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Global Assault:
Environmental Consequences of U.S Military Actions
April 16, 2003
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U.S. military operations touch virtually every country on the planet. Training exercises, military bases, weapons testing, and war have all left behind a toxic wake of chemicals, waste, and ordnance. On this edition of Making Contact we take a look at the environmental record of the U.S. military. We also hear about depleted uranium weapons used in the first Gulf War and what sort of environmental fall-out we can expect from Gulf War II.
Featuring:
Tara Thornton, executive director, and Steve Taylor, national organizer, of the Military Toxics Project; Mark Palmer, assistant director of the International Marine Mammal Project at the Earth Island Institute; Michael Stocker, scientist & bio-acoustician at Seaflow; John Walsh, special assistant for training ranges at the Office of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness); Nilda Medina and Robert Rabin from the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques (Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques); Ernesto Peña, Vietnam veteran, artist and Viequense, Kathy Gannett, community organizer from Boston, MA; Maria Santelli, International Depleted Uranium Study Team (I-Dust).
For more information:
Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
(Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques)
Apartado 1424
Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765
787-741-0716
www.prorescatevieques.org
Military Toxics Project
PO Box 558
Lewiston, ME 04243
207-783-5091
www.miltoxproj.org
Seaflow
P.O box 507
Fairfax, CA 94978
415-488-0553; info@seaflow.org
www.seaflow.org
International Marine Mammal Project,
Earth Island Institute
300 Broadway, Suite 28
San Francisco CA 94133
415-788-3666
ODUSD (Readiness)
Pentagon, 1C757
Defense 4000
Washington D.C 20301-4000
703-695-1760
International Depleted Uranium Study Team (I-Dust)
P.O. Box 1688
Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004
505-247-9694; idust@sdc.com