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Included below is a significant portion of the hearings from this
monumental book. This record serves to re-mind and re-alert all
to the radiotoxic dangers and increasing damage to the genetic
integrity of all species posed by the 50+ short years employment
of nuclear technology. If we are to survive as a species,
befitting our role as the guardians of our supremely precious
planet, we must cease activities in the interlocking lethal
industries of nuclear weapons and energy. From around the world
people came and spoke to how their lives have been negatively
impaired and tragically altered by first-hand experience of the
mining, processing, and dumping of uranium and its "offspring". May
their voices benefit the rest of us with this critically useful
resource and record.
See Also:
Nuclear-Free Future Award,
a Project in the Spirit of the World Uranium Hearing
Poison Fire, Sacred Earth
TESTIMONIES, LECTURES, CONCLUSIONS
THE WORLD URANIUM HEARING
SALZBURG 1992
ISBN 3-928505-00-9
HTML format is also available.
The vocabulary of our industrial society contains the
well-known and continuously used term of the "peaceful use of
nuclear energy". A well functioning international system to
suppress disturbing information has enabled the nuclear industry
to promote itself as safe and environmentally sound. But
this label is a lie.
At
The World Uranium Hearing held in Salzburg, Austria in September
1992, witnesses from all continents including indigenous speakers and
scientists testified to the falsity of the terminology used and
sanctioned by industry and governments world-wide. Fifty years of
military and civilian use of nuclear power meant war for those whose
homelands have been used for mining and processing of uranium and
chosen for atomic weapons testing, atomic energy production and atomic
waste disposal. Every day human life and the natural world are
sacrificed along the radioactive trail of our nuclear way.
One
of the tasks of this book is to empower the people living on the
exploited areas, however remote, as well as to carry it onto the desks
of the decision makers. Each statement of this historic week serves
as evidence of the urgent need for world responsibility. On a
radioactive planet all plans for the future will become meaningless.
All materials are reprinted here with the permission of Paul Brown,
World Uranium Hearing at the International Action Center (IAC)
39 West 14 Street # 206
New York, NY 10011
We gives thanks to all who made this book and its record possible.
We dedicate this manifestation to all children throughout the world,
and to their future free from the physical and psychic contamination
which has been caused by disturbing Uranium's timeless sleep in our Earth.
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Sunday, 9-13-1992
Day of the Mountains, 9-14-1992
- Opening Speech, Day of the Mountains
- Welcoming Message, Day of the Mountains
- Low-Level Radiation, The Effects on
Human and Non-Human Life,
Lecture by Dr. Alice Stewart
- Uranium: Known Facts and Hidden Dangers,
Lecture by Dr. Gordon Edwards
- Testimony:
- CIS:
- Lakota Nation, South Dakota:
- James Garrett,
Degree in Environmental Law, Director for
Environmental Affairs of the Cheyenne River Reservation in 1992
- Hopi Nation, Arizona:
- Beyond Nukes, The Promise of
Renewable Energy,
Lecture by Dr. Bill Keepin
Day of the Forests, 9-15-1992
- Testimony:
- Dakota Nation, California
- The True Price of Nuclear Power,
The Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,
- Testimony:
- Argentina:
- Raúl Montenegro,
Biologist, founder
and President of Fundacion por la Defensa del Ambiente
(FUNAM), winner of the "Global-500" Prize
- Brazil:
- Chukchi Nation, Siberia, CIS:
- Larissa Abrjutina,
Medical doctor in Bilibino, President of the
Regional Association of the Small Peoples of the Chukchi Peninsula
