NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2006
 1
MILLION PETITION
AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
www.million-against-nuclear.net
NEARLY 400.000 SIGNATURES COUNTED!
Dear friends for a nuclear-free Europe,
The one million campaign is in full swing! We have now 391.000
signatures counted at the Atomstopp office in Austria and new envelopes
full of petition lists come in every day. Through the websites we
are receiving around 4000 digital signatures per week! Signature
collection continues, many individuals and groups are ordering action
packs and the volunteers at the Amsterdam office can hardly keep
up with all this orders in different languages.
We think this campaign is a major success! We have a reach-out
all over Europe, thanks to all the volunteers and organisations
that are helping us. In 25 countries people are collecting signatures
at schools, in churches, at markets and at festivals. The petition
is included in magazines and conference packs. Many people hear
again that nuclear power is not a solution but a problem, and that
it is no answer to climate change or energy shortage. It is in the
direct personal contact that much of the wonderful work is done.
Thanks to all of you!
Now it is time for a ‘summer offensive’! Please continue
your support and help collecting signatures. We make this campaign
happen!
We send you a list of the old and new free materials and suggestions
of activities. If you have any questions or need support, please
contact us at info@million-against-nuclear.net.
Kind regards
Frank van Schaik
Wendela de Vries
One Million Europeans Against Nuclear Energy
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LIST OF FREE CAMPAIGN MATERIALS
We have:
• A set of four different A1 posters against nuclear power
with impressive pictures and the key arguments. The posters are
in English, but the text can easily be glued over in your national
language (A4 sheet).
• A2 general campaign posters with the Smiling Sun logo.
• A4 petition signature lists (space for 20 signatures).
• A5 flyers to hand out to general audience.
• Nuclear Power – Myth and Reality: The risks and prospects
of nuclear power – the English translation of the Heinrich
Böll Foundation report (for German: www.boell.de).
• An activist tool kit containing:
a) action ideas,
b) a sample press release (please adjust text for use after April
26th!),
c) tips how to use the media, and
d) Everything you’ve always wanted to explain about nuclear
power, but were afraid to do… Questions and answers - Myths
and misunderstandings about nuclear energy.
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WHAT LANGUAGES ARE AVAILABLE?
We have paper versions in:
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German.
We have PDF versions to download from the website in
Bulgarian
Greek
Macedonian
Portuguese
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Ukrainian.
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
More languages (Catalan, Hungarian, Italian, Russian) are in the
making.
If your language is not there and you want to make a translation,
please contact
us, and we’ll make it into layed-out material!
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WHAT MORE CAN YOU DO?
• Do you know of other magazines that might be willing to
include a petition list? Ask them, or inform us so we can ask them!
• Tell us what you did, how and where you collected signatures
and how people reacted. Are people positive to the materials? What
kind of discussions do you get? Your stories and pictures can inspire
others!
• If possible, send a picture! We will put some of them on
our web site.
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PROMOTE THE PETITION IN YOUR MAGAZINE
Everybody is free to use the material from the 1 million campaign
in a printed
or photocopied version. For example, you can insert the signature
list in your
church magazine, in your local newsletter or student’s paper.
Or you can print
a copy on the back page of the magazine. You can write an article
about the
campaign, asking people to go to the website and sign. For background
information, you can use the website as a source.
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MAKE A WEBSITE BANNER
Many NGOs that have signed the 1 million petition have a website.
It is easy to make a link to the 1 million website, preferably by
using a banner. Banners really work, as they make it easy for people
to sign.
You can download banners at http://www.million-against-nuclear.net/domore/banners.htm
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COLLECT SIGNATURES AT A FESTIVAL
During summer, there are many festivals; music festivals, ecological
festivals, cultural festivals. This is an ideal place to collect
signatures. With a couple of volunteers and some of the colorful
posters and petition lists you can dress up a table and ask people
to take a stand against nuclear power.
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SOME NUCLEAR NEWS …
The experimental EPR nuclear power plant under construction in
Finland has
already fallen nine months behind schedule – the project started
just a year
ago. The delays have been caused by safety concerns over the quality
of
concrete used for the base of the reactor. It was discovered that
too much
water had been used in the cement mix, making the concrete too porous,
and some
steel forgings were also found to be of poor quality (The Guardian,
April 24
2006).
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd broke news of a radioactive water leakage
at the Rokkasho
nuclear reprocessing plant where the latest round of trail operations
started on
March 31. Some 40 litres of water containing plutonium and uranium
leaked inside
a concrete-lined cell when a worker apparently made a mistake in
a
remote-controlled process (Nuclear Monitor 645-646, June 2006).
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1 Million Europeans Against Nuclear Power
PO Box 59636
1040 LC Amsterdam –The Netherlands
Tel: +31-20-6126368
Fax: +31-20-6892179
info@million-against-nuclear.net
www.million-against-nuclear.net
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