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Radio interview on NEPM’s Fabulous 413, April 17, 2024
By Monte Belmonte, Kaliis Smith
“This weekend, the Solar Rollers, a dedicated bicycle activist group, will gather for a Solar Roller Earth Day River Ride. We talk to some of the folks from the group to hear more about the history, evolution, and roots of their activism, and how their values apply to local solar farms, battery storage, and hydropower.”…
The interview with David Detmold and others starts at 19:40 min. into show: https://www.nepm.org/podcast/the-fabulous-413/2024-04-19/april-17-2024-poetics-in-protest
On Saturday, April 20 we rode and walked to support these Earth Day demands:
- shut down Northfield Mt. pumped storage station
- no industrial battery storage in Wendell
- no clearcut of Shutesbury forests for industrial solar
The Solar Rollers, who rode from Greenfield to Vernon in 1979 demanding the shut-down of Vermont Yankee, in conjunction with the Connecticut River Defenders invited everyone who cares about the well-being of the Connecticut River and its watershed to join them for a rally on the Greenfield Town Common at 9 am on April 20. Following the rally, the Rollers invited all cyclists in the area to join them for a 13-mile ride to Northfield in the defense of the Connecticut River.
Solar Rollers History
A grassroots bicycle activist group that formed in Amherst, MA in 1978 to ride to Seabrook, NH in opposition to the construction of a twin nuclear reactor, come back together for a 13-mile ride from the Greenfield Town Common to the Northfield Mountain picnic area on Saturday, April 20th, to demand a halt to the relicensing of the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage facility.
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