Hanford target of Occupy Portland protest (w/ gallery, video)
Source: Tri-City Herald
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About 150 attended, hearing messages in opposition to nuclear war, nuclear energy and nuclear waste.
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Heidi Strangesky, whose father was a nuclear scientist, said she'd lived in Richland until last year, but since she moved to Portland she's felt free to speak her mind.
"The government is too twisted into Hanford, and there needs to be more community oversight," she said.
"Caring about our well being and the health of our children and the quality our food is not fear mongering, and to say everything is fine is denial," she said.
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Read more: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/04/16/1905216/hanford-target-of-occupy-portland.html
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I've been told that there is no need for street lights at night in the tri-cities area. The reason is because everyone who lives there glows in the dark. As far as the "no nuclear, no power" statement goes from someone in the Hanford area who disagrees with the demonstration, me thinks that they are spewing unadulterated hockey puck. The entire Columbia River Basin in the State of Washington is without a doubt the most prolific producer of hydro-electric power in the entire western region of the country.
First our species dammed the Columbia River with hydro electric plants, thereby destroying the spawning habitat of the Salmon; and now we slaughter the Otters who swim in those waters as they hope to feed upon the Salmon as their diminished sole supply of food. We think that somehow, we have a greater right than the Otters do to the greatly diminished quantities of Salmon who still manage to spawn in those waters. And that our right comes from our having the high powered rifles that we use to slaughter the Otters. Sorry, I enjoy eating Salmon along with the greatest of seafood lovers, but it is not within my right to compete with the Otters whose sole source of food is the same greatly diminished Salmon who are somehow still able to spawn in those waters. This is especially so when it has been my species who are responsible for diminishing the numbers of Salmon to begin with. There is plenty of other seafood that I can enjoy eating, and the Otter species have just as much right to live in peace on this planet and feed on those Salmon as I do.
The Columbia River is one of the greatest and most beautiful natural resources in the entire country for a plethora of beauty and natural life, and it should be preserved and rehabilitated at all cost. But judging from the attitude I have come upon from so many of the people who live in the tri-cities area, it tempts me to write them off with the attitude 'that anyone who lives there, deserves to'. "We're making progress, so get your facts straight". To the person who stopped their car in the middle of traffic to scream those words at the demonstrators, I would say, "Yeah, making progress, R I G H T". "And in only 150 million or so more years the problem will be all gone; that is, unless we screw up again and make it worse".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhatten_project
My hat goes off to the 150 brave souls from Portland who traveled all the way to Hanford in their effort to educate the people who live there as to our species' need to be good stewards of the Columbia River, for the simple reason that all of our lives depend upon it.
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