Please let me (NY) or Steve (CA) know if you're interested in being part
of this team.
- Mitchel
Hi, I spoke with Steve Zeltzer (KPFA area) briefly on Sunday about his
excellent proposal for a full day of broadcasting across the Pacifica
network on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of Fukushima, which
continues to generate global catastrophe after catastrophe -- events
today whose consequences are too often downplayed or unreported in this
country's corporate media. Steve has been forwarding indispensable daily
reports regarding Fukushima.
He suggested that we put together a team at WBAI to address these issues
-- and unanticipated consequences as well. I agreed, of course, and would
like to put together a team to develop stories from a local angle -- made
up of interested producers at WBAI and green/anti-nuke activists,
artists, scientists and community leaders in our region. One example of a
local angle, I'd suggest, might be a look at Brooklyn's Park Slope Food
Coop -- the largest Coop in the country, with 15,000 members -- and what
the Coop is or is not doing to ensure the safety of food sold there as
well as the workers and working conditions in Japan where some of the
food sold at the Coop is from. (I raised this at the Coop general meeting
last month.)
There are many other unexplored and yet critical stories here relating to
Fukushima, nuclear power, safe and sustainable alternatives as well as
extremely dangerous ones too (hydrofracking, tar sands, etc.).
If you would like to followup with me and Steve on this, and if you think
this can and should become a Pacifica-wide project (including
affiliates), please get in touch with either of us. (See below.)
Thank you.
Mitchel Cohen,
Chair, WBAI Local Station Board
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Steve Zeltzer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Project Proposal For Pacifica National Day Of Programming On One Year
Anniversary of Fukushima March 11, 2012.
On March 11, 2011 the one year anniversary of the Fukushima catastrophe
there will be events and protests throughout the world.
Pacifica and it's affiliates will have a national day of programming on
the Lesson Of Fukushima and Nuclear Power/Weapons In The US.
Programming will include
- Reports on the Cover-up of Fukushima and the continued contamination of
the people of Japan and radioactive releases both in the air and water
that threaten not only Japan but the world. Direct reports from Japan
including live feed from rallies and actions.
- Reports on the 103 US nuclear plants including San Onofre, Diablo
Canyon, Indian Point and plants around the country and involving Pacifica
affiliates that are located near nuclear plants.
- Musical segments edited in from artists both in Japan and the US about
Fukushima and nuclear power
The history of the introduction of nuclear power in Japan and the role of
the United States in forcing Japan to accept "peaceful" nuclear
power.
- The nuclear plant industry whistleblowers and their struggle and
stories including Ann Harris, Kei Sugaoka and others. Also the role of
immigrants and migrant workers in the nuclear industry in Japan and
France. It will also examine the position of unions both in Japan and the
United States who represent workers in the nuclear industry.
- The crisis in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in DC and the attempted
coup against the chair.
- The role of the media in covering the nuclear/industry/weapons and the
economic relationship between the media and the nuclear
industry.
- National Call-in from throughout the US about Fukushima and the lessons
for the US.
- Energy efficiency and how the US and the world can move to a nuclear
free energy world with reports from US, Germany, India and around the
world. [I'd add, proponents of DECENTRALIZED alternative &
sustainable energy; and on-air debates over nuclear power's
viability, and its centrality to global capitalism. - Mitchel]
- Reports from anti-nuclear movement in Germany, France, Russia and
around the world.
This proposal would include programmers throughout the Pacifica Network
who would help contribute segments and material. There are programmers
who are already focussing on this issue and will be invited to be part of
the project team.
Additionally the team will seek to make this a both and audio and video
production that will be streamed on a channel and stored as a files.
It will also link up with organizations and activists both in the US and
internationally and seek partnerships and collaboration.
The project will seek funding from organizations nationally and
internationally who would be supportive of this day of programming and
will seek to mirror the programming at sites around the world including
LaborNet Japan.
Pacifica Team
Steve Zeltzer
Umi Hagitani
Sabrina Jacobs
and others throughout Pacifica
Brief video report from San Francisco December 3, 2011 Conference on
Fukushima, The Lessons Of Nuclear Power and The Media - 42 videos
Uploaded by KevinPardo on Dec 5, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmHvzJedK2A&feature=player_embedded
No Nukes Action and many other organizations held at conference to
share challenges and successes in opposing nuclear power. The event
focused on nuclear power in Japan and the United States.