ACTION ALERT: Call Congress Now! Add RECA Amendments to Defense Bill
Update on the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act (RECA) Amendments Campaign There are more than 30 groups working to gain justice and compensation for all uranium...
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Dear Colleagues: Will you join with the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) as we start a campaign for justice and compensation for the uranium miners...
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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act – Fact Sheet
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act The Background Uranium mine and mill workers and downwind communities shouldered an unfair burden of pollution and exposure to...
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ACTIONS: Send a Postcard – Sign the Petition. We Need a RECA Hearing Now!
Senator Charles Grassley is the chair of the Judiciary Committee. The RECA Amendments are assigned to his committee. We are urging him to hold a hearing. Download the...
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POST ’71 URANIUM WORKERS COMMITTEE August 26 Meetings
POST ’71 URANIUM WORKERS COMMITTEE 2 Community Meetings Saturday, August 26, 2017 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Pueblo of Acoma Tribal Gym 25 Pinsbarri Drive, Pueblo of...
Read MoreRadiation Exposure Compensation Act Campaign Cosponsoring Organizations
30 CO-SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment www.swuraniumimpacts.org Susan Gordon, 505-577-8438 sgordon@swuraniumimpacts.org...
Read MoreSenate Bill 197 115th Congress
115th CONGRESS 1st Session Senate Bill 197 To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for...
Read More1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act – Original Bill Language
PUBLIC LAW 101-426—OCT. 15, 1990 101st Congress An Act To provide jurisdiction and procedures for claims for compassionate payments for injuries due to exposure to...
Read More2017 Sponsors of Amendments to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
2017 Sponsors of Amendments to Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Senate Bill 197 – Sponsors: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]* Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]* Sen....
Read MoreHouse Bill 2049 RECA Amendments
H. R. 2049 introduced in the 115th Congress To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for...
Read MoreInter-Mountain Uranium Summit 2
November 20, 2016, San Carlos, AZ Agenda Tribal Perspectives Protection of Cultural Landscapes Federal Legislation Federal Agencies State Agencies Fact Sheet...
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Memories Come To Us In The Wind And The Rain
Oral Histories and Photographes of Navajo Uranium Miners & Their Families May 30, 2016 Introduction by Doug Brugge The Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and...
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From our Facebook Group
Several have asked me to share this slide from my talk at Bioneers. How the macro connects to the micro. Here it is. <3
"To understand the root causes of the pathologies we see today which impact all of us but affect Brown, Black and Poor people more intensely, we have to examine the foundations of this society which began with COLONIZATION.
To me, to be colonized means to be disconnected and disintegrated—from our ancestry, from the earth, from our indigeneity, our earth-connected selves. We all come from earth-connected people, people who once lived in deep connection to the rhythms of nature. I believe it is not a coincidence that the colonization of this land happened at the same time that Europeans were burning hundreds of thousands of witches, those women who carried the traditional indigenous knowledge of the tribes of Europe.
Colonization was the way the extractive economic system of Capitalism came to this land, supported by systems of supremacy and domination which are a necessary part to keep wealth and power accumulated in the hands of the colonizers and ultimately their financiers.
In what is now known at the US, this system of supremacy is expressed in many ways with many outcomes but we will focus on specific ones for the sake of time. First white supremacy, which created a framework that legitimized slavery and genocide. Slavery created cheap labor which is necessary for a functioning capitalist system. And genocide created unlimited access to resources, in the form of land, animal parts, minerals and raw materials which are also necessary for a functioning capitalist economy. And as capitalism functions, it further entrenches systems of supremacy.
We all know that white supremacy looks like scary people with swastikas in hoods. But it can also look like any place where there’s an abundance of white people in exclusive contexts, where power and access is not readily ceded to others.
There’s white supremacy and then there’s male supremacy, AKA patriarchy, which leads to the invisibilizing of women’s labor (you know, like creating the entire human race out of our bodies) or in this context, reproducing the work force and suppressing our wages, which further supports capitalism. Patriarchy also leads to femicide, domestic violence and child abuse, which we see across all groups here.
We also see human supremacy, where people feel superior to the rest of living entities, thereby subjecting living soils, seeds, animals, plants and water to horrific treatment in the name of exploiting resources, which in turn feeds the capitalist need for ever-increasing profits.
While this wheel of domination, exploitation, generation and sequestration of wealth continues, we experience as a byproduct and common pathway TRAUMA and many studies have shown us that chronic stress and trauma create chronic inflammation."
#Bioneers2018 #SocialMedicine #Decolonize #MniWiconiClinicAndFarm #TheJusticeStudy
"To understand the root causes of the pathologies we see today which impact all of us but affect Brown, Black and Poor people more intensely, we have to examine the foundations of this society which began with COLONIZATION.
To me, to be colonized means to be disconnected and disintegrated—from our ancestry, from the earth, from our indigeneity, our earth-connected selves. We all come from earth-connected people, people who once lived in deep connection to the rhythms of nature. I believe it is not a coincidence that the colonization of this land happened at the same time that Europeans were burning hundreds of thousands of witches, those women who carried the traditional indigenous knowledge of the tribes of Europe.
Colonization was the way the extractive economic system of Capitalism came to this land, supported by systems of supremacy and domination which are a necessary part to keep wealth and power accumulated in the hands of the colonizers and ultimately their financiers.
In what is now known at the US, this system of supremacy is expressed in many ways with many outcomes but we will focus on specific ones for the sake of time. First white supremacy, which created a framework that legitimized slavery and genocide. Slavery created cheap labor which is necessary for a functioning capitalist system. And genocide created unlimited access to resources, in the form of land, animal parts, minerals and raw materials which are also necessary for a functioning capitalist economy. And as capitalism functions, it further entrenches systems of supremacy.
We all know that white supremacy looks like scary people with swastikas in hoods. But it can also look like any place where there’s an abundance of white people in exclusive contexts, where power and access is not readily ceded to others.
There’s white supremacy and then there’s male supremacy, AKA patriarchy, which leads to the invisibilizing of women’s labor (you know, like creating the entire human race out of our bodies) or in this context, reproducing the work force and suppressing our wages, which further supports capitalism. Patriarchy also leads to femicide, domestic violence and child abuse, which we see across all groups here.
We also see human supremacy, where people feel superior to the rest of living entities, thereby subjecting living soils, seeds, animals, plants and water to horrific treatment in the name of exploiting resources, which in turn feeds the capitalist need for ever-increasing profits.
While this wheel of domination, exploitation, generation and sequestration of wealth continues, we experience as a byproduct and common pathway TRAUMA and many studies have shown us that chronic stress and trauma create chronic inflammation."
#Bioneers2018 #SocialMedicine #Decolonize #MniWiconiClinicAndFarm #TheJusticeStudy