Anti-Nuclear Week in UCD!! - lend a hand!
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Tuesday November 05, 2002 21:32
by Marianne - Global Action UCD
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Global action society UCD are having an anti nuclear week next week (11th-15th Nov). Any help with street theatre style stuff would be really helpful. We need any boiler-suits, gasmasks, you have but mainly the GR towers and all that they used for the mock meltdown. Everyone should come along if you're in UCD or not. It's gonna be fun, Meltdowns/ die ins every lunchtime, Tuesday til Friday hopefully, lots of other events too, debates, videos and all the rest.
Next week, 11th- 15th November is anti-nuclear week here in UCD. We're trying to build for a trip to Sellafield or to the BNFL headquarters with Gluaiseacht whenever they decide to go.
Our plan is to have lots of street-theatre style goings-on all week. We're getting boiler suits and gasmasks, dustmasks and smokebombs and anything else we can to have a mock fallout on campus, visiting all the faculties we can, not just the Arts block. We will be having a talk on thursday 14th @ 5 on ways of shutting down Sellafield with differing views of Fianna Fail, Earthwatch and direct action activists. We also have a gig on wednesday night in the old bar with The Immediate, Violent Sky and a drumming group.
I know Globalise Resistance did a mock meltdown a while back so if anyone from GR or anyone who has been involved in similar things would have any stuff we could borrow it would be really helpful. Are those tower things still around? Any spare boiler suits or costumes of any kind?
If there are any drummers/street theatre people/jugglers etc. out there who want to join in next week (mainly tuesday-friday lunchtimes) it would be great, any other colleges who want to get involved? We have quite a few people here but are still a small society and dont have much money so any help is appreciated. If anyone has any Anti-Nuclear information, leaflets or whatever they want us to hand out, or anyone who is willing to lend a hand, please get in touch, ring me or e-mail me at the above contacts.
I hope some of you will come along coz I reckon it will be really good fun.
Many thanks
Marianne
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3have you thought that UCD actually holds radioactive material in several locations? Itīs quite normal for universities to do so, in physics departments and medical departments.
How about simulating a "dirty bomb" attack on the unwitting citizens of Dublin 4 ?
You could end up doing everyone a valuable service (by keeping them on their toes) and the relevant Irish laws only apply a relatively short term of ten years imprisonment.
after the debate is over you should start asking questions to the UCD physics department.
Prof Mitchell, who so staunchly defended Sellafield on Prime Time a few months ago, should be asked if he considers himself an independent voice given that the UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) funds the physics department at UCD. (send them an FOI request if you want to see it for yourself)
Would Mitchell dare bite the hand that feeds?
Postponed until next week I'm afraid, but we're all the more ready now!
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