n Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men – many of them illiterate – to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.
Below the window with the video you can choose the subtitle language once the clip has started.
Conditions at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are far worse than its operator or the government has admitted,
according to freelance journalist Tomohiko Suzuki, who spent more than a month working undercover at the power station.
Photo: Tomohiko Suzuki, in full protective gear, near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant on July 18.
(Photo courtesy of T. Suzuki)
The agitation against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant near Tirunelveli reached a feverish pitch on Thursday with more than 10,000 activists laying
siege to all the entry points to the project site.
More than 700 scientists and technicians who reached the KNPP for their morning shift could not enter the reactor premises which brought
routine works to a grinding halt.
Read more here.
A couple of months after the catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant March 11, an American nuclear expert posed an interesting question.
"The post-Fukushima public sentiment is surprisingly low-key isn't it?
What a difference between this event and TMI or Chernobyl", he wrote in an e-mail,
using an abbreviation for the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
"What do you think is going on? Why so quiet?"
Read the full article here.
"Soils have been sampled in the vicinity of the TomskeSeversk facility (Siberia, Russia) that allows us to measure radioactive
contaminations due to atmospheric and aquatic releases. Indeed soils exhibit large inventories of man-made fission product..."
"...Soil activities are too high to be related solely to global fallout and thus the source of plutonium must be discharges from the
Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) plant. This is confirmed by plutonium isotopic ratios measured by ICP-MS..."
Read more and download the paper here.
From "Footprints for Peace", Australia
View the latest pictures from the Walk away from uranium Mining
http://www.flickr.com/photos/footprintsforpeace/sets/72157627483756223/
The last week has been amazing and we have come out of the dirt road walking being led through country by
Kado Muir and many visits on the walk from other local Traditional Custodians from the area.
We are now in Leanora and have been welcomed by many here and treated to an Amazing BBQ at Richard & Sandra Evans.
The country here has been some of the most beautiful country that I have ever seen in my life.
It is hard to belive that BHP, Toro and other companies want to destroy this country for uranium mining.
The impact of other mining in this area is very evedent around us and it is easy to see the mines that have just been abandoned.
Uranium is such at different substance with its long life of radiactive materials that will poison the land for a thiusand generations to come..
We have already witnessed the tactics of these companies and have heard from the Traitional elders how their perants and uncles & Aunties stopped
them from mining uranium here decades ago and how much passion and strength there is in the communities here to stop it from happening again..
We need o understand that this country is something very special that the people here have been fighting for and will continue to fight for.
We must all come together and stand with the people from this area to not allow the Government and uranium mining companies to come in and push their
weight around.
At the end of the day they will destroy this land to send the poision over to another country for use in Nuclear power and weapons..
WE CAN STOP IT.....
PLEASE JOIN US ON THE WALK....
There are currently 40 people walking from Wiluna to Perth including special guests from France, the US and New Zealand and Traditional Owners.
Please join them as they walk into Kalgoorlie in a few weeks.
This is a great opportunity to meet Traditional Owners who are battling to save their country from a nuclear future,
as well as amazing activists from around the globe with news about the nuclear industry globally.
The weekend events will also include talks from Labor and Greens MPs who have been supporting the
"Walk Away From Uranium Mining-Towards Aboriginal Sovereignty"
We have confirmed the bus to Kalgoorlie leaving Perth on the 15th September and returning on the 19th.
See below the schedule for the Kalgoorlie weekend
Thursday 15th September
9am Leave East Perth Station
6pm Arrive at Camp with Walkers (20km north of Kalgoorlie)
Friday 16th September
Morning- Walk into Kalgoorlie
Evening- Camp at Wongutha Birni Aboriginal Centre
Saturday 17th September
Day with the Walkers meet and greet
Sunday 18th September
1-3pm public meeting- Centennial Park Kalgoorlie
Speakers, Face Painting, BBQ
Monday 19th September-
9am- Bus to Perth or/
Stay and keep walking J
ANYONE WISHING TO MAKE A DONATION TO HELP US WITH FOOD, PHONES, LOGISTICS, FUEL and TRANSPORTATION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO ATTEND can visit http://footprints.footprintsforpeace.net/nffcampaign/NFFDonations.htm
TAKE ACTION
No Uranium Mining in Wiluna- sign the submission to the EPA
JUMP on the Bus from Perth and back to be part of the "Walk Away From Uranium Mining- Towards Aboriginal Sovereignty" as they head in to Kalgoorlie.
