Antinuclear

Senior Martu artists in Parnngurr in the east Pilbara region of Western Australia are taking on the mining giants.

They painted ‘Kalyu’ to help raise funds for their campaign. It depicts the waterways or Kalyu over the proposed Kintyre uranium mine.

“Kalyu tells the story about water that’s on the surface, which can be waterholes, springs, rockholes soaks that you can dig up and drink but also see it visibly,” says one artist’s grandson, Curtis Taylor.

“Forever that uranium belongs to that place, underground.” “But it’s poison, when you dig it up – when it gets exposed.” “We are carrying the land, we are that close,” his grandfather Wokka Taylor said.

And the campaign has caught worldwide attention.

Avante-guard British musician Antony Hegarty is joining the campaign, moved by the Martu people’s connection to nature.”They have an almost unbroken connection to 60,000 years of land stewardship and stepping gently and leaving no trace.

“They’re environmental experts and they’re spiritual experts and they have a lot to teach us,” he said. Backing a push to stop Canadian Mining giant Cameco, along with Japanese owned Mitsubishi from going ahead with the uranium mine.

Concerned environmentalists are also joining the fight……..http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/06/22/uk-musician-joins-indigenous-campaign-against-uranium-mine