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DESCRIPTION:Featuring a Film Screening of\nBuddha Weeps in Jadugoda (1999)\n\nFollowed 
 by a discussion with\nShriprakash (director of the film)\nGhanshyam Birulee 
 and Dumka Murmu  - grassroots organizers with JOAR (Jharkhandi Organization 
 Against Radiation) \n\nIndia's emergence in the nuclear energy and nuclear 
 weapons arena comes at a colossal human cost. Jadugoda, a tribal town in a 
 mineral-rich belt in Jharkhand State, is the only source of Uranium in 
 India, and the indigenous people of Jadugoda have been paying with their 
 lives - seeing their community's health destroyed, their environment 
 devastated. To resist the occupation and devastation of their land by 
 uranium mining, the people of Jadugoda have organized themselves as JOAR - 
 Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation, and their demands range from 
 better safety measures against radiation, to protection of their 
 environment, to opposition of planned open-cast uranium mines.\n\nThe film 
 screening will be followed by discussion with the activists, including a 
 brief history of the struggle, some of the successes they've had, and the 
 challenges facing them. Discussion will also include nuclearization in 
 India/South Asia and its dangers; the problems with nuclear arms and 
 nuclear energy; Indian/Indian-American opposition to the US-India nuclear 
 deal and a report about the just-concluded Indigenous World Uranium Summit. 
 The title of the film is a twist on the term "Operation Buddha Smiling,” 
 the code name for the first nuclear tests conducted by India in 1974. The 
 film was selected best film at EARTH VISION - The Tokyo Global 
 Environmental Film Festival 2000.\n\nThe event is free and open to all. Tax 
 deductible contributions to support the work of JOAR(Jharkhandi 
 Organization Against Radiation)  will be welcomed at the event. Presented 
 by Resource Center for Nonviolence, Jharkhandi Organization Against 
 Radiation and Friends of South Asia\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/05/18335389.php
SUMMARY:India's Nuclear Ambitions: Who Pays the Price?
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence\n515 Broadway\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/05/18335389.php
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