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NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH | EVENTS
30th Annual
SEEDS OF PEACE
Nagasaki Observance
Friday, August 9, 2024, 7:00 PM
PEACE BELL and ROSE GARDEN
Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum and Library
Atlanta, GA
Please join Nuclear Watch South, Atlanta Dances of Universal Peace and Georgia WAND in remembering the people who died in the mushroom clouds of war and to call for an end to the violence inherent in nuclear technology. This year marks the 30th anniversary of this Atlanta peace tradition.
We will convene at the PEACE BELL at 7PM to begin our program. The Carter Center has kindly agreed to install the striker for the traditional Hiroshima Peace Bell on the grounds of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum for us. Attendees will be invited to ring the bell and share reflections upon peace.
Jimmy Carter rings the Hiroshima Peace Bell in 1994. This bell marked the start of a period of lasting cultural exchange involving former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Konu, a small town in Miyoshi City in northern Hiroshima Prefecture. This exchange has lasted over 30 years during which the traditional temple bell, also known as a bonsho, was showcased in the entrance to the Carter Center. In September 2022, a bell tower for the Peace Bell was dedicated on the grounds of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
After ringing the bell we will move to the ROSE GARDEN where we have convened in past years to share songs, dances, and whatever attendees wish to bring. We are grateful for this beautiful and serene spot so near the heart of downtown Atlanta and dedicated by Rosalyn Carter which supports our aspirations to peace.
The SEEDS of PEACE program is participatory! Please bring your inspirations, dances, songs, and poems to create a circle of hope.
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
441 John Lewis Freedom Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information contact Nuclear Watch South 404-378-4263
Please join Nuclear Watch South for a special FREE viewing of
THE DAY AFTER
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024
1:30 - 4:30 PM
TOCO HILL - AVIS G. WILLIAMS LIBRARY
1282 McConnell Drive
Decatur, GA 30033
The public is invited to join Nuclear Watch South and friends in viewing the epic 1983 movie The Day After about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. There will be opportunity for discussion following the movie. Light refreshments will be available. The viewing event is FREE and open to the public. Due to the intense nature of the subject matter viewing discretion is advised.
The Day After became the subject of a book, two documentaries and many articles when it turned 40 in 2023. The saga of how it came to be made and how a record 100 million U.S. TV viewers tuned in to ABC to watch a movie depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war on a Sunday night in November 1983 is truly historic.
CNN said, "The Day After endures today as an artifact of a tense time and a powerful piece of art that changed minds and even influenced policy changes. By making it, the Los Angeles Times’ Tim Grierson wrote last year, Meyer and his team helped 'save the world'."
In his private memoir, President Ronald Reagan said he was so depressed after watching the movie that it motivated him to forge the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear-Forces Treaty with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev effectively ending the Cold War. It is the only treaty to have achieved an actual reduction of nuclear weapons. The movie aired in the Soviet Union in 1987 where it is estimated 300 million people watched.
Please join us on Saturday, July 20 at 1:30 PM to view and discuss The Day After together. If you are unable to join us, you may also opt to watch The Day After on You Tube.
For more information call Nuclear Watch South 404-378-4263
Join Nuclear Watch South
for a special viewing of
acclaimed HBO miniseries CHERNOBYL
in observance of Earth Day and Chernobyl Day 2024
SATURDAY, APRIL 20
1:30 - 4:30 PM
Episodes 1, 2 & 3
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
1:30 - 4:30 PM
Episodes 4 & 5
followed by discussion
RogerEbert.com's Brian Tallerico said of the 2019 HBO blockbuster CHERNOBYL:
"Brilliantly structured and anchored by great performances from Jared Harris, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, and more, Chernobyl is relentlessly bleak, but it has a remarkable cumulative power. I found each hour more impressive than the one before it, as Johan Renck’s complex, layered vision of an entire nation altered by a nuclear event becomes more and more devastating.
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"If you think that sounds blindingly depressing, you’re not wrong, but there’s an artful power to Renck and writer Craig Mazin’s approach that keeps Chernobyl from becoming a dirge. They add a human element to something that those of us old enough to remember watching news stories on TV have always kind of understood from a distance. Sure, we intellectually knew there were human stories involved, but Chernobyl takes very academic, scientific material and makes it understandable and tactile.
