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DESCRIPTION:Youth Mobilize Against Nukes\n\nThink Outside the Bomb National Tour rolls 
 into California\n\nJuly 6-7: Mendocino—TBA, please inquire for 
 location\nJuly 8: Santa Rosa—Peace and Justice Center 6pm\nJuly 9: 
 Berkeley—Long Haul Infoshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave, 7pm\nJuly 10: Santa 
 Cruz—Resource Center for Non-Violence, 515 Broadway, 7pm\nJuly 11: 
 Monterey/Seaside—Peace & Justice Center, 1364 Fremont Blvd, 
 1p\nAlternative Cafe, 1230 Fremont Blvd, 4p Presentation, 7p Open Mic\nJuly 
 12: San Luis Obispo—Linnaea's Cafe, 1110 Garden St, 6:30p\nJuly 13: Santa 
 Barbara/Isla Vista—BIKO Garage, 6612 Sueno Ave, 7p\nJuly 15: San Diego/La 
 Jolla, Che Cafe at UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr, 7p\nJuly 17: Los Angeles—USC 
 Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery, 2250 Alcazar St, 7p\n\nThe 
 Think Outside the Bomb National Tour (TOTB) will be coming through 
 California this week. The\ntour is part of ongoing efforts to build 
 momentum toward charting a new course for U.S. nuclear\nweapons policy. 
 Since Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review hearings began in New York 
 City on\nMay 1, the tour has been snaking across country, visiting some 40 
 cities on its way to Los Alamos, New\nMexico—the birthplace of the Atomic 
 Bomb. There TOTB's ongoing Disarmament Summer campaign\nwill culminate for 
 an encampment from July 30th to August 9th.\n\nTOTB is a national network 
 of youth activists and organizers for nuclear abolition, working to create 
 a\nworld free of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. According to Rebecca 
 Riley, one of the tour\norganizers, “TOTB is building community, 
 educating, and mobilizing people to participate politically\nin demanding a 
 nuclear free future from our political leaders and the US Nuclear 
 Industrial Complex.”\nOrganizers say that 2010 is a crucial year for 
 advancing toward nuclear disarmament as new plans are\nforming to rebuild 
 bomb making capabilities at Los Alamos. The renewed effort to enhance the 
 nations\nnuclear stockpile come in direct contraction to the Nuclear 
 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)\nrenegotiation hearings and President Barack 
 Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nThrough collaboration with groups and 
 communities across the country, TOTB intends to move the\nattention stuck 
 on the common global rhetoric and refocus it to the true reality of current 
 nuclear\npolicies. Along the tour, TOTB is highlighting the ongoing 
 environmental and health effects caused by\nthe expansive, costly trail of 
 waste and contamination. “There are no proposals to dismantle 
 existing\nnuclear weapons and still clean up their deadly legacy,” said 
 Miguel Moreno, a youth leader with\nProducts of Aztlan and Disarmament 
 Summer organizer from Chimayo, New Mexico. Moreno points\nto a growing 
 problem for those living in New Mexico—a ross negligence toward cleaning 
 up\ncontaminated sites, including abandoned uranium mines that continue to 
 pollute.\n\nCalifornia faces a multitude of it's own issues brought by the 
 complex. The state host's two nuclear\npower plants, including Diablo 
 Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, just outside of San Luis Obispo. The\nplant was 
 built on top of the Hogsri Fault, an offshoot of the incredibly active San 
 Andreas Fault.\nRecently, a new fault was discovered—the Shoreline 
 Fault—that lies only hundreds of feet from the\ntwin reactors. The site 
 has amassed quite the collection of spent radioactive fuel, and while it 
 is\nconsidered temporary storage, there has yet to be any significant plan 
 for a national waste repository. In\nthe face or serious seismic dangers 
 and no place to put the waste, plant owner Pacific Gas & Electric 
 is\nattempting to relicense the plant to operate for another 20 
 years.\n\nAs for California's role in weapons production—just east of the 
 Bay Area, the Lawrence Livermore\nNational Laboratory continues to play a 
 vital role in the nation-wide quest toward “complex\nmodernization, which 
 would essentially begin the process of building new nuclear weapons. The 
 lab, in\nconjunction with Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, is 
 managed by the University of\nCalifornia. The University recently renewed 
 the Department of Energy management contract, forming\na partnership with 
 Bechtel Corporation and military contractors. Bechtel Corporation, based in 
 San\nFrancisco, is among the many large military contractors that operate 
 in the Middle East and across the\nUS, being a major force in pushing ahead 
 the expansion of the Nuclear Industrial Complex.\n\nAs the complicated and 
 expansive web of nuclearism continues to operate around the country, youth 
 are working to create a network of their own to confront it. Come join us 
 to continue weaving the web toward a better future.\n\n“Nuclear weapons 
 lie at the intersection of so much that is important to my generation: 
 energy, the\nenvironment, and global security — and this tour is going to 
 bring it all together,” says tour participant\nGreg Benninger, “I’m 
 really looking forward to talking with local groups, and building a 
 strong\nnational coalition that will mobilize hundreds of young people from 
 communities across the country to\nraise their voices in the global call to 
 end the perpetuation of the destruction brought by nuclear\nweapons and 
 energy.”\n\n###\n\n\nFor more information, including an up-to-date tour 
 schedule:\nTOTB National Tour: http://totbtour.wordpress.com\nThink Outside 
 the Bomb Network: http://www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org\n\nThink Outside the 
 Bomb is a network of over 500 youth activists organizing on a grassroots 
 level for\nnuclear abolition. While building a new generation of 
 anti-racist organizers, we seek to build\nrelationships with older 
 generations of activists and organizers with whom we can share 
 experience,\nknowledge, and energy as we build relationships that foster 
 liberation for all who struggle for justice. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/06/18652854.php
SUMMARY:National Tour for Think Outside the Bomb--youth led nuclear abolition group--coming to CA
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non-Violence, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/06/18652854.php
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