by Scott Ludlam — last modified 2007-10-29 03:08Uranium mining threatens Aboriginal culture and land rights at many sites across Australia. In this film, traditional owners speak out against the mining companies which bring sickness to the land. Uranium Dreaming tells the story of the industry almost nobody wants.
I'd been intermittently searching the Web for the fate of the Reliable Replacement Nuclear Warhead when Stop the War Machine-Albuquerque, http://www.stopthewarmachine.org/,
sent me an e-mail to say that the House had refused to approve another $10 million to fund it, in the Defense Appropriations Bill, by a vote of 271 to 144.
Then I learned, from the Frends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had exercised her "Speaker's Discretion" to abstain from voting, as she did in House votes to ban torture, and cutting funding for "missile defense."
In 1945, the year of the tragic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel-laureate physicist James Franck headed a committee of scientists at the University of Chicago that desperately tried to prevent the use of the bomb and also earnestly proposed ways to prevent nuclear weapons from endangering human civilization. The committee stated in its report, that the best way to stop the spread of nuclear weapons would be to prohibit the mining of uranium. "
(Note: This particular paragraph leaped out at me from within this fascinating piece, which I first found on the Friends of the Congo website, http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/ . I could not agree more with physicist James Franck and thr committee that came to this conclusion.—Annie)
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