“We're not just welcoming you as allies, but as family”
Why The Rainbow Warrior is back in the Marshall Islands 40 years on.
#NuclearJustice #ClimateJustice #Pacific #MarshallIslands #Greenpeace
The Greenpeace evacuation of Rongelap changed the course of history
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/544789/marshall-islands-rongelap-evacuation-changed-course-of-history #pacific #marshallislands
Today in Labor History February 18, 1955: The U.S. launched Operation Teapot at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Teapot included 14 nuclear bomb tests. Wasp was the first, detonated on February 18. It had a yield of 1.2 kilotons. During shot Wasp, ground forces participated in Exercise Desert Rock VI. This included an armored task force moving to within 3,000 ft of ground zero, while the mushroom cloud was still growing. From 1945 through 1962, the U.S. conducted 230 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, with approximately 235,000 military personnel participating. Most were enlisted men, from the navy. However, millions of people were exposed to the fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons tests in the southwest of the U.S. and the Marshall Islands. University of Arizona economist Keith Meyers estimates that radioactive fallout was responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.
Les îles Marshall inaugurent leur première réserve maritime https://www.election-politique.com/index.php?display=M
[Podcast] A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s #Toxic Legacy
Decades after the Navy shuttered a #ColdWar #radiation research lab, the mess hasn’t been completely cleaned up. Listen to local voices demanding accountability amid charges of #EnvironmentalRacism.
By Rebecca Bowe, 11.25.2024
"The San Francisco Public Press presents the first half of a two-part radio documentary, '#Exposed,' opening a window into the little-known history of the #HuntersPointNavalShipyard. The sprawling abandoned naval base, in #SanFrancisco’s southeast waterfront #Bayview neighborhood, is currently the site of the city’s largest real estate development project. The base played a key role in the Cold War nuclear era, when it housed a research institution known as the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory [#NRDL], which studied the human health effects of #radiation.
"In Episode 1 of the podcast, we trace the radioactive contamination found in the shipyard soil today back to its origins, with #NuclearBomb testing in the #MarshallIslands. We also hear from #EnvironmentalJustice advocates, including one who led a health biomonitoring survey revealing that nearby residents have toxic elements stored in body tissues that match the hazardous chemicals of concern identified at the shipyard.
"This radio documentary is part of a larger multimedia package stemming from a deep dive into declassified government records produced by the radiation lab in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Listen to Episode 2 of the podcast: 'Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans.'"
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed-podcast-episode-1-a-community-of-color-contends-with-the-navys-toxic-legacy/
#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWar #NuclearWeapons #RadiationExposure #ColdWarExperiments #HuntersPoint
The International Uranium Film Festival - No more Hibakusha - announces 2025 dates. Events in #RiodeJanerio (May 2025) and #BerlinGermany (October 2025)! Among the films being considered for this year's festival are "Address Unknown: #Fukushima Now," "#Nukemailing," and "#Taiwaste".
FMI:
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/
Follow @uraniumfestival here on Mastodon!
Taiwan’s Lai arrives in US territory Guam on Pacific tour | Nation https://www.byteseu.com/530042/ #AlliesOfWorldWarIi #China #ChinaTaiwan #Conflicts #CrossStraitRelations #Diplomacy #ForeignPolicy #ForeignRelations #GlobalPolitics #Government #InternationalRelations #MarshallIslands #partners/afp #PoliticalStatusOfTaiwan #Politics #PoliticsOfAsia #PoliticsOfChina #PoliticsOfEastAsia #SevePaeniu #taiwan #Tuvalu #UnitedStates
The Forgotten Pacific #Documentary.
The Forgotten Pacific travels to five #PacificIslands to discover how communities are weaving #Indigenous knowledge into the modern-day fight to adapt, rebuild and save their islands from #ClimateChange.
Guided by the wisdom and passion of Pacific #climate leader Suluafi Brianna Fruean the documentary spans across the waters of #Fiji, #Tuvalu, #Vanuatu, the Republic of the #MarshallIslands and #Samoa. The Forgotten Pacific captures the vibrant yet challenging lives of these islands. Each island speaks to us with its own story of struggle and resilience, yet all are united by an unwavering spirit of hope and survival.
