Category Archives: Anti-nuclear protest

Kazaguruma-Demo for the 12th Anniversary of FUKUSHIMA: No more radiating danger – neither from nuclear power plants nor from nuclear bombs

Kazaguruma-Demo for the 12th Anniversary of FUKUSHIMA: No more radiating danger – neither from nuclear power plants nor from nuclear bombs

 

Start at 12pm on Saturday, 11th March 2023
Meeting point: Brandenburger Tor (Parizer Platz), Berlin

 

Who would have thought that the German nuclear phase-out would be postponed shortly before the complete shutdown of the remaining reactors, of all things by the government in which the Greens are involved! Suddenly, the mood is being created everywhere as if the continued operation of nuclear power plants were the solution to the energy crisis. Yet nuclear power France in particular – where more than half of the nuclear power plants recently shut down – clearly shows that nuclear energy cannot be relied upon. Strangely enough, the debate tends to forget the safety risks posed by nuclear power plants and why the decision was made to phase out nuclear power in Germany after the Fukushima nuclear accident.

 

All three German nuclear power plants are to be now running in stretch-out operation mode until mid-April 2023. While proponents claim that nuclear energy would make them energy-independent, they like to ignore the fact that EU states process uranium from Russia for the fuel rods. The nuclear lobby has managed to get the nuclear sector spared from EU sanctions.
The Russian attack on Ukraine has made it abundantly clear that the nuclear threat was always highly topical. Many people who previously professed disarmament suddenly emphasize the importance of nuclear sharing, of deterrence.

 

The Ukraine war also made it clear: nuclear power plants become targets in wars. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, Zaporizhzhya, was repeatedly under attack and is often powered by emergency diesel generators. Should the power supply be interrupted, there is a risk of a new accident like in Fukushima.
Chain reactions and radioactive rays know no boundaries between friends and foes. They also make no difference whether the same technology is used for military or civilian purposes. The only safe and climate-just solution is to develop green energy as quickly and consistently as possible throughout the world.

 

Therefore, we demand together:
– No further nuclear power plant lifetime extensions in Germany
– a worldwide phase-out of irresponsible nuclear energy
– immediate decommissioning of the nuclear plants in Lingen and Gronau
– no classification of nuclear energy as sustainable energy production/deletion of nuclear from the EU taxonomy
– Cancel EURATOM treaty
– No discharge of radioactive water into the sea, whether in Fukushima or elsewhere!

 

Kazaguruma Demo 2022 – The 11th anniversary of FUKUSHIMA Nuclear power will NOT save our climate!

Kazaguruma Demo 2022 – The 11th anniversary of FUKUSHIMA
-Nuclear power will NOT save our climate!

Start at 12pm on Saturday, 5th March 2022
Meeting point: Brandenburger Tor (Parizer Platz), Berlin

We are very concerned. Despite the recent decision to replace nuclear and coal-fired energy with renewable energy, more than a few member states of the EU are claiming that nuclear power serves as a measure against climate change.

Over 10 EU governments have announced that they will expand their nuclear energy. The new Japanese government has also announced its intention to promote the development and construction of small nuclear power plants (SMR). These are unacceptable developments.

We cannot turn a blind eye to the daily radioactive contamination caused by the normal operation of nuclear power plants. The problem of the final disposal of vast amounts of radioactive waste also remains. This is still an unsolved problem, not only in Germany but anywhere in the world. Such claims that nuclear power does not harm the environment must not be accepted. A single accident at a nuclear power plant causes irreparable, unimaginable damage to the environment, animals, and people. We should have learned that from Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Last April, 10 years after the accident of Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese government approved a plan to discharge radioactively contaminated water stored since the accident into the Pacific Ocean. This water, which the operating company Tepco claims to have purified of all radioactive elements still contains primarily tritium and contaminates the environment. The water has not yet been discharged due to strong opposition from residents and fishermen, as well as the international community.

We demand the end to nuclear energy. We want to build a nuclear-free future: Nuclear power will NOT save our climate.