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"It’s incredibly difficult to mine entertainment from something as dry as the physics behind a nuclear meltdown and the governmental mistakes that both led to it that meltdown and tried to cover it up. But the final episode of Chernobyl, which intercuts between the hearing about what happened that fateful day and the incident itself, feels like a rewarding end to a remarkable TV journey. You should take it."
We will view all five episodes of HBO CHERNOBYL over two Saturday afternoons in April:
APRIL 20 1:30-4:30PM
1. 1:23:45
2. Please Remain Calm
3. Open Wide, O Earth
APRIL 27, 1:30-4:30PM
4. The Happiness of All Mankind
5. Vichnaya Pamyat
Group discussion following the viewing
ALL ARE WELCOME
Light refreshments will be offered
FREE
viewer discretion, serious subject matter may not be suitable for all ages
TOCO HILL - AVIS G. WILLIAMS LIBRARY
1282 McConnell Drive
Decatur, GA 30033
For more information call Nuclear Watch South 404-378-4263
HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI EVENTS 2022
Saturday, August 6 and Tuesday, August 9
Saturday, August 6, 2022
HIROSHIMA OBSERVANCE / SUSIE KING TAYLOR BIRTHDAY
10:30am-12:30pm
LEST WE FORGET
STIMSON GATE, KINGS BAY TRIDENT NUCLEAR BASE, ST. MARYS, GA
Vigil for nuclear disarmament at Kings Bay Trident nuclear submarine base remembers the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, Japan,
by the U.S. on August 6, 1945.
10 AM prayer circle at tabby ruins prior to vigil
2020 LEST WE FORGET vigil photo by Gordon Jackson for Brunswick News
Co-hosts
Susie King Taylor Women's Institute and Ecology Center
Beyond Trident
Kings Bay Naval Base, St. Marys, Georgia
park at Sugar Mill tabby ruins at 3013 Charlie Smith Sr. Highway
2:30-5:30pm
HISTORY AND POWER OF NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE
DORCHESTER CENTER, MIDWAY, GA
A very special program with Hermina Glass-Hill of Susie King Taylor Women's Institute and Ecology Center offers a tour of the historic Dorchester Center, host to Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Cotton, Septima Clark and major civil rights campaigns, followed by group discussion of nonviolent resistance. We celebrate Susie King Taylor, heroine of freedom and literacy, born August 6, 1848, in addition to the Voting Rights Act signed into law on August 6, 1965.
"It is time now to tell all of the stories relating to the Civil Rights Movement which changed the world and Dorchester Center was a major part of that transformative moment in history," says Hermina Glass-Hill. "We hope that people will get a true sense of just how special Dorchester really is on a local and national level."
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Susie King Taylor was born August 6, 1848 in Liberty County, Georgia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSIE KING TAYLOR!!
Lunch provided. RSVP required. RSVP for Dorchester Center 404-378-4263
Dorchester Center, 8787 E. Oglethorpe Hwy, Midway, Georgia
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
NAGASAKI OBSERVANCE
7:00-8:30pm
SEEDS of PEACE
JIMMY CARTER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, ATLANTA, GA
This unique Atlanta peace tradition remembers the people who died in the mushroom clouds of war and calls for an end to the violence inherent in nuclear technology. The program is participatory. Please bring your inspirations, dances, songs, and poems to create a circle of hope!
Co-hosted by Atlanta Dances of Universal Peace
EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FOR MORE INFORMATION / RSVP LUNCH
contact Nuclear Watch South
404-378-4263
TWO FREE EVENTS JUNE 4 & 5, 2022
CHOOSING HOPE: A Path from Despair to Action
and
COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS
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4th Annual MAMI WATA RISING
International Conference
HIROSHIMA | NAGASAKI OBSERVANCE
Background photo of sandhill crane flying over Georgia marsh courtesy of Helen D. Young
August 6, 2021
Susie King Taylor and Sadako Sasaki
Heroines of War and Peace
Coastal Georgia, 8/6/21: On August 6, 1848, Susie King Taylor was born, enslaved on a plantation in Liberty County, Georgia. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. detonated an atomic bomb, destroying Sadako Sasaki’s hometown of Hiroshima, Japan.
Susie King Taylor’s escape to freedom at age 13 is just part of the great, uplifting story of survival by one of history’s great champions of literacy. Sadako Sasaki survived the destruction of Hiroshima, but died from radiation fallout a decade later at age 12. Sadako attempted to fold 1,000 origami peace cranes as a wish to get well, inspiring the adoption of the paper crane as an international symbol and call for world peace.
