RESOURCES
WISE (World Information Service on Energy)
2e Weteringplantsoen 9
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
WISE acts as clearing house for information from groups and individuals throughout the world concerned with all forms of the energy struggle, not solely anti-nuclear. It collects information and distributes it, in part through its bimonthly bulletins in English, German, Italian and Spanish. In addition, it provides a news communique service for local groups concerned about nuclear power, and for journalists and the media.
The WISE Women's Project was created in response to requests from feminist anti-nuclear activists in Australia, England and Ireland. They can provide a resource list and addresses of feminist anti-nuke contacts in France, the Netherlands and the U.S. They plan to compile a booklet on the effect on women of nuclear power and women's actions against it in many countries and regions. They ask for any information and/or contacts we can give them. (They, incidentally, are responsible for the Smiling Sun Symbol "Nuclear Power, No Thanks", now seen on cars and people in so many different languages and countries around the world).
Women and Life on Earth
P. O. Box 580
Amherst, Massachusetts 01004
USA
The Women and Ecology Project, from which this group springs, was formed in the Spring of 1979 with the support and involvement of women in the New York-New England area who are active in the feminist, anti-nuke, disarmament, environmental, holistic health, women's health and appropriate technology movements; as well as anthropologists, artists, historians and other theorists working on related issues. "We want to bring together women who are affected by the ecological issues. Because we are often unaware of each other's work, discussion among us would clarify the relationships between feminist and ecological issues and lead us to more effective political action."
They held their first conference, entitled "Women and Life on Earth: Eco-Feminism in the 80's," in late March. Approximately 300 women representing a wide variety of life-styles, professional commitments, urban rural women white and black women, met in a series of panel discussions, workshops, an art exhibit, music, dance, poetry, all expressing "our anger at the exploitation of women and nature, and our creative visions for a better world." The post-conference report notes that a number of "alliances" between women, started at the conference, are continuing -- in direct political actions, and collaborative art and videotaping, for example. The conference materials are available through the above address:some dozen papers, art show slide presentation and tape on conference themes, video and audio tapes, tee shirts with logo, and a set
of four beautiful conference postcards (printed elsewhere in this issue of ISIS. See also the statement which came out of the Conference).
No Nukes : Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power
Anna Gyorgy & Friends
South End Press
Box 68, Astor Station
Boston, MA 02123,USA
478 pages, $8.
This may be the definitive book on nuclear power. Clearly written and carefully documented, it covers everything from construction of power plants to basic nuclear physics, from the history, politics and economics of nuclear power to the effects of low-level radiation on the human body. It is a large book, packed full of information, analysis as well as guidance for organization and action, including non-violent civil disobedience and appropriate tactics. For all of its commitment to stopping nuclear power development, it is written in calm and dispassionate language, relying on the facts to speak for themselves. As indeed they do. It demystifies the technology of the nuclear power industry - and its economics - without oversimplifying, and devotes considerable space to the alternative, safe, and available sources of renewable energy. In short, No Nukes is an indispensable resource, handbook and guide for all those engaged in the struggle against nuclear development. A must for all activists.
NARMIC (National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
USA
NARMIC is a project of the American Friends Service Committee engaged in research on nuclear power/weapons and the arms race in general. Its aim is a moratorium on nuclear power and a reversal in the arms race as a step toward total and complete disarmament. It produces pamphlets with solid data based on careful research which should be very useful to anyone in the struggle against nuclear proliferation. "Marketing the Nuclear Nightmare" sketches profiles of U.S. exports to five countries -- Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Korea and the Philippines; "Arming the Third World" is a close look at the US "new Arms merchants" and the underdeveloped countries to whom they sell; "The Deadly Ammunition Trade," is a map of ammunition production, storage, and shipping sites in the U.S.; and "Meet your Local Merchant of Death," a state-by-state list of arms manufacturers and exporters. These and others may be had for a very small price from NARMIC at the above address.
