International Anti-nuclear Network Meeting in Czech Republic

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Invitation to the 2011 network-meeting in the region of the Southern Bohemian City Ceské Budejovice (CZ)

1.8.-5.8.2011 (arrival possible already on Sunday 31.8., departure possible on Saturday 6.8.)

The first international anti-nuclear networking gathering after the Fukushima disaster organized by activists of the Nuclear Heritage Network will take place from August 1-5, 2011 in Ceské Budejovice (Budweis) in the Czech Republic close to the Austrian border and near to the controversial Temelín NPP. You are invited to join us in this anti-nuclear strategy and networking meeting.

Earlier gatherings of the Nuclear Heritage Network took place 2008 in Bure[1] (F) and Frankfurt/Main (D), 2009 in Slovenia[2] (SLO), and 2010 as well in Helsinki (FIN) aa in several Baltic Sea cities as part of the Baltic Sea Info Tour.

As part of the gathering anti-nuclear activists from several countries will also meet with Czech and Austrian activists who cooperate in a unique cross-border network, which is partly coordinated and funded by the Upper-Austrian regional government. We will visit a group of Lower-Austrian activists, who have been organizing for years now so called "energy-meetings" and have become pioneers in using and making renewable energies popular.

The gathering is also supposed to get to know each other in person, to share experiences in the anti-nuclear field, and to develope mutual projects and campaigns. There will be an excursion to the Temelín NPP, too. Our goal is to improve the international anti-nuclear cooperations and to discuss how to provide more resources by the Nuclear Heritage Network as well as by activists and organizations out of the network for international anti-nuclear activities. Thus, our initiatives are supposed to strengthen the anti-nuclear movement as well as to face various obstacles within and outside the movement.

As the logistic frame of our meeting is limited, please announce your participation to us as early as possible, and not later than July 20:

We will provide more information like detailed programme, schedule of the gathering and travel information close to the meeting on this webpage.


See you soon!


Preliminary Schedule of the Gathering

Anti-nuclear Strategy and Networking Gathering
Czech Republic, Ceské Budejovice (Southern Bohemia)
August 1-5, 2011

Monday, August 1 - Introduction and Presentations Day

10 AM - Welcoming, programme overview and introduction of each other
11.00 AM - presentation of the "Nuclear Heritage Network", one of the organizers of the gathering
11.45 AM - Atomic policies, anti-nuclear activities and impacts of the Fukushima disaster on the countries gathered in this meeting
  • Austria
    • including brief introduction of the organization OIZP and "Sonne und Freiheit", one of the organizers of the gathering
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany
  • Russia
  • Canada
4.30 PM - break
5.30 PM - lecture about uranium mining in the Czech Republic and the quest for a final disposal site (Hanka Gabrielova)
6.30 PM - dinner break and informal talks (restaurant)


Tuesday, August 2 - Workshops and Networking Day

9 AM - workshop on the uranium mining topic (Hanka Gabrielova)
10 AM - introduction of the organization ECCB (Tomáš Avramov)
11 AM - lecture about the clean up operation of the former uranium mine and the threat of reopening the mining process in the Liberec area (Josef Jadrný)
12 PM - introduction of the organization CALLA & information about uranium mining in the Czech Republic and the quest for a final disposal site (Edvard Sequens)
  • discussion about the position of NGOs in the process of finding final disposal sites
  • exchange of experience with final disposal challenges in other countries
2 PM - lecture about resistance against nuclear power, history and social context of the Temelín NPP as well as about the cooperation of activists in Austria and Czech Republic (Monika Wittingerová and Daniela Magersteinová, South Bohemian mothers)
  • talk about dealing with the burn-out challenge
many activists are faced to working to much due to lacking the necessary support by other people, turning out to eventually be burned out. Exchanging experiences on this field and discussing how to deal with these challenges.
4 PM - experience with suppression of and repression against anti-nuclear activists (Leo Seserko)
4.30 PM - meeting with Dalibor Strásky and talk about his new position as the coordinator of the anti-nuclear agenda of the federal state of Upper Austria


(lunch will probably be taken parallel during the day)


Wednesday, August 3 - Excursion Day 1

  • Excursion to the Temelín NPP
  • Meeting with a local critic in Temelín - talks about the local resistance against the NPP, the relocation of the inhabitants of five villages due to the atomic Temelín project and about impacts of the border blockades of the Austrian anti-nuclear campaigns on the Czech anti-nuclear movement and the relations between Czech and Austrian anti-nuclear groups
  • Excursion to Věžovatá Pláně, the first Czech village which became member of the climate alliance. Meeting with the mayor Josef Mach.
  • Meeting with the Upper Austrian coordinator of anti-nuclear policy Dalibor Strásky his activities and discussion about the PR policy of the Temelín operator
  • Discussion about possible anti-nuclear strategies in a country like the Czech Republic with a great lack of public knowledge on atomic threats
  • Talk about possibilities of financial support for anti-nuclear work
how to provide financial support for participants of international events, for the production of information materials and for anti-nuclear activities in general (gathering information about possibilities, experiences and contacts as well as discussing how to establish a system of support for each other)

