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2007
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| Volume 8
Number 1 Global
Voices Against Uranium |
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Research and Information Center was one of the sponsors of the Indigenous
World Uranium Summit (IWUS) held in Window Rock, Arizona from November
30 - December 1, 2006. People from around the world attended and gave
testimony about Uranium issues occurring in their communities. We
want to share with our readers some of these voices. |
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months after the December 2006 Indigenous World Uranium Summit (IWUS)
at Window Rock, Arizona, the assault by governments and the uranium
industry on Mother Earth continues throughout the world.
Driven by the inflated, but rising price of uranium on the world
market, this perceived economic boom is creating economic blackmail
in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities worldwide, including
several in New Mexico. |
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Mexico is home to about two million people from diverse cultures,
backgrounds, and economic conditions, and is a land of natural beauty
and resources. All too often, the beauty is sacrificed to allow for
resource extraction – or waste disposal.
This issue of Voices from the Earth provides some of the current examples
of New Mexicans struggling to maintain the cultures, land, and communities
in the face of various “development” or waste dumping
projects. |
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world has finally realized that climate change is real, and that the
way we create and use energy is part of the crisis. How to solve this
crisis? That is the difficult part. Many politicians – from
President Bush, to New Mexico’s own Senator Pete Domenici –
believe that nuclear power is the only solution. Even some environmental
leaders think this is the only way. But for those of us who have been
on the front and back end of the nuclear fuel cycle know that this
isn’t the answer. |
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