BSSRS (British for Society Responsibility in Science)
9 Poland Street
London WIV 3DG,
England
This 10-year-old group of scientist,originally got together to fight chemicals and biological warfare, and now are engaged in the struggle against the hazards of nuclear power development. Dorothy Griffiths, a member, has said, "The women's movement have provide BSSRS with an enormous amount of strength, alerting women and men to science's racist, sexist, class-based hierarchy. "For further information on BSSRS' publications and actions, write to the above address.
Women's Organization for Equality (WOE)
Jo-An de Groot
c/o Agemer 13 rue
Hobbema 1040 Brussels
Belgium
Jo-An de Groot is an active feminist and antinuclear militant who is collecting as much information as possible about links between feminism and anti-nuclearism (energy and arms). She asks that you send her any materials, ideas, articles, leaflets or news of feminist anti-nuke activities. She will coordinate and share this material with women against nuclear power.
WIN Magazine
Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action
503 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217
USA.
WIN magazine was founded in 1966 as a newsletter for the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, and since then it has covered and supported movements for non-violent change, from community organizing to labor unions, from feminism to the anti-nuclear movement. Recent special issues include "Feminism, Pacifism, and Reproductive Rights," (Fall, 1979). All of their issues on nuclear power are now available in a special 2-volume set, "Up Against the Nukes." Write to them for details.
War Resisters International (WRI) Lesley Merryfinch and Jenny Jacobs 168 Hamilton Road Longsight Manchester 13 England
International Feminism & Nonviolence newsletter is the publication of WRI. In No. 7, 1980, they publish a list of women who are willing to act as contacts for their countries, so that anyone interested in nonviolence and feminism in their country can contact them directly. The following women have agreed to be contacts. If anyone else would be willing to be a contact for any country not represented, please let WRI know.
SWEDEN Asa Homgren, 1 Geldammsg 26 S-11249 Stockholm
NORWAY Ellen Elster, Mogata 16c, Oslo 4
GERMANY Bernadette Ridard, Methfesselstrasse 69 2000 Hamburg 19 West Germany
also:
Eva-Maria Bannach-Epple, Bozener Str. 6-7, 1000 Berlin 62, West Germany
SWITZERLAND Annelies Jordi, Bernstrasse 92, 3018 Bern
USA - East Jennifer Tiffany, 323 Cascadilla Street Ithaca, New York 14850
JAPAN
Hiroko Toyama, Shoja u 3-13-5, Settsushi, Osaka
WRI is also organising a Women's Conference on "Women and Militarism" which be held from 25 July to 1 August, 1980 in Scotland. It is open to women who have an understanding of nonviolence and are active on this topic. They are particularly anxious to reach Third World women in order to have a balanced discussion and will help wherever they can in the financing of flight-fares. Contact Lester and Jenny at the above address.
Handbook for Women on the Nuclear Mentality Susan Koen and Nina Swaim WAND, Box 421 Norwich, Vermont 05055, USA. US$2.00
The book is part of an ambitious educational project undertaken by the group of twenty omen which calls itself Women Against Nuclear Development 'WAND). WAND is an affinity group of the Upper Va e Energy Coalition - a New Hampshire based affiliate of the Clamshell Alliance. The purpose of the Handbook is three fold : to consolidate and develop the theory that women face a unique oppression for the development of nuclear plants and weapons; to create a tool to help women organize emsees against nuclear development; and to suggest alter at· es to the present nuclear mentality. Chapters include : Ecology and Feminism; Effects of Nuclear Power and Arms of women; Women in the Industry; Women in the Anti-Nuke Movement; Future Directions and Resources.
WAND also plans to hold workshops throughout New England to help women develop working groups within their own communities.
