ANTI NUCLEAR ACTIVITY IN 2017 CAMPAIGN WRAP UP : LOOKING INTO THE NEXT YEAROn this weeks Radioactive Show we will hear from some of Australia’s most dedicated and long time nuclear free campaigners who will give us a 2017 wrap up from both national and international perspectives and an insight into what to expect in 2018 from the nuclear free campaign.  We will also be taking a look into the year ahead and some of the projects and areas that will be a focus for the anti nuclear movement in Australia in 2018.  We’ll touch on some fo the nuclear free movement events that are coming up and what you can expect to hear about in more detail on the Radioactive Show in the coming months.   We’ll be hearing some very familiar voices to the Rad Show, including Rad Show presenter, Mara Bonacci.  We’ll hear from incredibly dedicated and long time anti nuclear campaigners Dave Sweeney, Jim Green, Mara Bonacci and Winiata Peru. Guests: Dave Sweeney, ACF, Jim Green Friends of the Earth, Mara Bonacci and Winiata Peru. Presenter: KA Garlick

On this week’s show, we listen to some of the speakers at the Don’t Dump on SA Rally, held on 2 December 2017 on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide. The rally brought together people from Kimba and the Flinders Ranges, the communities affected by the federal government’s waste dump proposal, as well as supporters from South Australia and beyond.  Over 1500 people attended the rally calling on politicians to defend the legislation that makes waste dumps illegal in SA in the lead up to the state election next March.Useful websitesdontdumponsa.netconservationsa.org.au/nuclearnodumpalliance.org.auFB @no radioactive waste facility for kimba district FB Flinders Local Action Group: FLAGFB Don't dump on SAFB Say No to NuclearFull Speakers List:Welcome to CountryBonny BrodieMCs Dave Sweeney and Vivianne McKenzie Full Speaker list (not all featured in this episodeVince CoulthardSusi Andersson – Hawker GP and Rob Webb from Flinders Local Action Group (FLAG)Regina McKenzie, Heather Stuart and kids.Dr Deidre Palmer – ex moderator Uniting ChurchTom Harris, Kimba Farmer and Kate Freeth from KimbaBarry Wakelin, former Federal politicianJamie Newlyn, MUAJack Crawford, youth and student environment repMark Parnell MLC, The GreensMessage from Eddie Giles, ALP member for GilesSenator Rex Patrick, Nick Xenophon TeamWith entertainment from: Rise Up SingersDusty Feet Mob dancers

Recordings from two meetings:Scott Ludlam, former federal senator and anti nuclear activist, meet up with Andy Paine, peace activist and sometimes journalist, to discuss Scott's experience of being a senator and his views on politics. Meanwhile in Melbourne, students visited from the Fukushima support project. The project organises recreational trips out of Fukushima, to support children who have experienced the trauma and ongoing effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

This weeks show is recorded on Whadjuk Noongar land, better known as Perth, WA about the Supreme Court action and Mulga Rock.  Piers Verstegen, Director from Conservation Council of WA talks about the environment perspective of the Supreme Court Action to stop Yeelirrie uranium project and Vicky Abdullah, Tjiwarl native title holder gives Traditional Owner perspective of why Yeelirrie uranium mine should not proceed.  Included in this weeks show is the very powerful words from Dave Sweeny, nuclear free campaigner with Australian Conservation Foundation, recorded live talking about Mulga Rock proposed uranium project on a panel discussion with government and industry.

In 2016, six peace pilgrims trespassed onto Pine Gap in Central Australia. The United States uses Pine Gap to help kill people in illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and many others. The Peace Pilgrims will put Pine Gap on trial from the 13th of November. You can follow the trial's progress at https://closepinegap.org/

This week we pay tribute to Dennis Banks, Ojibwa from Leech Lake, who dies on the 29th October at age 80.  He was an activist, educator and writer and co-founded the American Indian Movement in 1968.  He was involved in and organised many sacred walks and runs,  enacting an ancient Native American tradition of bringing a message of "Land, Life and Peace" from village to village on foot.Today we’ll hear excerpts from recordings by and interviews with nuclear-free campaigners who have run or walked alongside Banks.  Recordings by Gem, Crunch and AC.

Do we need a dump to have nuclear medicine?On this week’s radioactive show we speak to Dr Margaret Beavis from MAPW, the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, who dispels some of the misinformation that the government is spreading in their attempt to persuade remote communities to accept a dump in their region.The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) works for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction and the prevention of armed conflict. www.mapw.org.auMusic from this show was “Start Thinking” by Adelaide heartland rock band Moss who write about political and social issues of concern and this song is about the dumping of nuclear waste. www.mossmusic.com.au

This week’s show features recordings from the Ute Mountain Ute Native American protest against the White Mesa Uranium Mill on their land. Interviews with White Mesa Community Leaders Priscellna Rabbit and Ephraim Dutchie, an attorney Marie Ann Tapp and Dinah women Leona Morgan.  Rad show co-producer K-A met them in April this year while participating in the protest walk from the White Mesa Community to the White Mesa Uranium Mill only 3 miles down the road.  Priscellna Rabbit, from the White Mesa nation, speaks to the officer at the gates of the Uranium Mill about contamination.  Euphraim Dutchie spoke to me after the protest about his concerns and the struggles of his people to have authentic participation in decisions about their land.  Anne Mariah Tapp is an Attorney for the Grand Canyon Trust and provides law and policy advice. She provides an incredible overview to the situation on White Mesa land and the people's struggle.  In the final part of the show, an amazing activist Leona Morgan, a Dine women, from Dine No Nukes, talks about her organisation and the extraordinary work they are carrying out on the dangers of uranium mining and the impacts that uranium mining has had on the Dine lands.  From the Southwest region of the US she has worked as a community organizer and educator on uranium issues since 2007. She has worked primarily to help prevent water contamination from a proposed ISL facility. In 2014, Morgan co-founded Diné No Nukes (DNN). DNN is an initiative focused on education about the entire Nuclear Fuel Chain with a special interest in the lands with the Diné Four Sacred Mountains.

Over the weekend of September 15-17, 2017, the 20th meeting of ANFA, the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, was held. This is the second show of recordings from that special gathering. Today's show is from one of the closing sessions of ANFA 2017, called Celebrating the Wins and specifically 7 year fight and 2014 win to save the country around Muckaty, near Tennant Creek NT, from a Federal Radioactive Waste dump. Long time nuclear free organiser Adam Sharah hosts the discussion with two leaders from the country around Muckaty, young rap artist and activist Kylie Sambo and Aunty Isobel. Later in the show we hear Nat Wasley of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative. Features the track 'Muckaty' by Kylie Sambo.

On this week's show, I share two interviews with peace activists who are out there charging the world.Like Gem Romuld, Outreach Coordinator with ICAN, the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, who I speak to about winning the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.And Laura Drew and Emma Cullen from Peace Action Wellington, in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Laura and Emma have been involved in a successful blockade of Weapons Conference in Wellington that occurred in the second week of October.Music credit: Song by Combat Wombat - "Shoot to kill" from album "Just across the border"