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Australian women protesting nuclear waste dumping

Women’s Peace Walk to Take People’s Opposition to Nuke Dump to Canberra | Indymedia Australia 24 Feb 2010
The Women’s Peace Walk “Footprints for Peace” will begin their epic three month trek from Brisbane to Canberra to send a message of peace, sustainability and anti-nuclear proliferation to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

The Women-organised event is expected to take three months taking in many towns and cities before finishing in Canberra. They will meet with Prime Minister Rudd and deliver a message stick to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.

Walk organiser and 66yo grandmother June Norman says, “With the announcement of Mucakaty Station in the Northern Territory as the preferred site for a high level nuclear waste dump in Central Australia, it is important that the Australian people make it known we don’t want this dirty, dangerous and unwanted industry endangering our lives and the lives of future generations.”

“Most of the indigenous people of central Australia are opposed to a nuclear waste dump on their land and we need to stand by them. Opposing the nuclear industry is vital to supporting safe and peaceful future.”

Special guest at the Women’s Peace Walk launch on Sunday, March 13 is indigenous health, political and social justice advocate and Birrigubba woman, Gracelyn Smallwood. Gracelyn was awarded Queensland Aboriginal of the Year in 1986, an Order of Australia medal in 1992 for service to public health, and in 1994 was the first woman, Indigenous person and non-paediatrician to receive the Henry Kemp Memorial Award at the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. She is an Associate Professor at James Cook University in Townsville.

Women’s Peace Walk to Take People’s Opposition to Nuke Dump to Canberra | Indymedia Australia

February 25, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics | AUSTRALIA