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March for Our Children to Shut Down Pilgrim Nuclear Plant

    June 13 - 16  Plymouth to Boston 

Boston Downwinders will join Mass Downwinders on a walk from Plymouth to the State House to raise awareness about the terrible condition of Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, and to gather signatures on a petition to Governor Baker to SHUT IT DOWN.  

 

Starts:  Saturday, June 13 in Plymouth

Ends:   Tuesday, June 16 in Boston

12:30 pm Rally at Dewey Square 

  1:00 pm Walk up Summer Street to the State House

  2:00 pm Rally in the Gardner Auditorium at the State House

 

Join us!  The walk will span 54 miles over 4 days - from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth to the Boston State House.    Good company, meals and accommodations will be provided. All belongings can be towed by van, so you will not have to carry any of your gear.  You can join us all the way or for any part of our journey.

For more information, details on the route, or to sponsor a walker, please visit http://www.madownwinders.org/calendar/march-for-our-children/.

Boston Downwinders is a recently formed working group of Massachusetts Peace Action. Our immediate mission is to close Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, which has the same failed GE Mark II design as the Fukushima plant. Experts for the Massachusetts Attorney General said that the Pilgrim's overloaded spent fuel pool is vulnerable to a catastrophic fire that could contaminate over 100 miles downwind and cause up to 24,000 latent cancers and $488 billion in damages.   The Nuclear Regulatory Commission placed Pilgrim among the 5 worst run reactors in the US.  And a Pentagon-commissioned analysis listed it among the 8 US plants most vulnerable to catastrophic terror attack.  As with every other nuclear plant, there is no safe place to put the waste. Our grandchildren’s grandchildren will have to take care of it -- while receiving no benefits.

Boston Downwinders have been joining Cape Downwinders in lobbying our State Reps and Senators to sponsor bills improving Pilgrim's safety, health and evacuation procedures. And we are sharing our concerns with the Mass. Emergency Management Association (MEMA), which is responsible for evacuation in case of accident.

 

We need your energy, ideas and support.  Please come to  our next meeting on June 1, 7pm at the First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., in Harvard Square.   

And join us for all or part of the MARCH FOR OUR CHILDREN through Plymouth, Kingston, Weymouth, Cohasset, Hingham Braintree and on to Boston.  

 

Activists played a key role in shutting down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station and we can do the same for Massachusetts!      

 

For more information about our Pilgrim Nuclear Plant and Boston Downwinders, see http://masspeaceaction.org/close-pilgrim-nuclear  or contact us.

 

Yours for a clean and safe energy future,

 

Guntram Mueller and Paula Sharaga

Co Conveners, Boston Downwinders 

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