Letter to Senator Lamar Alexander: stop funding UPF

The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance today released a letter written by OREPA over the signatures of the entire Board of Directors to Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander asking him to take action to constrain funding for the Uranium Processing Facility until significant questions about the need, management, and security of the project are resolved. The …

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Support Transform Now Plowshares

•   Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli and Megan Rice are currently in the Irwin County Detention Facility in Ocilla, GA, awaiting their sentencing on September 23, 2013. The three were found guilty by a jury in Tennessee in May on two counts—Judge Amul Thapar revoked their pre-trial release saying they were technically guilty of a …

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Transform Now Plowshares Trial Day One

For those trying to follow jury selection in the Transform Now Plowshares trial, it was not an ideal situation. The public and media were isolated in an adjacent courtroom with a widescreen TV; the video remained steady—half the screen was filled with carpet, and the rest with an upward gazing view of the podium in …

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Ramsey Clark: Y12 activities are unlawful

HE WALKS AROUND WITH IT BY HIS SIDE   The judge interrupted the questioning of former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as he testified at a hearing in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee in preparation for the Transform Now Plowshares trial in May. Bill Quigley, counsel for the defense, had just asked Clark if the threat …

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OREPA asks Senator Alexander to take action on UPF

Jun 18, 2013 No Comments ›› orepa

The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance today released a letter written by OREPA over the signatures of the entire Board of Directors to Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander asking him to take action to constrain funding for the Uranium Processing Facility until significant questions about the need, management, and security of the project are resolved. The …

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Does a factory that makes nuclear weapons really need to be secure?

Jun 10, 2013 2 Comments ›› orepa

Does a factory that makes nuclear weapons really need to be secure?   Apparently not.   When three peace activists penetrated the inner sanctum of the US nuclear weapons complex in the Transform Now Plowshares action at Y12 in July 2012, investigations were launched, Congress held hearings, people were fired or reassigned, workers were retrained …

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UPF Update – June 2013

Jun 7, 2013 No Comments ›› orepa

The latest UPF Update traces the cost trajectory for the Uranium Processing Facility and takes note of Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander’s statement that he has “had it with these DOE projects that start out costing $1 billion and end up costing $6 billion.” You can find the June UPF UPDate here: UPF update June 2013 …

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Support Transform Now Plowshares—Write Now!

May 24, 2013 1 Comment ›› orepa

•   Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli and Megan Rice are currently in the Irwin County Detention Facility in Ocilla, GA, awaiting their sentencing on September 23, 2013. The three were found guilty by a jury in Tennessee in May on two counts—Judge Amul Thapar revoked their pre-trial release saying they were technically guilty of a …

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UPF Update

May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› orepa

A streamlined fact sheet on the current status of the UPF and issues pending. Please feel free to circulate. UPF update May 2013 web

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