In Taiwan a heroic act of pro-nuclear environmentalism occurring, RIGHT NOW. Please read & RT this thread, as very few outside of Taiwan know of this struggle. Shih-Hsiu Huang, a Taiwanese pro-nuclear activist managed to organize a group of over 300 volunteers...
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and collect the necessary 280,000 signatures to place a referendum to repeal Taiwan’s nuclear phase out law on this November’s ballot. Every day after work, 300+ volunteers spent hours collecting the names, phone numbers, & addresses of hundreds of thousands of supporters.
Finally at the beginning of September, after nearly 3 months of incredible volunteer work, they passed the 280k threshold to get placed on the Nov. ballot, and were hoping to add as many extra signatures as possible to account for some being invalidated on technicalities.
This is when the anti-nuclear government of Taiwan decided to arbitrarily change the due date for the petition submission from 9-14 to 9-6. Because of this change, their petition, and all that work to get on the ballot, was tragically rendered invalid.
In protest of this anti-democratic act, petition organizer Shih-Hsiu Huang has been on hunger strike for nearly 100 hours. Now, we're asking you to RT this message to President @iingwen -- that this is not OK. This is an assault on both democracy and the environment.
President @iingwen: Let the people of Taiwan have a voice and decide on the future of their nuclear plants. Let them decide if they want to save over 80% of Taiwan's clean energy, or turn their back on it and burn more fossil fuels. Do not take that right away from them.
For more information about this struggle take a look at @envprogress 's coverage from last October environmentalprogress.org/taiwan/ and follow the Taiwanese campaign at facebook.com/GreenNuclear.v…
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead ✊⚛️
