Hiroshima, Fukushima, Sacramento, Livermore - Confronting the Two Headed Nuclear Dragon

Hear Jacquie Cabasso speak on Community Currency Radio on the Progressive Radio Network this Thursday from 2 pm to 3 pm on From Hiroshima to Fukushima to Livermore: Confronting the Two-Headed Dragon of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

Jacqueline Cabasso has been involved in nuclear disarmament, peace and environmental advocacy at the local, national and international levels for over 30 years. Since 1984 she has served as Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation in Oakland. Grounded in commitments to nonviolence and international law, in her work with the Foundation she has provided legal support for nonviolent protesters; engaged in environmental review proceedings and litigation to challenge nuclear programs, and organized grassroots multi-issue coalitions.

Most recently, she has spoken out at rallies and hearings in support of the Japanese and American people to shut down nuclear power plants, particularly those on active faults, and against the twin nuclear weapons industry. At hearings before the Public Utilities Commission, in San Francisco, PG&E has been lobbying for an additional $85 million in public funds to relicense the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, while activists and watchdog organizations have spoken in favor of not renewing licenses or facilitating the life of aging nuclear power plants on faults, but on closing the plants to safeguard human and environmental health. The Fukushima disaster has shown how woefully inadequate the nuclear industry is to foresee, safeguard, remedy disasters, accidents, earthquakes. The Nuclear Industry has continued to promote nuclear technology, but continuously failed to "self-regulate" and protect the health and safety of workers, the public, and the environment. The continued outpouring of radiation from Fukushima, and the failure of the Japanese and American governments to adequately monitor and inform people of the amounts of radioactivity now present in the air, water, milk and food now threatening their health, highlights the need to rein in the industry. Only the mobilization of the public against powerful entrenched political interests can turn the tide. With renewed concern over the threat of nuclear power and weapons, many anti-nuclear events are coming up in the Bay Area, including-

July 23, 7 pm in San Jose - Screening of Atomic Mom

August 3, 6:30 pm Oakland - Screening of The Forgotten Bomb

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 10:00 am California Energy Commission review of California's nukes, in light of Fukushima, review of industry's seismic knowledge and emergency preparedness. Please attend- we need to make the public outcry against the nuclear industry loud and strong

August 4, 7:00 pm in San Jose - Screening of The Forgotten Bomb

August 5, in San Francisco - Commemorate Hiroshima/Nagasaki - Lessons of Fukushima for Today

August 6, 6 pm in Livermore - From Hiroshima to Fukushima to Livermore: Confronting the Two-Headed Dragon of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

August 7, 3 pm in Mountain View - MUSE Concert (Crosby Stills, Nash, Jackson Browne... a benefit for Sane Energy, and Japan, anti-nuclear groups)

August 9, 8 am in Livermore - From Hiroshima to Fukushima to Livermore: Confronting the Two-Headed Dragon of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power (Direct Action) Please come, with enough people, we can shut down the nuclear weapons industry

Thursday, August 11 2011 @ 06:00 PM - - 08:00PM in San Jose From HIroshima to Fukishima to California Speakers on- the danger of nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

At the national level Ms. Cabasso serves on the Steering Committee of United for Peace and Justice and convenes its Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security working group.

Internationally, she is a leading voice for the abolition of nuclear weapons, speaking at conferences and events around the world. She was a “founding mother” of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons in 1995, and continues to serve on its Coordinating Committee. Since August 2007, she has served as North American Coordinator for Mayors for Peace.

Ms. Cabasso is a co-author of Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis and Paths to Peace (2007) and Risking Peace: Why We Sat in the Road (1985), an account of the huge 1983 nonviolent protest at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory and the subsequent mass trial conducted by Western States Legal Foundation. Her writings have appeared in many publications

Ms. Cabasso was the recipient of the International Peace Bureau’s 2008 Sean MacBride Peace Award, and the Agape Foundation’s 2009 Enduring Visionary Prize.

Community Currency is hosted by Carol Brouillet, who edited The Invisible Nuclear War, The Massive Government Cover-Up, and the Continuing Battle Being Waged by the Nuclear Powers Against All Life on Earth in 1993 and has been active since Fukushima to shut down the nuclear industry with the No Nukes Action Committee. All shows are archived on Progressive Radio Network, including anti-nuclear shows with No Nukes Action's Umi Hagitani, Monitoring Industry with Ed Ellsworth, Shutting Down Nuclear Plants with Don Eichelberger.