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DESCRIPTION:Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!\n\nOccupyForum 
 presents. . .\n\nFukushima: Facts and Fiction\nA panel discussion with with 
 Paul Kangas, Umi Hagitani and Josh Wolf\n\nDuring the three long and 
 frightening years since the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, the world 
 has heard less and less about this manmade industrial disaster. Money, 
 power, and engineering hubris were put ahead of the lives and health of the 
 people of Japan and the northern hemisphere as radiation releases continue 
 to leave the site and migrate into the environment. Decommissioning and 
 dismantling the reactors will take decades, and complete cleanup is not 
 even possible.\n\nRalph Nader calls nuclear power and the radioactivity it 
 produces "violent, unnecessary, unsafe, and uninsurable. . . undemocratic." 
 And constructing new words that begin with "un," it is also 
 "unevacuate-able, unfinance-able, unregulatable."\n\nNaoto Kan, prime 
 minister of Japan when the disaster began states: "Without nuclear power 
 plants we can absolutely provide the energy to meet our demands. Since 
 Fukushima began, Japan has tripled its use of solar energy -- a jump in 
 solar power production that is the equivalent of the electricity that would 
 be produced by three nuclear plants. . . Germany is a model in its 
 commitment to shutting down all its nuclear power plants with all its power 
 supplied by renewable power by 2050. The entire world could do this if 
 humanity really would work together. . . we could generate all our energy 
 through renewable energy."\n\nOccupyForum brings together a panel to 
 discuss Fukushima and the alternatives to fossil fuel and nuclear power. 
 Josh Wolf, moderator, is a journalist who spent a year in prison for 
 refusing to turn over videos of a 2011 demonstration to police. Umi 
 Hagitani from No Nukes Action is a journalist and anti-nuke activist from 
 Japan, and a key organizer in Japan and the United States. Paul Kangas 
 (Solar One) is a journalist, veteran (Bay of Pigs), private investigator 
 and doctor who has been an activist for solar power and against atomic 
 energy since 1963. In May, Paul is making a film in France and Germany on 
 the growth of solar in Europe to be released in January of 2015. Paul will 
 be discussing the inevitability of solar's displacement of fossil 
 fuel.\n\nBloggspot/paul kangas, Youtube: paul8kangas\n\nTime will be 
 allocated for Q&A and announcements.\n\nDonations welcome, no one turned 
 away!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/29/18753261.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum // Fukushima: Facts and Fiction w/ Kangas, Hagitani, Wolf
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street.\nSan Francisco, CA 94110\n(near 16th 
 Street BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/29/18753261.php
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