Senator Alexander: Tell the Taxpayer!
OREPA’s UPF Accountability Project wrote to Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander to demand accountability for the billions of dollars being spent on the UPF bomb plant in Oak Ridge. The project, with a...
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When the FBI comes knocking… or Living in a nation on high alert
Rather than do my official work, I was writing about gun violence and the recent efforts to pin the rap on mental illness when the doorbell rang. As I opened the door, I imagined the two nice people on...
View ArticleNO MORE SECRETS—TELL THE TAXPAYER
It’s time for accountability—past time, actually. More than $2 billion has been spent on the UPF bomb plant and no one will tell us what the actual plan for the bomb plant is—because they are afraid to...
View ArticleSpent Nuclear Fuel to be dumped on Oak Ridge?
Three nuclear watchdog organizations—Savannah River Site Watch (Columbia, SC), Snake River Alliance Education Fund (Pocatello, ID) and the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (Oak Ridge, TN) have...
View ArticleTell the Taxpayer wants answers from Alexander
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander is chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee. That means he holds the pursestrings for Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs—so...
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Alexander replies to OREPA: Thanks for asking
In early December, the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance sent Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander a four page letter requesting substantive answers to sixteen questions. We numbered them to make it...
View ArticleManhattan Project National Historical Park
OREPA submitted comments to the National Park Service at a meeting in Oak Ridge on February 1 to discuss plans for the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, a park that will have exhibits in Oak...
View ArticleThe Emancipators
Almost two hundred years after a determined Quaker named Elihu Embree launched his abolitionist newspaper, The Emancipator, in Jonesborough, Tennessee, some other good Tennessee people took up the name...
View ArticleTell the Taxpayer rally
The only thing worse than government pork is secret government pork. So when we saw the UPF bomb plant would get $575 million dollars in next year’s budget—bringing the total to more than $3 BILLION...
View ArticleCatastrophic Consequences: Reflecting on the Nuclear Security Summit
The Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC has unleashed a spate of editorials, letters, interviews, broadcasts, podcasts, tweets and posts about nuclear weapons. As an activist who has worked for...
View ArticleRemembering Hiroshima
Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Hiroshima, Japan, this week summoned memories for me as it likely did for anyone who has traveled there. In an article in the Washington Post, Kerry said he...
View ArticleOREPA travels to DC: joins colleagues across the country
Six OREPA members will join scores of colleagues from across the country next week, April 17-20, in Washington, DC for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s DC Days. The Uranium Processing Facility...
View ArticleTell the Taxpayer rally calls for spending on life, not bombs
OREPA members gathered outside the Knoxville IRS office on the eve of Tax Day to call attention to the waste of tax dollars—to the tune of $3 BILLION!—on the UPF bomb plant. OREPA coordinator Ralph...
View ArticleOREPA challenges new Bomb Plant environmental review
immediate release 2 May 2016 NNSA releases Environmental Review of UPF Bomb Plant Plans OREPA replies: “Give ‘em hard hats,” does not constitute rigorous environmental analysis of seismic risk to...
View ArticleDid Hiroshima awaken the president?
There was a lot of talk leading up to President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima, much of it speculating on what he would or should or would not or should not say. I was interviewed by print and television...
View ArticleTransform Now Plowshares + 4
It was four years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning on July 28, that guards at the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex noticed, about an hour and a half late, that three intruders were carrying out...
View ArticleFive things scarier than a nuclear-armed Trump
The specter of an erratic, impulsive person with the nuclear launch codes at his fingertips has people talking about nuclear weapons again. That’s a good thing. There are nearly 20,000 warheads and...
View ArticleHiroshima remembered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Even before the sun rose on August 6 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the deep sound of a pealing bell resonated across the landscape, and the names of Hiroshima victims were read aloud, an origami peace crane...
View Article1000 CRANES
Join OREPA, CISV and others as we fold 1,000 origami cranes for peace. Free folding lesson!
View Article1000 cranes!
Teenagers standing around staring at something in their hands—cell phones? No! Peace cranes! We had a great day folding peace cranes in Knoxville with CISV and Church of the Savior youth as part of...
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