Protesters Block Indian Point Entrance To Mark Expiration Of License
Protesters from IPSEC and other groups blocked the entrance of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday to mark the expiration of the remaining licenses. Indian Point is now operating without a current license. Despite their peaceful attempt to uphold the health and safety of the community, eleven protesters were arrested and charged with “disorderly...
Saturday, December 12th: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AT INDIAN POINT
Saturday, December 12th, 10:30 am Main Entrance, Indian Point Energy Center Buchanan, NY 10511 Residents to Engage in Civil Disobedience at Indian Point to Mark License Expiration Area residents will gather at Indian Point to stretch vinyl “DANGER” tape across the main entrance of the nuclear plant to mark the license expiration of Indian Point...
Gary Shaw of IPSEC at Greenburgh Nature Center
Wednesday, December 9th, 7 pm Greenburgh Nature Center 90 Dromore Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583 On December 9, 2015, Gary Shaw will present the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition’s perspective on the issues of Indian Point. Entergy has been invited to provide a spokesperson for the company’s perspective. Free and open to all. Doors open at...
Sunday, December 6th: Activist Training in Stony Point
Sunday, December 6th 1:30 pm Stony Point Center 17 Cricketown Road, Stony Point, NY 10980 This Sunday, December 6, 2015, Clearwater and others are cosponsoring an Activist Training at the Stony Point Center, which will help us all to organize more effectively and use our limited resources more efficiently to prevent further unnatural fracked gas...
Global Climate March
Sunday, November 29th, 2 pm East Side (Brooklyn Bridge Side) Plaza, City Hall City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007 Global Climate March NYC – bring posters and banners with your message Join us as we call on Mayor de Blasio to make stronger commitments on climate before he goes to the UN Climate Talks...
Peekskill to Paris: Global Climate Rally Tomorrow at 1pm
Saturday, November 28, 1:00 pm Peekskill Riverfront Green 50 Hudson Ave, Peekskill, NY 10566 This will be a gathering of local residents along with many Westchester based environmental organizations ( WESPAC, Clearwater, Intergenerate, SAPE, SANEnergy, Federated Conservationists of Westchester, IPSEC …and many more) at the Riverfront Green Park in Peekskill, NY. We will be standing...
Entergy To Close Two Nuclear Power Plants
Thrilling news has come through in recent weeks as Entergy, which runs Indian Point among several other nuclear power plants, announced it will shutter their Fitzpatrick nuclear facility in upstate New York and Pilgrim in Massachusetts. “Entergy Corp. will close the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in New York in late 2016 or early 2017,...
Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds on a Carbon Free, Nuclear Free World
In preparation for the New York City People’s Climate March, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen spoke to staffers from the United Nations about why nuclear power is not a viable solution to the issue of climate change. Following the New York City UN presentation, Arnie traveled to Westchester County, New York regarding the Entergy-owned Indian Point reactors that are located only...
This Sunday! Zephyr Teachout speaks live on climate solutions!
Sunday, November 8th, 3 pm Climate Solutions Grassroots Tour Co-Hosted by Sierra Club, Rockland Water Coalition & Temple Israel Center Green Team Temple Israel Center 280 Old Mamaroneck Road, White Plains, NY 10605 Zephyr Teachout will speak on the solutions to climate change, one of the most urgent environmental problems of our time! Zephyr galvanized...
Fukushima Freeways Campaign Kicks Off
New Map shows Hudson River Valley would be a Corridor for Dangerous High Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste Shipments [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyc0m49BN-I] Picture huge semi-trailer trucks, barreling down the freeway towering alongside of you. Or coming in the opposite direction on the freeway lanes passing near you. On the trucks are gigantic concrete cylinders. Hundreds of high level...
Nuclear Radiation: New Findings Bring Horror and Hope
In the wake of the NRC’s shocking cancellation of a study on the cancer risks of nuclear power plants, new studies have been released throwing the situation in stark relief. A paper published in the November issue of Epidemiology, studied children in the Fukushima region of Japan. The study found that children have been diagnosed...
“The Hudson: A River at Risk” Documentary and Q&A Panel
Thursday, October 22nd, 6:30 pm Ossining Documentary & Discussion Series Budarz Theatre, Ossining Public Library 53 Croton Ave, Ossining, NY 10562 “The Hudson: A River at Risk” is a Series of short films by Jon Bowermaster (“Dear Governor Cuomo”) that chronicles three time-sensitive issues affecting our Hudson River – Crude Oil rail transport, building the new...