Together we demand:

・Global end to irresponsible nuclear energy
・Immediate shutdown of nuclear facilities at Lingen and Gronau
・No classification of nuclear power as sustainable energy production
・Cancelation of the EURATOM treaty
・No discharge of radioactive water into the ocean

Cooperating groups
AK Rote Beete (Linke Regionalgruppe)
BUND Jugend Berlin
Coop AntiWar Cafe
Fridays for Future Berlin
IPPNW Germany
Japanese Against Nuclear UK
Korea Verband
Greenpeace Berlin

Flyer:Kazaguruma-Demo-2022-flyer_final

 

 

 

10th Anniversary of FUKUSHIMA – Nuclear Power Is Not A Climate Saver!

Kazaguruma Demo
 - 10th Anniversary of FUKUSHIMA

 Start at 12pm on Saturday, 6th March 2021 
 Meeting point: Brandenburger Tor (Parizer Platz), Berlin

10 years after Fukushima, but nothing has changed. We need no more nuclear power!

11th March 2021 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. No matter how hard the Japanese Government and IAEA try to patch up and underestimate the worst disaster, the facts tell us the real story: The affected homeland will never be the same again. Hundreds of thousands of people are still unable to return to their homes. The damaged nuclear power plant continues to diffuse radiation throughout the environment. The Japanese Government is even thinking about dumping the radioactive water into the ocean as the Fukushima nuclear power plant is, apparently, running out of space for storage.

The situation is far from being “under control”. Fukushima still faces great of danger.  However, apart from the reality, pro-nuclear lobbyists promote this dangerous dark nuclear business advocating that climate neutrality cannot be reached without nuclear energy. Quite a number of countries still rely on nuclear power generation. In some countries, there are even plans to build more new nuclear power plants or to extend the lifetime of aged nuclear power plants.

This is ridiculously wrong. We must stand up and fix it! Not only that, nuclear power is never an option to solve climate change, but also is the catastrophic threat to humanity. It’s been 10 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster but our further efforts are required to push the clean energy revolution forward. Our economy should be free from the power by nuclear and fossil fuels and shift to 100% renewable energy. We will not let the nuclear waste be produced any longer!

Nuclear power is a false solution to climate change!

Far from climate neutrality: Nuclear energy is like an endless chain – uranium mining, generating electricity, reprocessing spent nuclear fuels and final disposal. When you look at the whole process, nuclear energy is a large emitter of CO2.

Contamination threat: Nuclear industries leave hazardous radioactive waste behind almost permanently and they will continue to be the great threat to humanity and to the environment.

Too dangerous:  Nuclear energy always goes hand in hand with risk of serious accidents as we witnessed in Fukushima. Long term impacts to humans and to the environment are unavoidable once an accident has occurred. Nuclear technology also increases the ability of nations to manufacture nuclear weapons.

Madly expensive: Nuclear energy is eventually the most expensive way to generate electricity. It cannot survive without pouring governmental funds.

We are therefore calling for:

  • Operations of all nuclear power plants in the world should be stopped, especially in Germany, Gronau uranium enrichment plant and Lingen nuclear fuel plant.
  • EURATOM and other institutions that promote nuclear technology should be dissolved.
  • Sufficient subsidies should be allocated to the research efforts for renewable energy and radioactive waste management made by the independent civil society organizations.
  • Germany and Japan should sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Kazaguruma-Demo-Fryer_2021

Kazaguruma-Demo-Poster_PDF_2021

Websitehttp://kazagurumademo.de

Organizer
Anti Atom Berlin
NaturFreunde Berlin
Greenpeace Energy      
Sayonara Nukes Berlin

Cooperating groups:
AK Rote Beete
Anti-Atom-Plenum Berlin
BUND für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland
BürgerBegehren Klimaschutz
BürgerInitiative Lüchow-Dannenberg
Coop AntiWar Cafe
Die Linke Landesverband Berlin
Friedensglockengesellschaft Berlin e.V.
IPPNW Germany
Japanese Against Nuclear
Kuhle Wampe
Robin Wood Berlin

                               
           

NEWS: Call for the Demonstration on 8th Anniversary of Fukushima on March 9th 2019

Fukushima warns: Nuclear phaseout worldwide!
Call for the Demonstration on 8th Anniversary of Fukushima on March 9th 2019

Sa. 09.03.2019  12:00 Uhr
Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin

A series of one of most severe nuclear accidents worldwide followed a strong earthquake and tsuhami on 11 March 2011. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident shows clearly that even highly industrialized countries cannot ensure safe nuclear plants. Nuclear disasters like this could recur at anytime, as long as nuclear plants are being operated.

