19 DAY WALK TO REMEMBER FUKUSHIMA BEGINS IN SEABROOK, MARCH 2- 3.
One year after the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Facility, nine organizations are co-sponsoring a “Remember Fukushima” walk to begin at Seabrook on March 3. Local residents are invited to join for an hour, a day or the whole journey.
Two public forums and potlucks will be held in conjunction with the walk:
- Friday, March 2, 4-6pm Seabrook Public Library, Liberty Lane, followed by a potluck dinner at Amesbury Friends Meetinghouse Peace Center, Friend St.;
- Second forum- Saturday March 3, 6-9pm Unitarian Universalist Church, Pleasant St. Newburyport.
Representatives and speakers include Tim Bullock and others of The Peace Pagoda; Bruce Skud and Kristine Malpica of “No More Fukushimas”; John Schuchardt and Paul Brailsford of Veterans for Peace; Survivors and relatives of Fukushima Japan. There will be an accompanying photo exhibit of Fukushima in the aftermath of the disaster. Information regarding the relicensing of Seabrook Power Plant will be available during these events. Music by local musician/activist Lucian Parkin and others.
The walk begins with an interfaith sunrise service at Hampton State Park, 6-7:30am. The walk will proceed to The Seabrook Power Plant (corner of Rte .1 & South Access Road) for a public vigil and gathering 11-1pm. The walk then continues down Rte. 1 to Newburyport for a public potluck and forum 6-9pm at the Unitarian Church. All are welcome to join for all or part of the walk and public forums.
The walk is the 10th annual walk known as “Walk for a New Spring”, begun five months after the World Trade Center disasters in the spring of 2002. The goal of each New Spring walk has been to inspire society to live in a more sustainable and peaceful way. This year, billed as “Remember Fukushima, the walk will visit four New England states with communities all within 50 miles of a Nuclear Power plant. Three in this area, Seabrook, NH, Plymouth, MA and Vernon, VT are up for re-licensing. All have been cited for leaking radioactive chemicals in the environment as well as other aging related problems.
The prime organizer is the New England Peace Pagoda located in Leverett, MA. Co-sponsors are the AFSC in Northampton, Arise for social Change in Springfield, Nuclear Free Future, Mass Peace Action; the House of Peace in Ipswich; Amesbury Friends Peace Center; Imagine Studios; Traprock Center for Peace and Justice and Mass Slavery Apology
A calendar showing the walk’s planned route and further details may be obtained by contacting Tim Bullock whose email is walk4newspring@gmail.com 413-485-8469
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