Nuclear Hotseat

• Alison Katz, a psychologist and sociologist heads Independent WHO, the international watchdog group drawing attention to the World Health Organization's failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination.  The group has held a vigil in front of WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, five days a week, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., since April 26, 2007 - the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.  Originally recorded for Nuclear Hotseat #118, September 17, 2013.

Scenes from Independent WHO's vigil in front of the World Health Organizations headquarters

• Dr. Margaret Chan is still Director General of the WHO.
• In 2014, UN Special Reporteur on the Right to Health Anand Grover, referenced in the interview, was replaced by Dr. Dainius Pūras, whose specialty is mental health and, to date, has not published anything on nuclear matters.
• The 2013 Arnie Gunderson interview for Nuclear Hotseat #117 on what he’d do if he were in charge at Fukushima is available HERE.
  

• Engineer Ray Lutz of Citizens Oversight Project
• Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green

Ray Lutz with San Onofre protest kite

• Nuclear delusions and semantic manipulations from Takashi Imai, chair of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum.  I guess they pay him to say that ridiculous stuff...

• Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, was a delegate to the recently concluded four-day conference at the UN on banning nuclear weapons  and offers some stunning observations about the event and the hope it provides for the future.
• Suzi Snyder works with PAX, a peace group in The Netherlands, and with Don't Bank on the Bomb, a brilliant strategy for forcing banks and pension funds to remove their funds from nuclear bomb manufacturing companies.

Family Fun in Washington State - Tour the Hanford Superfund Site!  Displaced tribal people, radioactive rubble, view the roots of the nuclear war machine!  

Links to groups actively fighting against nuclear weapons:

• International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
• Don't Bank on the Bomb
• World Beyond War

• A focus on Bequerel Awareness Day (Bqs are a measurement of radiation in food) and the impact on Japan's food supply, especially in light of the impact on athletes and fans at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with events scheduled only 12-1/2 miles from the triple meltdown .   Three, count them, three genuine nuclear experts:
  
   
  • Kimberly Roberson, founder of Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network, and the brains behind Bequerel Awareness Day.
  • Cindy Folkers, the Radiation and Health Specialist at Beyond Nuclear
  • Nancy Foust, Communications manager & research team member  at Simply Info

From Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network:

Around the world children who are currently adolescent and possibly younger are in training to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Japan.  Their parents most likely have no idea that some of the venues are being planned near the most devastating and ongoing nuclear and industrial disaster in world history, Fukushima Daiichi.  SIGN and SHARE IT here: http://chn.ge/22j0Xko.

FFAN's Food Petition - access links for individuals and organizations HERE.

• Activist Alex Cohen on a successful series of non-violent civil disobedient action he helped plan at the West Lake Landfill and elsewhere in St. Louis to push awareness of the illegally buried World War II nuclear weapons waste and the underground, unstoppable fire barreling towards it from the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill.  More to come!

Alex Cohen (l) and another activist chained to 500 pounds of concrete