Category Archives: Progressive Community

What You Can Do To Ensure Reliable Elections in Iowa

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  What You Can Do To Ensure Reliable Elections in Iowa OpEdNews Last Thursday, Blog for Iowa asked you to contact your state representatives in Des Moines to demand verifiable elections in Iowa.   Today, we are asking Blog for Iowa … Continue reading →

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Big Media Has Big Plans for Privatizing the Internet

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  Big Media Has Big Plans for Privatizing the Internet The Nation   by Jeff Chester   The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet … Continue reading →

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Band of Brothers: A New Movement of Democratic Veterans

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  Band of Brothers:  A New Movement of Democratic  Veterans BandofBrothers2006.org contributed by Howard Weinberg We’ve heard about Iraq, terrorism, and security from every side. But there’s one group that we need to hear from the most, and in 2006 … Continue reading →

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Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem

Posted on February 1, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

  Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution”
to the Nuclear Waste Problem

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

This program is central to the Bush administration’s efforts to jump-start the moribund nuclear power industry.

Statement of Mary Olson, NIRS Campaign to Stop Reprocessing. Director of NIRS southeast office:

“[George W.] Bush’s misguided obsession with nuclear power has reached a critical and dangerous juncture. The administration has been desperate to find a nuclear waste solution in order to resuscitate the moribund and unpopular nuclear power industry by moving forward quickly on the scientifically-flawed Yucca Mountain waste dump in Nevada. Instead it has found itself spinning its wheels in the mire of Yucca Mountain’s geologic instability and the scandal of covering up these data. Faced with an industry impatient to move its on-site waste, the administration is now clutching at a new nuclear straw.”

“Its latest scheme is reprocessing of irradiated commercial fuel, one of the dirtiest and most proliferation-vulnerable processes in the nuclear fuel chain. Abandoned in this country for more than 30 years, countries where it has been done – including Britain, France and Russia – are now reaping its hideous environmental legacy of contamination and disease.”

“The price tag in dollars – as well as in health impacts – will be enormous if this country is allowed to venture back down the reprocessing road. The only U.S. commercial reprocessing site ever to operate – in West Valley, New York – is projected to cost more than $5 billion to clean up despite reprocessing only a fraction of the waste sent there between 1966 and 1972. Now Congress has awarded the U.S. Department of Energy $50 million of our money to set this debacle in motion once again although the totals are likely to reach the hundreds of billions of dollars.”

“The existing nuclear reactors around the globe are already sitting-duck terrorist targets. Separating plutonium from nuclear power waste fuel – as reprocessing does – simply sets up new and inviting opportunities for terrorists to seize fissile, bomb-capable materials.  Support for a reprocessing program makes a mockery of statements coming out of this administration that protecting the American people from terrorism is paramount.  Instead, it will put more Americans in harm’s way.”

Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem

The Radioactive Waste Burden

Splitting atoms to make electricity has created an enormous problem: waste containing 95% of the toxic radioactivity produced during the Atomic Age. Nuclear weapons production, industrial activity, research and medicine combined, create only 5% of this problem.
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YOU Can Bring Air America Radio to Iowa!

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  YOU Can Bring Air America Radio to Iowa! Air America Radio is coming to Iowa!  Well, that is, if you follow this easy recipe.  There are just a few ingredients you need to bring progressive talk radio to your … Continue reading →

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Legislation to Deregulate Cable TV, Reduce Consumer Rights, and Eliminate Free Access

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Trish Nelson

Action Alert:  Stop Legislation to Deregulate Cable TV, Reduce Consumer Rights, and Eliminate Free Access Contributed by Drew Shaffer, Cable TV Administrator There are lobbying efforts in many state legislatures and in Congress right now that intend to completely deregulate … Continue reading →

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What’s Good about Choice in Iowa?

Posted on January 22, 2006 by bfialindathieman

  What’s Good about Choice in Iowa? To top off Blog for Iowa’s contribution to Blog for Choice day, here is a round-up of some of the positive choice-related things in Iowa that our few remaining freedoms still bring us, … Continue reading →

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A ‘True Revolution of Values’

Posted on January 19, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

A 'True Revolution of Values' By Michael Eric Dyson http://www.beliefnet.com  Martin Luther King, Jr., warned America about the danger of unquestioning national pride. How far have we come?  Michael Eric Dyson, best-selling author, ordained Baptist minister, and professor of religion … Continue reading →

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Iowa Caucus Results Look Good for Fallon

Posted on January 19, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Iowa Caucus Results Look Good for Fallon State Representative and gubernatorial candidate Ed Fallon (D-Des Moines) announced during a Wednesday afternoon press conference that he expects to send over 1,300 delegates to county party conventions on March 4 and 11. … Continue reading →

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On Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, Hope Gets the Last Word

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Trish Nelson

On Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., Hope Gets the Last Word AlterNet By Cornel West  This essay appeared in “The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear,” edited by Paul … Continue reading →

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