Undercurrents
27 Clerkenwell Close
London ECIR OAT
England
Bimonthly magazine, described as the "magazine of radical alternatives and the community technology", and is one of the best resources on the entire issue of energy, alternative and appropriate technology. It carries articles in all aspects of this and includes descriptions of the groups, projects and campaigns both in Britain and elsewhere. Articles are consistently factual and well-written. We highly recommend it. Annually subscription: British Isles £3.60, Overseas surface mail £ 4.50, Airmail Europe £6.60, Airmail rest of the world £8.40, Air-freight North America US$ 11.00, Single issues from £ 0.60 to £1.40.
"500 Mile Island' The Philippine Nuclear Reactor Deal"
Walden Bello, Peter Hays and Lyuba Zarsky
Pacific Research, First Quarter, 1979.
Pacific Studies Center
867 W. Dana, No. 204
Mountain View CA. 94041
USA
"The political and economic fall-out from the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, has created a political climate in which new US reactor construction will be severely curtailed, at least in the short run. But the American nuclear industry is far from dead. Nuclear expansion continues in other parts of the world, particularly where political opposition is suppressed." With these words, the Pacific Studies Center opens its fine report on the international links in the nuclear "chain". It demonstrates how the growth of opposition to nuclear power in the developed countries as stepped up nuclear expansion in the Third World, here reactor exports pose even graver safety and environmental hazards. The first two articles examine the particularly perilous bargain between the Marcos government and Westinghouse to build a nuclear reactor on the Bataan Penin- • supported by huge sums from the US Export-Import. Other articles deal with the ever-growing need for more uranium, the mining of which threatens the health, lands, cultures and even the survival of indigenous peoples e.g ., Australian Aborigines and Native Americans. "In the Philippines, just as in the US or Australia, energy is a question political power, not merely technology ... In uniting across boundaries, "the report concludes, "the anti-nuclear movement... must address political issues, such as Martial Law in the Philippines."
We strongly urge the reading of this valuable and thorough going analysis of international nuclear eco-politics. A rare study which sheds light where it is needed in order to challenge and change the power structures which support and promote the growth of nuclear development.
Nuclear Madness: What can You do?
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Autumn Press
25 Dwight Street
Brookline
MA 02146, USA. 1978
A passionate and informative overview of the nuclear industry and the medical effects of low-level radiation on humans. Dr. Caldicott, one of the most articulate opponents of nuclear power explains in this book the biological impact of nuclear power from the perspective of a pediatrician who places the right of a healthy life above all other considerations. She is unequivocal in her belief that nuclear development should be totally stopped, that there are not nor can there be any safe level of radiation exposure . Radiation causes cancer, and children are most vulnerable to it. This is the essence of her message, and she supports it eloquently with medical facts and figures.
"Atom kraft"
Courage Nr. 4, April 1979
Bleibtreustr. 48
1 Berlin 12
Federal Republic of Germany.
This issue of Courage - feminist magazine - has nuclear power as its focus. Articles on the implications of the destructiveness of nuclear power (Helen Caldicott), on the death of Karen Silkwood, on nuclear power plant workers and on the security aspect of plants in Germany.
"Grune Frauen in Dilemma"
Courage Nr. 2,
February 1980
(see above for address).
Articles in this issue on the "Green" (ecological) party of Germany setting out the women's programme, and providing a critique for the party. Includes the "Manifest der 'Grunen Frauen' " (manifesto of the 'green women'), and programmes of other women in Germany fighting against nuclear power. Courage has frequent good articles on the issues of nuclear power, energy and militarization.
"On the Occasion of the unification of the British Antinuclear and Anti-military movements"
Petra Kelly, 24 November 1979.
Available from : Friends of the Earth
9 Poland Street
London W1V 3DG
England.
A speech outlining the interconnection between civilian and military nuclear power development, how this has occurred in Europe, and the importance of the feminist movement in fighting for a safe and peaceful world.
"Die Rebellion der Frauen"
Eva Quistorp
Dokumentation de Sommeruniversitat fur Frauen
Berlin 1978-Frauen und Mutter, 1979.
