[TABLE=”width: 100%”]
[TR]
[TD=”width: 20″]
[/TD]
[TD=”width: 580″][TABLE=”width: 580″]
[TR]
[TD][TABLE=”width: 100%”]
[TR]
[TD]Resistance starts on November, 24
Demonstration in Dannenberg, Germany, at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, November 26, followed by resistance activities. X-day likely to be on the first Sunday in Advent
On November 24, a transport of high level radioactive waste, so called ‘Castor’ containers, will be shipped from La Hague in France to Gorleben in Germany. Massive resistance is expected to stop this dangerous shipment, and to push the authorities and industry to immediately phase-out nuclear power.
We want to invite you to join us in the ‘Wendland’ region, the destination of the Castor transport. We are going to prepare a framework for international guests of the Castor resistance to come in contact with other English speakers and to help you to understand what is going on there. We will have a common meeting point where you can sleep, get food and information about actions and possibilities to join the protests.
The anti-nuclear protests against the Castor transports are unique. You will get to know a supportive atmosphere as the residents of the county are mainly supporting the protesters, while thousands of anti- nuclear activists will travel to the region to blockade the shipment.
Some 20,000 police will ‘protect’ the transport, which means they want to prevent actions blockading the radioactive shipment. However, in the past most actions succeeded delaying the transport. Actions will take place from France to Germany along the hundreds of kilometers of tracks the train has to take to the city Dannenberg in the Wendland region. There the containers will be loaded onto trucks to make the last 20 kilometers to the interim repository in Gorleben on the roads.
Blockades are proposed to take place on the tracks before Lueneburg on public tracks used also by other trains, on the ‘Castor tracks’ between Lueneburg and Dannenberg only used for the nuclear industry during these days, and on the roads to Gorleben. A number of organizations, alliances and groups already announced public actions in the Wendland region. The variety of activities is broad. You will find sit-in blockades, lock-on actions, climbing activists, barricades, creative farmers blocking streets with their tractors and much more.
We are offering to explore and join this colourful and creative resistance with each other, figuring out together what actions fit you, or just to visit actions to make experiences and get inspired for your own activities back home.
There will be some German activists who want to accompany and support the international guests. We will try to organize additional means to make it easier to get to interesting places, and there will probably be chances to speak about your anti-nuclear expertise or the fights you have in your region. For the local resistance it is also positive if we can show that the international community is supporting the anti-nuclear resistance and that it is not only a German struggle. It would also be a sign to the international public that anti-nuclear movements are supporting each other in Gorleben, and that we will do it in other places, too.
http://www.castor2011.org/international-call-english[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Castor Schottern – Call 2011
For the immediate shutdown of nuclear facilities worldwide!
For a local and democratic administration of power supply!We are convinced: It is and remains appropriate and inevitable to make the Castor tracks in Wendland impassable; it is and remains inevitable to gravel the Castor.
After Fukushima and the so-called energy turnaround of the German government we must not simply go back to normal.
NUCLEAR WASTE, CASTOR TRANSPORTS, GORLEBEN… – STILL NOT OVER
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima has shown once again that the “remaining risk” of nuclear power is beyond control. There has been no realignment of energy policy after the pullout of lifetime extension: “Modern” nuclear power plants are to remain on line until the next decade. They will produce hundreds of tons of highly toxic nuclear waste and will reproduce the risk of a maximum credible accident every single day. Although it will be searched for an ultimate storage for nuclear waste without focussing on specific results, it is clear: There is neither safe a interim nor an ultimate storage facility!
The situation in Asse and Morsleben makes that blatantly obvious! Having said this: Not despite, but because of the light version of the nuclear phase-out of the German government there are enough reasons to stop Castor in November.
FOR A SOCIETY IN WHICH NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE IMPOSSIBLE!
Even the “phaseout” of the German government does not alter the need to act for a local, democratically organised electrical power supply: Nothing changes for the uranium enrichment facility in Gronau – just as the government sticks to its bonds for the export of German nuclear technology to Brazil. The destructive uranium mining in the Southern hemisphere will also continue. This proves: Saving power and profits of the energy companies is the guideline of the current energy policy. A capitalist energy industry works because of the profits being privatised and the risks and costs being unloaded on the society and the environment.
The same logic applies to the agreement to build new coal-burning power plants, which accelerate climate change and permanently secure the profit of the energy companies by means of centralist energy production. It is thus an alliance between the government and CEOs who want to create new “ultimate storage sites” by means of CCS-technology (Carbon Capture and Storage; subterranean compressing of CO2) – this time for CO2 -, in order to make coal-burning power “climate friendly” and green.
COLLECTIVISE ENERGY COMPANIES!
Thus, resistance against Castor transports to Wendland also becomes resistance against the power of energy companies, their brown coal mining and new coal-burning power plants, against their neo- imperialistic solar energy projects in North-Africa. Castor transports to Wendland have a special tradition as a place for new forms of action.
Thus, “Castor? Schottern!” has been publically legitimized by thousands of activests as a well-known practice of the anti-nuclear movement last year. This year it is still legitimate to remove gravel from the track bed in order to make the tracks impassable. It is still essential to create a
balance to a nuclear-fossilistic policy that represents the interests of energy companies.
YES, WE DO KEEP INTERFERING…NUCLEAR PHASEOUT AND CLIMATE JUSTICE REMAIN MANUAL LABOUR!
