With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories: Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shutdown Japan’s nuclear power plants, after the Fukushima disaster. Winona LaDuke, has spent much of her life working to oppose uranium mining on indigenous land. And Alice Slater is part of a global initiative to ban nuclear weapons. On this edition, is the anti-nuclear movement on the rise? This is a special collaboration with Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.
Featuring:
Kaori Izumi, Japanese anti-nuclear activist, Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe activist, Alice Slater, Abolition2000 founder.
For More Information:
Women Rising Radio
http://www.radioproject.org/
Shut Tomari
http://shuttomari.blogspot.com/search/label/English
White Earth Land Recovery Project
http://nativeharvest.com/winona_laduke
Honor the Earth
Abolition 2000
Fukushima Update
Fukushima reactor 4 requires urgent intervention; coalition calls for
emergency UN action to halt catastrophic release of radiation
http://www.naturalnews.com/035788_Fukushima_United_Nations_radiation.html
Japanese Fukushima Eye-Witnesses Challenge Capitol Hill Lawmakers and US Regulators to Stop Promotion of Nuclear Power
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/19-2
Indian Point Community Teach-in at SUNY-Purchase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYPZjDIMYCE
Winona LaDuke on the Colbert Report
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/173622/june-12-2008/winona-laduke
Alice Slater: Sustainable Energy Will Bring Peace on Earth, 3-21-12
http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/blogs/alice-slater-sustainable-energy-will-bring-peace-on-earth.html
The Folly of Mindless Science
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/19-0