A report from the women's summer university in Berlin dealing with ecology, energy, alternative lifestyles, alternative healing etc.
Peace and Freedom
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
1213 Race Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
USA
International Office:
12 rue de Varembe
1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
This publication, sent to member of WILPF, discusses the causes of war, sexism and the military, ways in which women work to end war and create peace, and lists conference and resources.
WILPF began in 1915, founded by a group of women who met at The Hague to propose ways to end the war and create a just peace.
A Nuclear Ireland ?
Ed. John F. Carrol and Petra K. Kelly
Irish Transport and General Workers' Union,
Liberty Hall
Dublin 1
Ireland.
1980. £ 4.50
A collection of papers presented at an Energy Symposium under the auspices of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, from 10-12 May 1978. Aspects covered include the medical consideration, ethical, moral and social ramifications, jobs, the European Community. Some of the essays are extremely good, and additional appendices give substantial details on different actions taken, as well as statistical details on nuclear reactions. The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union is the only union in Europe to come out unanimously against nuclear power.
The Politics of Nuclear Power
Dave Elliott, with Pat Coyne, Mike George
and Roy Lewis
Pluto Press Ltd.
Unit 10 Spencer Court
7 Chalcot Road, London NW1 8LH
England. 1978. £ 1.95/ $ 4.95.
Deals specifically with trade unions and policy on nuclear power and what it means for employment, placing this in the broader context of corporatism and the power of multinational corporations. Also has sections on alternative energy options, the anti-nuclear movement, and suggestions for actions by trade unions.
CIS (Counter Information Services)
9 Poland Street
London W1,
England
CIS is a collective of journa ists who publish information "not covered or collated by the established media." The Nuclear Disaster is No. 22 of their Anti-reports prepared as part of the Transnational Institute programme on the international nuclear industry. It is 40 pages of incisive analysis of the politics and economics of nuclear power development. A fascinating study, well worth the reading. Copies may be obtained from CIS at the address given. Also useful is the Bibliography, list of periodicals, and TNI Publications printed inside the back cover.
War Resisters' League West
1360 Howard Street
San Francisco, California 94103
USA
The Feminism and Nonviolence Program of WRL West, started in 1977, has the broad goal of developing the connections between nonviolence and feminism. The program focuses on patterns of dominance and aggression as a cause of oppression and war. They have produced a folder of articles, poems, leaflets, and a bibliography entitled "Readings on Feminism and Nonviolence." It costs $3 plus postage.
Southwest Research and Information Center
P. O. Box 4524
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
USA
Lynda Taylor and Judy Luis-Melius have written a very fine booklet called "Health and Radiation" in which they examine the impact of radiation on human health, both that occurring naturally and the human-made radiation to which we are increasingly exposed. They caution against careless, shortsighted use of human-made radiation which already correlates with increased incidences of abnormalities relating to our immune systems, such as a greater susceptibility to infectious diseases, leukemia and other cancers. A thoughtful and thought-provoking booklet.
People Against Nuclear Power
c/o American Friends Service Committee
2160 Lake Street
San Francisco, California 94121
U.S.A.
This group is part of an anti- nuclear power network throughout California which is committed to stopping nuclear power through the use of non-violent direct action, and encouraging energy alternatives PANP was developed as a project of the AFSC. Simple Living Program, but the network will be much larger than an AFSC project. They invite all groups who are who are committed to stopping nuclear power to join them. Their goal, they say, "is not to defeat our opponents but to bring about a non-nuclear solution to our energy needs." Their actions may include vigils, bike rides, fasts, and plutonium tours in the Bay Area, as well as working with the network on possible major occupation of sites.
(Also at this address: Abalone Alliance)
No Nuclear News
c/o Boston Clamshell
595 Mass. Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 12139
Monthly reprints of anti-nuclear news and graphics from around the world. Subscriptions are $ 7.50.