Worldwide 446 reactors in nuclear power plants were still operating in 2018. Every reactor produces 20 to 30 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste per year. And no operational final storage facilities are there to host the waste long term.

No consistent nuclear phaseout has been resolved in Germany. 7 nuclear power plants are still operating in Germany. Influential economic lobbies are calling for extending their life. At the same time three research reactor and the uranium enrichment facility Gronau and the fuel elements factory Lingen are completely excluded from the so-called nuclear phaseout.

Until 2022 15,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste will be accordingly piled up in Germany. Approximately 8000 generations of human beings have been alive and less than three generations have created the giant amount of atomic waste, which has to be kept away from the biosphere for 33,000 generations.

The nuclear lobby is misusing the concern over climate change in order to represent their irresponsible business as a “climate saving” strategy. Nevertheless plenty of CO2 is produced throughout the nuclear chain beginning from uranium mining to generation of nuclear power for electricity and weapons up to “storing” of nuclear waste, not to mention that the reducing of CO2 and nuclear risks cannot be set off against one another. This is why it is important to recall: Only the rapid shift to renewable energies and consequent energy saving could mitigate climate change.

The nuclear technology threatens to make our planet Earth uninhabitable in several ways:
-Constructing nuclear weapons and other radiological dispersal devices,
-Polluting radioactive emissions from nuclear facilities in “normal operation”,
-Increasing the risks of nuclear meltdown like in Chernobyl and in Fukushima, which could happen again,
-and finally by unforeseeable leakage of nuclear waste.

We therefore call for:
• Immediate shutdown of all nuclear facilities worldwide.
• Annulling of EURATOM and all the other organizations promoting the nuclear technology.
• Redeployment of all nuclear technology promoting grants and subsidies in favor of renewable energy and researches on dealing with nuclear waste controlled by civil society.
• Worldwide ban of all kinds of nuclear weapons. Germany and Japan must accede to the „Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons“ of the United Nations.

Website:
http://kazagurumademo.de

Facebook Eventpage:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2327156154275022/

Veranstalter:
Sayonara Nukes Berlin sayonara-nukes-berlin.org
Anti Atom Berlin www.antiatomberlin.de
NaturFreunde Berlin www.naturfreunde-berlin.de
Greenpeace Energy www.greenpeace-energy.de

Kooperierende Gruppen:
BUND
IPPNW
Rote Beete
ICAN
Coop AntiWar Cafe
Kuhle Wampe
BürgerInitiative Lüchow-Dannenberg
Friedensglockengesellschaft Berlin e.V.
Ausländer mit uns
Die Linke Landesverband Berlin

会津磐梯山リミックス2015

a3372827158_16_TY19868

You can listen to the exclusive remixes of Aizu-Bandaisan (a folk song from Fukushima) that were created for our anti-nuclear Kazaguruma Demo – Remember FUKUSHIMA – held on March 7th, 2015 in Berlin.  Enjoy a wide variety of 14 songs!

https://sayonaranukesberlin.bandcamp.com/album/remix-for-fukushima

Our deepest appreciation goes to the artists who devoted their time and effort voluntarily to this project.  Thank you so much!!

Please note:   The artists who provided the songs retain the copyrights and duplication of the copyrighted material for commercial use without permission is prohibited.

