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February 6, 2012

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Tuesday, January 31, that it does not plan to honor its promise to restore environmental monitoring in Georgia communities surrounding the Savannah River Site (SRS), a US nuclear weapons complex notorious for its Cold War legacy radioactive waste. This monitoring, which was cut in Georgia 2003, tests drinking water, [...]

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Community Meeting in Shell Bluff

Many local residents from the rural Shell Bluff community in Burke County and over 60 people from the Atlanta area who arrived via bus attended a community meeting at Shell Bluff’s Fairfield Missionary Baptist Church Saturday, January 7. The meeting, called by the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and Georgia Women’s Action for New [...]

Community Meeting- No New Nukes in Georgia!

Georgia Power recently announced they believe  they are weeks away from a design, construction and operating permit for two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle, continuing their legacy of putting profits over people and the environment. The community living in the shadow of the nuclear plant, near Waynesboro, GA is already suffering the financial, environmental [...]

Take Action Against Nukes!

Below are four easy ways that you can take action to oppose nukes and make us all safer right now! Phone Bank to De-fund Nuclear Weapons The Congressional super committee has been charged with cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal budget by November 23. Congress will vote on their proposal one month later, December 23. [...]


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