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SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL DON'T NUKE THE CLIMATE CAMPAIGN!
DECEMBER 11-12 CALL-IN AND ACTION DAYS
November 23, 2009
Dear Friend of NIRS,

The behind-the-scenes maneuvering on the Senate climate bill is reaching a
fever pitch, especially the efforts to add tens--or even hundreds--of
billions of dollars in new taxpayer-backed support for the nuclear power
industry.

Sens. Kerry (D-MA), Graham (R-SC) and Lieberman (I-CT) are actively
shopping around potential benefits for the nuclear industry in a misguided
means
of garnering support for the climate bill. Sens. Webb (D-VA) and Alexander
(R-TN) released an absurd bill last week calling for $100 billion in new
taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactors, as well as billions more for
breeder reactors, small reactors, and reprocessing. Sens. Udall (D-CO),
Bingaman (D-NM) and Murkowski (R-AK) have introduced new legislation to
jumpstart
a 10-year program to develop new "small, modular" nuclear reactors.

The good news is that none of this is set in stone, none of it need be
enacted--there is still time for us all to act and stop the folly of wasting
our taxpayer dollars on dangerous and dirty nuclear reactors and direct our
resources to the safer, cleaner and cheaper energy technologies that will
power our future.

The December Copenhagen climate negotiations offer a terrific opportunity
to send a message that nuclear power is neither an effective nor acceptable
means of addressing the climate crisis. Our colleagues at WISE,
Greenpeace, Sortir du Nucleaire, Friends of the Earth, International Forum on
Globalization and others will be in Copenhagen with a strong Don't Nuke the
Climate message.

On Saturday, December 12, they've called for an international day of
action to support their efforts in Copenhagen. In solidarity, NIRS is calling
for National Don't Nuke the Climate Call-In and Action Days to take place on
December 11-12 across the US.

Here is what you can do:

*First: support the international movement by signing the Don't Nuke the
Climate statement prepared by the French organization Sortir du Nucleaire.
_You can do so (in English) here_
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individual signers are all welcome and encouraged. Note: take a few minutes to
look
around this website! You can also post a photo of yourself and join more
than 2600 others in the photo gallery, watch the great film Climate of Hope,
and more.

*Second, prepare now for the national call-in days. On December 11-12,
let's all call the Senate and tell every Senator loudly and clearly: no nukes
in the climate bill!

*Third, don't stop there! Make these call-in days and support actions for
Copenhagen special. Stage a small protest outside your Senators' district
offices: bring cellphones and ask people walking by to call their Senators
right there and then. Set up a meeting in a coffeeshop, student union, in
front of a food-co-op or other public gathering place, and ask everyone who
comes to call their senators. We call on every grassroots group to support
our colleagues in Copenhagen with demonstrations at local proposed reactor
sites, existing reactors, Federal Buildings or anywhere else you can think
of. Or make up your own action!

Help get the most people involved as possible, and the most people calling
in to the Senate as possible.

NIRS will help you organize in any way we can; for example, we can tell
other people in your area about your event. We also will be providing talking
points for phone calls, and for your outreach work and contacts with the
media in your area.

After Thanksgiving, we'll also be providing you a new letter to send to
your Senators, bringing the facts to them about the continuing dangers of
nuclear power, the daily radiation releases, the deficient designs, the
growing piles of lethal radioactive waste.... Sometimes it seems our
legislators
have forgotten that nuclear power presents risks to our health and
environment no sane society need accept. We will ask you to circulate that
letter
as widely as possible.

Finally, just like most small retail outlets, we receive nearly 50% of our
annual revenue during the holiday season from November through January.
_Your most generous possible contribution now _
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the outreach and actions necessary to change the tenor of debate in
Washington throughout 2010. We're up to the job, if we have the resources. But
we can't do it without you.


Thank you so much for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
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