Aborigines finally get back radiation tainted land

The worst contamination came not from the bombs blasted, but from the so-called “minor trials” of weapons components that took place for another six years.………….Australia did not recognise the aborigines’ claims to the land

Atomic amends Jan 15th 2010 | MARALINGA The Economist
A blighted site is handed back to the people displaced by British bombs FROM the air, Maralinga looks much like the rest of Australia’s outback: vast, red and empty. Up close, there are differences. Continue reading →

January 17, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | indigenous issues | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Religious protest against exploitation of indigenous land

Quaker Indian Committee disavows Doctrine of Discovery, affirms Declaration Indian Country Today By Gale Courey Toensing Dec 17, 2009 PHILADELPHIA – Inspired by the actions of the Episcopal Church, a Quaker group has disavowed the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and voiced its support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Continue reading →

December 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | indigenous issues, Religion and ethics, USA | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Australian atomic veterans join British class action

Maralinga vets join British class action Pia Akerman , The Australian * December 16, 2009 AUSTRALIANS exposed to deadly radiation in the Maralinga nuclear tests of the 1950s and 60s have abandoned plans to sue at home and will instead join a British class action seeking compensation for damage to their health. Continue reading →

December 16, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, cancer, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Opposition growing across India to land taken for nuclear plants

Land acquisition problems: Serious concern for the country Agitations over land acquisitions are spreading like wild fire in the country. merinews CJ: Rupam Banerjee Wed, Dec 09, 2009 PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh has expressed serious concern over growing problems of land acquisition for industrial and infrastructural projects in different parts of the country. Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, India, politics | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | 1 Comment

Native American tribes concerned about climate, uranium, nuclear

U.S.: “We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Water”By Kyra Ryan SANTA ANA, New Mexico, Dec 5 (IPS) – Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities – problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries. Continue reading →

December 7, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, climate change, indigenous issues, USA | antinuclear, cancer, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Doctors to walk out in protest over uranium mine

Doctors threaten to leave over uranium mine – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) By Eric Tlozek Nov 20, 2009 group of Alice Springs doctors say they will leave the town if a uranium mine goes ahead in the area. Uranium company Cameco is exploring a uranium deposit 25 kilometres south of Alice Springs. Continue reading →

November 20, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

No nuclear plant at Haripur if locals oppose

No nuclear plant at Haripur if locals oppose’ Express Buzz 16 Nov 09 KOLKATA: As locals continue protests against the proposed coastal nuclear power plant at Haripur in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar today said the plant will not come up there if the people do not want it…… Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, India, indigenous issues | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear | Leave a comment

Radioactive land given back to aborigines

Tjarutja people ‘at risk’ from contaminated land ABC News 11 Nov 09ABC A South Australian ex-serviceman who was exposed to radiation during the Maralinga atomic tests in the 1950s and 60s says land should not be handed over to the traditional owners until a contaminated area is cleaned up or fenced off. Continue reading →

November 12, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | indigenous issues | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Art communicates effects of nuclear testin

Green Books Campaign: Art and Upheaval & Giveaway

At home with books November 10, 2009

Review of Art and Upheaval by William Cleveland. “……In Australia theater is used as a means to communicate the effects of nuclear testing on unknowing military men and the aborigines, in hopes that the government will finally take responsibility for their actions…..”

At Home With Books: Green Books Campaign: Art and Upheaval & Giveaway

November 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment

Secrecy, radioactive leaks, in South Australia’s uranium mines

Secretive US Arms Tycoon behind New Uranium Mine in AustraliaA Media Freedom International 9 Nov 09 US mining company is threatening the sacred lands of Aboriginal peoples in Australia. Continue reading →

November 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, indigenous issues | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

World’s biggest uranium miner gets a very bad Report

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An ‘Alternative Annual Report’ is being released in London today at BHP Billiton’s Annual General Meeting, while protesters will mark the event at the company’s offices in Melbourne and Perth.

The Alternative Annual Report documents a number of recurring problems with BHP’s operations around the world – human rights and labour abuses, relocation of communities, mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples, destruction of sacred sites, adverse impacts on food and water, climate change, use of paramilitaries, health concerns, and irresponsible tailings disposal.
These problems are evident in Australia, West Papua, Papua New Guinea the Philippines, South Africa, Canada, Colombia and Chile.

In Melbourne today, protesters will gather outside BHP Billiton’s head office in Melbourne, highlighting the impacts of BHP’s plan to make Olympic Dam the biggest uranium mine in the world. (More information: <http://londonminingnetwork.org>.)

The Alternative Annual Report can be downloaded at:
http://tinyurl.com/yjjluqg

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Worldwide indigenous organising against nuclear industry

Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum a Success Indybay by Anna Rondon Oct 27th, 2009 This past weekend Indigenous Peoples from Alaska, North America, Bolivia and Japan converged near Acoma Pueblo for the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum in Sky City, New Mexico. Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, indigenous issues | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Governments infringe on indigenous rights

RIGHTS: Govts Failing Indigenous Declaration, U.N. Expert Says By Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 (IPS) – A top U.N. expert on human rights law called Monday for governments to match their words with deeds and make good on promises to respect indigenous communities’ right to live as they wish. Continue reading →

October 21, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, indigenous issues | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear | 1 Comment

Scandalous legacy of depleted uranium

America’s Poison Legacy Pacific Free Press by Dave Lindorff 19 October 2009 Depleted Uranium Weapons:

The Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors caused by the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it has used much more extensively–and in more urban, populated areas–in the Iraq War and the now intensifying Afghanistan War. Continue reading →

October 21, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Afghanistan, Iraq, weapons and war | antinuclear, depleted, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

France making it hard for Polynesian nuclear victims

Nuclear payments blow to French Polynesia

By Geraldine Coutts for Radio Australia

ABC News Oct 15, 2009

Activists fighting for victims of French nuclear testing in the Pacific are stunned by conditions imposed in a compensation bill by France’s upper house………….Roland Oldham, president of the Mororua e Tatou Association representing French Pacific nuclear test workers, told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat the actions of the French Senate reflected arrogance in metropolitan France towards its territories. Continue reading →

October 16, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | France, indigenous issues, OCEANIA | antinuclear, cancer, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, wastes | Leave a comment