[Kate Adams]

Senate Joint Resolution 34, authorizing the Yucca Mountain Nuclear 
Repository, just passed the senate on a 60 to 39 vote.  Once again we see 
the triumph of a large repository of cash over good sense and truly 
scientifically informed decision making.

Thank you to all the Powderworkers who have written their letters, signed 
petitions, and made calls - and to those dedicated activists canvassing at 
the shows and checking in and out of the 'works who have laid aside weeks 
of their lives to get the word out across the land - and years of their 
lives to the cause of alternative energy.

And, of course, special special thanks to the Oils themselves for their 
continuing commitment to end the use of technologies we should now know 
better than to mess with.  Their passion for a nuclear free world and their 
willingness to help out as only they could - even in a foreign country - is 
truly astounding.

The optimist in me hopes that this isn't fully over ... that this vote 
marks an end to a mere battle, that our government may honor its treaties 
and back away from desecrating Shoshone land in the service of the nuclear 
industrial complex.  Desecration it has done in the past to lands of the 
Navajo and the confederated tribes of the Umatilla .

I'm going to drink a beer, listen to the rain, and hope my kids won't have 
to carry this torch.

Activated, motivated, and not turning back,
Kate

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Kate Adams
Gradual Student
UMass Lowell
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Remember your childhood
Remember the journey
Hope is what you say and do
         -Midnight Oil
         (Minutes to Midnight)
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