The following is copied from a letter to a German subscriber of the mailing list of the Lovisa Movement.

Dear ...

it was not clear at the beginning that this mailing list would be mostly in Finnish (and to a lesser extent in Swedish). However, we appreciate very much that you have joined the list of the Lovisa Movement although you can not understand Finnish.

The Lovisa Movement does not wish to be a "not-in-my-backyard" movement. On the contrary, we want to connect our local citizens' anti-nuclear resistance to the global movements for the abolition of the WMD and the dismantling of the nuclear power plants.

As you may have heard, 3 different corporations (Fortum Heat and Power, Teollisuuden Voima, and Fennovoima, which, by the way, was recently formed by the German E.ON plus a consortium of Finnish firms and local electricity companies) are presently competing for permissions and contracts to construct 1-3 new nuclear reactors in Finland. It is likely that at least one of the new nuclear plants will be built in Lovisa and/or Ruotsinpyhtää. (Ruotsinpyhtää-Strömfors is a municipality on the Eastern cost of the Bay of Finland; it will be fusioned with Lovisa in 2009).

In Finland, municipal elections will be held on Sunday, October 26, 2008. The Lovisa Movement arranges a panel discussion on nuclear power with candidates in Lovisa and Ruotsinpyhtää on Monday, 13 October, 18 pm, in the auditorium of Länsiharjun ala-aste, a primary school in Lovisa.

Grateful, if you send us a greeting from Germany. How do you see the present and the future of nuclear power in your country?

Perhaps you can also help us to inform about the Lovisa Movement among German citizens and intellectuals who actively watch the development of the nuclear situation in Europe and the world?

Recently, the USA was reported to have withdrawn its nuclear weapons from its Air base in Ramstein. That is good news from Germany. It's believed, however, that around 20 nuclear bombs remain in underground bunkers at Büchel, in southwest Germany (http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2676969,00.html). Grateful, if you send information about the efforts of the citizens to eliminate all NW from German soil.

The Lovisa Movement has signed the Appeal from Saintes. You may want to sign this appeal yourself. The Saintes Appeal is found at http://www.acdn.net

All the best.

- Mikael Böök

Mikael Böök * book@kaapeli.fi * gsm +358(0)-44 5511 324 * http://www.kaapeli.fi/book/ * http://blogi.kaapeli.fi/book/ * http://blog.spinellisfootsteps.info/