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ALERT ALERT ALERT

 

GANG OF 10 BILL:

BIGGEST GIVEAWAY TO NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY EVER

 

NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

 

This is it. In the mainstream media, the Gang of 10 (actually, now it's the

Gang of 20) energy bill is all about offshore oil drilling. And, to be sure,

there's lots of that in the bill, which is expected to come up in the Senate

late next week. But the bill would also be the biggest giveaway to the

nuclear power industry ever.

 

Unlimited loan guarantees for construction of new atomic reactors. That's

right, unlimited. As much money—hundreds of billions of dollars--as everyone

in

the nuclear industry wants, when it wants, for as long as it wants.

 

I'm sure I don't need to tell you how that would absolutely destroy our

ability to effectively address the climate crisis and what a disaster that

would

be for our economy, for our nation, for our planet.

 

How do these Senators think they can get away with this? Because they're not

hearing from enough of us, often enough. They think this is a popular stand.

We all need to stand up now and be counted.

 

That's why NIRS, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other national

groups are putting out the word for a National Call-In Day to the Senate on

Wednesday, September 17. We need at least 10,000 phone calls to the Senate on

Wednesday. We need the phones there to be ringing non-stop from dawn to dusk.

Will you help?

 

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

 

*Please call both of your Senators that day with a very simple message: Take

taxpayer loan guarantees for nuclear power out of the Gang of 20 energy

bill. (note: the bill does not yet have a number. It's called the New Energy

Reform Act of 2008, but everyone will know what you are talking about if you

just

say " Gang of 20 energy bill. " )

 

*Please forward this Alert to any and all of your mailing lists.

 

*Please print this Alert and take it to any public meetings and gather

places you go to between now and Wednesday. Post it at food co-ops and other

central locations.

 

*Please talk to your friends and colleagues, congregations this Sunday, PTAs

next week. Spread the word.

 

*If you want to e-mail your Senators, please do (you can do so from this

_link_ (http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm) ;

NIRS' new e-mail-from-our-Alerts set-up still has some bugs, so we can't quite

offer that yet). But also call! It is important to keep those phones ringing

all day long!

 

*Call even if you think your Senator(s) are hopeless. Everyone walking in

the halls of the Senate should hear phones ringing everywhere, all day long.

 

We can't let the nuclear industry get away with this. All that can stop it

now are your actions. If we all just sit back and wait for someone else to

take action, we will lose. If we all make those two calls—one to each

Senator,

and ask each of our friends and colleagues to make those two calls, we can

show the Senate what the American people really think. And we can win.

 

It is up to each of us. It's that simple, and that stark.

 

Please take five minutes to make two phone calls Wednesday. And please drop

us an e-mail and let us know you called (we'll be looking for 10,000 e-mails

in our inbox by Thursday morning!).

 

Thank you for all that you do.

 

Michael Mariotte

Executive Director

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

_nirsnet_ (nirsnet) , _www.nirs.org_

(http://www.nirs.org/)

301-270-6477

September 12, 2008

 

P.S. For those who want more information:

 

You can read a Physicians for Social Responsibility analysis of the nuclear

provisions in the Gang of 20 energy bill _here_

(http://www.nirs.org/neconomics/nuclearsubsidies2008.pdf) . The bill includes

not just loan guarantees, but

also more " risk insurance " for new nukes, construction of a reprocessing

plant, and much more.

 

You can read a longer article on the issue I wrote for DailyKos _here_

(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/12/101311/374/1006/595991) .

 

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Your tax-deductible contributions will help us take action to turn

around the current energy debate! Please make a donation of $5, $10, $25 or any

amount you choose—your donations will be put to good use!

 

And if you haven't done so yet, don't forget to sign the statement on

nuclear power and climate at _www.nirs.org_ (http://www.nirs.org/) (but please

don't sign more than once!). If you've already signed, please ask your friends

and colleagues to sign!

 

We've passed 7750 7830 7930 8,130 8,330, 8400, 8,630 signatures, let's get

to 10,000! And just let us know at _nirsnet_

(nirsnet) if you want more paper copies of the statement to

gather signers at

events, concerts, conferences, etc. We're adding paper signers as fast as we

can

(but seem to be always a few hundred behind….).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

Dannemann

Standing director, National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW)

_www.ProgressiveConvergence.com_ (http://www.progressiveconvergence.com/)

917 804-0786

 

 

" It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice,

the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced

in oblivion " …Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science

 

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