AUKUS Beyond Borders: In Conversation brief 2024

AUKUS BEYOND BORDERS

In June 2024 the Nuclear Truth Project held a webinar to learn more about AUKUS as part of our In Conversation series.

AUKUS is a major nuclear and military alliance between three states – Australia, the UK and the US. It is a complex arrangement – a military octopus with tentacles that reach far beyond the borders of the three states instigating this arrangement.

We now have a booklet with excerpts from this special conversation, a background resource for those wanting to learn more about AUKUS.

Please contact the Nuclear Truth Project to share your thoughts on the report or to request a high resolution version of the report.

DNA Repair. 2017. 16 x 20 in. Acrylic on Watercolor Paper. Mallery Quetawki (Zuni Pueblo). artist site | instagram

​DNA has the ability to repair itself through complex mechanisms and pathways when damage occurs. Its intricacy of repair can be compared to the creation of beaded items in Native Culture. Designs are thought out ahead and require skill and patience to be able to bead such intricate pieces. When a beaded necklace comes undone, the stones/beads are restrung by using what is already there. The design used is from the Crow Nation. The use of the flower design symbolizes the idea of regrowth.

We would like to acknowledge the use of Ms. Quetawki’s images from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, the University of New Mexico NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy.

We are grateful to Zuni Pueblo artist Mallery Quetawki for designing the beautiful Nuclear Truth Project logo. Combining many symbols familiar within the nuclear free movement, this stunning design evokes both the strength and the long story of the movement we are a living part of. As the artist explains;

“The olive branch is the offering for peace, the arrows are signifying the work towards a common cause and the peace symbol represents the outcome. The handprint represents unity and the sunflower represents remediation. The DNA strand represents the positive outcome for all living things.”