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Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 06:35:38 (CET)

CASTOR TRACK SABOTAGED: In the night from 30 to 31 October the CASTOR railway track between Karlsruhe and Mannheim was sabotaged near Stutensee. Rail traffic was brought to a standstill with a barricade. To stop any train running into it without braking, the first goods train using the track was stopped by an emergency signal before it got to the spot.
Translated by Diet Simon
Wendland, Nuclear State Germany

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 21:27:33 (CET)

Gorleben and Berlin groups will mount actions and performances at the international conference on storage of nuclear wastes taking place on 30 October and 1 November at Wilmersdorf in Berlin. http://www.bmu.de/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/doc/3887.php In front of the AVZ Logenhaus, Emser Straße 12-13, near Kurfürstendamm, the protesters will draw attention to the fact that the final storage of nuclear waste has not been solved. Earlier environment minister Signar Gabriel had commented near Gorleben on the symposium. http://www.castor.de/aktionen/2007/gabriel.html

Translated by Diet Simon
Wendland, Nuclear State Germany

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 01:20:15 (CET)

USEFUL INFORMATION FOR VISITORS: Camps,sleeping places, information points, Lüneburg vigil, sit-down blockade Hitzacker, first aid (including emotional), culture along the Castor route, Radio Freies Wendland, legal aid group, maps at http://www.castor.de/nix12/camps.html

Translated by Diet Simon
Wendland, Nuclear State Germany

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 00:00:06 (CET)

The kitchen that will be feeding demonstrators, VolXküche Wendland, is appealing for donations. They urgently need candles and tea-lights, vegetarian and vegan foodstuffs (oil, margarine, bread spreads, tofu, coffee, tea, sugar, honey, muesli, rice, pasta, condiments, etc). Donations can be taken to Clenze ‘Bio im Wendland’ Schützenholzstr. 13, Dannenberg ‘Naturkost-Laden Oikos’ Marschtorstr. 55, Karmitz ‘Mosterei Karmitz’ Haus Nr. 8. From Thursday 6 November the kitchen will be at the Esso-Wiese in Dannenberg. They’re happy about anything you give them. VolXküche is contactable at phone 05861-985650, volxkueche.wendland (at) gmx.de.
Translated by Diet Simon
Wendland, Nuclear State Germany

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Monday, October 27, 2008 at 17:44:09 (CET)

A new book recapping 31 years of resistance in Gorleben against nuclear waste dumping and nuclear power generally is about to be presented publicly. First presentation is at the final repository symposium on 30 October in the AVZ Logenhaus, Emser Strasse 12-13 in Berlin from 5.30 pm, then at a press conference on 1 November at 12.45 pm. And again on 7 November at 3 pm at the opening of the huts village “Free Republic of Wendland” during the Castor days near Gedelitz (Lüchow- Dannenberg). Written by Susanne Kamien and Max Rheinländer, the book traces how the conflicts over waste disposal have changed the social structure and political orientations of the area. There are interviews with people prominent in the Gorleben resistance, a former county mayor, a plainclothes detective who turned from a Saul into a Paul, farmers who dropped their pants for a pin-up calendar to raise funds, a count and countess to whom the natural landscape was worth more than millions offered them for their burn-down forest land. Two environment minister. Funny and tragic events. Anecdotes, new and lost friendships, disappointments. There’s a contribution by the journalist Eckart Spoo who has covered the Gorleben story sympathetically for decades, there are pictures by various photographers and works by Uwe Bremer, arguably the best known artist in Lüchow-Dannenberg county and nuclear opponent from day one. Atomkraftgegner der ersten Stunde. “ÜberMacht und Phantasie”, ISBN 978-3-928177-19-7, publisher i.wend Projektagentur, cost €24.90. Contact: i.wend Projektagentur, Susanne Kamien, Lange Str. 47, 29439 Lüchow, Tel. 05841-1829, e-mail: i.wend(at)susanne-kamien or www.coconutmedia.de.
Translated and condensed by Diet Simon
Wendland, Nuclear State Germany

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