Messages of Solidarity For the 7000 Generations Walk
Subject: Solidaire de votre marche J'ai participé à une petite partie de la marche pour le Moratoire d'une génération sur le gaz de shale et autres énergies sales (plus de 600km) entre Rimouski et Montréal. J'ai été impressionné par le courage et la détermination du noyau de marcheurs.
Je vous encourage à réaliser votre grand défi et vous soutiens de tout coeur. C'est par de tels gestes que nous vaincrons !
Salutations cordiales,
Raymond Gauthier
Îles de la Madeleine, Québec
English translation:
Solidarity with your walk
I took part in a small part of walk for the Moratorium of a generation on gas of shale and other energies dirty (more 600km) between Rimouski and Montreal. I was impressed by the courage and the determination of the core of walkers.
I encourage you to carry out your great challenge and support you wholeheartedly. It is by such gestures that we will overcome!
Cordial greetings,
Subject: supporting your walk against nuclear waste
Hello,
For about 35 years I have been educating myself about nuclear power, and all things nuclear, and I can tell you that the more that I learn, the stronger my conviction that the ONLY good and safe place for nuclear power is 93 million miles away, and it is called the SUN. We, as a species, must really be insane to even contemplate having anything nuclear here on earth. Which of course we do (have nuclear power and weapons), so that means we are (collectively insane). I THANK you with all my heart for being on this walk that you are on, and I want to send you this message of support. It gives me hope that sanity will prevail.
Monika Schaefer
Jasper, Alberta
P.S. I was the Green Party of Canada candidate in the last 3 federal elections. You certainly don't have to mention this if you are reading my message out loud and if you are keeping this non-partisan. I'm only mentioning it because I saw reference made to the NDP position, in the article about this walk, and for that reason thought it worth mentioning. The Green Party, after all, was born in Germany out of the nuclear opposition movement there.
This was posted on Say No to Nuclear Waste Storage in Northern Saskatchewan on August 8, 2011
To: Committee for Future Generations
As an Initiative against a Nuclear Waste Dump in northern Germany we send Greetings of Solidarity to You and all the People walking the 800 Km. Nuclear Waste is as dangerous as Uranium mining and the so called standard operation of Nuclear Power Plants. There is no Place on this Earth where it can be stored savely, and Uranium should remain in the Ground. Strength and Endurance to all the People that resist the Nuclear Industry.
Günter Hermeyer BI Lüchow-Dannenberg Germany
Subject: nuclear
Mr. Harding,
I live in Ontario, fortunately, far away from any nuclear reactors.
I fully support your ban on any storage of nuclear waste anywhere. There is no safe way to store nuclear waste and for that and other reasons, nuclear power plants should be closed. We have other safer methods of producing power.
Please continue your message in stopping nuclear.
Sincerely,
Valerie Guenther,
Thunder Bay, ON
‘Indigene’ (Latin = ‘self-generating’) 'Community' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift or service')
Indigene Community www.indigenecommunity.info
Dear Jim Harding, Coalition for a Clean Green Saskatchewan,
Copy to Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility,
Thank you for your organisation of this 800 kilometre Saskatchewan Pinehouse to Regina walk for a nuclear waste free future. Thank you for walking for all communities, Canadians and for the whole world. During the late 1970s I helped organise, educate myself and the public in creating a Uranium mining and exploration free British Columbia. During that process, I learned what deep trouble we are in as a planet due to human irresponsibility for our calling as ‘indigenous’ (Latin = ‘self-generating’) earth stewards. We are all originally indigenous peoples from every place on earth, but have lost our way. The ecological abundance and strong economies of healthy vibrant biosphere’s clearly surpass short term artificial military-media-industrial-complex bribery. Nuclear advocates lose every debate they are usually forced to take part in and then quickly shift their destructive efforts elsewhere in slippery deception.
Douglas Jack
douglasf.jack@gmail.com www.indigenecommunity.info Dialogos, house of dialogue, 9662 Jean-Milot, LaSalle(Kahnawake-Nord), Quebec, H8R 1X9, 514-365-9594
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:13 AM
Subject: Nuclear waste
To Jim Harding
I strongly support your efforts to prevent dumping of nuclear waste, and in general to protect the public from the scourge of the nuclear industry.
