Canada Tour

World Uranium Symposium 2015: Barbara Shaw

World Uranium Symposium 2015: Barbara Shaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5f5nkC-gg Barb Shaw and Dave Sweeney have now returned to Australia, and Peter Watts is staying in the USA to speak at several events this weekend. New York City is about to explode with peace and disarmament activists and...

Muckaty film screened at International Uranium Film Festival

Muckaty film screened at International Uranium Film Festival

Protecting Manuwangku screened last night at the International Uranium Film Festival, taking scenes and voices from the heart of Australia to Quebec City. The film was very well received and followed with a Q and A session with Barb Shaw and Dave Sweeney. We missed...

Canada Tour (blog update)

Canada Tour (blog update)

Day 2 of the World Uranium Symposium was another jam-packed day of workshops and plenaries full of inspiring and well-informed people from 25 countries on 5 continents. Peter Watts gave a workshop along with Katsumi Furitsu, from Japan, titled 'From Hiroshima to...

ANFA gets standing applause at World Uranium Symposium

ANFA gets standing applause at World Uranium Symposium

The morning started with a plenary on human and Indigenous peoples' rights vs. the nuclear fuel chain. Barb Shaw took to the podium with the map of Australian uranium sites and talked from her heart. Her talk ended to a standing ovation. The World Uranium Symposium...

Canada Tour (blog update)

Canada Tour (blog update)

The team has made it to Quebec City after travelling through snow country and following the St Lawrence River from Montreal. Tonight we'll meet-up with some of the other conference speakers and participants before it kicks off tomorrow morning. Peter Watts and Dave...

Update from the road – 11th April 2015

Update from the road – 11th April 2015

The journey to the World Uranium Symposium in Canada began as Peter, Marcus and Gem said goodbye to the Footprints for Peace group who are walking, running and cycling from the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review...

Declaration from World Uranium Symposium 2015

Declaration from World Uranium Symposium 2015

The Symposium explored all aspects of the nuclear fuel chain and their impacts on all peoples and environments across the world. The Declaration addresses everything from nuclear weapons testing, to poorly-regulated uranium mines, highly contested nuclear reactors and...