OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #126, MAY 17, 2023

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #126, MAY 17,  2023
Abel Tomlinson.  No War, Abolish Nuclear Weapons Demonstration May 27.
3 Films about Nuclear World War III.
Joshua Frank’s new book Atomic Days about Hanford nuclear waste storage..
Schools of Mass Destruction include UAF.

No War with Russia and China, Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Free Assange
Dear Friends,
Our next Monthly Antiwar Protest will be May 27^th at 11 A.M. at Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville.

 We are holding monthly protests calling for No War with Russia and China, which pose a threat of nuclear war and human extinction.  We are calling for No Nuclear War.  Most of our signs will always keep this message front and center, and that will be the primary thing passing cars observe.

 

Since we just passed World Press Freedom Day this May, this month’s side message will be a call to free the great antiwar journalist Julian Assange.  Antiwar activists from Code Pink recently conducted a similar protest on this Day.  Assange has been unjustly imprisoned in the U.K. and is facing extradition to the United States based on his publication of documents critical of U.S. war crimes in the Middle East.  His imprisonment has grave implications not just for antiwar journalism, but for Freedom of Press altogether.  

 

Toward Peace,

Abel Tomlinson

Arkansas Antiwar Alliance, Founder

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At least 3 effective fiction films about nuclear war have appeared in Fayetteville: Threads, The Day After, The Road.   Will you be the one to arrange to show them here again?—D

 

JOSHUA FRANK.   “The Quiet Warrior:  Russell Jim’s Struggle Against Nuclear Colonialism.”   FacebookTwitterRedditEmail

The following is an excerpt from the award-winning Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America (Haymarket Books, 2022).

He was the catalyst in my belief that Indian tribes should be treated as full, equal participants in the process.  — James Asselstine

There are not a lot of heroes out here. Few in recent memory have risen to the daunting challenge, immersing themselves in Hanford’s scientific complexities and its historic and cultural implications. If there are any champions of the cause, Russell Jim (Kii’ahł) was certainly one of them. The “Quiet Warrior,” Jim was a lifelong advocate for the Yakama Nation. The “conscience of the cleanup,” Jim was considered by many to be the spiritual leader of the Hanford resistance. Jim served as the head of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation’s Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program (ERWM), a position he essentially created. In 2018, Jim passed away after battling heart trouble and pneumonia following a long bout of cancer, which he believed was a direct result of the time he spent in and around Hanford’s radioactive haze. . . .
It may take a thousand years, but if the conditions of his people, the land, this air and water, are to ever improve, it will largely be because of the dogged efforts of the Quiet Warrior, Russell Jim, and the Indigenous voices he has empowered to carry on his struggle.   (To read the entire text go to https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/12/the-quiet-warrior-russell-jims-struggle-against-nuclear-colonialism/ )

JOSHUA FRANK is the managing editor of CounterPunch. He is the author of the new book, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, published by Haymarket Books. He can be reached at joshua@counterpunch.org. You can troll him on Twitter @joshua__frank.

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