MayDay:Red Root/Green Root: And then there's the Maritime Distress Signal...

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Tue, 05/01/2012 - 12:00am
Interviews with Liberate PDX's Kari Koh plus Shahid Buttar at BORDC on HR 347, Criminalizee Protest

Green Root:

Yesterday’s federal audit was not good news for Hanford contractors and The Shareholders Who Love Them.  The Energy Department and Bechtel procured and installed tanks that blew safety protocols as well as their own contract.   Oh, yes; and then the audit also found that the agency had paid the contractor a $15 million incentive fee for production of a tank that was later determined to be defective and, while it demanded the fee be returned, never followed up to ensure that it was.   In recent months, the $12.3 billion  Hanford nuclear reservation has been the subject of whistleblower complaints about its design and safety.   The tanks’ design is significant because they will be located in so-called “black cells,” which are areas of the plant that will be too radioactively hot for workers to enter once the plant is operating.

And then...

Just eight days after the leak of a government report detailing waste and other problems at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s nuclear weapons labs, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces approved legislation that would actually weaken federal oversight of the expensive facilities, placing the private contractors in charge of regulating themselves.

Red Root:

Across the country MayDay actions are simmering. 

And the Occupy movement is about to ramp up again. Activists recently announced a general strike for May 1, and protests are expected at the NATO summit on May 20 in Chicago. Later, of course, we can expect demonstrations in connection with the Republican National Convention in Tampa in late August and the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte in early September. In anticipation of these protests, here’s what demonstrators should know about H.R. 347, the "Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011.

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