Our causes for the end of nuclear power are neither light nor transient. If these facts were submitted to a candid world, nuclear power production would come to an end. They have refused their assent to laws, both wholesome and necessary for the public good. The history of the nuclear industry is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all directed at an absolute control of our resources and our communities. The good people of the Northeast united together, free and independent seek to establish a Northeast region free of radiation and its terrifying consequences. We indict the nuclear industry and the federal establishment. It is they who sanction a nuclear economy. This criminal negligence makes possible the elimination of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Their criminal negligence includes:
- If ordinary citizens were told of nuclear power production's consequences in terms of the debasement of democratic safeguards, the illegitimate taking of our peoples' lives and livelihoods, and the subjugation of our peoples' rights to the will of the corporations, nuclear power generation would cease to exist.
- The nuclear industry has engaged in federal preemption of home rule. Federal regulators grant nuclear reactor operators the privilege of routine and regular discharge of radioactive waste into the water, earth, and air of neighboring communities. The nuclear industry pollutes the air we breathe as well as our rivers and seas. The nuclear industry destroys the lives of our people.
- Individuals who responsibly advocate for adherence to regulations and the safety of their fellow workers and local communities. It systematically drives individuals of conscience from their midst. It undermines their ability to engage in right livelihood.
- Into a resigned compliance by holding frequent legislative and regulatory meetings on issues of vital importance at such a distance as to make true democratic participation impossible.
- With the unbearable burdens of high energy costs, stranded corporate debt, and long-lived radioactive contamination. They pillage the people without mercy through the impositions on ratepayers of stranded costs for the imprudent debts of nuclear utilities.
- Thereby representing corporate interests rather than the interests of the people that they represent.
The nuclear industry denies our children a future, and instead condemns them to live on an irradiated planet among ever-growing piles of deadly radioactive waste. It systemically contaminates communities and disproportionately chooses poor, rural communities for nuclear defilement. We are committed to ending the nuclear colonization of our communities and pledge ourselves and children to a nuclear free northeast.
