Peoples' Meeting: Nuclear Energy is not Green or Clean

Name: Peoples' Meeting: Nuclear Energy is not Green or Clean
Start: 2025-09-30T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 100 E Onondaga St, Syracuse, NY 13202-2618, United States

Schedule

Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

100 E Onondaga St, Syracuse, NY 13202-2618, United States | Syracuse, NY

On September 30th, 11 am, outside 100 E. Onondaga St. in Syracuse (Central Library if the weather is poor), join Haudenosaunee Nations and US allies working in solidarity for this peoples' meeting on nuclear energy and other dangerous false solutions to the energy and carbon emissions crisis that impacts all our lives. Signs and banners will be provided. Please leave any and all flags at home.
What: Let's help the New York State Governor get a clue outside the pro-nuclear "2025 Advanced Nuclear NY Summit": Stop wasting time, money, and lives! Climate Justice Now!
Why: Nuclear energy is a huge waste of time and money that we are already paying for. Mining/energy production continue to produce toxic waste that poisons land, water, air, and kills and disables people. Instead of nuclear or any other false climate or energy solutions, we want RENEWABLE energy like solar, wind and conservation and storage technologies- all of which are faster to build, cheaper, and safer than nuclear- which will get New York State and our communities to meet the energy and emissions mandates committed to in NY's Climate Justice Law.
Decades of experience demonstrate that nuclear energy is too toxic, too dangerous, too expensive, and too slow to build to be a climate solution. Additionally, the entire nuclear “cycle” perpetuates environmental injustice. Nuclear power generation is part of a uranium fuel chain which disproportionately impacts Indigenous communities. The process creates highly toxic radioactive waste, some of which is transported through Onondaga Nation land and directly through the city of Syracuse, in violation of treaty agreements between the US and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. All nuclear reactors (old and new) must also store waste on-site, and there is no long-term plan for storing the waste and no safe way to transport it.
September 30th is also Orange Shirt Day, a day that commemorates and honors the Indigenous victims and survivors of "residential schools". You can read more about this day here at https://orangeshirtday.org/orange-shirt-day/. We ask that attendees wear orange to show solidarity with survivors and their families.
All areas where we will gather are ADA accessible for people with mobility aids. We are unfortunately not able to accommodate hearing disabilities with captioning or sign language interpretation. Please wear comfortable shoes and bring water, snacks, and sunscreen! Bathrooms and water are available across the street at Salt City Market. The organizing groups encourage masking and/or social distancing due to ongoing high levels of COVID-19 among our communities in various regions.
Want to learn more before this event? Please read the Onondaga Nation's "red paper" on nuclear energy:
https://aila.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NukeRedPaper3-25-19.pdf
Want to carpool? Check out our carpool organizing tool: https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/vograu
Share our Action Network event page with those who are not on Facebook, and RSVP if you're able so we can email you important information before the event: https://actionnetwork.org/events/peoples-meeting-nuclear-energy-is-not-green-or-clean-2
Co-Sponsors include Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, Food & Water Watch, Alliance for a Green Economy, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Citizen Action of New York, NY Renews, Frack Action, Syracuse Peace Council, Seneca Lake Guardian (A Waterkeeper Affiliate), CNY Solidarity Coalition, NYPIRG SU and ESF, Zero Waste Ithaca, Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow, Three Mile Productions, Indivisible YorktownNY, Indivisible Scarsdale, IPSEC - Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, Green Party of Onondaga County, Rockland Coalition To End The New Jim Crow, FrackbustersNY, New York Progressive Action Network Enviro Committee, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Energy Justice Law and Policy Center, United For Clean Energy, LEAF of Hudson Valley Ltd, Campaign for Renewable Energy, Jewish Voice for Peace Syracuse, The Alliance for Nuclear-Free New York, Green Education and Legal Fund Inc., Third Act Upstate New York, Veterans for Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Working Group of Indivisible Mohawk Valley, 350Brooklyn, Peace Action New York State, Physicians for Social Responsibility - New York, and more!