Please join Susie King Taylor Women’s Institute and Ecology Center and Nuclear Watch South to celebrate these heroines of war and peace.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
10AM - 12 noon
LEST WE FORGET | HIROSHIMA OBSERVANCE
Opening ceremony at Sugar Mill tabby ruins followed by peace vigil at Kings Bay Trident Nuclear Submarine Base, St. Marys, GA.
Directions to Kings Bay: I-95 exit 3, Hwy 40E to Kings Bay Rd. to Stimson Gate at Hwy Spur 40. Park at Sugar Mill Park.
1:30 - 3:30 PM
SUSIE KING TAYLOR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION & ESCAPE TO FREEDOM HIKE
Guale Preserve, Village Drive, St. Simons Island, GA
RESERVATION REQUIRED www.susiekingtaylorinstitute.org or 404-587-3182
$50 suggested donation includes lunch and souvenir poster.
Proceeds benefit the Susie King Taylor Escape to Freedom Underground Railroad Park campaign
MONDAY, AUGUST 9
7 - 8:30 PM SEEDS OF PEACE | NAGASAKI OBSERVANCE
Bring your inspirations, prayers, dances, songs and poems to create a circle of hope. Participate in this special Atlanta tradition with Dances of Universal Peace and musical guest The Wild!
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum Rose Garden, 441 John Lewis Freedom Pkwy, Atlanta, GA
EVENTS ARE FREE (unless otherwise noted) AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS WILL BE OBSERVED
CO-HOSTS Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace • Beyond Trident • Dances of Universal Peace • Nuclear Watch South • Susie King Taylor Women’s Institute and Ecology Center • Unitarian Universalist Congregation Atlanta Peace Network • United Nations Association of the USA, Atlanta Chapter
For more information contact Nuclear Watch South, 404-378-4263
Peace Pole Dedication at the
Sautee Nacoochee Center
"May Peace Prevail on Earth"
1 PM, Saturday, March 13, 2021
Tree of Peace, Sautee Nacoochee Cultural Center
Sautee, GA 3/1/3/21: The Sautee Nacoochee Center will host a community peace pole planting and dedication on Saturday, March 13. The dedication ceremony will take place at 1 PM at the Tree of Peace on the Center's grounds. The peace pole is sponsored by Nuclear Watch South and Sautee Nacoochee Center and is being dedicated to honor Joan Olcott King and the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The date of March 13 coincides with the 10th anniversary of the triple nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, following the disastrous Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
Peace poles are internationally recognized monuments to the hopes and dreams for peace held by the global human family. Thousands of peace poles stand in every country of the world as silent icons for peace reminding us to think, speak and act in the spirit of peace and harmony. The Sautee Nacoochee Center's new peace pole is inscribed "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in English, Cherokee, Japanese, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and Sanskrit.
In 2010, Georgia-based Nuclear Watch South coordinated the installation of a wooden peace pole at the Sautee Nacoochee Center to honor peace and environmental activist, Adele Kushner on the 65th annual observance of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Sautee resident and Nuclear Watch South board member, Joan King, was key in arranging for the Center's adoption of the original peace pole which succumbed to the elements last year.
In April 2020, Joan Olcott King passed away at age 87 after a lifetime of support for the arts and for nuclear disarmament and decades of active involvement with both Sautee Nacoochee Center and Nuclear Watch South. The U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was ratified in October, ushering in the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons and Sautee Nacoochee Center and Nuclear Watch South were inspired to install the new metal peace pole to honor Mrs. King and the Nuclear Ban Treaty.
The Tree of Peace was planted on Sautee Nacoochee Center grounds in a ceremony led by Mohawk Peace Chief Jake Swamp in 1988 at the invitation of 5th grade students at White County Elementary School. When the tree died in 1991 at the beginning of the Gulf War, Chief Swamp's advice was simple, "Plant another tree." The current tree, a pin oak planted in 1991, symbolizes burying weapons and arbitrating conflicts, and living by the Great Law of Peace.
Nuclear Watch South is a statewide, grassroots anti-nuclear group established in 1977 as GANE - Georgians Against Nuclear Energy. The mostly volunteer citizens' group specializes in direct action ranging from organizing protests and testimony at public hearings to publishing educational materials and conducting legal interventions before state and federal agencies to public events such as the peace pole planting. Sautee Nacoochee Center has been the site for a variety of Nuclear Watch South events and projects over the years and is the perfect location for a community peace pole. Information about Nuclear Watch South is available at www.nonukesyall.org.
