Re: NIRS anti-nuclear activity summer 2000

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

Thank you as usual, Steve.  In 1986, NIRS was funded also by a considerable
chunk of money from  the Dayton/Rockefeller families.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2000 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: NIRS anti-nuclear activity summer 2000


>July 22
>
> Ruth Weiner asked who was funding NIRS, and its anti-nuclear campaign
>hauling around a fake rad waste cask.
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> This is from the NIRS web site:
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> NIRS relies on contributions from citizens across the world to support our
>efforts for a nuclear-free planet. Our 1999 base budget is about
>$500,000--to fully meet the needs of citizens groups across the globe will
>cost about $750,000. That's just about 5% of what the U.S. nuclear power
>industry alone will spend to promote new nuclear reactors, unsafe
>radioactive waste dumps, and an energy policy that threatens us all.
>
> We hope you'll help. Please join Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, the Indigo
>Girls, Bob Weir, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Cockburn,
>Dean Stockwell, and other well-known and lesser-known but vital NIRS
>supporters and contribute financially and/or with your time. All new
>contributions during 1999 will be matched--2 for 1--by an anonymous donor
>who has generously made a NIRS 2000 challenge grant! NIRS is a 501(c)(3)
>organization; donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.
>>>
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> Note the anti-nuclear singers and actors.  (Bob Weir is a member of the
>Grateful Dead.  Is there a joke in there?)  Jackson Browne has been on the
>anti-nuclear circuit since at least 1978.  I went to a JB concert about
>that time, and his followers were selling Browne T-shirts to raise money
>for anti-nuclear organizing and agitating.  I wonder who the anonymous
>donor is who made that challenge grant.
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> Note also that NIRS enjoys tax exempt status.
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> Rosalie Bertell is on the 1998 National Advisory Board.  In 1998 Ben and
>Jerry (ice cream) was a supporter of NIRS.
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>Steven Dapra
>sjd@swcp.com
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