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Living Legacy Fund Honors Retiring WAND Director, Bobbie Paul

(APN) DECATUR — Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions honored Bobbie Paul, outgoing Executive Director, for her hard work and dedication to some of the most pressing issues of our generation–nuclear disarmament and opposition to nuclear power–on Thursday, August 22, 2013, in Old Courthouse on the Square, in Decatur, Georgia.   Hundreds of activists and friends showed up to honor […]

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(IPS) US Agency Gave Nuclear Industry a Sweet Deal, Documents Reveal

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/06/u-s-agency-gave-nuclear-industry-a-sweet-deal-documents-reveal/ ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 30 2012 (IPS) – The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) recently won a two-year legal battle to secure documents from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Freedom of Information Act related to nuclear power loan guarantees offered to utility companies under the Barack Obama […]

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Shell Bluff Residents Speak Out on Nuclear Reactors

  (APN) SHELL BLUFF, GEORGIA — On January 07, 2012, a bus carrying members of Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions (GA WAND), Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, Nuclear Watch South, Grandmothers for Peace, and other concerned citizens arrived in Shell Bluff, Georgia, for a community meeting at Fairfield Missionary Baptist Church, to discuss Georgia Power’s plans for two […]

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Georgia PSC Can’t Silence Nuclear Power Debate

  (APN) Doug Everett, Member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, attempted to limit the scope of public remarks at a recent meeting of the PSC, on Wednesday, July 06, 2011, but could not prevent citizens from stating they do not want two new nuclear power reactors in Georgia at Plant Vogtle. The nuclear disaster at Fukushima is a wake-up […]

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Chernobyl Experts Speak in Georgia about Nuclear Risks, Disasters

(APN) ATLANTA — Last week, Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at Manuel’s Tavern, Georgia Women’s Action for New Direction (WAND), hosted Dr. Nataliya Miranova and Natalia Manzurova, for the purpose of them sharing their expertise on the risks of nuclear reactors, and the threat such reactors post to humanity. They spoke at Manuel’s and at Emory University, before heading to Chattanooga, […]

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