What is it like to resist the nuclear sector in Russia? Russian citizens who have protested Rosatom have been arrested, their homes ransacked, listed as "foreign agents" and even forced to flee into exile overseas. Their new report -- from the Russian Social Ecological Union/Friends of the Earth Russia -- is a startling narrative, a tale of courage, persistence and reslience. Read it here.
Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show. The webinar for comments on the proposed radioactive waste dump affecting Native and Latino communities in New Mexico is on Tuesday at 5pm EDT, with information posted at www.beyondnuclear.org.
Do Black Live Matter to the nuclear power industry? We look at examples of discrimination against African American communities. Read our article on Beyond Nuclear International on this topic.
Systemic racism in the nuclear industrial complex has endured for decades. Native Americans mined uranium without protection. The Nevada atomic tests irradiated downwinders, many of them minorities. Atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, not Germany. The US viewed the Marshall Islanders, on whom it “tested” its atomic bombs, as “more like us than mice.”
Hispanic communities are targeted for nuclear waste dumps, while Yucca Mountain, the lone choice for a high-level radioactive waste repository, is on Western Shoshone land. New reactors in Georgia were opposed by a majority black population suffering the health consequences of reactors already there. We stand in solidarity with all of them, and will continue to work on their behalf for a nuclear-free world.
For more on this topic, please see the Beyond Nuclear International article -- Black Lives Matter, but not to the nuclear industry, and From uranium mining to Covid 19.
Beyond Nuclear on Solartopia Green Power and Wellness House, hosted by Harvey Wasserman:
ELECTION THEFT FROM GEORGIA TO DICTATORSHIP &
SHUTTING INDIAN POINT & ALL OTHER NUKE REACTORS
We start with the election fiasco in Georgia that is meant as the prototype for the Trump theft of the 2020 election this fall.
With voting machines designed to fail and eradicated polling stations, the Georgia GOP made sure that thousands of citizens of color could not vote.
This is Trump’s model for permanent dictatorship in 2020.
We then CELEBRATE the shut-down of Indian Point Nuke #2.
We’re joined by legendary activists SUSAN SHAPIRO, KEVIN KAMPS, PAUL GUNTER, TIM JUDSON & CYNTHIA FOLKERS who explain the glories of this long-overdue shut-down in great detail.
We’re also joined by Ohio's JOE DE MARE who explains the sickening thieveries of Ohio’s atomic “bailout” and the mobster legislature's latest insane attempt to make Ohio the nation’s radwaste dump.
The nuke industry just stole $1 billion from Ohio ratepayers and used it for stock buybacks. Ohio could long ago have gotten 100% of its electricity from wind and solar.
Instead the state sinks in a fossil nuclear morass. And unless American activists can overcome the rigging of its elections, it will only get worse.
June 21, 2020