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In Tahiti, traditional priest Raymond Graffe inaugurates a memorial to nuclear survivors in French Polynesia and across the Pacific. Nic Maclellan

“We would like France to apologise”: Nuclear test survivors in French Polynesia

Nuclear and Racism, Nuclear Tests July 28, 2020 at 3:16 am 0 comments

As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings approaches, the legacy of cold war–era French nuclear testing is still in dispute

Anointed: a heart-wrenching video-poem about radioactive racism

Nuclear and Racism, Videos April 20, 2018 at 12:42 pm 0 comments

A heart-wrenching poem about radioactive racism and the long quest for peace and justice, written and spoken by ICAN campaigner Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner of the Marshall Islands, where the United States conducted 67 nuclear test explosions.

Radioactive Racism in Australia: Nuclear War on Aboriginal People

Featured, Nuclear and Racism February 4, 2018 at 12:57 am 0 comments

Jim Green | The Western Australian government is in the process of gutting the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 at the behest of the mining industry. Native Title rights were extinguished with the stroke of a pen to seize land for a radioactive waste dump in SA, and Aboriginal heritage laws and land rights were repeatedly overridden with the push to dump nuclear waste in the NT.

Protest Against Nuclear Waste Dump in Scotland by Aboriginal Communities

Nuclear and Racism, Nuclear Waste January 6, 2018 at 3:07 am 0 comments

Campaigners have accused the Scottish Government of a lack of decisive action following protests over plans to dump nuclear waste from Dounreay at a sacred Aboriginal burial place.