(Staying overnight in the village)


Thursday, August 4 - Excursion Day 2

10 AM - visit of Windhaag, an Austrian village planning to become energetically independent from fossile fuels and guided tour through the wind power exhibition with the former mayor Alfred Klepatsch
12 PM - meeting with Austrian activists (and lunch)
3-6 PM - meeting with Lower Austrian Greens in Schrems in Upper Austria
6.30 PM - presentation of a new project of citizen's photovoltaik investment
8 PM - partizipation in the "Waldviertler Energie-Stammtisch"

(Staying overnight in the town)


Friday, August 5 - Reflection and Future Campaigning Day (back in Ceské Budejovice)

10 AM - Preparation of the afternoon workshops, exchange of impressions of the anti-nuclear resistance in Austria and the Czech Republic
12 PM - Feedback on this gathering
1 PM - Network reflection: what impact do we have, what do we want to change, how to increase the results of our anti-nuclear activities?
3 PM - workshops on specific campaigns, projects and activities
  • discussing new flyers about nuclear power plants, uranium mining and the search for a final disposal in CZ; agreeing about timetables and other arrangements
  • introduction of the NukeNews newsletter system and discussion about starting a Czech language version
  • information about the proposed next network gatherings, the planned uranium mining exhibition and the Fukushima emergency alert
5 PM - Dinner and end of the gathering


(The topics of the specific workshops had been collected in the "wishlist" started here on the webpage of the gathering.)


Practical arrangements:
The arrival was possible already on Sunday, July 31, and the departure was also possible on Saturday, August 6.
Breaks for having food or coffee were made spontaneously depending on the dynamic of the gathering. At some days, when we had excursions or events outside the gathering place, we had food at local restaurants.


Wishlist - Topics for the Gathering

Workhops to improve our anti-nuclear network: (please add the topics you want to present/discuss yourself)

  • Nuke News Newsletter system (next issue deadline: August 28)
developing the information system, establishing a bigger group of anti-nuclear activists providing the newsletter with messages about atomic developments and anti-nuclear activities and supporting the translation process
  • International media work
gathering collections of media contacts, discussing how to provide this database to activists and how to ensure the qualitiy of this database
  • international reach-out materials
latest issues: Uranium; final disposal sites Gorleben, Morsleben and Schacht Konrad; search for a final disposal site in Switzerland; La Hague
new issues in preparation: Fukushima disaster; atomic situation in Belarus; Kola NPP
new ideas: atomic situation in the Czech Republic and in Slovenia
  • Fukushima update
proposed project including website, printed information materials etc. including investigations on the developings connected to the disaster, connecting anti-nuclear activists working on the topic and providing basic information to activists for anti-nuclear work
  • internation network office
with volunteers from several countries responding to requests from activists all over the world helping them to connect to other activists, experts and speakers for events, coordinating international networking activities and supporting the production of multilingual anti-nuclear information materials
  • multilingual uranium mining exhibition
investigating and creating the exhibition posters, producing, translating into several languages, promoting the exhibition and organizing an itinerant exhibition tour accompanied by vernissages, movie screening and additional information events
  • information database on nuclear facilities around the Baltic Sea
booklet and website - already in procsess, but much information and writing contributions still lacking
  • extending the information basis of the Nuclear Heritage Network website
responsibilities and resources for adding contents to the country pages or specific content pages and providing technical services for activists


Joining Organizations and Participants

As of July 5, 2011 we will have participants of the following regions and organizations in our gathering.

Some of the organizations involved:

  • Greenkids (D)
  • Sonne und Freiheit (A)
  • Zveza ekoloških gibanj (SI)
  • Southern Bohemian Mothers (CZ)
  • CALLA (CZ)
  • ECCB (CZ)
  • Just1world (CA)

Regions participants came from:

  • Austria
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany (Berlin, Saxony)
  • Russia (Murmansk)
  • Slovenia
  • Canada


  1. Bure gathering: http://burezoneblog.over-blog.com/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZFWisobRtg
    http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Network_meeting_in_Bure
  2. Ljubljana gathering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C5%A1ko_Nuclear_Power_Plant
    http://www.focus.si/index.php?node=35)
    http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/International_Anti-nuclear_Network_Meeting_in_Ljubljana
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