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Western Shoshone medicine man Corbin Harney has been fighting nuclear testing for 30 years and shares the native way of looking at all nature. . –Paul, Blue Dolphin publisher
| WE ONLY HAVE ONE WATER, ONE AIR, ONE MOTHER EARTH |
The Way It Is
One Water...One Air...One Mother Earth...
Corbin Harney
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As a Native American medicine person, Corbin listened to his own medicine people describe prophecies that were shocking and unbelievable to him as a child. Today he sees these ancient prophecies coming true, one after another. Corbin Harney shares the native view of life and the importance of living in balance with nature. He is asking for "the human" to awaken to the emergency the Earth is in today. (To read more, click on book title.)
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Native Americans: Western Shoshone Elder Corbin Harney
Native Americans: Western Shoshone Elder Corbin Harney
Native American elder of the Western Shoshone Tribe, Corbin Harney recites prayers during sunrise for Shundahai or peace and harmony with all of creation, in Indian Springs, Nevada. August 9 is the International day of the Worlds Indigenous People as declared by the General Assembly, the United Nations.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2007 a screening of the internationally award-winning documentary “Trespassing”
redumbrella <redumbrella@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Subject: Internationally Award-Winning Film "Trespassing" to Screen at UCSB on August 18th [Special Event!]Dear friends,I’m writing to request your help in distributing the information in this e-mail “blast” to interested communities in and around Santa Barbara. We’re promoting this unique opportunity to witness Carlos DeMenezes’ inspiring, transformative, and deeply moving film Trespassing as a special part of the Think Outside the Bomb national conference, one which is open for general admission (unlike the other sessions at the conference, which we are requesting that people apply to participate in… via our web site, www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org).We are extremely excited that Carlos himself will be present at the screening, as will two other special guests:- Steve Lopez of the Fort Mojave Nation, who is prominently featured in the film.- Julia Moon Sparrow, who is not only in some of the scenes, but also vitally contributed to the behind-the-scenes work that made possible the events that play out in those scenes.It should make for quite an unforgettable evening! I’m so glad you all can be part of it.I’d like to note here that Carlos has had to struggle quite a bit to get his film distributed, and that corporate interests have actively suppressed it in many cases. The film was shut out of the Santa Barbara Film Festival last year, for example (which is a testament to how powerful it is, more than anything else).Thank you so much!! I know that together we will educate and inspire lots of people, and also gain widespread grassroots support in our communities for this extremely important documentary.If the text below shows up funky for you, please let me know and I will send you a non-HTML version of the e-mail.With best wishes and great admiration for the work you all are doing~Will Parrish[PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY TO YOUR CONTACTS!!]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2007
a screening of the internationally award-winning documentary “Trespassing”***And a discussion with film director Carlos DeMenezes, film star Steve Lopez of the Fort Mojave Nation, and Shundahai Network co-founder Julia Moon Sparrow ***Venue: UC Santa Barbara, Theatre & Dance 1701 [click here for campus map: http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps/]
Starting Time: 8 p.m.BACKGROUND:Over nine years in the making, "Trespassing" is a feature-length documentary film that poetically examines our fight for survival. By focusing on the battle around nuclear storage in the United States, the film carefully unpacks a deadly controversy around land rights, uranium mining, nuclear testing and the disposal of nuclear waste.Filmed in and around Native American sacred sites in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, Four-Corners and California’s Mojave Desert, "Trespassing" captures the breathtaking beauty of the natural environment, while documenting the actions of indigenous people and others as they risk relocation, eviction and arrest to prevent further desecration of these lands, the air and the water by nuclear waste.In revisiting the consequences of U.S. nuclear policy, "Trespassing" reveals a common thread in the lives of its protagonists, demonstrating how the actions of the past resonate in the present. The film introduces a range of perspectives, including Stewart L. Udall (former Secretary of the Interior under Kennedy and Johnson), Corbin Harney (Western Shoshone spiritual leader), Steve Lopez (Fort Mojave Indian and Coordinator for the Native Nations Alliance), Anthony Guarisco (Director, Alliance of Atomic Veterans) and Dorothy Purley (Laguna Indian and former uranium miner). Each story adds a layer of humanity to this evocative meditation on the ability of a war culture to bring itself to the brink of annihilation while simultaneously producing "gatekeepers" to combat that annihilation.
