The Shundahai Network :A Decade of Resistance

The Shundahai Network: A Decade of Resistance

My name is Gregor Gable, I have been involved in the anti-nuclear, pro-solar energy movement since 1980.  At that time I was involved in the Waste Isolation Pilot Program, a plan to store highly radioactive materials in Salt caves in southern New Mexico. Since that time I have been working with the anti-nuclear majority in providing information on the storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste. Yucca Mountain is not a viable solution. The average load of high-level radioactive fuel rods will have to travel over 2,000 miles to arrive at the proposed storage facility. Yucca Mountain is a nightmare. I have been five miles inside of the proposed repository storage standing in puddles of water as the rain of water leaking through the Mountain, poured from the roof. This is one reason the the repository is going through constant design change, even with the proposed titanium rain/water shield the nuclear waste casks are only good for 300 years, not the 10,000 as required in the initial design limitations. The original plans called for the Mountain to be the primary barrier from the environment. The DOE finally realized that in order to meet the EPS standards for radioactive, that the area was changed such as the radiation standards would only be met, if the border of the high-level repository was expanded 25 miles in each direction. US Highway 95 a major north / south highway in NV,passes through this area, so bening 20 miles away you would receive a dangerous level of radiation just by driving past the repository. The current plan is to store the hot radioactive waste cask in a storage for 50-100 years prior to placenent in the repository. This part of  fourty mile wash floods on a constance basis. There have been times the entire dumptrucks full of material from the repository have been washed down stream for up to 1/2 mile.

Attempting to find an answer to this problem is not an easy one. But we all can start with better energy conversation, in our homes. This simple plan could elimate most of the need for nuclear power in most of the United  States.

I met Corbin in 1986 at the on-going Peace camp across from the Nevada Test Site (NTS)

I first came to the nuclear issues in Nevada around Jan 5th, 1987, when I went on the Test Ban Caravan from Boulder, Colorado and the Nevada Test Site, with Yucca Mountain as my main point of opposition. I was the first person arrested at Yucca Mountain, when they government was using a waterless drilling rig LM 3000 to looking for water trapped between the layers of rock.

I was living at the on-going Peace Camp located across from the Nevada Test Site. At the Peace camp we enabled thousands of people to trespass on the Nevada Test Site. The American Peace Test had come up with a plan to fill the jails in Nye County, NV with trespassers who refused bail, therfore the county went bankrupt housing and feeding the protestors, until the DA of the county stop charging folks as the county could not afford to house the prisioners, as the US government would not pay the housing or food costs. So all that were arrested were not  tried. But the county would have the folks arrested come to court and then dismiss the charges. But they finally stopped even doing that as it was too much paperwork.

The jail at that time late 1980's was a prision that was taken out of a submarine, so it was very small, to begin with, to hold prisioners. 

This book  will be about my attempt to write the history of Corbin Harney and The Shundahai Network(SN). This will document the history of the SN which was created by Corbin Harney in 1994. This book will not be possible without the input of you the Reader, who interacted with either Corbin Harney or SN gatherings or actions to break the nuclear chain.

The time line of the book will primarily focus on 1994-2004, although background information leading up to the formation of SN will be included and also the current state of affairs as they are now in 2007.

 I turn 60 in August and don't remember all that happened during that time. But you are the collective memories of SN, so please help us honor Corbin the inspiration for all of us fighting to save the Mother Earth, as we only have "One Air,One Water and One Mother Earth", he repeated.

I created the orginial Shundahai Network web domain at http://shundahai.org and then had the honor of creating the Shundahai Network logo as the orginal one was lost,I created by hand pixel by pixel over five weeks(the russian text was the most difficult). I have served as web master on and off for the duration of SN and once again am at the helm as a volunteer web master. During various forms of SN most of the tens of thousands of hours of work, I put in on the whole Nuclear chain was deleted and the site streamlined, with out a back up of the deleted materials . Losses also including Corbin weekly audio or written messages to the people to keep up out struggles. Photos and individual detailed stories of actions and audio recordings were lost with no back up.

But that was then and now we are in the present,a new century, different political pressures, especially 9/11, which stripped all of us in America of our personal freedoms, which had been won over many years of struggle,especially our right to freedom of speech and of political protest. Born was the small high fenced areas in which we could protest out of sight of any of the people that we were protesting against. Can anyone image what would have happened to Mato, when he jumped the White House Fence and locked down to protest Nuclear Testing? There still is a copy of the video of that action and hopefully we can include in into the book. I intend to have a DVD and CD of actions. We have 2-3 cartoon artists (who may work pro bono) in recreating lost or unavoidable disappered copies of some of the actions,such as when we delayed the first of a new set of subcritical test by having three women locked down to the press bus, with bicycle locks around their necks (LOL) NO REPORTERS,NO TEST :) while another team of activists were at "Ground Zero", having bicycled through the night to arrive at "ground zero" hiding from the security, risking their lives to stop the test. Subcritical test:"Rebound" was held up for quite a while as we were locked down,in the hot desert sun for hours expressing our personal freedom of speech while protesting the nuclear test. The Press was wild and spread world wide.It makes me smile and laugh as I remember one guard say"It as as the knew we were coming, We had done the same action of blocking a bus the day before, and heard the guards radio to slow down so that the bus did not hit any protestors. But that day they just wrote us tickets and released us. At 8am on the day of the test, we meet the reporters from the major newspapers and some reporters from Japan, dressed to the nines in suit and ties with handout packets from four major anti-nuclear groups. I was quoted in the New York Times, others quoted in CNN Europe, as soon as the reporters left DOE headquarters,we ran to our van and changed into out anti-nuclear garb,costumes,face paint, with signs and banners and zoom off to block the bus. Cost of the Action was less than $20, but got headlines world wide.

But I know that you also have memories and stories to contribute to this book. 

So I am turning to you the readers who were present at various SN events or had personal contact with Corbin to send stories,audio,video or photos to me. I need an return address to return all materials except for memories or stories (I feel that these can be xerox by you to avoid the return postage). I also need who,when and where for all materials sent, please. I am sending a surprise gift to all who contribute to this project, is I have your snail mail address (which will not be used for any purpose than creating the book and credit will be given to all who help us.

This is to be a self published book (anyone with contacts in the book business?)I will be paying all costs out of my pocket. I am a 100% disabled veteran from the Nam. 

  Send email to gregornot@gmail.com. With any idea or suggestions, am thinking of having a small site with a blog so I can talk to you daily and you can send me comments. 

What I would like you the reader is to send materials to:

• Gregor Gable
• 1016 Denver St.
• Suite # 1
• Salt Lake City, Utah
• 84111-4773
• Please include your Snail Mail Address, please print clearly, so I send your surprise gift and give proper credit to you in the book,
  

More to follow as I tell you what is happening, pretty much on a daily basis.

Please feel free to send comments and suggestions any feedback is encouraged. Thank you, gregor

May you have peace in your heart during these times of war and worldwide hungry, gregor