Re: Uranium, Knowledge is Power!!

I try not to editorialize on the blog but on this topic, I can't help myself. Sooo, here goes...

Hi, Folks...

Please know that it is absolutely, positively imperative that each of you attend these public meetings and bring as many folks as possible with you. If you can't attend, please make sure you've persuaded other people to attend. The meeting facilities need to be full to overflowing with citizens eager to learn all they can about the dangers involved in uranium mining, particularly in an area like Southside!

Invite your families, your Sunday School classes, your colleagues, your neighbors, your children's friends' families, the person who delivers your mail, the person who cleans your child's school, the folks who stock the shelves at the grocery store and Wal-Mart...anyone with whom you have contact. The truth about this threat simply must be heard and understood by as many citizens as possible.

I don't know how to stress how vital it is that everyone in the Southside area...especially those without computer access to emails and blog information...become knowledgeable about this threat and join in putting anti-mining pressure on local governments. These area meetings are their best sources of information...this effort needs everyone, not just those with computer access.

The mining issue absolutely has to be defeated locally. It will take HUGE numbers of citizens to pressure localities to pass the chemical trespass ordinances Shireen talks about. Even if the General Assembly, by some odd chance, does not allow VUI's study in the 2009 session, there's always 2010. VUI is not going away. VUI is not giving up.

The beauty, health, and safety of every living thing from Southside to the Albemarle Sound will be in imminent danger if uranium mining at Coles Hill is allowed. Every living thing. Plants, animals, water, you, your children, your grandchildren...every living thing will be in imminent danger.

Please start now to solicit everyone you can think of to attend these meetings. Life as you know it depends on it.

Thanks so much for all that you're doing...

Smidgen Barnes

(who lives in a state with a uranium enrichment plant and coal mines and knows how UGLY life is for so many involved with both)