2013 – the struggle for a nuclear free, liveable world
It might be too late to prevent heating of the planet, the upheavals of climate change, and the horrors of nuclear accidents, wars, and the slow spread of ionising radiation.
But it surely is too early to give up on trying.
I am not optimistic. We know that cigarettes and asbestos cause painful, fatal cancers. The Western world is learning to abandon these killers. Yet the tobacco and asbestos companies are thriving, selling these to the “developing” nations – a pernicious form of 21st Century colonialism. So the slow killer of fossil fuel pollution continues. The fast killers of nuclear accident, nuclear war become more likely, as well as the slower killer of spreading ionising radiation. The over-developed world is all too happy also to sell these killer technologies around the world.
2013 is the pivotal year. In the words of Redgum, an old Australian band – “If you don’t fight, you lose”
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of the week – Disrupting War & Militarism in Oceania. Active solidarity. Radical practice.
Antinuclear 
Are Australian women less focused on a healthy planet than Canadian women? So proud of their children and grandchildren but not willing to step up and speak out? Or are they just too busy breaking the glass ceiling and joining the unsustainable growth of wealth creating ventures, that may destroy our planet and their offspring to boot?
WOMEN’S ACTION AGENDA 21
PREAMBLE: TOWARD A HEALTHY PLANET
http://www.iisd.org/women/action21.htm
“Noting alarming increases in levels of radiation from man-made sources in our air, water, soil, and space,
Concerned at the rising death toll from nuclear power accidents, exposure to nuclear wastes and other radiation emissions,
Aware that women’s breasts and uterine tissue, fetuses, and children are particularly vulnerable to radiation-induced cancers and disease,
We urge that new nuclear research, development, production, and use be stopped, that uranium mining be halted, and that nuclear power production and use be phased out and replaced by environment-friendly energy.”
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