We are happy to invite you to attend a historic, pro-nuclear power demonstration in Munich, Germany, on Sunday, October 21, from 10 am to 4 pm!
The official name of the event is the “Nuclear Pride Fest,” and its founding purpose is to save and expand nuclear energy in Europe. The Fest will be held in Marienplatz, Munich’s central plaza.
We are hoping that people come from around the world to participate in this event, and that hundreds participate from within Europe — including families who work in nuclear power.
Nuclear Pride Fest Weekend will be child-and-family-friendly — with fun things for kids, including face-painting and games, workshops, and child care for parents.
The event is being organized by independent grassroots civil society organizations but they are are urging families whose members work in nuclear power plants to attend.
The founding Nuclear Pride Coalition members are
- Citizen Movement 100 TWh (Belgium)
- Energy for Humanity (United Kingdom, Switzerland)
- Environmental Progress (U.S.)
- Environmentalists For Nuclear
- Generation Atomic (U.S.)
- Mothers for Nuclear (Switzerland)
- Nuklearia (Germany)
- Oekomoderne (Ecomodernist Society, Germany)
- Partei der Humanisten (Humanist Party, Germany)
- Ren Energi Oplysning (REO, Clean Energy Information, Denmark)
- Sauvons le Climat (SLC, Save the climate, France)
- Saving Our Planet (France, United Kingdom, Norway, Turkey)
- Stichting Ecomodernisme (Ecomodernist Society, Netherlands)
- Stichting Thorium MSR (Thorium MSR Foundation, Netherlands)
- Suomen Ekomodernistit ry (Ecomodernist Society of Finland)
- Voix du Nucléaire (Voices of Nuclear, France)
You can read account of the meeting’s founding by Iida Ruishalme of Mothers for Nuclear here and by Rainer Klute of Germany’s Nuklearia here. Wrote Iida:
“Rationally, it’s incredible that I should feel ashamed or intimidated for supporting nuclear energy in public. If I feel this way merely for wearing a t-shirt, what about the people who leave their kids to school every day and then head for their jobs at nuclear power plants? Imagine the thousands of people working every day in my neighbouring country, Germany, where the fear-mongering against nuclear power is established on an institutional level (grossly misleading statements from public officials, strong political pressure) – and for what? Should they feel ashamed for helping produce low-carbon energy that has saved millions of lives from air pollution?”
Nuclear Pride Coalition founders recognize that our name is inspired by the Gay Pride movement and hopes that LGBT+ nuclear leaders and activists embrace our coalition name as a compliment, and not appropriation. We warmly encourage their participation.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!