Date(s): Thu, Feb 11th, 2010 thru Sat, May 1st, 2010
International Peace Walk
Towards A Nuclear Free Future
From the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Facility in Oak Ridge TN to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty review at the United Nations, NY
February 11th to May 1st
Footprints for Peace is calling on all Anti-Nuclear Activists and people who care about the future of Mother Earth to join us on a walk from the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee to the United Nations in New York for the NPT (Nuclear non Proliferation Treaty) Review Conference.
In 2005 Footprints for Peace walked to the NPT review conference that is held at the United Nations every 5 years and since then we have been doing a series of walks in Europe to gather support.
Recently the nuclear industry has embarked on a campaign of deceit and propaganda to convince the public that nuclear power is needed to end global warming. They have spent millions of dollars misleading the public and they have spent even more on buying corrupt politicians and environmentalists to back their claims.
We know that their claims are untrue and that the only way for us to move forward and end global warming is to develop renewable energy and create a society that is not based on fossil fuel.
Every stage of the nuclear industry is heavily reliant on fossil fuels, CFC's & water. The mining of uranium is so water intensive that just one mine in South Australia uses 30 million litres a day.
At the end of this process we are then left with a toxic legacy, there is currently over 500 million tons of radioactive waste tailings stored at mine sites around the world, and over 10,000 metric tons of highly radioactive spent fuel is discharged from nuclear reactors around the world each year with no safe solution for storage. After 5 decades we still have no solution to the worlds nuclear waste problems.
Part of this waste is plutonium; there is currently around 500 tons of plutonium stored at military and civilian sites around the world. It takes as little as 4kg of this material to make a nuclear bomb capable of destroying a city.
Nuclear weapons production is undeniably linked to this whole process and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty will never work while the United Nations through the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is actively working to promote nuclear power through out the world.
If we are to really create a world free of nuclear weapons we must stop producing the materials needed to manufacture such weapons, and there by ridding the world of the fear that another Hiroshima or Nagasaki is possible, and in the process of this action we wil also eliminate the fear of another Chernobyl occurring at one of the 436 nuclear power plants around the world.
We can live in a world powered by renewable energy, but to achieve this we need to work together and demand that our governments listen to us instead of being bought off by the big fossil fuel industries and the military industrial complex.
We need to have a massive presence at this NPT review conference in 2010 and are asking everyone to join us on the walk for a day, a week or the entire way.
Please feel free to contact us if you require more information.
Email: nptwalk@footprintsforpeace.net
Or PHONE: U.S.A: 513 843 1205
In Peace & Solidarity
Footprints for Peace
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
Download their flyer here:
http://OregonProgressiveNetwork.org/uploads/docs/walkflyerfrontfinal.pdf
http://OregonProgressiveNetwork.org/uploads/docs/2010walkflyerback.pdf
More Info: http://www.footprintsforpeace.net
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