German anti-nuclear waste sabotage & actions this coming weekend

Anti-nuclear activists in Ger­many are gear­ing up for anoth­er trans­port of high­ly active nuclear waste to run through France and Ger­many from 7 to 9 Novem­ber for dump­ing at the north Ger­man vil­lage of Gor­leben. About 20,000 police will be deployed to guard the con­sign­ment against thou­sands of demon­stra­tors.

Anti-nuclear activists in Ger­many are gear­ing up for anoth­er trans­port of high­ly active nuclear waste to run through France and Ger­many from 7 to 9 Novem­ber for dump­ing at the north Ger­man vil­lage of Gor­leben. About 20,000 police will be deployed to guard the con­sign­ment against thou­sands of demon­stra­tors. At http://www.castor.de/ticker/index_en.html is a newswire run by the protest move­ment.

CASTOR TRACK SABOTAGED: In the night from 30 to 31 Octo­ber the CASTOR rail­way track between Karl­sruhe and Mannheim was sab­o­taged near Stutensee. Rail traf­fic was brought to a stand­still with a bar­ri­cade. To stop any train run­ning into it with­out brak­ing, the first goods train using the track was stopped by an emer­gency sig­nal before it got to the spot.