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-docos/the-forgotten-pacific/the-forgotten-pacific-documentary/
guam's nuclear radiation survivors raise their voices
https://lemmy.world/post/19357427 #pasifika #guam #marshallIslands #amurkah #nuclearLegacy #radiation #cancer #health #indigenous
As much as I don't love sharing #viceNews, no one else is really talking about the Marshal Islands, nor any of the other US overseas territories.
It's far past time the US make right for those they have harmed, and continue to harm.
Season 1 Episode 3: Climate Change and the Marshall Islands, With Dr Helene Jacot Des Combes
In this episode, Christina talks to Dr Hélène Jacot Des Combes, Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Advisor to the National Disaster Management Office of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. They discuss sea level rise, infrastructure that can adapt to climate change, and land reclamation and protection. Dr Des Combes speaks passionately about reparations (for decades of colonialism, the US’s testing of atomic weapons on the atolls of the Marshall Islands, forced relocation of the Marshallese people, climate injustice, and much more) and advocates for the Marshallese peoples’ right to their own lands.
The #USA Buried #NuclearWaste Abroad. #ClimateChange Could Unearth It
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from US #nuclear projects in #Greenland and the #MarshallIslands
by Anita Hofschneider
Science
Mar 2, 2024 8:00 AM
"Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: 'Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after ʻBravo.’
"Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her great-grandfather’s. At the time, he was living on Rongelap in the Marshall Islands when the US conducted #CastleBravo, the largest of 67 nuclear weapon tests there during the Cold War. The tests displaced and sickened #Indigenous people, #poisoned fish, upended #TraditionalFood practices, and caused #cancers and other negative health repercussions that continue to reverberate today.
"A federal report by the Government Accountability Office published last month examines what’s left of that nuclear contamination, not only in the Pacific but also in Greenland and #Spain. The authors conclude that #ClimateChange could disturb nuclear waste left in Greenland and the Marshall Islands. '#RisingSeaLevels could spread contamination in RMI, and conflicting risk assessments cause residents to distrust radiological information from the US Department of Energy,' the report says.
"In Greenland, #ChemicalPollution and #radioactive liquid are frozen in #IceSheets, left over from a #NuclearPowerPlant on a #USMilitary research base where scientists studied the potential to install nuclear missiles. The report didn’t specify how or where nuclear contamination could migrate in the Pacific or Greenland, or what if any health risks that might pose to people living nearby. However, the authors did note that in Greenland, frozen waste could be exposed by 2100.
"'The possibility to influence the environment is there, which could further affect the food chain and further affect the people living in the area as well,' said Hjalmar Dahl, president of #InuitCircumpolarCouncil Greenland. The country is about 90 percent #Inuit. “I think it is important that the Greenland and US governments have to communicate on this worrying issue and prepare what to do about it.'"
Today in Labor History February 18, 1955: The U.S. launched Operation Teapot at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Teapot included 14 nuclear bomb tests. Wasp was the first, detonated on February 18. It had a yield of 1.2 kilotons. During shot Wasp, ground forces participated in Exercise Desert Rock VI. This included an armored task force moving to within 3,000 ft of ground zero, while the mushroom cloud was still growing. From 1945 through 1962, the U.S. conducted 230 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, with approximately 235,000 military personnel participating. Most were enlisted men, from the navy. However, millions of people were exposed to the fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons tests in the southwest of the U.S. and the Marshall Islands. University of Arizona economist Keith Meyers estimates that radioactive fallout was responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-glcKlqzlv0&si=XK4_r7HrcN0BbhnY 
Funds to Counter China in Pacific Missing From Senate Spending Package (VoA News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #UnitedStates #MarshallIslands #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoEUPrezForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024
The Marshall Islands aren’t giving In to sea level rise.
@hakaimagazine reports "The precariously placed island nation has put together a comprehensive — if expensive — plan to survive."