Best wishes,
Stan R. Blecher
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Dr Stan R Blecher MD, FCCMG
Medical Geneticist
Professor Emeritus
Molecular Biology and Genetics, and
Director Emeritus
School of Human Biology
University of Guelph
From: Barry Lipton
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 1:39 PM
Subject: New Killer Waste
Hello Jim
I just read the story about the anti nuclear dump march from Pinehouse to Regina.
I stand in solidarity with the Guardians of Mother Earth in their march protesting the building of a nuclear garbage dump in Northern Saskatchewan.
The amazing hubris of the Nuclear Waste Management Committee that they could keep such a facility safe for 250,000 years is beyond belief.
There is no civilization on the Earth that has lasted more than 1000 years and these so called Nuclear charlatans are saying that this facility will be operating and safe
2,500 centuries from now.
They are lying and will be misrepresenting everything that will happen in the future.
If it is so safe let them keep the nuclear garbage in the basement of the Saskatchewan Legislative building.
Barry Lipton
Toronto ON
"No drug, not even alcohol causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and the love of power." P.J. O'Rourke
From: Dr.N.Colleen Cooper
Sent:Sunday, August 07, 2011 12:55 PM
Dear Jim,
We have been trying to sign the petition to ban storage of nuclear waste in Sask. but now want you and others to know that we support their work/walk and other efforts. It baffles the mind to think that an individual or community could make such a lethal decision on behalf of
all Saskatchewanians.
Regards,
Dr. N C and Leslie Cooper
Saskatoon
A beautiful poem written by Saskatchewan poet & advocate for a nuclear free Saskatchewan, Carla Braidek:
Walk for the Future
Chokecherry purple has puckered my mouth
and I’ve crouched in a burn, hands among blueberries.
Where bees hum over asters and bedstraw
I’ve surprised a doe with two fawns.
I’ve crossed inlets of beaver notching the shore of a summer lake
and followed the otter’s slide through snow over winter ice.
Muskeg has quivered beneath my feet and
spring sun warmed my back.
I’ve walked with my children, laughing in rain,
cupping salamanders in our hands then setting them free,
watching their strong legs churn mud.
I’ve seen my children grow and leave and come
home
again and again
as much for this place and the peace it brings
as for the arms that welcome them.
I cannot save your home from this unknown -
this nuclear waste with the potential to destroy
the water you drink,
disrupt the lives of those you love,
nor can you save mine,
but together
we can protect them both.
So we walk
with our children and their children
neighbours and strangers
with the bear and elk, with the muskrat and raven.
We are holding hands.
We carry water.
We will keep this water clean.
--Carla Braidek
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 8:59 AM
Hello Jim and Gordon
Kudos to all the people marching in Sask. The whole idea of putting a waste dump in these communities is obscene. Get it out of Ontario and onto first nations land. This is economic development?
If this material is as safe as the industry keeps telling us, why not keep it where it is?
Keep up the good work.
Brent Reese
Earth Alternatives
Manning AB.
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 11:33 AM
Subject: Endorsement -- Letter of Support -- March Against Nuclear Waste in Saskatchewan
August 7 2011
Re: 7000 Generation Walk Against Nuclear Waste
Hello my Saskatchewan Friends.
I congratulate you on your determination to speak out against the transport of nuclear waste from Ontario, and elsewhere, to Northern Saskatchewan, where it would remain a radiotoxic hazard for more than a million years to come.
Your Long March helps to dramatize the enormity of what the nuclear industry is doing to the Earth. The materials that would be stored in Northern Saskatchewan are the same materials that were spewed across Europe and Northern Canada from the Chernobyl reactor disaster more than 20 years ago. They are the same materials that are contaminating beef, tea, land, fish and people in Japan as a result of the Fukushima disaster. They are the same materials that will necessitate the expenditure of more than $200 billion to stabilize the radioactive garbage from the American nuclear weapons program.
