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Australia has over 30% of world uranium reserves and is facing an unprecedented uranium mining expansion. This walk will begin from a proposed uranium mine site - the first step in this destructive industry.
Come and listen to the Indigenous people who will be directly affected by this mine.
Last year the Anti-Nuclear movement of Western Australia joined with global peace group Footprints for Peace in an exciting campaign to re-instate the ban on Uranium Mining in Western Australia and re-invigorate Australian activists to get involved. On the 20th August 2011 over 100 people including traditional custodians, senators, state members of Parliament, journalists, lawyers, families with young children and people from North America, New Zealand, France, and throughout Australia gathered just outside remote Wiluna to begin a ten-week walk to Perth.
This year 2012 Footprints for Peace will be working closely with the Walkatjurra Rangers to walk from Yeelirrie (site of BHP's proposed uranium mine) to Leonora.
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CANADA HAS BEEN POSPONED FOR NOW.... MORE INFO COMING SOON.... Canada is the largest supplier of uranium to the world. The largest uranium mine is McArthur River, Northern Saskatchewan. This long walk will visit and hear from First Nation and others on the impact of uranium mining and nuclear power.
This walk will visit many nuclear facilities situated on the Great Lakes and major river system. We will finish at the West Valley nuclear waste site in Buffalo that is upstream from many Indigenous communities.
This walk will connect the nuclear issue with the militarization of space and the current push for new nuclear reactors. We will finish at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility that was part of the Manhattan Project and is still making weapons of mass destruction.
Starting from the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility this walk will visit many nuclear reactors including 3 Mile Island. We will arrive in Hiroshima on August 6th to remember the 70th year since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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