The Sautee Nacoochee Community Association is a 501(c)3, membership-based non-profit organization whose mission is to value and nuture individual creativity, along with the historical, cultural and environmental resources of the Sautee and Nacoochee valleys and surrounding areas. For more information, visit www.snca.org or call the Center at 706-878-3300. SNC is located at 283 Hwy 255 N, Sautee Nacoochee, GA 30571, and is open seven days a week.
Contacts:
Patrick Brennan, Executive Director, 706-878-3300, www.snca.org, pbrennan@snca.org
Joanne Steele, Nuclear Watch South, 706-878-2035, www.nonukesyall.org, savannahriverpilgrim@gmail.com
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HIROSHIMA OBSERVANCE
Thursday, August 6, 10AM-1PM
LEST WE FORGET Vigil
Kings Bay Trident Nuclear Submarine Base, St. Marys,
GA.
Directions to Kings Bay:
I-95 exit 3, Hwy 40E to Kings Bay Rd. to Stimson Gate
at Hwy Spur 40. Park at Sugar Mill Park.
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SUNSCREEN, BUG REPELLENT, ETC.
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#BLACKLIVESMATTER AND THE BOMB
Thursday, August 6, 7-8:40PM EST
#BLACKLIVESMATTER AND THE BOMB
Special ZOOM event with Dr. Vincent J. Intondi, author of AFRICAN AMERICANS AGAINST THE BOMB: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism and the Black Freedom Movement. Join us to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a moderated discussion with Dr. Intondi following his talk analyzing the connections between racism and the nuclear arms race, including how it relates to local issues in Georgia.
In African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism and the Black Freedom Movement, Intondi shows that Blacks in America immediately saw the atomic bombing of Japan which ended World War II as a racial issue, asking why such enormous resources were being spent building nuclear arms instead of being used to improve impoverished communities. Black activists' fears that race played a role in the decision to deploy atomic bombs in Japan only increased when the U.S. threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea in the 1950s and Vietnam a decade later. For Black leftists in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, the nuclear issue was connected to colonialism: the U.S. obtained uranium from the Belgian controlled Congo and the French tested their nuclear weapons in the Sahara. Georgians from Martin Luther King Jr. to John Lewis and Andrew Young have all taken a strong position against nuclear weapons as documented in this important history book.
Dr. Intondi is a Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, MD. Intondi was previously Director of Research for American University's Nuclear Studies Institute in Washington, DC.
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NAGASAKI OBSERVANCE
Sunday, August 9, 5-6PM
SEEDS OF PEACE
Atlanta’s 25th annual Nagasaki Observance
Bring your inspirations, fears, dances,
songs and poems to create a circle of hope.
King Center, 449 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS WILL BE OBSERVED
CO-HOSTS: Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace | Beyond Trident Campaign |
Georgia WAND | Kings Bay Plowshares 7 | Nuclear Watch South |
Unitarian Universalist Congreation Atlanta Peace Network |
United Nations Association of the USA, Atlanta Chapter
For more information contact Nuclear Watch South, 404-378-4263,
cell: 404-432-8727, e-mail: info@nonukesyall.org
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THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO THE VOGTLE BLUES!
GET OFF THE GRID FEST 2019
Join Rising Appalachia, Dave "The Green Cowboy" Freeman, Sol Driven Train and Nuclear Watch South
to celebrate solar, wind and community power
at a three-day solar expo and sustainability fair
in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains!!
