A Tribute

The Carrie Dickerson Foundation has suffered a great loss in the passing of our Executive Director Janet Hutto last Tuesday evening. Please feel free to share with folks who knew and appreciated Janet. She was a wonderful champion of good. We will miss her greatly and we will not be able to replace her. ♥

From Janet's daughter:
Janet fell suddenly ill on Saturday (March 16th) and in an unexpected turn escaped this world with the sunset on Tuesday evening (March 19th). We invite you to gather with us for Janet’s Memorial on Friday, March 29 at 4PM at the All Souls Unitarian Church located at 2952 S Peoria in Tulsa, Ok 74114. www.allsoulschurch.org
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to one of Janet’s favorite organizations:

Animal Aid of Tulsa www.animalaid.org
Family and Children’s Service www.fcsok.org
All Souls Unitarian Church www.allsoulschurch.org
Carrie Dickerson Foundation www.carriedickerrsonfoundation.org
NAMI The National Alliance on Mental Illness www.nami.org

With much love,
Lynne Hutto Gorman

The First Annual Carrie Dickerson Quilt, Art and Music Festival

On Februray 9th, we had the inaugural Carrie Dickerson Foundation Quilt, Art and Music Festival. Here are some of the details as we prepared for the event:

The First Annual Carrie Dickerson Quilt, Art, and Music Festival will take place on Saturday February 9 at Lisa Regan's fabulous Garden Deva Sculpture from noon to 8 PM. We will have beautiful quilts for sale, auction or raffle, and show; artists' and crafters' booths; musicians from the Black Fox Blues days who worked with Carrie to stop the nuclear plant at Inola, OK, and our more recent activist friends who have so fantastically supported the Foundation as we continue in Carrie's legacy. We are thrilled to announce Susan Herndon, Travis Fite, Rocky Frisco and friends from Cosmosis, M. Tim Blake, Wheat Penny,Oceanaut, and more lined up to perform! More musicians on tap to be announced soon. :-)

We will be raising money for the work of the Foundation, which includes promoting alternative energy development; supporting the closing of crumbling nuclear plants and minimizing danger; promoting and supporting rail passenger service in northeastern OK; standing with the clean energy activists of OK and the region against the Keystone XL Pipeline and the dangers of fracking; promoting an awareness and educating children in an appreciation and love of nature, to help them reconnect with and become passionate about their place on earth.

We will also be dedicating a special quilt sale through donation of a beautiful quilt for the children in Japan who have been endangered and displaced by the Fukushima disaster. The organization we are contacting is http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/. Please visit this page to see firsthand reports from Japan.

We will have light food and drink throughout the day, and we invite you to join us for a celebration of what we can do together as a community of hearts. We will ask for a $2 donation at the door, but no one will be turned away! It is going to be a wonderful event, made even better by your presence! ♥

 The day was a lovely success with wonderful music, food, art, craft, AMAZING quilts and beautiful people willing and ready to work together to save our Mother Earth. We had a great day remembering Carrie and her quilting, her courage and her dedication to standing for the planet and her people. 
  We are already planning next year's event! Watch for date and details announcements! 

Carrie Dickerson's Birthday Memorial Party!

Please join us as we remember our very own grassroots
hero and sustainable energy advocate extraordinaire!
Tuesday (tomorrow), May 24, at The Blue Dome Diner!

Come to hear live local fantastic music from
Brian Haas and friends!
Other local musicians and activists will also be
there working for a
safer, greener future.
Everyone is welcome!

Where:Blue Dome Diner, 313 E. 2nd,
Tulsa OK

When: Tuesday, May 24, 5:00-11:00 PM

Why: To celebrate the life, work, and legacy
of the woman who knew Oklahoma was safer without nuclear power generation and who believed in the power of the wind, the sun and people!!!

The Carrie Dickerson Foundation exists to inform the public about and to promote clean, safe, renewable and economically responsible alternative energy resources.

The Carrie Dickerson Foundation PO Box 52343 Tulsa, OK 74152 EIN: 01-0765811 501(c)(3)

Happy Earth Day, Friends of Carrie and the Earth!

One of the best things we can do to help preserve and protect the planet on a large scale is to take action when there is an opportunity to make our voices heard.
I am posting a couple of links in this blog where there are important petitions that we can sign to help raise a unified voice against nuclear power generating plants. Please join me and these organizations, and remember to check back with the groups I mentioned in my previous post about reliable organizations we can trust for accurate information, like NIRS and Beyond Nuclear, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Union of Concerned Scientists. Friends of the Earth, The Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council are all taking stands against nuclear.

