provocateurs, says Ratcliffe defendant Dan Glass
It started with the 26 individuals who had been charged with planning to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station for one week. The individuals were part of the 114 arrested at the Iona School in Nottingham on Easter Monday, 2009. The incident was the largest pre-emptive arrest of environmental campaigners in recent history and prompted widespread concerns for civil liberties. Now these concerns have deepened to unimagined depths………
They had a trial late last November, and were found guilty after being accused by the prosecution of merely seeking publicity. Undercover police scandal: why we urgently need a judge-led inquiry – Comment – The Ecologist
Surveillance of USA by unmanned drones
Unmanned drones, controlled by Air National Guard from Hancock Airfield, will fly over the Adirondacks syracuse.com February 06, 2011, If you feel like you’re being watched while floating in a canoe or driving along some lonely road in the Adirondacks this summer, you might be right. Continue reading
Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Julian Assange
Liu Xiabao was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his struggle for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech in China, Likewise: WikiLeaks have contributed to the struggle for those very values globally, by exposing (among many other things) corruption, war crimes and torture.”
Julian Assange nominated for Peace Prize TECHWATCH, by Tom Coyne, February 3, 2011, Julian Assange, founder of the whistle blowing website, Wikileaks, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the Norwegian government. Continue reading
Unprecedented repression of anti nuclear protest in India
The state has unleashed savage repression on Jaitapur’s people. It routinely arrests and serves externment notices to peaceful protesters, and promulgates prohibitory orders, under which eminent citizens like former Navy chief L. Ramdas and former Supreme Court judge P.B. Sawant were barred from Jaitapur, and former Bombay High Court judge B.G. Kolse-Patil was detained for five days without being produced before a magistrate within 24 hours. Others have had false charges framed against them,
Nuclear trouble in Maharashtra, The Daily Star, 3 Feb 2011, Praful Bidwai Continue reading
Toshiba America Nuclear Energy accused of discrimination against women
“pervasive discrimination against its female employees”
In lawsuit, HR exec accuses Toshiba branch of gender discrimination | Washington Business Journal by Ben Fischer, January 31, 2011, Falls Church-based Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp. is the subject of a $100 million gender discrimination lawsuit filed by its former human resources manager on Monday. Continue reading
USA censoring whistleblowers on depleted uranium
“”They are hampering efforts to prove the relation between Depleted Uranium and the illness,”” Durakovic said:
Note about Dr. Durakovic; Firstly, he was warned to stop his work, then he was fired from his position, then his house was ransacked, and he has also reported receiving death threats.
Evidently the U.S. D.O.D is very keen on censoring DU whistle- blowers!)
Public health disaster for Iraqi people by Depleted Uranium, tehran times, 31 Jan 2011,“.……Durakovic said: “Preliminary tests show that the air, soil and water samples contained hundreds to thousands of times the normal levels of radiation.” Continue reading
How ordinary citizens defeated the crooked tactics of a giant nuclear power company
Although they are not experts in the field of radioactive carcinogens, the residents’ many voices were not too intimidated to call the energy giant to account for its actions.
How residents delivered a major upset to GE-Hitachi Canada’s nuclear operations, rabble.ca, By Zach Ruiter and Liat Mandel| January 28, 2011 David versus Goliath has recently been retold as a story of environmental justice: a small group of Trent students and Peterborough residents defeated the General Electric-Hitachi Corporation of Canada (GE) at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) tribunal. Continue reading
60th anniversary of the first secret nuclear fallout on American citizens
When it was learned years later that no American was given these maps
and forecasts – only Kodak and its industry peers – the reaction of
those who came to realize their bodies too became ‘exposed’ by the
fallout was one of anger and rage……...Downwinder Day is needed because Americans should have been deemedabove corporations, not below them. Their lives should have been given importance above that of a cartridge of film. They should have known, just as Kodak’s officials knew, that the “situation is serious.”
Uranium spill: corporations’ business needs come ahead of public concern
The Nanaimo Port Authority said…the port cannot release details of shipments that might hurt the competitiveness of some companies. “We have to respect corporations’ needs for private business…….
Environmental group raises alarm over shipment of spilled uranium that was docked off Ladysmith, Times Colonist, By DUSTIN WALKER, Postmedia News January 24, 2011 NANAIMO — A shipment of partially spilled uranium concentrate that was docked offshore from Ladysmith for a few days raises questions about what kinds of hazardous materials are being shipped through B.C. waters, an environmental organization says. Continue reading
Under US and French pressure, India threatening anti nuclear community?
Villagers displaced for nuclear plant, at tax-payer’s expense, not the company’s
Miseries continue for nuclear plant displaced Kajal Iyer , CNN-IBN Jan 10, 2011 Tarapur: Amidst protests in Jaitapur over the proposed nuclear plant, the Prime Minister on Friday inaugurated a nuclear reprocessing unit at the Tarapur nuclear plant in Maharashtra. Continue reading
Indian villagers’ civil rights trampled on for Jaitapur nuclear plant
“People who have faced the effects of a nuclear power project in their vicinity told us that this is a devastating project. They said that our next generation will have nothing to live and survive on…There is a sense of mistrust against the government. People here say they were not taken into confidence regarding the project, their lands were forcefully taken away, and their democratic protests were illegally thwarted.
Villagers protest against Jaitapur nuclear power plant, NDTV (India) , Ketki Angre, Prachi Jawadekar Wagh, 28 Dec 10, Ratnagiri: As farmers’ protests boil over in Ratnagiri, threatening to delay the 9,900 megawatt Jaitapur nuclear power plant – said to be the world’s largest – a concerned Maharashtra government dispatched a Congress team to Ground Zero………. Continue reading
Freedom of information – a basic priniciple upheld by Julian Assange
WikiLeaks has taught us valuable lessons about the suppression and manipulation of information, and how such activities pose a threat to the common good.
VIDEO Don’t shoot the messenger, award him the Nobel Peace Prize – Eureka Street Don’t shoot the messenger, award him the Nobel Peace Prize, Eureka Street, Michael Mullins, December 06, 2010 WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange are being demonised by what appears to be a slanderous propaganda campaign being waged at the highest levels of governments around the world. Continue reading
China cracks down on Wikileaks revelations about nuclear proliferation
Wikileaks and a Divided China – China Real Time Report – WSJRussell Leigh Moses, 3 Dec 10, This was the week of leaks. And the deluge of documents spared no one, not even China… Continue reading
Sarah Palin urges world to ‘hunt down’ Julian Assange like al Qaeda
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