IF you live in one of the towns within 20 miles of the "Vermont Yankee" (VY) nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vermont--a.k.a. the "evacuation zone" (see list of towns below)--and,
IF you would like to see this aged, accident-prone reactor retired on schedule when its original 40-year license expires in March of 2012, rather than allowed to operate for another 20 years, until 2032(!), as VY's Louisiana-based, mega-corporate owner, Entergy Nuclear, is pushing forŠ
THEN, PLEASE CLICK ON THIS WEB ADDRESS AND SIGN ONTO OUR LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE , who may soon be casting an historic vote re Vermont Yankee's future.
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NoNukes/petition.html
AND THEN, PLEASE EMAIL THIS MESSAGE TO OTHERS WHO LIVE IN "EVACUATION ZONE" TOWNS and urge them to send it out to their friends and neighbors. We need everyone's help with this, ASAP.
The letter will be carried - by hand and on foot - to the Vermont State Capitol and personally presented to legislators by people from the evacuation zone who will be participating in a 120-mile walk, January 2-13, from Brattleboro to Montpelier, entitled "Step It Up to Shut It Down." (To join or support the walk, go to: www.safeandgreencampaign.org )
"We don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."ŠŠŠ.. Howard Zinn
Towns within (or partially within) 20 miles of the VY nuclear reactor:
VERMONT: Brattleboro, Brookside, Dover, Dummerston, Guilford, Halifax, Marlboro, Newfane, Putney, Townshend, Vernon, Wardsboro, Westminster, Whitingham, Wilmington.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Chesterfield, Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Hinsdale, Keene, Marlborough, Richmond, Roxbury, Surry, Swanzey, Troy, Walpole, Westmoreland, Winchester.
MASSACHUSETTS: Athol, Ashfield, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Colrain, Conway, Deerfield, Erving, Gill, Greenfield, Hawley, Heath, Leverett, Leyden, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Rowe, Royalston, Shelburne, Shutesbury, Sunderland, Warwick, Wendell.
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