Welcome to Nuclear People Power!

Nuclear People Power (NPP) is a non-hierarchical campaigning network of groups and individuals started in September 2008 to promote and encourage visible and effective action against the expansion of nuclear power in the UK and worldwide, to leave a nuclear-free, safe and healthy environment for future generations.

We are seeking to develop a strong and expanding network, building alliances with local, national and international campaigns that share our desire to resist the global expansion of the nuclear industry in creative and inspiring ways. Many groups and individuals are voicing their concerns about a post-Chernobyl nuclear renaissance. What we'd also love to see though is more people getting organised and networked and putting their words into action using a range of campaigning tactics, including blockades and other nonviolent direct actions (NVDA), demonstrations, camps, street stalls, leafleting, artwork, and eye-catching publicity stunts and street theatre, following the example of groups like the excellent Sizewell Blockaders.

The British Government and nuclear spin doctors (including Prime Minister Gordon Brown's younger brother, Andrew Brown at EDF Energy) are working overtime to repackage nuclear power as a 'green' source of energy. They are attempting to create divisions within the environmental movement. Dissenting voices are being drowned out. If we wait until the bulldozers move in, this will probably be too late. We believe now is the time to fight back and make ourselves heard, by any peaceful means, and nip the "nuclear renaissance" in the bud.

Our vision is of a safe and sustainable low-carbon future for our children and grandchildren, based on more modest consumption, energy efficiency and conservation, and renewable and decentralised energy; a future in which we no longer have to rely on non-renewable and unsustainable uranium, plutonium and fossil fuels, and which will not lead to nuclear proliferation, more and deadlier radioactive emissions and a legacy of even more deadly radioactive waste that we cant safely deal with. No more Chernobyls! No more Three Mile Islands! No more Windscales! We have no time to lose: the time to act is NOW. Join us today!

No New Nuclear - Planning to Win: This Weekend!

November 2009, Saturday 21st, 11am - 6pm; and Sunday 22nd, 10am -5pm, Central London

E-mail nonewnuclear [at] aktivix.org now to get crash space and details of the venues.

There are no costs to the weekend, though donations are welcome to fund action.

For grassroots campaigners to network, share ideas and info, and make plans to win.

By developing skills and confidence in creating and implementing campaign and action plans, we can identify when and where our interventions can be most successful.

Over the weekend we will have:

• Reflection on the successes of the anti nuclear movement.
• A presentation from Ben Ayliffe, Greenpeace's nuclear power campaigner.
• A presentation from a representative of the French network "Sortir du Nucléaire" on the ongoing calamities with EPR reactors (the types of nuclear reactors being proposed for the UK).
• Discussion and making plans to stop a new generation of nuclear power plants.
• Skills workshops such as: Strategic Action Planning and Dealing with the Media.
• Meet and build networks with a broad range of people opposed to new nuclear.

nonewnuclear [at] aktivix.org

In collaboration with the Nuclear People Power network
http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com
Follow on Twitter: @NukePeoplePower

Anti-nuclear power campaign strategy weekend 21-22 November, London

Are you planning to win?

Time to get organised to stop a new generation of nuclear power stations being built.

Saturday 21 November (11am) to Sunday 22 November (4pm), central London (please get in touch for venue details)

The weekend will be a space for grassroots campaigners to network, share ideas and information and make plans to win.

Whatever your campaigning tools are, wherever you are from, whether you are working with an existing group or not, this weekend is for everybody. The more of us who can make it the better plans we can make.

By developing skills and confidence in creating and implementing campaign and action plans we can identify when and where our interventions can be most successful.

Activist training network Seeds for Change will facilitate the weekend and share skills for winning through campaign and action planning.

Come along, network and take away ideas and tools for winning to share with your local community and campaigning networks.
http://seedsforchange.org.uk/free/winning

Costs: These will be kept as low as possible. Those able to will be asked to contribute towards costs, but don't let being skint stop you from coming :) . Crash space is available. If you need a bed, please get in touch ASAP and we'll see what we can do.

To book your place / get more details, contact:

nonewnuclear [at] aktivix.org
or ring 01524 383 012 and leave a message.
www.nonewnuclear.wordpress.com

Organised in conjunction with the Nuclear People Power network

Demo at Australia House - No nuclear dump on aboriginal land!

Australian Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson is in London and Paris this week. In response to an emergency call-out from the Australian Beyond Nuclear Initiative for international solidarity against a proposed federal nuclear waste dump on aboriginal land at Muckaty in the Northern Territory, a small demo was held at very short notice outside the Australian High Commission in central London.

Two people dressed in white overalls and gas masks held a sign reading "No Nuclear Dump at Muckaty" and handed out leaflets.

At the end of the 90 minute demo, which attracted the attention of diplomatic police as well as visitors to the building and passers by, a letter addressed to Mr Ferguson and signed by members of the Muckaty aboriginal community was delivered by hand to a representative of the High Commission.

A third supporter arrived shortly afterwards: he had just come from a meeting about nuclear power which overran.

(Photos by D. Viesnik (top) and Ziggy (bottom))

Australian uranium / waste dump champion in London and Paris this week

From the Beyond Nuclear Initiative project in Australia:

I am writing to seek support for Aboriginal communities opposing the imposition of a federal radioactive waste dump on their traditional country.

Australian Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson will be in London this week (12-14 Oct) to attend a Ministerial meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, ahead of attending an International Energy Agency Ministerial later this week in Paris.

Minister Ferguson is aggressively pro-nuclear and is fast tracking uranium projects across the country. He is a champion of coal, a climate change sceptic and deeply dismissive of the promise of renewable energy.

He also has carriage of radioactive waste management in Australia and is currently pushing ahead with controversial plans to impose a federal radioactive waste dump on Aboriginal land in the NT – an issue of growing concern here.

This issue would benefit greatly from some coverage and profile as Ferguson’s approach of denying the issue any oxygen has been disturbingly successful in removing it from the national media radar. However he is also very exposed on this issue: his approach is out of step with Federal Labor’s 2007 federal election promises, community mood and international best practise.

For more info, contact Natalie Wasley, Beyond Nuclear Initiative Uranium Project
natwasley [at] alec.org.au
http://beyondnuclearinitiative.wordpress.com