• January 10, The Social Cost of Nuclear Power (details below)
• January 12, Active Bystander Training, Kilton Library
• January 15, Repeal The Death Penalty,  Jodi Picoult and death row exonoree Sabrina Butler. Top of the Hop, Dartmouth
  
• January 19, John Delaney for President, Base Camp Cafe
• January 19, Weatherize in Canaan and Enfield, Mascoma Valley Regional High School, 3 p.m.

January 10, 12:15pm-1:15pm

The Social Cost of Nuclear Power
Fahey Hall – First Floor Commons

Fukushima prefecture in Japan is the site of a 2011 tsunami and nuclear accident after a major earthquake off the east coast of Japan. Despite the very minor release of radiation into the atmosphere, the disaster has had profound effects on the lives of the local citizens. 

Dr. Louise Davies will share field notes and invite discussion on her reflections after visiting the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plant to observe the dismantling and containment progress, and meeting and working with the scientists running the Fukushima Health Management Survey.

Louise Davies, MD, MS, is an otolaryngologist and health services researcher on thyroid cancer. She spent last year as a Fulbright Global Scholar doing research on thyroid cancer in Japan and England, and serving on a task force for the International Agency for Research on Cancer to make recommendations about thyroid monitoring after nuclear accidents.

RSVP Here

Two new events you might wish to attend:

• December 21, candlelight vigil to honor the homeless who passed away in 2018 in both NH and VT 
• January 15, Repeal The Death Penalty,  Jodi Picoult and death row exonoree Sabrina Butler.

AND

• See what your Executive Council discussed in December: Lame Duck Nominations & other items of interest.  

AND

It’s time to get more involved in your town’s Democrat committee! It doesn’t take much. Here are some suggestions.

If you have the digital skills:

● Offer to help create, maintain, and utilize an email list of committee members to keep everyone updated;

● Offer to work on your town database, to contact 2018 volunteers, and to  get them involved in your local committee;

● Offer to manage your committee’s social media accounts (Twitter & Facebook);

If you have the organizational skills: 

Offer to hep with monthly meetings:

1. Organize forums, programs, and guest speakers;
2. Raise money to support local candidates and local campaign offices;
3. Take action at meetings by circulating petitions, writing postcards, or organizing voter contact;
4. Provide a list of action items and next steps following meetings.
   • Identify Democrats to run for local town/municipal offices;
   • Work to elect those Democrats to help build a bench for state representative/senate;
   • Assist current local office holders to build public support for common-sense local governance;
   • Work with your county committee to recruit candidates for State and County office;
   • Hold Republican officeholders accountable by educating your neighbors by what’s happening in Concord.

Contact your town chair and offer to help.