Green Options » anti-nuclear movement http://greenoptions.com/tag/anti-nuclear-movement Posts tagged 'anti-nuclear movement' Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Protests Turn Violent in Germany as Train Loaded with Nuclear Waste Rolls Through Countryside [Updated w/ Video] http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/11/10/protests-turn-violent-in-germany-as-train-loaded-with-nuclear-waste-rolls-through-countryside/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/11/10/protests-turn-violent-in-germany-as-train-loaded-with-nuclear-waste-rolls-through-countryside/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:17:21 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/11/10/protests-turn-violent-in-germany-as-train-loaded-with-nuclear-waste-rolls-through-countryside/ Thousands of anti-nuclear campaigners have assembled along a train route in Germany to protest the annual convoy carrying tons of nuclear waste from France to a storage facility in northeastern Germany.

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In what is becoming an annual ritual of civil resistance and direct action in Germany, more than 15,000 anti-nuclear protesters turned out along the route to Gorleben on Sunday—twice the number at a similar protest at the site two years ago—in the largest and most violent anti-nuclear protest in Germany since 2001.

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