NH #543: Nuclear Disarmament Plowshares Film & Media Strategy Tips - Emmy-winning Journalist Helen Young

Nuclear Disarmament - The Priests, The Nuns and the Bombs, a film by Helen Young.  It focuses on the Plowshares movement and two key protests - the break-in at the Y-12 highly enriched uranium stockpile site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Trident nuclear submarine facility at the Kitsap-Bangor U.S. naval base near Seattle, Washington (participants pictured above). 

This Week's Featured Interview:

• Nuclear Disarmament:  Helen Young is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist who has forged a career as a filmmaker and writer by blending a passion for investigative reporting with a commitment to illuminating critical issues of the day.  She was a staff writer and producer for CBS News and NBC News for twenty years and has also produced for MSNBC and Al Roker Productions. Helen has won one National Emmy news award and three New York Emmys for her work, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, United Press International, the National Commission on Working Women, and the Red Cross.
• LINKS:
  WEBSITE:  nunspriestsbombsthefilm.com
  FACEBOOK:  www.facebook.com/nunspriestsbombs/ 
  MARY OLSON WORK cited in the interview:  GenderAndRadition.org. 
  

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) needs to “repair” corroded tanks containing radioactive materials at Fukushima… and they can’t even pop for duct tape???

Clear tape used by TEPCO to “repair” corroded, leaking radioactive waste tank
at Fukushima. 

More TEPCO “repairs.”  With thanks to SimplyInfo.org for use of these photos. 
TEPCO “repairs” corroded, leaking tanks of radioactive waste at Fukushima
with transparent tape?!?!?!!!!  

Links:

• Women Transforming our Nuclear Legacy: Indigenous Wisdom, the Nuclear Ban Treaty and Activism – Zoominar by nuclearwakeupcall.earth.
• Follow-up to support MSNBC for their airing of IN THE DARK OF THE VALLEY, the award-winning documentary on the radioactive Santa Susana Field Lab site, only 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. 
• November 22, 7 PM Eastern Time – Peace Action Maine follow-up on COP 26 – sign up for zoominar HERE.