Come together with the community to honor victims of nuclear weapons and join in the call for peace and nuclear disarmament. The annual Hiroshima to Hope at Green Lake will be filled with music and story-telling before floating lanterns into the water and watching the summer breeze carry them away. Tuesday, Aug. 6th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Northwest shore, Green Lake, Seattle
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IN MY LIFETIME provides a comprehensive look at the impact of the nuclear age from its beginnings to today.
With archival footage and contemporary interviews from Europe, Japan, and the US, the film features multiple perspectives including international efforts by citizens, scientists and political leaders to eliminate the nuclear threat.
Keystone Congregational United Church of Christ, 5019 Keystone Place N, Seattle. Film at 7:00 with discussion afterwards. Co-hosted with Ground Zero and Hanford Challange.
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What have we learned in the two years since Fukushima?
Join us for a two day forum featuring speakers, panel discussions and video presentations. We will look what is happening at Fukushima and what threats we face in the northwest.
Featured speakers include Beverly Findlay-Kaneko (Families for Safe Energy), representatives of Oregon PSR, Oregon Sierra Club, No Nukes NW, University of Washington, and Hanford Challenge.
Energy and Peace
Disarmament. A decade after the end of the Cold War, the world carried the burden of over 30,000 nuclear weapons into the new millennium.
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Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Founded in 1980, WPSR alerted the public that no meaningful medical response exists to nuclear war, and that "prevention is the only cure."
More on Hanford Nuclear Reservation »"According to “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” a report by Physicians for Social Responsibility, coal pollutants have been linked to four of the five leading causes of death in our nation, including cancer, stroke, heart disease and chronic lower respiratory diseases. As leaders in our state debate the future of TransAlta, they must take the health impacts of coal seriously and insist that the plant transition off coal as soon as possible."
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PSR is among groups asking for a “single, comprehensive” environmental impact statement on proposed coal terminals in Washington State.
Source: Seattle Post-IntelligencerPSR will be working with economist Robert McCullough to examine the business case for an early retirement of the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant.
Source: Wall Street JournalActivists representing Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington Chapter, arrived at Ground Zero on Saturday during the Bike to the Bomb bicycle ride. Bike to the Bomb protests the use of nuclear weapons against the people of Japan, and spotlights the massive nuclear arsenal stored and deployed at Bangor.
Source: Salem NewsWA State Senator Gerry Pollet will discuss the ways that legislators can influence the clean-up process at Hanford. In addition to his legislative work, Senator Pollet founded and directs Heart of America NW, a non-profit focused on Hanford.
Kathleen is a former engineer at Hanford and is Washington State’s Poet Laureate, and author of Plume, a collection of poems about her childhood in Richland. Kathleen will talk about the importance of the arts to express the emotional and complex responses to Hanford, ideas not frequently communicated in a scientific discourse.
Dr. Michelle Gerber is the author of On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, a comprehensive history of America's first plutonium production complex. Dr. Gerber will situate Hanford in its larger historical context of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War.
Hanford altered the lives and cultures of many tribes, including those displaced from the land where Hanford resides and the tribes that mined the uranium processed at Hanford.
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Following the dropping of the bill this week in Olympia, the Coal Free Washington Campaign needs the voices of health professionals to secure advancement of this legislation.
Health professionals have a significant part to play in the effort to eliminate coal fired power plants and on December 8th we hope you will join us for an educational morning focused on educating health professionals about the dangerous effects of coal-fired plants.
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The Toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use reference guides for health providers and user-friendly health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health. Read more »
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