Sacred Land, Poisoned Peoples
Pre-conference: "Uranium Mining, Health and Indigenous Peoples"
26 August 2010, on the occasion of the IPPNW World Congress
"Nuclear Abolition: For a Future!" at the University of Basel
This conference will offer representatives of indigenous peoples endangered by uranium mining a distinguished European venue to tell their stories. They will have the opportunity to strengthen their action networks by meeting with politicians, members of NGOs and people from around the globe, like themselves, struggling to end uranium mining.
A "Talking Stick" will help make palpable the far-flung cultural diversity of the conference speakers. Whoever holds the stick has our ears, our attention. The conference will be structured like a journey around the globe - Germany - Canada - USA - India - Africa - South America - Russia... Experts will act as interpretive stewards along our travels by supplementing eyewitness accounts with results from the most recent scientific studies impacting the conference's complex of themes: uranium, radiation, health.
The conference program: A journey around the globeA JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE
09:00 h
Attunement by a representative of indigenous people
09:05 h
Welcome Adress
Claus Biegert on behalf of the conference organizers
09:10 h
GERMANY
Michael Beleites: The Wismut file
09:30 h
CANADA
Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
Robert Del Tredici, co-founder of the Atomic Photographers Guild
10:20 h Break
10:50 h
USA
Manuel Pino, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
Charmaine White Face, Lakota Nation, South Dakota
11:40 h
BRASIL
Video message: Davi Kopenawa Janomani
11:50 h
AUSTRALIA
Rebecca Bear Wingfield,Kupa Pita Kungka Tjuta, South Australia
Dean Mahomed, Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, Arabunna Ulkara
Mangement Committee
Delegation of the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (GAC),
Justin O´Brien, Kirsten Blair & Dave Sweeney representing the
Mirarr People
Video message: Yvonne Margarula, Mirarr Senior Traditional Owner
12:50 h Lunch
14:00 h
URANIUM - RADIATION - HEALTH
Health effects of uranium Mining
Sebastian Pflugbeil, society for radiation protection
Dale Dewar, MD, FCFP, Executive Director, PGS Canada
Michael Dworkind, MD, President of PGS, Canada
15:00 h
INDIA
Punit Raj Kishor Minj, Uraon, secretary general of the JMACC
and coordinator of BIRSA-MMC
15:30 h Break
16.00 h
NAMIBIA
Hilma Shindondola-Mote, director of the Labour Resource and
Research Institute, Windhoek
NIGER
Azara Jalawi, president of commune des femmes, Arlit
MALI
Many Camara, ARCF, university of Bamako
17:00 h
RUSSIA
Oleg Bodrov, chairman Green World
17:30 h
CONCLUSION
MODERATION: Claus Biegert, Nuclear Free Future Award
18:15 h
reception for the congress' participants by the mayor of Basel and IPPNW-board member Dr. Guy Morin
historical museum (Barfüsserkirche), Barfüsserplatz - afterwards shuttle to rhineport Basel
19: 30 h
dinner on the "Schiff", rhineport Basel
Conference organizers: PSR / IPPNW Switzerland, IPPNW Germany, Nuclear Free Future Award in cooperation with uranium-network, Society for Threatened Peoples, Germany, Society for Threatened Peoples, Switzerland, INCOMINDIOS Switzerland
The conference language will be English; simultaneous interpreting into German is planned.
PSR / IPPNW Schweiz, Klosterberg 23, CH-4051 Basel
Tel./Fax 0041 (0) 61 271 50 25, sekretariat(at)ippnw.ch, www.ippnw.ch
IPPNW Deutschland, Körtestraße 10, D ? 10967 Berlin
Tel. 0049 (0) 30 698 07 40, kontakt(at)ippnw.de; www.ippnw.de
Nuclear Free Future Award, Ganghoferstr. 52, 80339 München,
Tel. 0049 (0) 89 28 65 97 14, info(at)nuclear-free.com, www.nuclear-free.com
In cooperation with
AG uranium-network.org, Postfach 5102, 79018 Freiburg
Tel. 0049 (0) 761 44 36 56, mail(at)uranium-network.org , www.uranium-network.org
Society for Threatened Peoples, Germany, Postfach 2024, D-37010 Göttingen, Tel.: 0049 (0) 551 49906-0, info(at)gfbv.de , www.gfbv.de
Society for Threatened Peoples, Switzerland, Wiesenstrasse 77, CH-3014 Bern
Tel.: 0041 (0) 31 311 90 08, info(at)gfbv.ch, www.gfbv.ch
INCOMINDIOS Schweiz, CH-8032 Zürich
Tel./Fax.: 0041 (0) 44 383 03 35, mail(at)incomindios.ch; www.incomindios.ch
HEINRICH BÖLL FOUNDATION, Schumannstr. 8, D -10117 Berlin; email info(at)boell.de, www.boell.de
Precongress flyers in english and in german:
Flyer in english
Flyer in german
