[Antiracism] PRESS ALERT: SOLARTOPIA: Why we can't wait

[Harvey Schaktman]

PRESS ALERT:

Contact -- 
	April 25, 2006
Deb Katz CAN: 413 339 5781	 or  Chris Williams CAN 802 767 4276

SOLARTOPIA:
WHY WE CAN'T WAIT!
  Closing Nuclear Power Plants
& Opening
the Door
  to Renewables

On May 6th and May 7th Harvey Wasserman, Free Press Senior Editor and 
"Superpower of Peace" columnist will speak in Brattleboro, VT and 
Northampton, MA. Wasserman is a senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and 
the Nuclear Information & Resource Service. He is co-author of six 
books, including four on nuclear power and renewable energy, and two 
histories of the United States. Wasserman's journalistic writings and 
columns appear in major newspapers and magazines worldwide. He worked 
as a radio talk show host and appeared on several hundred radio and 
TV programs over the years.
In 1973 Montague, MA became a launching pad for the grassroots 
anti-nuclear movement. Wasserman helped coin the phrase "No Nukes" in 
the successful fight against twin reactors targeted for his 
community. In 1976 he helped organize the Clamshell Alliance, which 
staged the first mass demonstrations against the Seabrook nuclear 
plant.
Wasserman taught history and journalism at Hampshire College and 
traveled around the world, speaking and writing against nuclear 
power. Most recently He focused on the rising renewable energy 
industry. In 2002 he co-authored, with legendary windpower pioneer 
Dan Juhl of Pipestone, Minnesota, HARVESTING WIND ENERGY AS A CASH 
CROP: A GUIDE TO LOCALLY OWNED WIND FARMING (www.danmar.us).
Deb Katz, executive director of Citizens Awareness Network will also 
speak about how license termination of Vermont Yankee provides a 
great opportunity to transform energy production in the tri-state 
area and how people power can make it happen.
For more information: http://www.nukebusters.org

May 6, 2006
8 pm
River Garden, Brattleboro, VT

May 7, 2006
7 pm
First Churches, Northampton, MA


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