For Immediate
Release
Press Conference
Saturday, October, 18, 1997 at 10:00a.m.
Hearst Avenue at Euclid (North Gate, UC Berkeley Campus)
While the Lab is holding
an open house, the Berkeley Community Speaks out against:
- Resumption of Nuclear Weapons Research at the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
- Radioactive Tritium Emissions and contamination from the National
Tritium Labeling Facility at LBNL
- Expansion of Radioactive and hazardous waste storage at LBNL
and the Lab's continuing refusal to prepare a full, updated
Environmental Impact Report
- LBNL research support for nuclear power industry's Yucca Mountain
Waste Project.
- The 40% cut in staff at LBNL's fire department (1995)
- Environmental degradation through radioactive contamination
of the the Strawberry Creek Watershed.
Speakers include:
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Jacqueline Cabasso, WESTERN STATES
LEGAL FOUNDATION, Kriss Worthington, BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL,
Sally Light, TRI-VALLY CARES, Chris Kavanaugh, GREEN PARTY,
Michael Freund, ENVIRONMENTAL ATTORNEY, Don Nicodemus,
COMMITTEE TO DEMOCRATIZE THE REGENTS, Henry Clark, WEST
COUNTY TOXICS COLITION, L A Wood, BERKELEY, Jami Caseber,
CITIZENS OPPOSING A POLLUTED ENVIRONMENT, Gene Bernardi,
COMMITTEE TO MINIMIZE TOXIC WASTE, Pamela Sihvola, COMMITTEE
TO MINIMIZE TOXIC WASTE, and more...
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Endorsing organizations: Greenpeace; Environmental
Committee of the Gray Panthers; Green Party of Alameda County;
Northern California Interfaith Council on Economic and Environmental
Justice; West County Toxics Coalition; Women for Peace; California
Committee Against Toxic; Clean Water Action; Council of Neighborhood
Associations, Berkeley; Northern California Stop Cassini Coalition;
Citizens Opposing a Polluted Environment; Group to Eliminate
Toxics; Women's Cancer Resource Center; Western States Legal
Foundation; Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste
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