Anti-Nuclear Campaign around Globe - Two years after the Fukushima Disaster

Thousands in Tokyo anti-nuclear protest

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/thousands-in-tokyo-anti-nuclear-protest-1.1320712

Thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park today, calling for an end to atomic power and vowing never to give up the fight, despite two years of little change after the nuclear disaster in north-eastern Japan.

Gathering two days ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami that sent the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant into multiple meltdowns, demonstrators said they would never forget the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl, and expressed alarm over the government’s eagerness to restart reactors.

“I can’t see what lies ahead. It looks hopeless, but if I give up now, it’s over,” said Akihiro Nakata, a 47-year-old owner of a construction company, who had a drum slung around his shoulder. “I’d rather die moving forward.”

Only two of Japan’s 50 working nuclear reactors have been put back online since the disaster, partly because of continuous protests like today’s, the first time such demonstrations have popped up in this nation since the 1960s movement against the Vietnam War.

People have thronged Tokyo parks on national holidays, and have gathered outside the parliament building every Friday evening. The demonstrations have drawn people previously unseen at political rallies, such as commuter “salarymen” and housewives. Organisers said today’s demonstration drew 13,000 people……..

Video-Voices of nuclear protest and support for Fukushima victims - London UK 9/3/13

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/13/videos-voices-of-nuclear-protest-and-support-for-fukushima-victims-london-uk-9-march-2013/

France-Energy-Nuclear-Environment-Demo (9/3/13)

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/09/france-energy-nuclear-environment-demo-9-march-2013/　
Human chain of Solidarity in Paris
http://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/14/2nd-year-anniversary-of-the-fukushima-human-chain-of-solidarity-in-paris/

Video: 200,000 protest nuclear power

http://enenews.com/video-200000-protest-nuclear-power

CNA ENGLISH NEWS, March 9, 2013: 200,000 take part in Taiwan’s anti-nuclear protest [...] In what organizers called the largest anti-nuclear protest in Taiwan, an estimated 200,000 people took to the streets in several parts of the island on Saturday to call for the scrapping of nuclear power plants. The protest was held simultaneously in northern, central, southern and eastern Taiwan just two days before the second anniversary of the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant in the wake of the big earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

Ottawa, canada

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/11/videos-anti-nuclear-power-rally-ottawa-canada/

Budapest, Hungary

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/11/hungary-mourns-the-victims-of-the-great-earthquake-and-tsunami-of-2011-march-10-2013/

"No more Nuclear Power" 100 Women from Fukushima. A sit-in Action in Tokyo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnrd_ZRwIo