*+*+*POISON FIRE, SACRED EARTH*+*+*
Salzburg, September 1992:
Affected people from every continent gathered at the WORLD URANIUM
HEARING to break the silence cloaking the radioactive genocide
perpetrated by our nuclear society. The witnesses - predominantly
indigenous peoples - came as living proof: whether we mine uranium,
test nuclear weaponry, or attempt to dispose of nuclear wastes, our
victims are always peoples we do not know living in regions
unfamiliar to us. At the conclusion of this international hearing
arose a unanimous request: "Leave the uranium in the earth!"
The proceedings of this historic week are now available in English:
"Poison Fire, Sacred Earth," 314 pages, b/w photographs.
The book is available from:
The World Uranium Hearing at The International Action Centre
39 West 14th Street, Room 206, New York NY 10011, USA
Tel: 212-633-6646 Fax: 212-633-2889
Forward
by Claus Biegert
Initiator of the World Uranium Hearing
The vocabulary of our industrial society contains the well-known
and continuously used term of the "peaceful use of nuclear energy".
A well functioning international system to suppress disturbing
information has enabled the nuclear industry to promote itself as
safe and environmentally sound. But this label is a lie.
At the World Uranium Hearing held in Salzburg, Austria in September
1992, witnesses from all continents including indigenous speakers
and scientists testified to the falsity of the terminology used and
sanctioned by industry and governments world-wide. Fifty years of
military and civilian use of nuclear power meant war for those
whose homelands have been used for mining and processing of uranium
and chosen for atomic weapons testing, atomic energy production and
atomic waste disposal. Every day human life and the natural world
are sacrificed along the radioactive trail of our nuclear way.
One of the tasks of this book is to empower the people living on
the exploited areas, however remote, as well as to carry it onto
the desks of the decision makers. Each statement of this historic
week serves as evidence of the urgent need for world
responsibility. On a radioactive planet all plans for the future
will become meaningless.
May the spirit of the Salzburg hearings travel around the world and
help break the wall of silence which surrounds the nuclear industry
and all of its victims.
May the teachings of the indigenous witnesses on whose lands most
of the destruction has taken place remind us that the world is
sacred.
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I did want to say that this there is of "Uranium Hearing" this
year, you hear a lot of stuff; next time you have a "Uranium
Stopping"- could be on there. "Uranium Stopping", "Uranium
Eliminating" or something we should have, that is better than
"Hearing", we hear too much!
Thomas Banyacya, Hopi
Salzburg 1992
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Michele Lord + If you have come here to help me,
+ you are wasting your time.....
+ But if you have come because
+ your liberation is bound up with mine,
milo@scicom.alphacdc.com + then let us work together.
Aboriginal Woman
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