UK Nuclear Colonialism
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Documents
- “The Assessment of Radiation Exposures in Native American Communities from Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada” – Frohmberg et al (2000)
- The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project interview with Rosemary Lynch (2004)
- Tortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Science in the United States – Dianne Quigley, Amy Lowman and Steve Wing (2012)
Video
- Welcome for Ian Zabarte as honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool, with roundtable discussion about raising awareness of UK Nuclear Colonialism, May 24th 2023
- “A Message from the Most Bombed Nation on Earth” – Ian Zabarte, Al Jazeera – Article (contains 3mins 43secs video), 29 Aug 2020
- “Talking Railroads and Native Americans in the Great Basin” – Ian Zabarte speaking on nuclear waste in panel discussion – video (scroll down to session 3), May 19-21 2022
- “Greenham 40th: Western Shoshone Speak Out against Nuclear Colonialism” – 40th anniversary webinar, 27 Sept. 2022
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- In this meeting Western Shoshone activist Ian Zabarte talks about ongoing struggles against the US-planned nuclear waste repositary at Yucca Mountain with some of the Greenham women who participated in halting a British nuclear test explosion at the Nevada Test Site in November 1990 and, later in July 1993, got arrested at Buckingham Palace while calling for the government and Queen to support the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and oppose further nuclear testing and military activities on Western Shoshone land (in violation of the 1863 Ruby Valley Treaty which enshrined Shoshone rights and sovereignty to protect their land and water).
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Links
- Native Community Action Council – The mission of the Native Community Action Council is to preserve traditional histories, rights and benefits for Native Americans of the Great Basin pursuant to tribal customs by understanding, educating and managing nuclear risks.
- “‘Like putting a lithium mine on Arlington cemetery’: the fight to save sacred land in Nevada”, Guardian 2 Dec 2021
- “Green energy’s hidden costs spark opposition: Proposed lithium mine in Nevada would damage ancestral lands for short-term benefits, critics say”, Indian Country Today 7 Apr 2022
- People of Red Mountain – Paiute & Shoshone people from Fort McDermitt Tribe against Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, Nevada.