Here is the link to a petition from Friends of The Earth who are trying to prevent the NRC from licensing the new design of reactor that is being proposed for Georgia and other southern states and has never been tested, and has several safety concerns while still on the drawing board!

http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6584&tag=Tomtaf

This petition comes from a group in Japan who is working fervently to stop nuclear power and has been fighting the good fight since long before the Fukushima tragedy occurred.

http://www.tanpoposya.net/form/jform.php

Please help the people of Japan and stand together with people of conscience worldwide with this petition to call for an end to nuclear power generation. The Japanese people have seen firsthand what most of us have thankfully never had to witness. Let's make sure this never happens again! Solidarity now. ♥

Please remember the simple but mighty daily actions that add up and so make a difference collectively - recycle everything you can, reuse everything you can, plant trees and flowers and veggies and fruit, conserve water and electricity, and just try in every way to be the best earthling you can be! ♥ Our Mother will thank us for it! ♥

Lots of news today to share with you!

Hi everyone,
I have seen so many news stories recently that I would like to be sure folks get a chance to see, so I am going to post the links here for you to check out. Please take a look as your time permits. There are so many things to keep up with and there is some good news too!
Thanks and we love you all!

"Thank You Carrie Dickerson!"
http://roundtree7.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/1023/
"Green Energy - Because the Only Safe Reactor is 93 Million Miles Away!"
http://roundtree7.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/green-energy-because-the-only-safe-reactor-is-93-million-miles-away/

I would like to thank the folks at Roundtree 7 blog on Wordpress for these great articles.
I will be watching them for more good info! Check them out and leave a comment to tell them we appreciate their work.

"Battle of the Grids" A free report from Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/en/Publications/policy-papers-briefings/battle-of-the-grids/

Nuclear industry unraveling?
http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/german-prosecutors-raid-areva-np-in-bribery-probe/

Great solar news!
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/blogs/the-solar-industrys-apple-sized-ambitions

The People stand up together!!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-11/anti-nuclear-protesters-block-entry-to-edf-s-london-offices-1-.html

and one more - blowing the tops off the mountains is NOT OK!!!
(and there's no such thing as clean coal, anyhow!)
"Mountaintop Removal - An American Tragedy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzwCKoLhDo&feature=player_embedded

These are probably just a drop in the bucket - there are a lot of news stories streaming out of Japan - the evacuation area is growing larger, the disaster may be upgraded to a "7" which is the worst possible nuclear disaster we have encountered (created)...but please keep telling people about solar and wind, about efficiency and conservation, and about how the health of the people and the health of the planet is more important than any other consideration! We cannot give up and we are all in this together!! Thank you!

Carrie Was Right!!

Hi Friends of the Foundation,
There is so much news about the tragedy in Japan and the situation is so devastating, I feel that the best thing I can do here is to give you links to the groups we trust the most to keep you informed and updated in real time with honest information that is not trying to deceive the public about how grave the danger is - not only in Japan, but as the plumes of radioactivity continue to rise and blow around the world. Please visit these factual and honest organizations and people:

The Nuclear Information and Resource Service
www.nirs.org

Beyond Nuclear
www.beyondnuclear.org

The Union of Concerned Scientists
www.ucsusa.org

Physicians for Social Responsibility
www.psr.org

Ace Hoffman, journalist and analyst, as well as educational software developer
http://www.acehoffman.blogspot.com/
http://acehoffman.org/

"For the late Professor John Gofman, a senior figure in the US Atomic Energy Commission until he saw what was happening and resigned, famously said: "the nuclear industry is waging a war against humanity." This war has now entered an endgame which will decide the survival of the human race. Not from sudden nuclear war. But from the on-going and incremental nuclear war which began with the releases to the biosphere in the 60s of all the atmospheric test fallout, and which has continued inexorably since then through Windscale, Kyshtym, 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl, Hanford, Sellafield, La Hague, Iraq and now Fukushima, accompanied by parallel increases in cancer rates and fertility loss to the human race." From one of Ace's latest newsletters, a quote from Chris Busby. Full article is here :
http://rense.com/general93/decon.htm

Let no one convince you otherwise, there is no solution, and there will never be a solution to the waste, nor to a disaster like this one. This is a sad and terrible lesson and if we don't learn it now, we are destined to see it happen again. I cannot fathom how anyone could even begin to consider risking such an eventuality. Please make your voices heard at every opportunity. We are the people and we must demand right action and right decisions from the governments and industries that would sacrifice even little children for the sake of profit and unsafe technologies. Thank you! Carrie would be leading the charge if she were here. We must remember her courage and bravery and do the same. Peace.

GREAT NEWS!!!

Governor Henry Vetoed SB 1668 today! Please send him an email to thank him for this act to prevent Oklahoma's energy door from opening to nuclear power! Thank you to all of you who did call and write the Governor! Happy Birthday Carrie indeed!!! We still have lots to do so join us and let's get busy! Hooray!