Category Archives: occupyDID

Imagine If 30% Of Citizens Sponsored a Refugee

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“America already has extreme vetting” – http://wp.me/p13yED-2w7

As a child my family sponsored a Vietnamese refugee family in the 70s, they were wonderful friends, and their family and community grew strong in Oregon because we all grew together even though we are so different.

I wonder what would happen if we did a national action to sponsor refugees again, how would that work today?

Empowering Industrial Regulations

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What’s so great about this article is its truth for the NRC to see: the corporation shut it down, not the regulators. Just like at Diablo Canyon, this was an industry decision to close because safety and repairs and issues are too much for the corporate bottom line. I DO see the work of the NRC to help push for the industry to advance, yet, it’s push to do that is regulated by the industry rather than by science and the environment — which are the public factors that should inspire the NRC’s actions.

The NRC should learn from its corporate players, and see why it’s regulations did not protect the industry or the public better.

Many of the issues causing the closing down by the companies have been ongoing problems that harmed the public and the environment. Had the NRC stopped that harm earlier, nuclear energy industry would have advanced much farther and faster, bringing safety design and ideas to life long ago. I wonder, if we had been advancing safety in that industry, would Fukushima still be leaking five years later?

I’m glad the corporations have stood up to rise above human stupid lazy old technology, it’s time the NRC made them pay and REALLY to clean up their sites.

UPDATE:  Projected End Date for Indian Point Plant Comes into Clearer Focus – http://wp.me/p1fSSY-21U

So little to say

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There used to be soooooo much to say,
And now there’s really very little.
The mess of our societal dialog is chaotically described well enough by so many voices, even now those voices who created that chaos we favor now.

Sometimes, waiting to see what happens next is the next step for a voice who sees the new world order is just more of the same with different people sacrificed to keep the violence in power.

Chaos may be disruptive yet it doesn’t have to be violent. Violence is the compromise of the weak minds we empower — and that I still don’t understand why.