[NukeNet] Climate convergence/Action Camp, Aug 5-11

[Michael Mariotte]

NIRS is pleased and proud to again be a co-sponsoring group of the
Southeast Convergence for Climate Action (action camp)

 

August 5-August 11, Central VA -- Sophia House in Louisa County Virginia
(see website)

 

This summer, join people of all ages and backgrounds from throughout the
Southeast and beyond for the second annual Southeast Convergence for
Climate Action. After the resounding success of last year's convergence
we are excited to continue the struggle for climate justice in the
southeast with an engaging week of workshops, strategizing, and direct
action! This year's convergence will be hosted in Virginia where
communities are fighting uranium mining, nuclear power, mountaintop
removal coal mining, and new (as well as old) coal plants. Once again we
will unite to fight the coal industry's stranglehold on our region while
rejecting the deadly nuke industry's attempt to position itself as the
solution to the climate crisis.

 

The convergence is a place to strengthen our movement, network with new
allies, and take action against dirty energy while working to build a
sustainable world. Workshops will include: community organizing, direct
action 101, debunking false solutions to climate change, blockades,
sustainable living systems, media, disaster response, fighting nukes and
coal, and much more. The convergence will culminate in an empowering
action to show that the southeast is serious about tackling climate
change.

 

For more information check out: www.climateconvergence.org

Email: risingtide at mountainrebel.net

 

 

THERE ARE ALSO CONVERGENCE EVENTS IN OREGON AND NEW YORK STATE: check
out the website. The Southeast has the greatest focus on nuclear issues
-- but show up and bring them along if you are in the other regions!
Nuclear is a false solution to the climate crisis! 



Mary Olson
NIRS Southeast Regional Coordinator
Nuclear Information & Resource Service
PO Box 7586, Asheville, NC 28802
nirs at main.nc.us   www.nirs.org
828-675-1792
new cell -- 828-242-5621  (no signal at my office)

 

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here.
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LangPref=en-CA>  Help kick off our next 30 years, and our work to build
a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future, with your most generous
contribution possible.

 

And if you haven't done so yet, don't forget to sign the statement on
nuclear power and climate at www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org/>  (but
please don't sign more than once!). If you've already signed, please ask
your friends and colleagues to sign! You can send the petition to your
friends by going to: 
http://www.nirs.org/petition2/thanks.php?id=829fcdea1bbbd9dd6b66683d5f10
eb88

 

We've passed 7750 7830 7930 8,130 signatures, let's get to 10,000 this
month! And just let us know at nirsnet at nirs.org if you want more paper
copies of the statement to gather signers at events, concerts,
conferences, etc. We're adding paper signers as fast as we can (but seem
to be always a few hundred behind....).

 

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