Nobody knows how to safeguard future generations against these radioactive poisons for periods of time that dwarf the span of human history. The USA has tried eight times to locate a "safe" geologic repository for the permanent storage of nuclear wastes, and they have failed eight times -- the most recent failure being the abandonment of the Yucca Mountain Project after spending over $10 billion in research and development there.
Nuclear proponents -- such as the members of the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization -- do not want to solve the nuclear waste problem, they want to perpetuate it. If nuclear power is allowed to continue and even expand, as they hope, then the production of nuclear waste will never cease. Those wastes will be moved to Saskatchewan only to make room for more and more wastes to be produced, back East, and there will be an unending traffic in radioactive garbage moving across Canadian highways.
Citizens in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and the rest of Canada applaud you for your determination to say "no" to this proposition. Citizens must send a message to our elected
representatives to phase out of nuclear power in Canada as Germany and Japan are now determined to do in their countries.
Warm thanks and best wishes,
Gordon Edwards, Ph.D., President,
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011
Subject: from ron darling
Hi Jim!!! On behalf of our Manning, AB., anti-nuclear group "Earth Alternatives," may I express our sincere support to your people on the 800-kilometer walk to oppose a nuke dump in northern Saskatchewan. We certainly hope your government will listen and we really wish we could be there to take part in the walk. All the best ...... and take care of the blisters!
Letter of Support from The National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC)
August 5, 2011
To: The Committee for Future Generations and participants in the 7000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste
The National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC), representing thousands of Canadians through its affiliated member groups, 19 Nationally Organized Societies, six Provincial Councils of Women, and 14 Local Councils of Women and two Study Groups in eight Provinces, sends its strong support to those in Saskatchewan who are participating in the 7000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste.
NCWC has policy regarding the dangers of nuclear energy dating back to 1955. It has been commenting on the disposal of nuclear waste since our participation in the Seaborn Panel‟s lengthy hearings of 1996-98 and up to the present. NCWC has observed and critiqued the Nuclear Waste Management Organization‟s efforts to find a “willing host community” for its development of deep geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste in either the Precambrian shield or, more recently, the Ordovician Sedimentary formations of southern Ontario.
Your arduous walk points directly at, and illuminates clearly, a repetitive pattern of behavior of the nuclear proponents, smooth promotional presentations that fail to show any drawbacks, enticements of increased employment, improved community economies, financial gains, one-sided community consultations and newsletters featuring community activities sponsored by NWMO. This is happening even before NWMO knows if the potential sites are geologically “safe” for the thousands of years that are necessary to keep these dangerous radioactive elements secure.
One can well question such high pressure tactics. In November 1996, Chief Morin of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan asked the Seaborn Panel: “Is it ethical to give a slick presentation to the First Nations communities on the safety and economic benefit and not tell the other side clearly?”. The Seaborn Panel report noted the failure of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd to properly consult with northern Ontario residents saying “Despite the fact that Aboriginal people may be among those most affected by a concept for managing nuclear fuel wastes, their involvement has been inadequate”.
Despite the fact that to date no community‟s geology has been determined to be „specifically‟ sound or safe, the dangers to communities along the potential routes from existing and planned nuclear stations have not been considered. In northern Saskatchewan, the huge distances add to the dangers and expense which NWMO does not admit and the enormous costs and dangers of nuclear power are not yet factored into costs.
We note that, unlike these eight “willing” communities who are lured into one-sided consultation, one community - that of Muskoka Minister Tony Clement - has on his advice declared itself an “unwilling” community. At this early stage in the NWMO‟s search for a “willing community”, it is extremely important that the public be alerted to all of the issues you are raising.
We heartily commend the Committee for Future Generations for your stalwart determination to undertake the 7,000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste.
Sincerely,
Denise Mattok
President
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:56 AM
Subject:Bravo!
To Jim and all the marchers on the journey to oppose nuke waste,
Bravo!
We Ontarians who oppose the production of nuclear waste applaud the actions of the courageous Saskatchewanites who are pounding the pavement for the planet.
We walk and we raise our fists in solidarity with you.
With appreciation,
Angela
Angela Bischoff
Outreach Director
Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Tel: 416 260-2080 x 1
160 John St., #300
Toronto, ON M5V 2E5
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