“Uniting Communities for Environmental Justice: Radioactive Pollution, Deadly in Any Space”: Congress Session on August 15
Published on July, 09 2021
Tina Cordova will be one of the speakers at an August 15 panel on nuclear radiation, waste, and testing fallout, and environmental justice efforts led by people suffering from their effects. Photo by Joshua Wheeler, used with permission.
By Ellen Thomas
Co-chair, DISARM/ End Wars Issue Committee
August 2021
On Sunday, August 15 at 12:20 pm PDT / 2:20 pm CDT / 3:20 pm EDT, come learn more at a Congress session moderated by DISARM/End Wars Co-chair Robin Lloyd, “Uniting Communities for Environmental Justice: Radioactive Pollution, Deadly in Any Space.”
Four knowledgeable speakers will talk about nuclear radiation, radioactive waste and fallout from nuclear weapons testing, and their effects on women and children in particular. Attendees will learn about ongoing efforts by people who have suffered from radioactive pollution to gain environmental justice.
Mary Olson, Acting Director of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project, will speak on the subject “Atomic Radiation Is More Harmful to Women and Girls.” “That radiation causes more harm to female bodies compared to males did not begin in 1945, nonetheless fission revealed this biological fact. Nuclear empires depend on safety regulations based on adult males, which are off by many orders of magnitude!”
Leona Morgan will speak about “The Nuclear Fuel Chain: Ongoing and New Threats to Communities in the Southwest, from uranium mining and nuclear power plant waste storage, to climate change and local resistance.”
Tina Cordova will speak about “Trinity Downwinders – 76 Years and Waiting” – the U.S. nuclear test downwinders, the effects of COVID-19, and grassroots efforts to get all downwinders covered under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 (RECA).
Helen Jaccard will speak about the history of depleted uranium weapons and the health effects on veterans and civilians where they were used and tested, and about the lengthy travels of The Golden Rule sailboat. (See "Golden Rule Arrives in San Francisco Bay").
Register here for the WILPF US 34th Triennial Congress and we look forward to seeing you at this important and informative panel discussion.
