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Chevalier and Benny ZabelRemy 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. |
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![]() 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
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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. |
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![]() 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.
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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
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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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