Protecting the future of or energy driven culture< /title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 110%; color: black; background-color: ##C4F8FB; margin: 1em; padding: 0; } /* By the way, this is a comment */ p { line-height: 1.5em; } h1 { color: #ffc; background-color: #900; font-size: 2em; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding: 0.25em; font-style: italic; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 0.5em; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5em; border-bottom-color: #c00; } h2 { color: white; background-color: #090; font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0; padding: 0.1em; padding-left: 1em; } h3 { color: #090; font-size: 1.25em; } img { border-style: dashed; border-width: 2px; border-color: #ccc; } a { text-decoration: none; } strong { font-style: italic; text-transform: uppercase; } li { color: #800040; font-style: italic; } table { background-color: #ccc; } </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#C9FCF5"> <h2>Protecting the future of or energy driven culture</h2> <h2> </h2> <h3>This an outline of the strategic Ideas with supporting documents. </h3> <p>This document itself or equivalent should be up on a secure online wiki where the document can be debated, editing and expanded upon issue by issue, strategy by strategy. </p> <ul> <li>Think Global, Act Locally...This adage was written prior to the arrival of the internet. One of the biggest failures of the U.S. movement is to organize resources at the International level. There are starving, as well as very healthy movements around the world that deserve to be plugged into today's internet strategies. </li> <br> <br> <li>Reuniting at the fuel-cycle level to draw out the plague of victims numbered somewhere between 100-400 thousand DOE workers who have had the lives wrecked. How dare the nuclear power movement say that nobody has ever died as a result of its operations. It isthe DOE fuel-cycle infrastructure where the scope of the environmental and human health problems exist.</li> <br> <br> <li> Linking the New Cold War infrastructure costs as the real agenda behind more nuclear energy. </li> <br> <br> <li>Back when the issue first really took off with the cold war and the Three Mile Island accident, there was a concerted effort to bring not only the weapons and power movements together at the fuel-cycle, but also as the movement matured there would be an growing understanding of how a movement needed to crossover into other issues to broaden its support. The first major movement to go the farthest with this was Die Grunen in Germany. </li> <br> <br> <li>Today, you wouldn't even know that there was a Green Party component in the U.S. that represented an on the ground process of opposition. The movement needs to openly embarrass this community out of its wishy washy stand. This is one party that has beak that it can't eveecome so wn generate a Press Release, yet has tens of thousands of members. </li> <br> <br> <li>Take the bloody issue away from the Sierra Club and the D.C. Beltway crowd! The non-profit model of organizing means sending out a press-release, alert or petition. The major environmental groups have all made it perfectly clear that they are unwilling to take a public stand on this issue because it would mean losing conservative members. The movement last time was spontaneous, based locally and didn't rely on what DC thought about whether they wore a tie or not. </li> <br> <br> <li>During the early phase of the movement (mid to late 1970's) the movement evolved from the position that the NRC would be reasonable in evaluating legitimate concerns to a pragmatic radicalism that pointed to the fact that they had never blocked a single reactor proposal. The current opposition movement has yet to go beyond this early phase of opposition due to the age of the movement. </li> <br> <br> <li>How about holding a nuclear tribunal (put it on tape) that documents of the lies, scandals economic failures of this bank driven corporate greedy bunch. </li> <br> <br> <li>The movement needs to use some of the same strategies being employed by the grass roots climate change community. Way Cool: Take a video camera into a community and interview people. Then find another impact community and swap interviews. Don't get flashy! Make it look like home movies as its all about the human element not what NBC wants you not to think about. </li> <br> <br> <li>The corporate Media is the number one problem in breaching to bandwagon strategy being pushed this time, just like last time. Where's Bill Moyer's MAPI analysis with activists? Probably the biggest frustration is the fact that the DC crowd (NIRS - Beyond Nuclear - UCS - Public Citizen) has lost most of its capacity to organize due to lack of funds. When groups are tight on cash they tend to play budget games. Resources to small groups are all ladled out with an agenda. The fact that the DC community is clearly hurting can be seen in its failure to bring back the highly sucessful Safe Energy Communication Council model that was used as a common resource for the larger movement, focussing on quality media resources. Public Citizen used to be at the cutting edge with their regular reports that were circulated out to groups across the country in a cooperative media release campaign. Even The World Watch Institute came out with detailed reports that laid out the flaws of the industry.<br> <br> </li> <li> </ul> </body> </html>