[Seattle-editorial] Re: [Imc-seattle-community] Hanford update

[anarch3m]

I think half of IMC is working on this initiative.  I posted this to the site, adding that the petition is here in the space to sign.  Somne one needs to remember to bring in some voter reg materials also.

And keep posting the issue so we can have a feature?  that would be a logical step.

walt  
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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:08:49
From: melissa roberts <seattlepa at yahoo.com>
To: imc-seattle-community at lists.indymedia.org,gpos_ofinterest at seattlegreens.org
Cc: 

>(fwds. ok)
>
>
>I-297 
>
>General Background for Initiative #297 
>
>Initiative 297 has been launched by the Protect
>Washington campaign to stop the Bush Administration
>from making Hanford a national radioactive waste dump.
>The initiative would appear on the November, 2004
>election ballot - forcing Bush to explain why he wants
>to make Hanford a national radioactive waste dump, and
>why he won't stop the U.S. Department of Energy from
>dumping deadly radioactive waste in unlined soil
>ditches, every time he appears in the Northwest to
>campaign. 
>
>If I-297 does not make it on the ballot, the Bush
>Administration will begin importing 70,000 truckloads
>of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons plants to be
>dumped in the ground at Hanford, which is already the
>most contaminated area in the Western hemisphere. Many
>of these truckloads will include highly radioactive
>Plutonium and other wastes. The trucks emit radiation
>levels so high that several fatal cancers are
>predicted in the public stuck in traffic alongside the
>trucks or along the routes, even without a single
>accident or terrorist attack on these rolling "dirty
>bombs". 
>
>We must submit 190,000 valid signatures (need 260,000
>total) to the Secretary of State by December 31, 2004.
>
>
>We can't dump our kitchen garbage in unlined soil
>trenches - it's against the law. The City of Seattle
>can't dump municipal garbage in unlined landfills,
>it's against the law. It's long past time to end
>dumping of deadly radioactive waste in unlined soil
>trenches. Wastes from Hanford's soil trenches and
>leaking High-Level Nuclear Waste tanks is
>contaminating ground water and flowing towards the
>Columbia River. Initiative 297 would end dumping in
>unlined trenches and ban adding more waste to Hanford
>until the contamination is cleaned up, and the wastes
>already at Hanford are stored in compliance with
>existing hazardous waste laws. 
>
>Initiative 297 is built around the principle we all
>learned in kindergarten: you have to clean up your
>(radioactive) mess before you get to add more!
>
>For information on the "Protect Washington" campaign
>and Initiative 297, to request petitions or to
>volunteer go to  
>
>www.heartofamericanorthwest.org or,
>www.protectwashington.org or, call: 206-382-1014
>
>
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