Local protesters plan annual anti-nuke rally at Sagamore Bridge
Cape Downwinders will be at the base of the bridge on Labor Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Cape Downwinders anti-nuclear activists will again bid summer visitors adieu at the base of the Sagamore Bridge this Labor Day. On Monday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the protesters will hold their annual "No Escape from the Cape" rally in the Christmas Tree Shop parking lot on Route 6.
In what organizers refer to as a call to action, activists will protest Entergy, the owners of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. They will also protest the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), who according to a Cape Downwinders' release "plan to trap Cape Codders in harm's way in the even of a nuclear accident" at Pilgrim.
Protestors charge federal and state agencies with having unacceptable emergency plans in place in the event of an incident at the Plymouth plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission just last week said oversight at Pilgrim will be increased in light of a slide from Column 3 to Column 4 of the agency's Action Matrix.
"The emergency plan is to have Cape Codders shelter in place so they won't interfere with the evacuation of people off Cape," the release reads. "Cape officials plan to relocate people on the Cape after the damage is done and just like Fukushima they may never be able to return to their homes again. Because there is no escape from the Cape, Cape Downwinders call for removing the threat not the people.
Anyone interested in supporting the cause is welcomed to join in at the rally where protesters will be gathering with banners, signs and noise-makers.
The last large scale protest was a March from Plymouth to the State House in Boston in June.
For more information, visit the Massachusetts Downwinders website here.
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