Hi dear all, one of my most precious friends, Hideko, survived Hiroshima. She dedicated her life to global nuclear disarmament. She tells some of her story in a heart wrenching manner at the link below.
Several OSU departments along with SCARC and the community hosted Hideko in 2015 for her lecture “Blooming Peace.” In 2019 we planted a Peace Tree in her honor. Just this spring the SHPR Peace and Justice Strategies Office intern Claire Nelson facilitated her speaking with students, staff and faculty at Corvallis High School remotely in June.
I have two requests. One is if it is possible to view at some point this 25-minute segment and then if so moved, help me by sharing the link and the “Uranium Atlas” with your colleagues, students, friends and families or on any of your department or Facebook pages.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/hideko_tamura_snider_hiroshima_75th_anniversary
https://beyondnuclearinternational.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/uraniumatlas_2020.pdf
Hideko wants the world to hear her story this year.
Another dear hero of mine, Perry H. Charley dedicated his life to protecting people from radiation harm caused by uranium mining. He feels the resource attached will help us and asked me to share it far and wide. This “Uranium Atlas” contains some of how the local to international nuclear system works so we may create a safe, just and sustainable world. The Introduction is written by Winona LaDuke, another hero of our generation.
Please share with others in honor of those continually sacrificed since the start of the nuclear age. These include uranium miners and all too often, nearby indigenous and African communities.
At every step of the nuclear fuel chain, from the uranium mining, milling, production, testing, use of these weapons, transportation and storage, there are pollution, exposures and consequences, often without any disclosure, acknowledgement, reparations or amends. My uncle, the late Vic Juhola, was an Atomic Soldier. I vowed to him along with elders like Roberta Blackgoat more than thirty years ago I would do all I could for global nuclear disarmament and bring their stories to others using their own voices.
Many people today are surprised by the autocracy of the current moment but in some ways, American secrecy and technocratic white supremacy brought us here. This was despite warnings from many leaders, including Black Americans like James Baldwin, WEB DuBois, Ella Baker, Coretta and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My reach is small but with Hideko’s interview from Democracy Now, OSU, and all of you, friends and family, maybe her words can be heard and received along with the knowledge in the Atlas.
Like Sadako’s peace cranes, I want these messages to fly around the world.
Here is just a bit of her story, just one story of the hundreds of thousands harmed by the nuclear age.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/hideko_tamura_snider_hiroshima_75th_anniversary
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who … |
Hideko is also sharing her story in a zoom meeting tomorrow https://www.vtwilpfgathering.com/8-9-zoom Thank you and luvaction, Linda
Atomic bomb survivor Dr. Hideko Tamura Snider, author of “One Sunny Day” and founder of One Sunny Day Initiatives, will speak of her childhood experience of the One Sunny Day” and founder of One Sunny Day Initiatives, will speak of her childhood experience of the |
