And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: "Save Ward Valley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Mike Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: A message to all Ward Valley activists >Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:43:25 -0800 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Felicity Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Save Ward Valley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 6:40 PM >Subject: Re: Friendships Across the Borders > > >Dear Ward Valley Wonders, > >My name is Felicity Hill and I am from Australia and have just returned >from a visit to my home. I live in New York City. > >I am writing to you about another nuclear cemetary proposed by a US >corporation for the desert of Australia. The people of that region, the >Kokotha and Arabunna people, seek the solidarity of those sisters and >brothers from other nations. I hope you will reach out to them and begin a >dialogue. > >It was on the land of the Kokotha and Arabunna people, in South Australia, >that British nuclear testing took place. For a pepper corn rent, the US >Spy base Nurrungar also sits on Kokotha and Arabunna land. The Woomerra >Rocket Range annexes a huge expanse of their land, and the Roxby uranium >mine, soon to be the biggest in the world, degrades and pollutes the land, >air and water of the Kokotha and Arabunna people. While the horror stories >are multiple in Australia, it could be said that the Kokotha and Arabunna >are the most disaffected, abused and colonised indigenous people in >Australia. > >Their land is a beautiful land, red earth, moody skies, delicate and >unusual plants. Underneath their earth lies the Great Artesian Water Basin, >the underground water source that is sucked up by over 30,000 bores - 5 >million litres a day by the Roxby Uranium mine alone. The Great Artesian >Water Basin is connected to Lake Eyre, which is often dry, but when the big >rains come, (and when they come they come down in buckets), a huge amount >of birds are attracted the area which is lit up with the unusual desert >flowers as well as incredible frog and other wildlife. > >The stories Rebecca Bear Wingfield, Aboriginal spokesperson for the land >can tell about the people, the land and the affects of the mine, the rocket >range, the base and in particular the nuclear testing are harrowing. > >As if this isn't enough, after a 2 year process, the Australian government >has decided to put a low level radioactive waste dump for radioactive waste >created domestically in Australia at a place called Bila Kallina in the >same area. On the coat tails of this A US BASED COMPANY CALLED PANGEA HAS >DECIDED TO PUSH THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TO AGREE TO USE THE SITE FOR THE >DUMPING OF PLUTONIUM FROM DISMANTLED NUCLEAR WEAPONS. > >Together we can stop this! International solidarity decreases the >isolation felt by activists in Australia, spreads the facts around and >boosts the spirit. > >Please could you busy active Ward Valley activists send messages of >solidarity, information, posters, newsclips of your actions etc to: > >Rebecca Bear-Wingfield >c/o Friends of the Earth >P O Box 222 >Fitzroy, Victoria, >Australia, 3065 >Ph: 011 61 39 419 8700 >Fax: 011 61 39 416 2081 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
