MIT reactor draws November 3, 1998 Ballot Question

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

SOURCE: Committee for Social Justice

Nuclear Reactor in Cambridge Massachusetts Draws November 3, 
1998 Ballot Question, Says Committee for Social Justice  

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- ``Most Cambridge 
people are unaware there is a Nuclear Reactor in Cambridge, on 
Albany Street near Mass. Ave, in the middle of Greater Boston,'' 
says attorney David A. Hoicka. ``There was no public discussion or 
locationing decision open to residents of Cambridge, when the 
Nuclear Reactor was built.''  

``Of course, Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims its 
nuclear reactor is perfectly safe,'' says Hoicka. ``MIT has not in
the past disclosed the details of classified research. The public 
policy question, regardless of MIT's claim of complete nuclear
safety, is whether a nuclear reactor properly belongs in a 
residential neighborhood, or should be moved to a safer and less
densely populated area.'' 

This is the public debate the Committee for Social Justice and 
attorney David A. Hoicka, a small business work outs and 
consumer rights protection lawyer, hope to initiate with the 28th 
Middlesex district ballot referendum. ``These are the questions 
proper public discourse would and should have resolved before a 
Nuclear Reactor was sited among homes, schools, small 
businesses, playing fields, parks with features for small children, 
basketball and tennis courts,'' says Hoicka.  

``We put the Nuclear Reactor on the ballot so the public policy of 
having such a facility in residential Cambridge may be
publicly reviewed,'' says Attorney Hoicka. ``This issue deserves to 
be publicly debated and decided by Cambridge voters --
not by technocrats or bureaucrats who live elsewhere.'' 

The Committee for Social Justice Move the Nuke Ballot Initiative 
appears to be the only referendum question regarding Nuclear 
Reactors this year in Massachusetts -- or anywhere in the United 
States. Through this Ballot Initiative, more than 10,000 Cambridge 
residents can directly vote to show the State House that moving 
the Nuclear Reactor out of Cambridge is critical to health and well-
being.  

By contrast, if a Harris poll of a few hundred people is statistically 
significant, a vote of 10,000 Cambridge Voters, should carry weight 
in the state legislature and have national impact.  

For more information on Question 5, the Move the Nuke 
Referendum Question, contact the Committee for Social Justice 
and Attorney David Hoicka at (tel) 617-547-4000, (fax) 617-547-
4585, email david.hoicka@mediaone.net. Attorney David A. 
Hoicka's law practice concentrates on small business workouts  
and consumer rights. 
Sandy Perle
sandyfl@earthlink.net
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1205

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening 
the mouth, is to close it again on something solid"
              - G. K. Chesterton -
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