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A Quarter Century in Pictures |
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ANA's History |
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 | A 1988 meeting of activists who would become the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
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Back in the 1980s, activists and local community members began to investigate the environmental impacts of facilities where nuclear weapons work was happening. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was in the midst of a ‘shell game,’ shifting risks by moving nuclear materials and wastes from one site to another while pitting communities against each other. It became important to build a complex-wide perspective. It made sense to remove the source of the problem – new weapons production and testing – instead of just paying attention to cleaning up the messes left behind in the past.
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) was founded in 1987as the Military Production Network (MPN) to support the activities of grassroots groups around the country. During the past 25 years its members have worked together as a network to influence national policies related to nuclear weapons production, testing, research, cleanup of contaminated sites, public safety, and worker health. During this time, ANA’s list of member organizations has expanded to include groups working on the costs and consequences of nuclear power facilities as well. Our 35 member organizations are listed here.
 | | Our Georgia members thanking Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) for his vote on New START during the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability's 2011 grassroots advocacy days. |
ANA has helped to change the way that nuclear issues are framed. Rather than allowing DOE and others to define problems as purely local, ANA has exposed them as part of larger, widespread issues. Groups are now able to link themselves to national campaigns against a corrupt system. This means that local agendas are no longer defined as “NIMBY” (Not In My Backyard). Instead, ANA members look for solutions that do not shift the burden of risks onto others
The reasons for ANA’s successes are manifold. Paramount is its continued commitment to grassroots organizing, taking on a system rather than piecemeal problems, and enhancing collaboration. ANA sponsors meetings around the country and facilitates frequent conference calls and email interaction to ensure that knowledge is shared and ideas are discussed – so that broad consensus on strategies can emerge.
Help us celebrate our 25th birthday by sharing your favorite ANA memory. Click here to upload your favorite ANA story.
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Fall Meeting / Birthday Party |
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Thanks to everyone who helped make our 25th Anniversary party a success!
 Our anniversary seminary and reception in Seattle brought ANA's founders together with today's members, our funders, and members of the Pacific Northwest anti-nuclear community. Together, we reflected on the grassroots strategies that have gotten us this far and identified opportunities to continue moving forward. We also heard author Kristen Iversen read from her stunning memoir Full Body Burden and enjoyed a display from the Atomic Photographers Guild.
Click here to view video from our anniversary seminar.
Photo: Lisa Crawford, Robert Schaeffer, Pame Kingfisher, Marylia Kelley & Dr. Natalia Mironova speaking at our 25th Anniversary seminar in Seattle on September 22nd.
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Our Success Stories |
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- 1987 – Military Production Network (MPN) founded at La Foret Conference Center, Black Forest, Colorado
- 1988 – MPN begins using internet communication to allow instantaneous reporting on weapons complex developments, systematic planning, and coordinated reactions
- 1989 – Neighbors of Fernald (Ohio) uranium production plant win $78 million of health monitoring coverage in landmark legal settlement of offsite contamination lawsuit
- 1989 – First Annual “DC Days” brings leaders from communities in the shadows of U.S. nuclear weapons sites to DC to meet with national policy-makers
- 1990 – MPN issues failing “Report Card” to Department of Energy (DOE) Sec. James Watkins, focusing media attention on weapons production dangers and cleanup delays
- 1990- National lobbying and media campaigns led by Idaho activists put an end to plans for Special Isotope Separator and New Production Reactor
- 1992 – Passage of Federal Facilities Compliance Act establishes that weapons plants are subject to state environmental law enforcement
- 1993 – Responding to grassroots pressure, Site-Specific Advisory Boards and Heath Effects Subcommittees created at many nuclear weapons complex sites
- 1994 – Energy Sec. Hazel O’Leary’s launches openness initiative to address community concerns about weapons complex secrecy
- 1996 – Long-hidden report on radioactive I-131 fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons tests forced to be released and broadly disseminated
- 1997 – Name of network changed to Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) to more accurately reflect its mission
- 1998 – Lawsuit against DOE establishes the multi-million dollar Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund as part of the settlement agreement
- 2000 – ANA leaders help Russian allies organize first “Moscow Days” so local activists can pressure their government officials
- 2004 – Modern Pit Facility plutonium weapons trigger factory blocked
- 2006 – Activist criticism kills “Risk-Based End States” plan, which would have left more plutonium behind, and forces end to “Enhanced Test Site Readiness” weapons scheme
- 2009 - Global Nuclear Energy Partnership reactor fuel reprocessing program and Reliable Replacement Warhead weapons escalation blocked by citizen pressure
- 2009 – Federal support for Yucca Mountain radioactive waste dump terminated after multiyear, nationwide campaign
- 2010 – Community Involvement Fund added to DOE Environmental Management program to assist public participation by local groups
- 2012 – ANA opens Southeast office to expand campaign to cancel program making Mixed-Oxide (MOX) reactor fuel from nuclear weapons plutonium
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25th Annual DC Days |
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Thanks a Kilo-ton to our Donors |
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Planet Protectors - $25,000+ Ploughshares Fund (CA)
Colombe Foundation (MA)
Peace Keepers - $2500+
Guacamole Fund (CA)
Cynda Arsenault (CO)
Rockefeller Family Fund (NY)
Radio-Activists - $250+
Arjun and Annie Makhijani (MD)
Watch Dogs - $25+
Wayne Jaquith (MA) LeRoy Moore (CO)
Jim Werner (DE)
Lon Burnam
Susan Hoch
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Help Build Our Future! |
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$6000 will purchase a new website
$5000 will support our grassroots activists to travel while educating people around the country
$3000 will help us upgrade our office computers
$2000 will print professional copies of ANA's budget buster report.
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The ANA Family |
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Anniversary Committee: Susan Gordon
Katherine Fuchs
Tom Clements
Bill Mitchell
Bob Schaeffer
Lisa Crawford
Mason Lowe
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