The first step Georgia utilities are taking to try to get federal approval to build new nuclear reactors along the Savannah River is to apply for an “early site permit.” If the permit is issued, concerns such as water, land, public health, and safety cannot be brought up again even if we learn new information. For example, the new reactors will require tens of millions of gallons of water above and beyond the tens of millions Vogtle is already pulling from the Savannah River—this issue cannot be revisited again if the “early site permit” is granted. If approved, this permit essentially allows the Southern Company and its utility partners in Georgia to use the permit at any time for up to 20 years in any future applications with the NRC. Together, Atlanta WAND, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Center for a Sustainable Coast, Savannah Riverkeeper, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy legally challenged the permit.

The Savannah River basin and nearby communities are already suffering; building more nuclear reactors will only make this situation worse. Since the Early Site Permit (ESP) process allows a company to potentially ‘bank’ a site for up to 20 years, the NRC should have to look not only at Georgia ‘today,’ but the Georgia we are likely to live in several decades from now.

Water Use & Supply:

Atlanta Women’s Action for New Directions

Community Action is Needed

This is a Request for Your Support

!A Call-Out to the Community!

Tell the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board that you have concerns about the proposed expansion of Plant Vogtle from two nuclear reactors to four. Tell the Board that you are concerned about water use, accident risks, security, nuclear waste, and health impacts.

The Action: Email, fax, or postal mail the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board by noon, April 25^th to register* to speak at the public hearing being held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Augusta on Sunday, April 27^th or Monday, April 28^th.

Join us as we enjoy the Atlanta Jazz Festival and tour the city. Spend the weekend networking or relaxing while you enjoy local activities and more.

Request an invitation at http://www.lesbianofcolor.com

Join us as we enjoy the Atlanta Jazz Festival and tour the city.
Spend the weekend networking or relaxing while you enjoy local activities and more.

Request an invitation at http://www.lesbianofcolor.com

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, presents an informed opinion about the rape tape that has excited much controversy since appearing or youtube.

 

To any woman working toward eliminating sexism and patriarchy:

I'm working on a thesis at University at Buffalo about feminism vs. post-feminism (if such a thing exists). As part of my preliminary research, I have created a short questionnaire for anti-sexist women. The survey should take 10-15 minutes and is essential to the research. Feel free to pass this link along to your friends. Thank you so much!

-Hannah Dobbz, University at Buffalo

Feminism Questionnaire

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9MuUQjVhxNXwyODe0JlM5w_3d_3d

 

Wednesday, Jan 23

 

6:00 – 9:00 pm -SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective and SisterLove, Inc. invite you to attend “Mother House Grand Opening and Housewarming Party”. Featured at the event will be guest speaker Byllye Avery, founder of the National Black Women’s Health Project. Light refreshments will be served. Free and everyone is welcome, but financial gifts will be very much appreciated. Please RSVP to 404.756.2680 or to kai@sistersong.net The Mother House is located at 1237 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, SW, Atlanta, GA 30310

Tuesday, Jan 22

 

6:00 – 8:00 pm - Stand Up for Choice. Here comes the biggest Feminist Women’s Health Center event of the year. And YOU are needed in order for it to be a success! Look for volunteer opportunity details below. The big event will be at the Fox Theatre, Egyptian Ballroom. Ms. Byllye Avery of the National Black Women's Health Imperative will be one of the people honored and there will be performances by
Jill Jane Clements, Bernardine Mitchell and Doria Roberts. Tickets are $75. To register or for more info, conta ct nextwave@feministcenter.org with subject line: Stand Up for Choice

In the Philippines, one of the poorest countries in Asia, 40 percent of the people live in poverty. Conditions there have sparked a large radical movement, heavily repressed by the government.

 

The "war on terror" has provided an excuse for new onslaughts on the Left. The Communist Party of the Philippines reports that 50 socialists, striking workers, journalists, peasant and church leaders and others have been assassinated, terrorized or abducted just since November 2004. The CPP is working to focus attention on these crimes.

 

Yet, at the same time, the CPP is itself sabotaging the movement through sectarian violence, as it conducts a campaign of assassination against its political competition. Philippine activists who call for an end to this suicidal policy need international support.

 

Socialism by and by.

 

The Maoist CPP started as a split from the Soviet-affiliated Philippine Communist Party in 1968.

 

Led by José-Maria Sison, now living in exile in the Netherlands, it holds the classic Stalinist position of "two-stage" revolution for Third World countries. First, the national capitalist class must lead a bourgeois democratic revolution (like those in the U.S. and France in the 1700s); only at some indefinite time afterward can a struggle for socialism begin.

 

The CPP emphasizes rural guerrilla warfare and downplays the political role of workers, even though they are 55 percent of the population. It attracted massive support during the Marcos dictatorship, but declined after the establishment of bourgeois democracy in 1986. Its reliance on capitalist politicians led it to support the candidacies of presidents Corazon Aquino and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, albeit critically.

The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat 

By STEVEN ARGUE