Dan Ellsberg at Nuke Free CA Rally
Channel: eon3
Date: 17/04/2013

Dan Ellsberg, former Department of Defense strategic analyst who released The Pentagon Papers and Fellow at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation speaks as citizens rally outside Berkeley City Hall before City Council considers a resolution to decommission California nuclear plants and transition to green non-nuclear generation sources. Other speakers include Bob Meola, Member of the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission and author of the resolution; Dan Hirsch, President of Committee to Bridge the Gap and former Director of the Program on Nuclear Policy at U.C. Santa Cruz ; eco-philosopher Joanna Macy; and Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal Foundation and Nuclear Free California. The troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has the worst safety record in the country and has been shut since January 2012 due to malfunctioning steam replacement generators that threaten to keep it permanently shut. Both San Onfore and the Diablo Canyon facility are in earthquake fault zones, and have a long history of not taking seismic vulnerability seriously. California's spent fuel levels are among the highest in the country.

Both the rally and the resolution were sponsored by the Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission.
 Berkeley City Council Campaign Central is located at:   
  www.nuclearfreecal.org
 See resources there for organizing in your community.