[act-ma] [UJP Activist] Uranio 238: The Pentagon´s Dirty Pool
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======== URANIO 238: THE PENTAGON´S DIRTY POOL ==============================
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======== DEPLETED URANIUM DOCUMENTARY WINS BEST SHORT AT INTERNATIONAL
URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL ===============================================
Costa Rican production: URANIUM 238 - The Pentagon´s Dirty Pool wins best
short film category of the First International Uranium Film Festival which
ended Saturday night (28th of May 2011) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1 June
2011 - ICBUW [1]
The documentary URANIO 238 – The Pentagon´s Dirty Pool, produced by Pablo
Ortega, won the prize for best short documentary in the Uranium Film
Festival, which took place May 22 to 28 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. URANIO 238
had also won best documentary in the Costa Rican Movie and Video Festival in
2009.
Thirty four international productions surrounding the nuclear fuel chain were
chosen by a jury and were shown in two theaters in the beautiful suburb of
Santa Teresa. More than a thousand people had the opportunity to view
documentaries and films produced in Brazil, India, Australia, the
Netherlands, UK, Costa Rica, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, the United
States, Japan, South Africa and other countries, where organizations and
filmakers are speaking out against the risks and dangers associated with the
nuclear industry.
/Isabel MacDonald accepting the award on behalf of the production team./
URANIO 238, produced for the San José Quaker Peace Center, has a duration of
28 minutes, and analizes the impact on the health of civilians and military
personnel from the use of depleted uranium, which is currently used in
conventional weapons. /“Through interviews with soldiers and activists,
the documentary explores the health risks when this material is ingested or
inhaled by people in war zones or test areas,”/ Ortega explained.
According to the producer, the main goal of the documentary was to point out
the risks of the military use of depleted uranium for a presentation in the
First Latin American Conference on Uranium Weapons. This event was organized
by the San Jose Quaker Peace Center, the International Depleted Uranium Study
Team (IDUST) and the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW)
in San José, Costa Rica in 2009.
/"Used in 1991 in the first Gulf War, the Balkans conflict, and later on in
the second invasion of Iraq, this dangerous toxic and radioactive waste is
associated with alarming rises in cancer rates, infant malformations and
other health effects among civilian populations in war zones and soldiers who
are deployed in these wars or live next to DU testing sites,"/ according to
Damacio Lopez of IDUST.
/Damacio Lopez with students and the film festival./
This documentary is part of a worldwide campaign to ban the use of uranium
weapons in wars. The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW)
is a global network which seeks an international treaty banning DU weapons
world wide. As part of these efforts, peace activists recently celebrated on
April 28th 2011, the passing by the Legislature of Costa Rica, of a reform to
Costa Rica´s Arms Law, banning the use, manufacture, transit, production and
distribution of uranium weapons.
/"Our commitment along with URANIO em Movi(e)mento, the film festival
organizers in Brazil is to spread the information gathered in this festival,
it is a rich source for all those seeking a world free of radioactive
waste," /says Isabel Macdonald of the San Jose, Quaker Peace Center of Costa
Rica. The Festival from Rio goes on to São Paulo and other cities in the
northeast.
/“We are very pleased with this prize, especially in a festival with
international outreach”/ said Ortega. Isabel Macdonald of the Quaker Peace
Center.was present to receive the prize.
Those present in Brazil would agree with the words of Norbert Suchanek,
General Director of the Film Festival, /“This International Film Festival
is not only about screening films it is about making friends”/. These
friends will carry these films to as many places as possible to spread the
facts about the risks associated with the nuclear industry.
The festival team invites film makers and film enthusiasts around the world
to participate in the Second International Uranium Film Festival, to be held
May-June 2012 in Rio during the United Nations Conference Rio Plus 20.
Notes:
Uranio 238 on Youtube:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EUp5j1481g [2]
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNgZs1lyuGQ [3]
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4h6IeCalo [4]
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uodiHzrefI [5]
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[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4h6IeCalo
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