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Summer Rayne Oakes is a model, media host, speaker, writer, and brand strategist.
She heads up SRO, a strategic consulting company focused on sustainable business strategies, market research, advertising and environmental communications.
 
An entomologist and environmental scientist by training, Oakes graduated from Cornell University as a Udall Scholar and NWF Fellow. During college she linked her environmental studies with her unique platform of cause-related modeling, which she has largely become recognized for. Her work has been featured throughout the world
 

Adi Roche
Founder &International Executive Director
Chernobyl Children’s Project International, Inc. Adi Roche has spent the majority of her life campaigning for peace, humanitarian aid, and education. In 1990, she became the first Irish woman to be  elected to the Board of Directors of the International Peace Bureau (IBP), based in Geneva. Adi is also responsible for creating the Peace Education Program that is taught in classrooms throughout Ireland, and is the first woman ever to be chosen by an alliance of broad-spectrum political parties to run for President of Ireland in the election of 1997

 
Remy Chevalier and Benny Zabel

Remy Chevalier is an environmentalist, editor of Electrifying Times, investigative journalist and the grandson of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.

Benny is an Australian performance artist and a anti nuclear activist.

 
Sherwood Martinelli is on the Board of directors of FUSE USA and is in a legal battle with the Indian Point nuclear power plant to stop its relicensing. He has almost 20 years of experience in taking on large polluters, and the utility industry. As founder of Save Wills Creek Water Resources Committee, played instrumental role in seeing a $70 Million clean up of the Shieldalloy site in Ohio

 

 
 
 

Helen Caldicott  Physician, humanist, empassioned advocate for nuclear disarmament and a true woman of peace is Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Dr. Helen Caldicott.

Helen Caldicott is recognized in every corner of the globe as the most visible advocate for peace in the world. Her awards, acknowledgments and citations fill pages - just to name a few: Peace Medal Award (United Nations Association of Australia), which she shared with her husband, William Caldicott, who is equally dedicated to the mission for world peace; Integrity Award (John-Roger Foundation), which she shared with Bishop Desmond TuTu; Peace Award (American Association of University Women); SANE Peace Award; Ghandi Peace Prize... and the list goes on. See her videos here

 
 

Charmaine White Face is an Oglala Tetuwan (Lakota language speaker) from the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) in North America. She is known for her work in support of Native American rights, in particular as coordinator of the Defenders of the Black Hills volunteer organization centered around efforts to encourage the United States government to honor the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868. She also works at the international level in support of recognition of human rights of indigenous peoples all over the world. She is the spokesperson for the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council to the UN.. She was a participant in the prayer fast/hunger strike held in December 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland at the final meeting of the Intersessional Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (WGDD). She is also a biologist, teacher, writer and a grandmother.
 

Uranium Runs Through It

Interview with Harold One Feather who is a Hunkpapa Lakota  environmentalist and a volunteer for Defenders of the Black Hills in South Dakota. He is also Co-founder and Director of The Silkwood Project, which is an organization designed to raise awareness about various problems with the environment in the Black Hills. He has recently been featured on NPR radio discussing the problems with uranium mine sediment contamination of the Grand River which runs into Standing Rock Reservation, where many people are finding out they have rare forms of cancer, birth deects, spontaneous miscarriages and much more.

 
 
Garvard Good Plume
AKA Walks with a Loud Thunder Voice
 
Our territory was to be "liberated" by the Americans when gold was discovered in the scared Black Hills. The occupation of our land by foreign forces began shortly after the American discovery of these resources and in violation of international treaties and conventions has continued ever since.

 

 
 

Timothy Benally is a Navaho Native American. Memories Come To Us In the Rain and the Wind", Oral Histories and Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners & Their Families. The book of 25 interviews is part of the campaign of Navajo uranium miners and their families to gain compensation for the great loss in death and illness brought about by mining uranium, with no warning of its ill effects, during the Cold War era of 1947- 1971.

 

Doug Brugge has a PhD in biology from Harvard University and a MS in industrial hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is director of the Tufts Health Careers Opportunities Program and co-director of the Healthy Public Housing Initiative. His research includes studies of asthma and building conditions in the home

Doug Brugge was director and photographer for the book project and Timothy Benally and Phil Harrison were interviewers. Translation and transcription were by Timothy Benally, Martha Austin-Garrison and Lydia Fasthorse-Begay
 
Brenda Aplin runs a registered charity called LAKOTA AID.  She has been fund raising for the Lakota (Sioux) Native American Indians of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, for nearly 3 years and lives in England.

 

 

 
 
 

William Under Baggage is the founder and director of Indigenous nations network.

He is also a Lakota peace activist, cultural ambassador to the UN, common man, Film maker, survivor of an attempt at genocide.

 
 

Diane Stearns "Essentially, if you get a heavy metal stuck on DNA, you can get a mutation," Stearns explained. Other heavy metals are known to bind to DNA, but Stearns and her colleagues are the first to identify this trait with uranium. Their results were published recently in the journals Mutagenesis and Molecular Carcinogenesis. 

 
 
 

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