"Trespassing" offers an in depth and provocative examination of historical survival and struggle designed to impact the present generation and alter a deadly course of action.To view the trailer, visit http://www.trespassingdocumentary.com/site.aspTHINK OUTSIDE THE BOMB NATIONAL CONFERENCEThe film screening is a part of the Think Outside the Bomb national conference which takes place from August 16-19 at UCSB. Think Outside the Bomb is a national network of activists who come together based on a common interest in nuclear abolition. For more information, including regarding how to participate in the entire conference, visit www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org.MORE INFORMATION:Contact Will Parrish or Katie Murray, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - youth@napf.org – (805) 965-3443. Or visit www.trespassingdocumentary.com,www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org, or www.wagingpeace.org.ADMISSION:FREE, with suggested $10 donation.ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:- Carlos DeMenezes took ten years to make Trespassing, his first feature-length documentary. “Trespassing” won Best Documentary at the Boston International Film Festival, the Director’s Award at the Santa Cruz International Film Festival, the Trustee’s Jury Award at the Arizona International Film Festival, Best Picture at the Raiz de la Imagen International Indigenous Film Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico, Best Documentary at the Granada International Film Festival, Spain, Best Film at Cine Pobre, Gibara, Cuba, the Gold Medal for best score a documentary feature film at the Park City Film Music Festival and Honorable Mention at the Berkeley International Film Festival and at the Byron Bay Film Festival in Australia.
- Steve Lopez is coordinator of the Native Nations Alliance and was a leader of the historic grassroots campaign that defeated the proposed Ward Valley, California nuclear waste dump (http://www.greenaction.org/wardvalley/index.shtml).
- Julia Moon Sparrow is co-founder and a former staff member of the Shundahai Network, dedicated to “breaking the nuclear chain”. Shundahai Network was founded in 1994 at the request of the internationally revered Western Shoshone activist Corbin Harney, who passed away this past July 10th. The organization has been at the forefront of resistance to nuclear colonialism, nuclear weapons testing, the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, and a variety of other struggles. Shundahai is a Western Shoshone (Newe) word meaning “peace and harmony with all creation.”
Will Parrish
Youth Empowerment Director
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
Phone: (805) 965-3443; Fax: (805) 568-0466
Fundrasing for "The Shundahai Network:A Decade of Resistance"
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Radioactive "bailout-in-advance" opens fierce new war over nuke reactors
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Harvey Wasserman
Radioactive "bailout-in-advance" opens fierce new war over nuke reactors
August 9, 2007
After fifty years of what Forbes Magazine long ago called "the largest managerial disaster in business history," the nuke power industry is demanding untold billions in a federal "Bailout-in-Advance." Congress will decide on these proposed loan guarantees for new nukes in its September conferences over the new Energy Bill.
Both sides are gearing up for the new war over the irradiation of our energy future.
As usual, it's vital to "follow the money."
The industry once promised that atomic energy would be "too cheap to meter." But after a half-century of proven failure, Wall Street won't invest in new nukes without federal support. So buried in the Senate version of the new Energy Bill is a single sentence authorizing the Department of Energy to underwrite virtually unlimited loans for still more nukes. The sentence was slipped into the bill by industry backers without open debate.
Overall this staggeringly complex bill contains a hodge-podge of benefits for renewable energy and efficiency, along with a pile of contradictions and steps backward. The House version, for example, lacks strict fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. It also drew a veto threat from George W. Bush, who wants the restoration of huge tax breaks for his friends in the fossil fuel business.
But the single sentence that could ultimately have the biggest impact on human survival is the one that offers the prospect of an essentially unlimited amount of taxpayer money to guarantee investments in new atomic reactors.
