International Anti Nuclear Festival

Invi­ta­tion to join Inter­na­tion­al Anti Nuclear Fes­ti­val –
– FINLAND — Mid­sum­mer — June 2008 -

Due to the increas­ing nuclear threat devel­op­ing in Fin­land and indeed glob­al­ly, a coali­tion has formed to pro­mote dis­cus­sion, net­work­ing, edu­ca­tion, skill devel­op­ment, and action for inter­na­tion­al civ­il soci­ety to oppose and resist nuclear pow­er devel­op­ments.

We are in the ini­tial stages of plan­ning the first Finnish Inter­na­tion­al Anti Nuclear Fes­ti­val, to be held dur­ing Mid­sum­mer (mid to late June) 2008, in the vicin­i­ty of Olk­ilu­o­to, con­struc­tion site of the world’s largest nuclear reac­tor.

Fin­land is cur­rent­ly set­ting a pres­i­dent for Europe and the world. After years of denial and inac­tion on cli­mate change, gov­ern­ments and indus­try are now pro­mot­ing nuclear pow­er as the solu­tion to ‘clean’ ener­gy pro­duc­tion and the reduc­tion of green­house gas emis­sions. We believe civ­il soci­ety must also set a pres­i­dent by oppos­ing the con­struc­tion of this pro­to­type reac­tor, thus send a mes­sage to pol­i­cy mak­ers that we will not allow our world and our future to be con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed by a dan­ger­ous
radioac­tive lega­cy.

Our objec­tives are numer­ous. We wish to bring peo­ple togeth­er to speak, learn and act about prob­lems asso­ci­at­ed with the nuclear pow­er process — from min­ing on indige­nous peo­ple’s lands, to ore pro­cess­ing and its use in reac­tors, to waste dis­pos­al and mil­i­tary appli­ca­tions. We seek to learn of oth­er peo­ple’s strug­gles, vic­to­ries and set­backs.

We also seek to devel­op a coor­di­nat­ed inter­na­tion­al strat­e­gy. Increase skills; in civ­il democ­ra­cy / con­sen­sus deci­sion mak­ing, research, media, fundrais­ing, sus­tain­able liv­ing, non-vio­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tion, action and civ­il dis­obe­di­ence. We hope to involve our­selves in the deci­sions which affect our lives and those of future gen­er­a­tions, from con­sumer choice to cli­mate change, Cher­nobyl to Hiroshi­ma.

Most of all, we want to invite you to a fes­ti­val to cel­e­brate the beau­ti­ful pos­si­bil­i­ties of life, to dance, sing and share…and to make it very, very dif­fi­cult for them to keep build­ing nuclear death machines. We would hope that any­body pos­si­bly affect­ed by the grow­ing nuclear threat would feel inspired to par­tic­i­pate, indeed help organ­ise this fes­ti­val.

We are invit­ing speak­ers, train­ers, logis­ti­cal and mon­e­tary sup­port, musi­cians, medics, clowns and oth­ers.

More infor­ma­tion at www.olkiluoto.info and www.nuclearmadness.info

if you would like to get involved, have ideas or want to be updat­ed, e‑mail camp@olkiluoto.info or jsun@rbgi.net