A-Infos (en) A call out for common actions against the construction of a new nuclear power station in Belarus

26 April, the day of Chernobyl nuclear accident. ---- Present-day Belarus is a post soviet country, 
on which territory a regime, police state in form and neoliberal in essence, fortified its 
position. For already 14 years the country is run by one and the same person Alexander Lukashenko, 
a populist at the beginning of his governing and openly pursuing antisocial reforms now.The freedom 
of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly is not about our country. These basic values 
as well as the political opposition are suppressed. Peaceful gatherings dispersions, political 
trials,preventive detentions all this has become a norm of political practice in Belarus.
A few years ago the ruling top started to consider another venturesomeproject the construction of a 
nuclear power station (NPS).

Lukashenko took a decision regardless of the public wishes and common
sense. The decision was made with the active support of the
international nuclear lobby. The construction is to be undertaken by a
Russian corporation Rosatom. It is to be held in a seismically active
zone, in a dozen kilometers away from Lake Naroch the largest lake in
Belarus, which is ecologically unique for our country and is a tourists
and holiday-makers attraction. On the construction will be spent $4
billion, which otherwise could be outlaid for alternative energy means
development.


But the above-listed points pale before the fact that Belarus shared 70%
of radioactive contamination after Chernobyl nuclear accident. But the
government and the president are absolutely not concerned about that.
They want to create a delayed-action bomb in the country, where one
third of the territory is unfit for farming and berries/mushrooms gathering.


We, Antinuclear resistance, an anarchy group, come out against nuclear
power engineering on the whole and against the NPS construction
specifically in Belarus. A part of political forces in Belarus,
including opposition, supported the NPS construction. Unlike them we do
not believe in NPS safety irrespective of the political regime, within
which it is functioning and being constructed. Our activity is based
upon non-authoritarian principles, we do not cooperate with any
political parties on a regular base, but with ecological organizations
and grassroots initiatives.


On 26 April, the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, an
annual demonstration Charnobylski Shlah (The Chernobyl Path) takes place
in commemoration of the accident and the people who fell the immediate
and lingering victims of it. Starting with the year of 1996 anarchists
take part in the demo with ecological and antinuclear slogans. But
nowadays the demonstration, instead of just mourning and commemorative
event, is gaining a protest mood: in the country, where dozens of
thousands people have died as a result of the nuclear accident
aftermaths and hundreds of thousands have acquired accident-caused
illnesses or become handicapped, a new NPS is to be constructed! And
that is done according to the commonregulations of an authoritarian
police state not asking the peoples opinion, but just confronting them
with the fact.


On 26 April we will again take a most active part in the Charnobylski
Shlah (The Chernobyl Path), well try to pass along to everyone our clear
antinuclear position, will inform as many people as possible of the
approaching danger. But now it is not enough! As an instrument of
struggle against the state lawlessness we rely on the international
support. We urge anarchists, environmentalists, antiauthoritarians of
the world to carry out solidarity actions on 26 April 2009. We call for
a decentralized day of action of any form, which could help people learn
something about our problem and stop the impudent authority and their
sponsors from IAEA. If you already take actions on 26 April on your
local problems concerning nuclear power engineering, please put on your
list the demand for abolition of the NSP construction in Belarus. You
are also welcome toparticipate in The Chernobyl Path in Minsk and other
actions in Belarus.


Together we will be able to stand up for the right for life on a clean
and ecologically safe planet!


If you have any intention to make solidarity actions with the
Belarussian antinuclear movement or participate in the demonstration in
Belarus please

contact us:


antiatombel@riseup.net


Spread out the call out through any accessible for you information channels.



(source: http://avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2169)
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