How interesting how this article ties together those activists that accomplished making Sebastopol a Nuclear Free Zone with activism across the spectrum of different issues starting in the 60’s.
This is a wonderful rememberance of the past. The work of activists is often forgotten and ignored as for the Nuclear Free Zone, stopping the nuclear reactor on the San Andreas Fault in Bodega Bay and ending the Vietnam War. Let's look at today - how Sebastopol AKA Peacetown can't find a way to call for a cease fire or condemn genocide. Those are things that can make a difference today and as a Palestinian state is recognized almost everywhere save the live and limbs of children and innocent people. Yes, this is controversial as was the Nuclear Free Zone and almost all the progress made in the past 100 years.
The film "Silkwood" had nothing to do with the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident. Karen Silkwood was a low level tech at a Kerr-McGhee plutnomum plant in Kansas and sued the company in a well-covered court case for exposure to radiation. She was represented by Wyoming attorney Gary Spence who won Silkwood a modest cash settlement just months before her death from radiation poisoning.
Yikes, this is what happens when you depend on your memory of a movie you saw 40 years ago. Will fix that reference. Nonetheless I believe Silkwood definitely fed the anti-nuclear movement. Thanks for the correction!
If somebody invents neighborhood nuclear power plants I would be for having a nuclear power plant. We need electricity especially with the building of all electric homes and the popularity of electric vehicles. No one is going to manufacture shaped explosives in town. The whole thing is kind of stupid.
Wow! That is a real hike down memory lane. Good job, Albert and Laura! And thanks to Donna P for tending the historical files!
How interesting how this article ties together those activists that accomplished making Sebastopol a Nuclear Free Zone with activism across the spectrum of different issues starting in the 60’s.
This is a wonderful rememberance of the past. The work of activists is often forgotten and ignored as for the Nuclear Free Zone, stopping the nuclear reactor on the San Andreas Fault in Bodega Bay and ending the Vietnam War. Let's look at today - how Sebastopol AKA Peacetown can't find a way to call for a cease fire or condemn genocide. Those are things that can make a difference today and as a Palestinian state is recognized almost everywhere save the live and limbs of children and innocent people. Yes, this is controversial as was the Nuclear Free Zone and almost all the progress made in the past 100 years.
The film "Silkwood" had nothing to do with the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident. Karen Silkwood was a low level tech at a Kerr-McGhee plutnomum plant in Kansas and sued the company in a well-covered court case for exposure to radiation. She was represented by Wyoming attorney Gary Spence who won Silkwood a modest cash settlement just months before her death from radiation poisoning.
Yikes, this is what happens when you depend on your memory of a movie you saw 40 years ago. Will fix that reference. Nonetheless I believe Silkwood definitely fed the anti-nuclear movement. Thanks for the correction!
If somebody invents neighborhood nuclear power plants I would be for having a nuclear power plant. We need electricity especially with the building of all electric homes and the popularity of electric vehicles. No one is going to manufacture shaped explosives in town. The whole thing is kind of stupid.