Over the weekend, the Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed.
The Micronesian nation experienced 67 known atmospheric nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, resulting in an ongoing legacy of death, illness, and contamination.
@jalefkowit
Not same situation but reminds me of being in Australia in 1995- everyone was annoyed with France as they were #nucleartesting bombs in the Pacific.
So someone went round keying the paint on #Renault cars. I thought it was one of the daftest protests I'd ever heard of. It did absolutely nothing to even mildly annoy the French government. It created hassle, upset and aggression amongst innocent fellow Australians.
But even I have to admit the #Swasticar situation is different...
Commentary: #WaterProtectors on trial again as #Greenpeace case begins in #NorthDakota
by #WinonaLaDuke
February 24, 2025
Excerpt: "North Dakota v. USA
"In March of last year, I was a federal witness in the North Dakota v. United States of America trial in Bismarck, where North Dakota charged that the United States Army Corps of Engineers had caused the #StandingRock #resistance by issuing a conditional use permit for the flood plain. Attorneys asked if I came to Standing Rock resistance camp because the Army Corps issued a permit. My response: No. I came for the #water,and I came because #LaDonnaBraveBull Allard asked me to come. I came because #Enbridge, the Canadian #pipeline company, had proposed a Sandpiper #pipeline across our territory in northern Minnesota and we defeated them, only to find that they later financed 28% of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. I came for the water.
"#EnergyTransfer v. #Greenpeace
"There’s another big trial starting Monday in #MandanNorthDakota, too, in Morton County District Court. There, Judge James Gion will preside over a jury trial in the case of Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace. Energy Transfer charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. That allegation is pretty surprising to the thousands of people who came to Standing Rock without even hearing about Greenpeace being there. That case will be heard behind #ClosedDoors, no livestreaming, and yet somehow a judge in a small county without a law clerk will make sure the justice of a jury trial is carried out. The case with a multitude of pretrial motions is described as the largest in North Dakota history, so carrying out justice, well that’s a challenge.
"'This is a pretty ludicrous accusation,' noted #DeepaPadmanabha, Greenpeace’s senior legal counsel, responding to charges that Greenpeace effectively orchestrated and was a force driving the Standing Rock resistance. 'Standing Rock was one of the largest #Indigenous-led protests in history. It was a grassroots-led resistance, and the idea that Greenpeace orchestrated it is a #racist attempt to erase #IndigenousHistory.'
"But it might be what you’d expect from a company whose CEO once said that protesters who damaged construction equipment should be 'removed from the gene pool.'
"I’d encourage you to watch the trial online, but unfortunately, Judge Gion has denied a motion to arrange for the trial to be streamed online.
"As The Wall Street Journal reported in September, 'both sides expect a #FossilFuel - friendly jury.' Check out the
'community' page on the company’s daplpipelinefacts.com website and you’ll understand why. There’s a picture of Mandan town employees appreciatively holding up a giant check representing Energy Transfer’s $3 million donation to upgrade the town’s library and other infrastructure.
"Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace for damages, initially proposed at $300 million, in what Greenpeace has called an effort to bankrupt the organization. Greenpeace is the 50-year-old environmental organization which has been part of opposing #NuclearTesting in the Pacific, saving #whales from factory #trawlers, and challenging #BigOil. That’s something you are not supposed to do in North Dakota, it seems, where oil money slicks through all the systems. In North Dakota, the message seems to be, No one should oppose a pipeline project. No one."
Read more:
https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/02/24/greenpeace-dakota-access-trial-commentary/
#WaterIsLife #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL #KelcyWarren #Trump #StandWithStandingRock
#CorporateColonialism
#BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #StandingRock #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #ACAB #EnergyTransfer
Adiago Nuclear weapon test site. This 3000 foot shaft was completed as a follow on to the Project Faultless detonation in 1968. Faultless showed that the underground structure was not suitable for further testing so it was abandoned and no test occurred, Nye County, Nevada August 2024 #photgraphy #adiago #fautless #nucler #nucleardetonation #atomic #nye #Nevada #nucleartesting #bomb #abandoned
Now that I don't care to be called an antisemitic (everyone is, these times) I'm more willing to discuss some subjects... Anyone here interested in a discussion about the possible nuclear weapon test the IDF did in Yemen in 2015? This would incite me to translate material I wrote in french years ago.
Russia warns the United States against possible nuclear testing under Trump https://www.byteseu.com/597644/ #ArmsControl #DonaldTrump #NuclearArsenals #NuclearBomb #NuclearPowers #NuclearTesting #PresidentVladimirPutin #Russia #UnitedStates
Unfortunately, the #ShundahaiNetwork's website is no longer maintained by the group. #CorbinHarney founded the group years ago. I managed to find it on the #InternetArchive. Here's a snapshot from 2002. I had a link to their website from the now-defunct What? Magazine Online back when I first heard about Shundahai back in 1998/1999.