We have confirmed the bus to Kalgoorlie leaving Perth on the 15th September and returning on the 19th.
Great opportunity to be part of the walk meet activists from France, USA and New Zealand as well as inspiring Traditional Owners who need your support
in this fight to keep WA nuclear free.
Call 0415380808 to book your seat on the bus
Our Democracy Now! friends wrote to us :
I am writing to you because I thought you would be interested in
Democracy Now!'s special interview with Greg Mitchell, author of
"Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and The
Greatest Movie Never Made," on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of
the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki. They discuss the cover up and the
U.S. propaganda following Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the
U.S.'s current nuclear weapons policy and Japan's nuclear
infrastructure.
more...
We have finally found a way. Via Paypal the Nuclear-Free Future Award can now recieve your online donations.
This little button leads the way :
Joan Wingfield (l)
We mourn. Our fighting sister Joan from Australia –
who was part of the Australian delegation at the World Uranium Hearing in 1992 and who represented Yvonne Margarula at the first Nuclear-Free Future Award ceremony in 1998 –
passed into the spirit world the end of July.
You can download the orbituary by Claus Biegert and Dave Sweeney inlcuding Joan`s speech from the World Uranium Hearing in 1992 here.
Dangerous levels of radiation have been detected in multiple locations in
Canada as governments and the corporate media continues to cover up the
real dangers posed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Multiple videos have been released [go to the web site link and view the
videos] showing high levels of radiation in Canada.
Link.
Background:
The maximum permissible radiation exposure for a member
of the general public has been set (by regulatory bodies
such as Canada's CNSC or the US NRC) at 1 millisievert
per year.
Gordon Edwards
More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured
in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate
and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation
exposure, it was learned Sunday.
Read the full Japan Times article here.
With a very useful hint we discovered http://www.nuclearbanks.org.
It`s a very good page illustrating which companies and especially banks are actively taking part in the nuclear business world wide.
Defintely worth a visit!
It is like a confirmation that Government of Japan has not released the true picture of the disaster in order to avoid the panic of people in evacuation zone in the Fukushima.< /br> Read the article here
Tokyo – Long before the ghostly images of Fukushima's nuclear workers in white suits and gas masks appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, photographer Kenji Higuchi was recording the lives and risks of the industry's front-line laborers.< /br> Read the article here
The Nuclear Free Future Award ceremony 2011 in Berlin was a great success. We provide download material for everybody who couldn`t be there or wants to go through parts of it again.
Pictures of all laureates as well as the ceremony can be found under press images in our press lounge.
Parts of the ceremony can be watched as Video file in the NFFA Youtube channel now.
It can be found right here.
The videos are between 140 MB and over 1 GB, so a fast internet connection is recommended. It might take some time to load them.
Additionally the ceremony can be downloaded as audiofile, recorded by Radio Dreyeckland:
The speeches are either German or English, depending on the nationality of the speaker.
The delivered speeches also exist as pdf. Unfortunately we don`t have all of them.
We thank all our sponsors for the outstanding support at the NFFA ceremony 2011 in Berlin, Germany
In response to Germany's expanded reliance on nuclear energy, Ursula Sladek created her country's first cooperatively-owned renewable power company.
Read more...Dr. Ed Lyman, a nuclear physicist, and Dave Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer, are providing regularly updated analysis.
You can read their latest analysis here.
(Refresh the page to get the latest updates.)
Read the full NEWSWEEK article here.