www.getoffthegridfest.com
HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI OBSERVANCES 2019
2019 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
BRUNSWICK / ST. MARYS EVENTS
August 6-9, 2019
A FAST FOR PEACE in defense of life and against nuclear weapons
organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Kings Bay Plowshares
(fasting optional, details on kingsbayplowshares7.org)
Contact Kathy Kelly: kathy@vcnv.org, 773-619-2418
HIROSHIMA DAY
Tuesday, August 6, 8:15AM
KINGS BAY TRIDENT SUBMARINE BASE, St. Marys, GA
Peace Vigil at Stimson Main Gate, Kings Bay Trident Base, St. Marys, GA
(click for directions to Sugar Mill Park across the road from vigil site)
KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES 7 FEDERAL COURT HEARING
Wednesday, August 7, 8AM
U.S. DISTRICT COURT, 801 Gloucester Street, Brunswick
Solidarity fast / vigil concurrent with Kings Bay Plowshares 7
pre-trial court hearing
NAGASAKI DAY
Friday, August 9, 10AM-1PM
LEST WE FORGET
Nagasaki Vigil at Kings Bay, Stimson Gate
followed by community meal at Crooked River State Park
Contact Robert Randall, rrandall@compuserve.com, 912-399-4862
ATLANTA EVENTS
HIROSHIMA DAY
Tuesday, August 6, 6-8PM
THE NUNS, THE PRIESTS AND THE BOMBS
free screening and Atlanta premier of new documentary by Helen Young chronicling recent plowshares actions at Kitsap Trident nuclear submarine base
in Washington State and at the nuclear weapons complex
in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
TOCO HILL-AVIS G. WILLIAMS LIBRARY
1282 McConnell Drive, Decatur
NAGASAKI DAY
Friday, August 9, 7PM
SEEDS OF PEACE
24th annual Nagasaki Observance
Bring your inspirations, grief, prayers, words,
dances and songs to create a circle of hope
CARTER CENTER ROSE GARDEN
441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Co-hosted by: Atlanta Peace Trails • Georgia WAND Education Fund, Inc. • Nuclear Watch South • Partnerships in Peace • Unitarian Universalist Congregation Atlanta (UUCA Peace Network and UUCA Humanist Fellowship) • United Nations Association of the USA, Atlanta Chapter
For more information contact
NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH, 404-378-4263
Nuclear Watch South Joins National Coalition Hosting Citizens' Plutonium Forum
SRS Watch to Lead Discussion of Illegal Government Proposal to Manufacture Plutonium Weapons in Abandoned, Incomplete MOX Fuel Factory
Aiken Municipal Auditorium
7PM, June 14, 2019
Aiken, SC
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FUKUSHIMA 8 OBSERVANCE: POWER LINES
Free Public Screening
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 1-4 PM
with keynote presentation from
ARNIE GUNDERSEN
NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH and GEORGIA WAND invite you to a special FREE screening of POWER LINES in observance of the 8th anniversary of Fukushima on Saturday, March 9, from 1-4 PM at the Toco Hill Library in Decatur.
POWER LINES is a new short documentary about Vogtle 3 & 4 construction by Atlanta filmmaker Laura Asherman, founder of Forage Films. The film endeavors to educate Georgians about this little known Vogtle issue, so that as they pay their power bills each month or turn on their lights each day, they understand which lines of power dictate important aspects of their day-to-day lives.
Waynesboro, GA, and surrounding communities have a complex relationship with Plant Vogtle. With over 40% of the population living below the poverty line, citizens recognize the potential economic opportunity the additional reactors offer. Yet attached to that opportunity are environmental and health hazards, not to mention grave concerns surrounding serious flaws in the reactors' design. The film gives voice to concerned community members who feel they shouldn’t have to sacrifice their safety or the health of the land they’ve owned for generations, just because powerful institutions decided to set up a dangerous camp in their backyard.
Following the short film, ARNIE GUNDERSEN, chief engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education will speak about Fukushima, Japan and safety concerns with the AP1000 reactor design under construction at Vogtle 3 & 4. Arnie is a nuclear engineer and whistleblower who appears in the film. He has traveled repeatedly to Japan where he is working with Japanese citizens to monitor for radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdowns and we are honored to have him with us as we observe the 8th anniversary of the tragic Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and subsequent triple meltdown of the U.S.-designed Japanese reactors.
Additionally, local activists will give brief updates and presentations on Vogtle and Lindsay Harper, Georgia WAND's executive director will introduce the group's 2017 report Community Impacts At the Crossroads of Nuclear and Climate Injustices In the U.S. South. There will be ample time for Q&A and group discussion. Please join us!
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 1-4 PM
The Meeting Room
Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library
1282 McConnell Drive
Decatur, GA 30030
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Atlanta Premiere ATOMIC HOMEFRONT
Free Public Screening of Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Saturday, November 10, 2018, 2-5PM
The Meeting Room
TOCO HILL-AVIS G. WILLIAMS LIBRARY
1282 McConnell Drive,
Decatur, GA 30033
"A straightforward account of activist battles
over a frighteningly contaminated site."
— Hollywood Reporter
"Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rebecca Cammisa shows the effects
of the atomic era on the city of St. Louis, which was home to a uranium-processing center. Lax regulations led to contamination from radioactive waste throughout neighborhoods in North County, and the film follows the citizen-led movement to get to the truth and demand accountability."
