Tell banks not to finance the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in India.
Despite the nuclear disaster at Fukushima witnessed by the world, there are plans to build a major nuclear power station in a highly earthquake-prone region on the west coast of India. The Jaitapur nuclear plant can only be built with financing from banks like BNP Paribas and HSBC.
Write a mail to the boards of these international banks, asking them to help us stop this risky and unnecessary nuclear project in India.
WikiLeaks Documents Reveal Over 150 Innocent Men Knowingly Held at Guantánamo
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun releasing thousands of secret documents from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The documents reveal the Bush and Obama administrations knowingly imprisoned more than 150 innocent men for years without charge. In dozens of cases, senior U.S. commanders were said to have concluded that there was no reason for the men to have been transferred to Guantánamo. Among the innocent prisoners were an 89-year-old Afghan villager and a 14-year-old boy who had been kidnapped. Some men were imprisoned at Guantánamo simply because they wore a certain model of Casio watches, which had been used as timers by al-Qaeda. The documents also reveal that the journalist Sami al-Hajj was held at Guantánamo for six years partly in order to be interrogated about his employer, the Al Jazeera news network. Al-Hajj’s file said he was sent to Guantánamo in order to “provide information on…the al-Jazeera news network’s training programme, telecommunications equipment, and news gathering operations in Chechnya, Kosovo and Afghanistan.”
Japan: Damaged Nuclear Plant Released More Radioactive Material than Previously Estimated;
Thousands Call for Nuclear Moratorium Newly released data from the Japanese government indicates radioactive material was leaking into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Number 1 Unit in far greater quantities than previously estimated. The Daily Yomiuri newspaper reports the level of radiation on April 5 was six times higher than initially reported. On Sunday, thousands of people rallied in Tokyo to call for the closure of all nuclear power plants in Japan.
Anti nuclear protest in America
Eleven Women Arrested in Vermont Nuclear Plant Protest Eleven women were arrested outside the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on Friday after they chained themselves to the plant’s main gate. Among those arrested included 92-year-old peace activist Frances Crowe.