Judge Rules to Gag Transform Now defendants
Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› orepaMAGISTRATE SAYS DEFENDANTS MAY NOT TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH • JUDGE SET STATUS CONFERENCE FOR APRIL 3 || 28 March 2013 (Knoxville, TN) • Federal Magistrate G. Clifford Shirley handed down a second set of recommendations on Wednesday, March 27, in response to motions by the prosecution and defense in the Transform …
Continue ReadingNo Raise for Failed Management at NNSA
Mar 5, 2013 No Comments ›› orepaNews trickling out of Washington, DC indicates the Uranium Processing Facility—the flagship nuclear weapons production plant for the “modernized” nuclear weapons complex—is in line for funding increases in the FY2104 budget (as much as $1Billion increase over five years) and in the Continuing Resolution being hashed out right now. OREPA has prepared a fact sheet …
Continue ReadingCan NNSA do Safety and Security at the same time?
Mar 3, 2013 5 Comments ›› orepaYears ago, when then-candidate John McCain suggested cancelling a presidential debate in order to return to Washington, DC to tend to a fiscal crisis (they were novel then), his opponent, candidate Barack Obama, responded that he was ready to debate. “A president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time,” …
Continue ReadingHaste Makes Waste—UPF Mistake Cost $539 Million
Feb 26, 2013 1 Comment ›› orepaNo One Held Accountable Yet: TIME TO PUT THE BRAKES ON UPF SPENDING UNTIL MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY PROBLEMS ARE ADDRESSED It is one of those lessons we are supposed to learn in kindergarten—or at least in elementary school. Haste makes waste. The Department of Energy knows it. In DOE Guidance 413.3-5, the agency cautions …
Continue ReadingNNSA Identifies Culprit Responsible for UPF Design Fiasco—the Software Did It!
Feb 18, 2013 No Comments ›› orepaTOO BIG TO FAIL? DON’T BET ON IT When three nonviolent peace activists breached the fences at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex last July (Transform Now Plowshares), it cost the government somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million dollars, not counting numerous investigations, to address the security deficiencies that were revealed by the incursion. …
Continue ReadingReflections for Nonviolent Community • April – May 2013
You can view the April/May Reflection booklet here:Reflections for Nonviolent Community • June/July 2013
You can view the June/July Reflection booklet here:OREPA Newsletter • May 2013
OREPA's May 2013 newsletter is here:Youth 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