— Metro.us The 11 Essential Documentaries of 2017
"ATOMIC HOMEFRONT is a both a fiery indictment of systemic inaction
and a tribute to the work of those battling for their families' safety.
Cammisa does a good job of establishing context for the current situations in Coldwater Creek and Bridgeton, as well as acknowledging the sense of urgency. She has directed a film that deftly balances the science behind what is happening in Missouri with the experiences — and emotions — of the residents.
The result should drive awareness and action in audiences."
— L.A. Times
Stick around after the film for snacks and
discussion about the nuclear state of Georgia
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI OBSERVANCES IN GEORGIA
2018 EVENTS CALENDAR
Monday, August 6, 3-5PM
TRIDENT BASE, KINGS BAY, GA
LEST WE FORGET Peace Vigil
Stimson Main Gate, Kings Bay Trident Base, Kings Bay, GA
Directions: I-95 exit 3, Hwy 40E to Kings Bay Road to Stimson Gate
at
Hwy Spur 40. Park at Sugar Mill Park.
Contact Robert Randall, rrandall@compuserve.com, 912-399-4862
Thursday, August 9, 7PM
CARTER CENTER ROSE GARDEN, ATLANTA, GA
SEEDS OF PEACE 23rd annual Nagasaki Observance.
Bring your inspirations, grief, prayers, words,
dances and songs to create a circle of hope.
Carter Center Rose Garden
441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta
Contact Glenn Carroll, info@nonukesyall.org, 404-378-4263
September 3-14, SAVANNAH, GA
DISARM TRIDENT: Savannah to Kings Bay Peace Walk
organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Kings Bay Plowshares.
Contact Kathy Kelly kathy@vcnv.org, 773-619-2418
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Georgia premiere screening of CONTAINMENT
Nuclear Watch South observes 6th anniversary of Fukushima catastrophe 3/11/17
ATLANTA 3/11/17 How can we contain some of the deadliest, most long-lasting substances ever produced? Toxic remnants from the Cold War remain in millions of gallons of highly radioactive sludge, thousands of acres of radioactive land, tens of thousands of unused hot buildings, and some slowly spreading deltas of contaminated groundwater. Governments around the world, desperate to protect future generations, have begun imagining society 10,000 years from now in order to create warning monuments that will speak across time to mark waste repositories.
CONTAINMENT moves from a nuclear weapon facility in South Carolina where toxic swamps have led to radioactive animals, to a deep underground burial site in New Mexico, to Fukushima, Japan, where a triple meltdown occurred after the cooling systems at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant were interrupted, leaving that city a ghost town. The film is part graphic novel and part observational essay mixed with sci-fi that is more science than fiction, weaving between an uneasy present and an imaginative, troubled distant future, exploring the struggle to keep waste confined over millennia.
FREE SCREENING
Saturday, March 11, 2017, 2PM
The Meeting Room
Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library
1282 McConnell Drive, Decatur, GA 30030
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5th Annual NO NUKES Y'ALL JAMBOREE
Natti Love Joys headline Nuclear Watch South's monster fundraiser at Land Trust on Saturday, August 27
ATLANTA 8/27/16: The solar-powered days of August are here and it's time to give peace a dance at the annual fundraiser for Nuclear Watch South at the fabled Lake Claire Community Land Trust.
Reggae powerhouse Natti Love Joys will headline at the 5th annual Nuclear Watch South "monster fundraiser" on Saturday, August 27 with No Nukes Y'all JAMboree vets Aviva and the Flying Penguins and ever-loving rockers the EX-P.A.N.D. Band. The musical performances start at 6 and continue until 11PM. Earth poet Stephen Wing and songwriter/performer ThinkSpeak will also appear.
The Lake Claire Community Land Trust is a wonderfully unique setting for the annual dance party. Parking is a problem so if you must drive, park at the Clifton Road Presbyterian Church two blocks from the Land Trust. Seriously consider Candler Park MARTA station a short walk from the Land Trust. Please respect the neighborhood!
A donation of $10 is requested, $5 for students and teens, children are free. Refreshments will be available. "It takes a village" ... we need volunteers! If you would like to find out how you can help, please contact Nuclear Watch South's Coordinator Glenn Carroll at 404-432-8727 or at info@nonukesyall.org.
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NO NUKES Y'ALL!
"To the village square
we must carry the facts
of atomic energy.
From there must come America's voice."
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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