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Radioactive Racism in Australia: Nuclear War on Aboriginal People

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.

S. African activist takes on Rosatom and nuclear lobbies: ‘Nuclear Energy is Rooted in Human Rights Violations and Environmental Racism’

S. African activist takes on Rosatom and nuclear lobbies: ‘Nuclear Energy is Rooted in Human Rights Violations and Environmental Racism’

Makoma Lekalakala of Earth Life South Africa testifies at the International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Bonn, Germany against the continued destruction of the earth by the South African government’s investment in nuclear energy.

A ‘Nuclear Renaissance’, Climate Change and the State of Exception

A ‘Nuclear Renaissance’, Climate Change and the State of Exception

In Jaitapur, we have already seen how the local village Panchayats (representative self-governance bodies) are gagged and overruled to clear way for Areva’s nuclear power park. Ironically, India’s nuclear deal with the US was touted as a deal between world’s oldest and biggest democracies. Read below Dr. Raminder Kaur’s brilliantRead More

The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy

The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy

When the apocalyptic cloud erupted over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world woke up to the dawn of the nuclear age. Today, if we survey the landscape of nuclear development across the planet, we see that the destructive impacts of the technology are often paired with the dehumanizing impacts of environmentalRead More