"Shundahai Network was formed at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in 1994, by a council of long-term nuclear disarmament activists, at the request of #CorbinHarney, a #WesternShoshone Spiritual Leader. We have evolved into an international network of activists and organizations bridging the gap between the environmental, peace and justice and indigenous land rights communities.
"Shundahai Network opposes all nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production. We actively seek to close down the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear weapons programs except for radioactive contamination containment and cleanup. Shundahai Network also opposes all nuclear waste dumping on indigenous peoples lands. We are fighting to halt the proposed high-level nuclear waste dumps at #YuccaMountain and #SkullValleyReservation. We work to educate about the dangers of #RadioactiveWaste transportation and promote a safe and sane energy policy based on conservation and #renewable resources. To this end, Shundahai Network organizes and participates in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations, workshops and conferences.
"Shundahai Network Mission Statement
"Shundahai Network, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with #indigenous communities and #environmental, #peace and #HumanRights movements. We seek to abolish all #NuclearWeapons and an end to #NuclearTesting. We advocate phasing out #NuclearEnergy and ending the transportation and dumping of #NuclearWaste. We promote the principles of #EnvironmentalJustice and strive to insure that indigenous voices are heard in the movement to influence U.S. Nuclear and environmental policies. All of our campaigns and events incorporate the values of community building, education, spiritual ceremonies and nonviolent #DirectAction.
"Our staff and volunteers work on a wide range of community outreach, education and public action campaigns. Through our events and campaigns, Shundahai Network helps train activists in community organizing and the use of nonviolent direct action to generate public awareness and apply political pressure on nuclear and #IndigenousRights issues."
Here's the URL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021122082933/http://www.shundahai.org/
"Nuclear waste, atomic testing on tap for Nevada in Project 2025 manifesto.
A victory by Donald Trump in November could revive America’s long-shuttered nuclear weapons testing program in Southern Nevada"
My online lecture on the nuclear test sites of the Cold War and the global hibakusha from last week.
#nuclear #NuclearTesting #ColdWar @sts @histodons @nuclearhumanities
This was a self-inflicted contamination after the 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll:
"Navy faces lawsuit over stalled $1.2bn clean-up of San Francisco shipyard filled with radioactive waste"
#HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting @sts
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/navy-shipyard-san-francisco-lawsuit-b2570950.html
"Utah ‘downwinders’ are in DC as radiation-exposure compensation hangs in the balance"
Open access:
The beat goes on...
"Sickened by U.S. Nuclear Program, Communities Turn to Congress for Aid.
In St. Louis and around the country, people harmed by the drive for an atomic bomb have been shut out of a federal law enacted to help such victims."
"The ‘clock is ticking’ on RECA; downwinders call on public to pressure House speaker.
Earlier this March, the U.S. Senate passed a measure expanding Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which expires June 7"
What might a #covid-trauma kaiju movie be like?
#mourning #NuclearTesting #CovidIsNotOver
apropos: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/111040097246885472
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January 27th is the National Day of Remembrance for America’s Downwinders in the USA. These are people who lived downwind of the Nevada Nuclear Test site, and were exposed to radioactive fallout. Much of that fallout remains radioactive and is now embedded into the ecosystem.
The US government has paid a token compensation to a minuscule portion of this community through #RECA.
"‘The fight isn’t over’: Idaho downwinders persist after Congress cuts compensation for them.
Residents work to understand the ongoing impacts of nuclear test fallout and radiated clouds over Idaho decades ago"
"Meet Survivors of Nuclear Testing Calling on U.N. to Secure Just Compensation & Prohibit New Weapons"
#nuclear #NuclearTesting #NuclearWeapons #ColdWar #FrenchPolynesia #RMI
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/15/meet_survivors_of_nuclear_testing_calling
“Sunken Radioactive WWII Ship Rediscovered In Ocean Near Farallon Islands”
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#Farallon #OperationCrossroads #BikiniAtoll #RMI #nuclear #ColdWar #HuntersPoint #SF #NuclearTesting
Most of this material is from attempts to “decontaminate" ships irradiated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. You may have seen images of the navy ships beneath the low hanging mushroom cloud. The US Navy towed many of these ships to the Bay Area and one by one tried to decontaminate them at Hunter's Point. They failed to decontaminate them, but succeeded in contaminating the shipyard.
They later sunk the irradiated ships at the #Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, which is now the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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