Women Against Nuclear Power Task Force
National Organization for Women
32 W. Lafayette St.
Trenton, New Jersey 08608
USA
"Feminists have as our goal a future society defined by egalitarian relationships, with health care, education and employment assured. The use of nuclear power hinders the achievement of this goal." From this premise, the Task Force has issued a succinct but comprehensive brochure covering the main points of the position against nuclear power. The Brochure, crammed full of useful information, is available from N.O.W. at the above address: $ 5.00/100; also, "NO NUKES" button, $ 1.00 each or $ 15.00 in lots of 20.
Namazu
War Resisters International
2-12-2 Ashimachi
Abeno, Osaka
Japan
Quarterly publication on non-violence. The early May 1980 issue deals with the connection between the inhuman nature of nuclear power and the whole structure of male attitudes.
Pika·Don (film)
Sayoko Kinoshita
Animation Studio Lotus
405 Meison Azabu 5-13-14
Roppongi-Minato·ku
Tokyo, Japan.
US$ 250.
A ten-minute cartoon-strip film about nuclear bombs and their effects, based on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb explosions. Made by a woman film-maker.
Green Mountain Post Films
Box 177
Montague, Massachusetts 01351
USA
Makers of the now-famous Lovejoy's Nuclear War, a 1974 film report of one man's dramatic action to stop a proposed nuclear power plant in Montague, this group has continued to make powerful films about the nuclear threat: The Last Resort, about citizen's occupation of the planned nuclear power plant site in Seabrook, New Hampshire; as well as distributing the films of others, More Nuclear Power Stations, a documentary film from Denmark about nuclear stations in Germany, England, Belgium. These are but two of the films available through GMP. Their Bulletin lists and describes all those available for either rental or purchase. An important educational tool. They have a flexible pricing system which will place rates within the budgets of most groups. Write them for Bulletin and information.
Institute for Policy Studies
1901 Q Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20009, USA
The Counterforce Syndrome: A Guide to US Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Doctrine (86 pages) is written by former missile engineer Robert C. Aldreidge, who concludes: " ... the next three years are crucial .. either we halt the momentum toward genocide or nuclear cremation will strike again." $ 3.95 from the Institute. Ask for their bibliography "Militarism and Disarmament: Resources for the Debate."
Planetary Association for Clean Energy, Inc.
100 Bronson Avenue-Suite 1001
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 6G8
Canada
A non-profit corporation whose objects are "to facilitate the discovery, research, development, demonstration and evaluation of clean energy system...the term can be understood to describe systems which draw on natural supply, which are of universal technological application, which are inexpensive and which do not cause polluting residue. "These criteria, of course, eliminate nuclear power as such s source. The Newsletter is published about four times a year, and though relatively expressive ($ 15.00 for a year's subscription) it is a rich source of solid data against nukes and for alternative energy sources. It is edited by Monique Michaud Michrowski.
Tranet
P.O. Box 567
Rangeley, Maine 04970
USA
Tranet is the name of a newsletter-directory of, by and for those individuals and groups around the world who are actively developing appropriate/alternative technologies, and also the name of the group which published it - Transnational Network for Appropriate/Alternative Technologies. The newsletter lists groups around the world, publications and projects, frequently concerning energy.
Global military spending currently runs at about $ 400 thousand million a year, nearly $ 1 million a minute. Yet :
1. about 1,500 million people (nearly 40 per cent of the world's population) have no effective services;
2. nearly 3,000 million live in countries which have more than 1,000 inhabitants per physician;
3. nearly 3,000 million people lack access to safe water;
4. about 750,000 die each month from water-borne diseases;
5. nearly 570 million people are seriously undernourished;
6. nearly 2,000 million have a life expectancy of less than 60 ears, usually less than 50 years;
7. about 800 million are illiterate, including about 70 per cent of the population of Africa; and
8. nearly 250 million children under 14 years of age do not attend school .
(Source : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute).