Japan Vigils Planned for Date of Three Mile Island Anniversary Next Week

by Jess Leber · 2011-03-21 07:33:00 UTC
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Through donations, volunteerism and activism, U.S. residents have already shown an outpouring of support for Japan.

Greenpeace, next Monday, March 28th, is organizing one more important opportunity. That day supporters will host of "Have Courage Japan" vigils across the U.S. in a show of solidarity, even as Japan continues to struggle in controlling the hobbled Fukushima reactors.  (Click here to organize a vigil, and click here to find out where to attend a vigil near you).

In Hong Kong, hundreds attended a similar Greenpeace vigil held over the weekend where residents expressed their concerns over a proposed nuclear expansion in the region.

In the U.S., March 28th is a symbolic day: Thirty-two years ago was the Three Mile Island disaster.

Up until two weeks ago, this partial meltdown near Middletown, Pennsylvania was the second worst nuclear accident in the world, after Chernobyl. Its legacy was the cause of a serious re-examination of U.S. nuclear policy and is one major reason that no new nuclear reactors have been built in the U.S. since the accident.

Greenpeace USA has long been one prominent organization in the U.S. working to keep it that way. Right now, it is working to oppose a nuclear industry renaissance tucked into next year's federal government budget. The White House has proposed that $36 billion tax dollar go towards financing the building of new nuclear reactors, even though popular opinion vastly supports ending nuclear subsidies.

Please sign Greenpeace's petition to Congress and President Obama asking them to remove nuclear giveaways from the final budget.

And, in this time of crisis, organize or attend a vigil next Monday and check out how to donate here. "The vigils will not be about our campaign objectives or even nukes specifically, but to show our solidarity with the people of Japan for the dual crisis of the natural earthquake and tsunami disasters and the manmade nuclear disaster," said Christopher Eaton, a Greenpeace USA organizer.

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Photo credit: Greenpeace Finland

Jess Leber is a Change.org editor. She most recently covered climate and energy issues as a reporter in Washington, D.C

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