The funding would come through the Department of Energy, which Congress has authorized to guarantee "new" technological advances that are considered "green." Congress says that includes new reactors.
The Senate version of the bill would allow the DOE to sign off on loan guarantees for up to 80% of the cost of each new nuke it wants, with no yearly review from Congress. The industry has targeted $25 billion for next year alone, followed by another $25 billion in 2009, and admits to wanting at least 28 new reactors as soon as possible. The industry says the plants will cost $4-6 billion each, but history indicates the ultimate price tags will be far higher.
This does not include the federal insurance, under the Price-Anderson Act, that since 1957 has shielded nuke owners from liability in case of a major catastrophe.
Though it says they are "inherently safe," the industry demands the same insurance for its new reactors. The policy would leave countless citizens uncompensated for the destruction of their health and property after a radioactive disaster.
Atomic power is also a major source of global warming. Reactors pump huge quantities of waste heat directly into the air and water. The mining, milling and enrichment of nuclear fuel also result in substantial CO2 emissions, as do the construction and decommissioning of the plants.
As for the long-term management of radioactive waste, the solution promised fifty years ago is nowhere in sight. Regulatory officials say the proposed Yucca Mountain waste repository, under construction at a cost so far of some $10 billion, cannot open until 2020, if ever. The projected cost if Yucca does open is now about $60 billion, but it's likely to climb even higher.
In 2000-2001, as much as $100 billion in bad "stranded cost" nuke investments were foisted on the public by a technology that can no longer compete with wind, solar, increased efficiency or a wide array of truly green energy sources that offer real answers to the global warming crisis.
None of this bothers the reactor pushers and their well-funded supporters on Capitol Hill. Citizen groups such as Greenpeace, the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Public Citizen, Beyond Nuclear, PIRG, Musicians United for Safe Energy, Nukewatch, Nuclear Energy Information Service, the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, and green industry supporters have banded together to wage an uphill battle aimed at striking that critical sentence from the Senate bill.
Come September, much of the public attention may be on the pro-green features of the bill, which requires more energy efficiency in buildings, appliances and the power grid, along with a demand that 15% of the nation's electricity come from solar, wind and other renewables by 2020. The House passed its version---which also calls for a carbon neutral federal government---by a vote of 241 to 172 (the fossil fuel tax breaks demanded by Bush were rejected, 221 to 189).
But the real long-term impact on our energy future will turn on the tens of billions in taxpayer guarantees that may or may not pour into reactor construction that no private investors would otherwise fund.
As Forbes put it in 1985, atomic energy has been "a defeat for the U.S. consumer and for the competitiveness of U.S. industry, for the utilities that undertook the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible."
The losses, said Forbes, exceeded the cost of the space program and the Vietnam War combined and left the US with "a power source that is not only high in cost and unreliable, but perhaps not even safe."
To stop this tragedy from being repeated, the safe energy movement will desperately try to stop yet another "bail-out in advance" for the world's most dangerous and expensive failed technology.
They need your help---in the short term for the Congressional conference on the Energy Bill, in the long term for turning back this latest nuclear assault on our energy future.
Our survival depends on their green-powered success.
--
Harvey Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030 is at www.solartopia.org (http://www.solartopia.org) . He is senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, a co-founder of MUSE, and senior editor of www.freepress.org, where this was originally published.
Harvey WassermanRadioactive "bailout-in-advance" opens fierce new war over nuke reactors
August 9, 2007
After fifty years of what Forbes Magazine long ago called "the largest managerial disaster in business history," the nuke power industry is demanding untold billions in a federal "Bailout-in-Advance." Congress will decide on these proposed loan guarantees for new nukes in its September conferences over the new Energy Bill.
Both sides are gearing up for the new war over the irradiation of our energy future.
As usual, it's vital to "follow the money."
