Message to Budget Super Committee — Stop Wasting on Nukes
Sep 29, 2011 No Comments ›› orepaThe Budget Super Committee is looking for places to save money, and OREPA has found a whopper! How about saving 85 billion over the next ten years by NOT MODERNIZING our already modern nuclear weapons? Representative Ed Markey has drafted a letter to the Super Committee that calls for some fiscal restraint on nuclear weapons—it doesn't ...
Continue ReadingNNSA ANNOUNCES PLAN FOR MORE TRITIUM PRODUCTION
Sep 29, 2011 No Comments ›› orepaThe National Nuclear Security Administration has published a Notice of Intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on expanding the production of tritium for nuclear weapons in the Watts Bar and Sequoyah nuclear reactors in Tennessee. The NOI includes a startling revelation: current tritium production operations are releasing three to four times the amount of ...
Continue ReadingUpdate on Y12 Resisters
Sep 23, 2011 1 Comment ›› orepaUpdate on the Y12 Resisters last update: Friday, January 13, 2012 On January 6, Steve Baggarly, Mike Walli and Bonnie Urfer were released from prison after serving 8 months for their July 10, 2010 action at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Their co-defendant, Father Bill Bichsel, remains in custody in SeaTac Federal Prison ...
Continue ReadingY12 Resisters’ Sentencing • First Week
Sep 23, 2011 1 Comment ›› orepaY12 Resisters’ Sentencing Begins • This report covers the sentencing hearings of Jean Gump, Bill Bichsel, Bonnie Urfer, Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte MONDAY morning, September 12, 2011 • Jean Gump Jean Gump was the first of the July 2010 Y12 Resisters to be sentenced in federal court in Knoxville. Jean was not present, but was represented ...
Continue ReadingY12 Resisters’ Sentencing: Week 2
Sep 23, 2011 No Comments ›› orepaThis report covers the sentencing hearings of Mike Walli, Steve Baggarly, Brad Lyttle, Mary Dennis Lentsch, Beth Rosdatter, and Dennis DuVall DAY FOUR • September 19, Mike Walli Mike Walli appeared in federal court in Knoxville on Monday, September 19, 2011 to face sentencing for his May 2011 conviction on charges of trespass at the Y12 Nuclear ...
Continue ReadingYouth Declaration for A Safer World • April 2011
Here is the text of the Youth Declaration for A Safer World Is Our Right:
Footprints for Peace