@oldmapgallery
For a more complete telling of the history of #us #empire, read #HowToHideAnEmpire by #DanielImmerwhar where he explains the ins and outs of the US conquests, including the #Philippines, #PuertoRico, #Guam, The #MarshallIslands, #TheMarianas, etc.
August 2023 - Seascape: the state of our oceans
Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on
The film Oppenheimer has shone a global spotlight on the dawn of US nuclear weapons tests. In the #MarshallIslands, where 23 of those earth-shattering blasts happened, people have never been able to forget
by Lucy Sherriff
Fri 25 Aug 2023 03.00 EDT
"At first glance, the aquamarine waters that surround the Marshall Islands seem like paradise. But this idyllic #Pacific scene hides a dark secret: it was the location of 67 #nuclear detonations as part of US military tests during the #ColdWar between 1946 and 1958.
"The bombs were exploded above ground and underwater on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, including one device 1,100 times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. Chernobyl-like levels of radiation forced hundreds from their homes. #BikiniAtoll remains deserted. At the US government’s urging, residents have begun returning slowly to #Enewetak.
"Today, there is little visible evidence of the tests on the islands except for a 115-metre (377ft)-wide cement dome that locals nickname the Tomb – for good reason.
"Built in the late 1970s and now aged and cracking, the huge concrete lid on #RunitIsland covers more than 90,000 cubic metres (3.1m cubic ft) – or roughly 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools – of radioactive soil and nuclear waste. Unbeknown to the #Marshallese people, the US shipped the waste from #Nevada, where it was testing nuclear weapons on #NativeAmerican land.
"The legacy of America’s nuclear testing on #IndigenousCommunities both on the US mainland and its territories has come under renewed scrutiny with the release of Oppenheimer, the blockbuster film about the physicist who led development of the atomic bomb.
"Although his team tested the nuclear weapons on Native American land – there were 928 large-scale nuclear weapons tests in #Nevada, #Utah and #Arizona during the cold war, dispersing huge clouds of radioactive material – the film never mentions the impact of the testing on the local Native Americans.
"'The film completely ignores the experiences of our people,' says #IanZabarte, principal man of the Western Bands of the #ShoshoneNation – who have been described as 'the most bombed nation on earth'.
"Zabarte is attempting to forge connections with those Pacific Islanders who were similarly affected by #NuclearTesting. Earlier this year, he met representatives from the Marshall Islands when they visited Nevada to discuss the effects on their health from nuclear weapons testing.
“'The health impacts on our people have never been investigated,' Zabarte says. 'We have never received an apology, let alone any kind of compensation.'
"Separately, a band of Marshallese activists are now sailing around the country’s 29 atolls, along with #Artists and #ClimateScientists, on a 12-day tour that aims to raise awareness of nuclear testing on the archipelago.
"The 520-mile ocean voyage is being operated by Cape Farewell, a cultural programme founded by the British artist David Buckland and funded by the Waverley Street Foundation, Laurene Powell Jobs’s climate charity.
"'Cancers continue from generation to generation,' says Alson Kelen, a master navigator and community elder who grew up on Bikini Atoll and is joining the expedition.
"'If you ask anyone here if there’s a legacy of nuclear impact on their health, the answer would be yes. The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claim Tribunal has a list of #cancers that are related to nuclear throughout our people. These cancers are hereditary.'
"The US maintains that the Marshall Islands are safe. It seized them from #Japan in 1944, and eventually granted the islands independence in 1979, but the fledgling nation remained in 'free association' with the US. Under this system, along with #Micronesia and #Palau, the Marshall Islands are self-governing but economically remain largely dependent on Washington, which also retains a military presence. Today it continues to use the US dollar, and American aid still represents a large percentage of its GDP.
"In 1988, an independent international tribunal was established to adjudicate between the two countries, and it later ordered the US to pay $2.3bn (£1.8bn) to the Marshall Islands in healthcare and resettlement costs.
"The US government has refused, arguing that its liabilities ended when it paid $600m in the 1990s. In 1998, the US stopped providing medical care for cancer-stricken islanders, leaving many in financial hardship."
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