3.30.13: Leaks, Lies & Lawyers Parade & Rally in Brattleboro on Saturday to protest Entergy's Vermont Yankee
Come to the Leaks, Lies and Lawyers Parade & Rally on Saturday 3/30/13 in Brattleboro, VT. Join the SAGE Alliance & Bread & Puppet Theatre at 3:30 pm!
- Details:
http://www.safeandgreencampaign.org/event/3-30-13-leaks-lies-and-lawyers - 3.30.13 LEAKS, LIES AND LAWYERS, 3:30-6:30 PM
- Harris Place, downtown Brattleboro, VT, 05301
- Organizer: Safe and Green Campaign, safeandgreencampaign@gmail.com
- A year has gone by since Entergy’s VT Yankee reactor went rogue on March 21, 2012. What has one year brought us? Nothing but WASTE! Now Yankee is refueling, and so it will add more waste to the already overstuffed fuel pool. MORE WASTE!
- WASTE of taxpayer money defending Vermont from FOUR new lawsuits by Entergy, plus two appeals.
- WASTE of time that could have been spent on safely decommissioning the reactor.
- WASTE of another year — now 7 years! – without a Clean Water Act permit. Another year of heating up the Connecticut River and boiling the fish, during one of the hottest summers on record.
- Another year of radioactive WASTE in the already over-crowded spent fuel pool, created in 1972 to hold 600 assemblies — it now holds 2,500!
Are we going to sit back and let Entergy’s high priced lawyers decide our energy future? No Way!
LEAKS, LIES AND LAWYERS
3:30pm Parade
Calling all artists, musicians, walkers, singers and satirists! Create a float, make a banner, bring your friends and neighbors! Entergy and the state must be shown that we are not sitting back waiting for the courts to decide out energy future. We will fill the streets of Brattleboro so our voices will be heard! No More Leaks, Lies and Lawyers!
4:30 pm Leaks, Lies and Lawyers
At the Latchis Theatre on Main Street. Speakers, skits, and song. The program includes a legal update, what’s happening at other Entergy reactors around the US, and ways you can shut down Vermont Yankee, advocate for safe, green and prompt decommissioning.
DIRECTIONS: Map to Harris Place Bring quarters for parking.
Gather at the Harris Place parking lot in Brattleboro at 3:30pm. We will parade around the Common and through downtown on our way to the Latchis Theatre. Take Exit 2 off of I91 into downtown Brattleboro, Vt. Follow Route 9 into downtown. Go through the blinking red lights. Turn left into Public Parking i mmediately after the funeral home and before the traffic lights at the very bottom of the hill. On the corner of the parking lot is Silver Moon. Drive to the far end of the parking lot and park there. From this end, it is a short walk down the hill on Grove Street to Main Street. Walk directly across Main Street to Harris Place. (TD bank is on the corner of Main St. and Harris Place.)
If you have a float to unload, you can drive to Harris Place. Same directions as above. Drive thru the parking lot, down Grove Street, and across Main Street into Harris Place.
Co-sponsored by the SAGE Alliance.
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The Rutland Herald has reported on the parade and rally, with more than 500 participants (see photo, left).
The SAGE Alliance has also reported on the successful, inspiring event.