 

Sayonara Nukes Berlin

核のない未来へと希望をのせて「かざぐるまデモ」2015

3月7日、東京電力福島第1原発事故から4年が経つのを前にベルリンで反原発デモを行いました。
ドイツ人、日本人、韓国人、イスラエル人などベルリンに住む市民ら約700人が参加しました。
Anti-Atom-Berlin(アンチアトムベルリン)、NaturFreunde Berlin e.V(ナトゥアフロインデ)、ドイツの反原発、自然保護団体2団体との共催で行いました。
今回は「福島を忘れないで!」をテーマに、原発事故を風化させないこと、日本の原発再稼動・原発の海外輸出に反対するとともに、世界のすべての原発の早期廃炉と再生可能エネルギーへの転換を求めました。
核のない未来へとの希望をかざぐるまに象徴し、昨年に続き今年も「かざぐるまデモ」と名付けたデモ。前日まで雨が降っていましたが、見事に晴れ、かざぐるまが風を受け勢いよく回っていました。

Puppe’n Muckeのライブ演奏がはじまりの合図となり、ブランデンブルク門前に集まった人々の注目を浴びました。その後、ブランデンブルク門前を舞台にSayonara Nukes Berlinから梶川ゆうさんが開会のあいさつをし、「福島の原発事故はいつでもどこでも起こりえます。放射能まみれの地球を次世代に残してはいけません」と訴えました。
(あいさつ全文)
参加者は東日本大震災での犠牲者と世界中で放射能の被害に遭った人々に黙とうをしました。
福島県の民謡「会津磐梯山」に合わせてかんしょ踊りのレクチャーをした後、BodyPoetとTakushi&Friendsによるかんしょ踊りのダンスパフォーマンスが行われ、「Jetzt los!」(さぁ出発)の掛け声でデモが出発しました。
かんしょ踊りとは福島県会津地方に伝わる踊りで、他の反原発アクションシーンでも踊られています。
アンチアトムの横断幕「FUKUSHIMA HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI ATOMTOD STOPP 福島 広島 長崎 被曝死ストップ」(ママ)、女優の木内みどりさんから届いた横断幕「DON’T FORGET FUKUSHIMA」を先頭にデモは進んでいきました。
参加者は「会津磐梯山」のリミックス曲に合わせ、踊ったり、リズムにノったりしながらベルリンの中心街をデモ行進しました。
リミックス曲は公募し、ドイツ、フランス、イギリス、メキシコ、日本から15人のミュージシャン、DJからの応募がありました。そのうちの数曲をDJ SiSeNが演奏しました。
ひょっとこ、おかめ、きつねのお面を被ったり、和装をしたり、法被を着たりして踊る様子は観光客や道行く人々の目を引いていました。
最終地点Potsdamer Platz(ポツダマープラッツ)に到着後、日本で「のりこえねっと」(ヘイトスピーチとレイシズムを乗り越える国際ネットワーク)の共同代表をしている辛淑玉(シンスゴ)さんのあいさつがありました。
(全文)
Anti-Atom BerlinのBernd Lisekさんが閉会のあいさつをしました。
(全文)
最後はPuppe’n Muckeのライブ演奏で締めくくりました。
デモに参加した保育士のカタリーナ・ヴァルケンティンさん(26)は「原発事故は健康被害や環境破壊をもたらします。原発ではなく再生可能エネルギーに転換すべき。子どもの未来のためにも原発はなくすべきです」と話していました。

わたし自身、2回目の参加となる「かざぐるまデモ」。集会が始まる前にワークショップで作ったかざぐるまを参加者や観光客に渡していると、ブランデンブルク門を見に来た日本人観光客が参加しますとかざぐるまを受け取ってくれたり、かざぐるまを受け取ったスペイン語圏の観光客が「一体何をしているの?」と聞いてきて、説明するとわたしたちの主旨に賛同してくれたりと昨年より事前にデモを知らなかった人たちが関心を寄せてくれたようにじました。ライブがあったり、音楽が流れていたという雰囲気が飛び入りのデモへの参加をしやすくしたのではないかと思います。残念ながら東京電力福島第1原発事故を知らない外国の方もおり、時間の経過とともに特に海外では関心が薄れていきがちになってしまうことですが、世界の問題として、日本のみなさんとも連帯し、続けていくことが大切だと改めて感じました。