The industry once promised that atomic energy would be "too cheap to meter." But after a half-century of proven failure, Wall Street won't invest in new nukes without federal support. So buried in the Senate version of the new Energy Bill is a single sentence authorizing the Department of Energy to underwrite virtually unlimited loans for still more nukes. The sentence was slipped into the bill by industry backers without open debate.
Overall this staggeringly complex bill contains a hodge-podge of benefits for renewable energy and efficiency, along with a pile of contradictions and steps backward. The House version, for example, lacks strict fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. It also drew a veto threat from George W. Bush, who wants the restoration of huge tax breaks for his friends in the fossil fuel business.
But the single sentence that could ultimately have the biggest impact on human survival is the one that offers the prospect of an essentially unlimited amount of taxpayer money to guarantee investments in new atomic reactors.
The funding would come through the Department of Energy, which Congress has authorized to guarantee "new" technological advances that are considered "green." Congress says that includes new reactors.
The Senate version of the bill would allow the DOE to sign off on loan guarantees for up to 80% of the cost of each new nuke it wants, with no yearly review from Congress. The industry has targeted $25 billion for next year alone, followed by another $25 billion in 2009, and admits to wanting at least 28 new reactors as soon as possible. The industry says the plants will cost $4-6 billion each, but history indicates the ultimate price tags will be far higher.
This does not include the federal insurance, under the Price-Anderson Act, that since 1957 has shielded nuke owners from liability in case of a major catastrophe.
Though it says they are "inherently safe," the industry demands the same insurance for its new reactors. The policy would leave countless citizens uncompensated for the destruction of their health and property after a radioactive disaster.
Atomic power is also a major source of global warming. Reactors pump huge quantities of waste heat directly into the air and water. The mining, milling and enrichment of nuclear fuel also result in substantial CO2 emissions, as do the construction and decommissioning of the plants.
As for the long-term management of radioactive waste, the solution promised fifty years ago is nowhere in sight. Regulatory officials say the proposed Yucca Mountain waste repository, under construction at a cost so far of some $10 billion, cannot open until 2020, if ever. The projected cost if Yucca does open is now about $60 billion, but it's likely to climb even higher.
In 2000-2001, as much as $100 billion in bad "stranded cost" nuke investments were foisted on the public by a technology that can no longer compete with wind, solar, increased efficiency or a wide array of truly green energy sources that offer real answers to the global warming crisis.
None of this bothers the reactor pushers and their well-funded supporters on Capitol Hill. Citizen groups such as Greenpeace, the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Public Citizen, Beyond Nuclear, PIRG, Musicians United for Safe Energy, Nukewatch, Nuclear Energy Information Service, the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, and green industry supporters have banded together to wage an uphill battle aimed at striking that critical sentence from the Senate bill.
Come September, much of the public attention may be on the pro-green features of the bill, which requires more energy efficiency in buildings, appliances and the power grid, along with a demand that 15% of the nation's electricity come from solar, wind and other renewables by 2020. The House passed its version---which also calls for a carbon neutral federal government---by a vote of 241 to 172 (the fossil fuel tax breaks demanded by Bush were rejected, 221 to 189).
But the real long-term impact on our energy future will turn on the tens of billions in taxpayer guarantees that may or may not pour into reactor construction that no private investors would otherwise fund.
As Forbes put it in 1985, atomic energy has been "a defeat for the U.S. consumer and for the competitiveness of U.S. industry, for the utilities that undertook the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible."
The losses, said Forbes, exceeded the cost of the space program and the Vietnam War combined and left the US with "a power source that is not only high in cost and unreliable, but perhaps not even safe."
To stop this tragedy from being repeated, the safe energy movement will desperately try to stop yet another "bail-out in advance" for the world's most dangerous and expensive failed technology.
They need your help---in the short term for the Congressional conference on the Energy Bill, in the long term for turning back this latest nuclear assault on our energy future.
Our survival depends on their green-powered success.
--
Harvey Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030 is at www.solartopia.org (http://www.solartopia.org) . He is senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, a co-founder of MUSE, and senior editor of www.freepress.org, where this was originally published.