- Village Duccasi, Bihar, India:
- Xavier S. Dias,
Co-founder of Jharkhandis Organization
for Human Rights
- Jaduguda, India:
- Direndra Sharma,
Medical doctor,
Director of the Centre for Asian Science and
Industrial Policy Research, Convener of the
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
Day of the Deserts, 9-16-1992
- The Nuclear Guardianship,
Concept for a Radioactive Future,
- Testimony:
- Kasakhstan, CIS:
- Prof. Ryspek A. Ibraev,
Geologist, geochemist, leader of the Inter-faculty
Laboratory of the Kasakh State University, head of the Independent
Public Expert Council of Radioecology of Kazakhstan
- Acoma Nation, New Mexico:
- Manuel Pino,
Currently
working on a Ph.D. about the effects of uranium mining
on the identity of the Indian people, i.e. loss of
traditional values and an increase in suicide and alcoholism
- Laguna Nation, New Mexico:
- Acoma Nation, New Mexico:
- Diné (Navajo) Nation, Arizona:
- Austin Sam,
Member of Navajos for Clean Water
- Philipp Harrison,
President of the Uranium Radiation Victims
Committee, co-founder of the Four Corners Navajo
Millers' Association, Navajo Compensation Officer
of the Navajo Nation for the compensation of miners
- Anna Rondon,
Member of Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum
- Laurie Goodman,
Member of Diné Citizens Against Ruining our
Environment (Diné CARE)
- In The Name Of World Peace,
Atomic Tests In Both Hemispheres
Lecture by Prof. Jim Falk
- Testimony:
- Western Shoshone Nation:
- Ian Zabarte,
Western Shoshone National Council, Director of
the Nuclear Oversight Project of the Western Shoshone Nation
- Australia:
- Gracelyn Smallwood,
Master of Science
(in Health), registered nurse, midwife, member of
the Aboriginal Islander Tripartite Forum,
co-founder of the Indi-Genous Forum
- John Hallam,
Member of Friends of the Earth, author
- Pitjantjatjara, Australia:
- Archie Barton,
dministrator
of the Maralinga Tjarutja (Land Rights Council). With
him are Mervin Day, Barker Bryant (Elders) and Andrew
Collen (lawyer)
- Havasupai Nation, Grand Canyon:
- Rex Tilousi,
Longterm member of the Havasupai Tribal
Council, activist against Canyon Uranium Mine
- Carletta Tilousi,
Member of Southwest Network for
Environmental and Economic Justice
- Switzerland:
- Helena Nyberg,
Representative of a Swiss indigenous suppourt group
- Namibia:
- South Africa:
Day of the Waters, 9-17-1992
- Testimony:
- Kokotha Nation, Australia:
- Joan Wingfield,
Vice-President
of the Kokotha Peoples' Committee, co-author of the
brochure "Weapons in the Wilderness"
- Australia:
- David Sweeney,
Member of "Friends of
the Earth ", co-ordinator of the Anti-Nuclear
Campaign for the past five years
- Japan:
- Dr. Katsumi Furitsu,
Medical doctor at
the Hospital for Radiation Victims, Osaka (mostly
Hibakusha), Delegate of the Investigation of
Hibakusha (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
- Kiyoshi Miyata,
Film producer
- Yami People, Taiwan:
- Fiorella Allio,
France. Ethnologist, activist for the
Yami, the aboriginal people of Taiwan.
- Fiji, Polynesia:
- Peter Salamonsen,
Secretary for
Justice, Peace and Development, works for
the Pacific Conference of Churches
- Tahiti, Polynesia:
- Clariza Lucas,
Maohi Nation, Representative of Tavini Huiraatiraa
(Polynesian Liberation Front), works in a social assistance program,
representative of 18 Women's Committees
- Claude Marere,
Journalist, works with Radio Te Reo o Tefana
- Gabriel Tetiarah,
Delegate of Te Hui Tiama (Ligue
Polynésienne Indépendante des Droits
de L'Homme), President of the Human Rights League
- Myron Mataoa,
Member of Tavini
Huiraatiraa (Polynesian Liberation Front)
- Great Britain:
- Nentsy Nation, Novaya Zemlya, CIS:
- Denmark:
- Greenland:
- Yakima Nation, Washington State:
- Russel Jim,
Manager of the Environmental Restoration Waste
Management Project
Friday, 9-18-1992
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