Events
Over six months in 2024, the Nuclear Truth Project held special events ‘In Conversation’ with affected community members, survivors, activists and allies working for nuclear justice.
Through these, we explored a wide range of issues, from actioning and translating our Protocols to issues surrounding RECA in the United States, or the regional and global challenges of the new AUKUS military agreements that involve nuclear submarines, nuclear warfighting and nuclear waste. We learned more on the nuclear testing legacies and nuclear resistance in Kazakhstan. We have learned more about nuclear waste issues from perspectives spanning the United States, Australia and the Pacific region. And on the intergenerational impacts of nuclear warfare.
Our speakers came from eight countries – nuclear justice leaders Fiji, Australia, USA, Aotearoa/New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ma’ohi Nui, Japan and Kazakhstan.
We thank our speakers and the many audience members who joined across the globe to share, learn and make connections through these conversations.
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EVENT RECORDINGS
September In Conversation meeting: HIROSHIMA REMEMBERED
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Hiroshima Remembered: was a conversation with Mitchie Takeuchi and Kazuyo Yamane, sharing family stories of the bombing of Hiroshima and their worktowards nuclear abolition.
This session was held on 16/17 August 2024.
August In Conversation meeting: TRANSLATING PROTOCOLS
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Community workshop: Translating Protocols discussed the new translations of the Nuclear Truth Project Protocols for Ma’ohi Nui, Japan, and Kazakhstan. Speakers were Anaïs Maurer, Kazuyo Yamane, and Yerdaulet Rakhmatulla.
You can find the current translations of the Protocols here – or see the English language version on this page!
This session was held on 19/20 August 2024.
June In Conversation meeting: AUKUS BEYOND BORDERS
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AUKUS Beyond Borders: global and regional ramifications of the unfolding AUKUS nuclear and military alliance heard from Dave Sweeney (Australia), Teanau Tuiono (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Ray Acheson (USA), and Sam Fairbrother (UK).
This session was held on June 17/18, 2024.
May In Conversation meeting: RESISTING RADIOACTIVITY MOBILIZING AGAINST NUCLEAR WASTE
For those who missed it, you can find the recording from the May In Conversation session here!
Resisting Radioactivity: Mobilizing Against Nuclear Waste in the US, Australia and the Pacific Islands heard from Dr Jim Green (Australia), Tina Colley (USA) and Epeli Lesuma (Fiji).
This session was held on May 20/21, 2024.
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.”