Japan's Fukushima Daiichi disaster will be remembered–in San Clemente and San Onofre.
Activists from San Clemente Green, SanOnofreSafety.org, Citizens' Oversight Projects and Residents Organizing for a Safe Environment are organizing the commemorations scheduled for March 10-11. Naturally, the point of each will be to remind locals what happened in Japan could happen just south of the Orange County border.
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The largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown of 1986 happened March 11, 2011, when the TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami spurred equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and radiation leaks at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
“Remembrance of the Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima” is scheduled to run from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 10, inside the San
Clemente Community Center, 100 N. Calle Seville. Mothers
from Fukushima and Kyle Thiermann of Surfing for Change are scheduled to speak before a screening of the documentary Fukushima Never Again.
“The event will
conclude with a candlelight procession to honor those impacted by the
natural and man-made disaster at Fukushima,” say organizers.
A rally and protest are scheduled from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 11, near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). Demonstrators plan to gather at the south gate on Basilone Road.
For more details, visit:
http://www.copswiki.org/Common/M11SanOnofreProtestAndRally,
www.residentsorgainizingforaSafeEnvironment.wordpress.com,
www.sanclementegreen.org or
www.sanonofresafety.org.
You can also call 949.412.3366 for more details about Saturday's remembrance or 619.820.5321 for more about Sunday's rally.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.