This event will now take place on April 27th
Please sign up at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-greenham-to-nevada-tickets-272738687757
Until as recently as 1991, the UK was testing its Trident nuclear weapons in the US state of Nevada,
directly on the lands and people of the Western Shoshone Nation. Around 900 US & UK nuclear
explosions between 1951 – 1992 made the Western Shoshone ‘the most bombed nation on earth’;
meanwhile, the Shoshone have been resisting plans for a vast, nuclear waste facility and lithium mega-mines. The historic and contemporary degradation of Indigenous communities, cultures, and territories of the Americas by extractive industries is widely discussed; yet the UK’s involvement in this modern-day nuclear project against the Western Shoshone is little-known.
Organised by veterans of the women’s peace camps at USAF Greenham Common and AWE Aldermaston, From Greenham to Nevada connects academics, activists, artists, and the wider public with the Shoshone Nation, and with a UK campaign to:
• make more visible the crimes of UK nuclear colonialism
• support independent, inter-disciplinary, participatory research on the multiple impacts of
nuclear colonialism on the Western Shoshone
From Greenham to Nevada: UK nuclear colonialism and grassroots solidarity with the Western Shoshone launches its nationwide series of events at the Centre for Indigenous & Settler Colonial Studies, University of Kent.
Speakers
Ian Zabarte is Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation and a board member of the Native Community Action Council. He has been researching, campaigning, and educating national and international audiences on the impact of nuclear testing on the Shoshone since the early 1980s (speaking live by zoom from Nevada)
Juley Howard and Lorna Richardson are UK anti-nuclear campaigners and researchers, active at the Women’s Peace Camps at Greenham Common and Aldermaston. With the permission of Western Shoshone Elders, they entered the Nevada Nuclear Test Site to halt a British test and have taken non-violent direct action in the UK to highlight British nuclear weapons & testing (speaking in-person)
Facilitators: Lucia Brandi (University of Liverpool), David Stirrup (CISCS, Kent), Karen Jones (CISCS and Centre for the Study of Health, Science, and Environment)
For information or to host a ‘From Greenham to Nevada’ event: Lucia.Brandi@liv.ac.uk