UPDATED: Panel to Discuss Consequences of U.S. Use of Radiological Weapons on Dec. 4

Coalition forces have dropped thousands of tons of radioactive weaponry in Afghanistan and Iraq in willful disregard for the health of the inhabitants of those countries as well as the health of US troops. Depleted Uranium (Uranium 238) as well as other highly radioactive isotopes have been used extensively in American and British munitions since the first Gulf War. These weapons have been linked to chronic illness, long-term disabilities and genetic birth defects in people who’ve been exposed.

You are invited to listen to a panel of health professionals, scientists and activists as they discuss new information and the long-term health consequences of radiological poisoning on people and environment. The public will have a chance to ask questions or give comments in a forum after the panel.

PANELISTS: Patricia Axelrod, recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award for her work in weapons systems analysis. She was a founding member of the State of California Reserve Officers' Association Committee on Persian Gulf War Illness and director of the Desert Storm Think Tank and Veterans' Advocate will be talking on the long-term health effects of radiological poisoning; Dr. Khalil Rahmany, clinical psychologist and adjunct professor of Psych. at Chabot College, Founder and President of the Afghan Psychological Access of America, will be talking about the trauma of war and the ongoing suffering of the Afghan people; Leuren Moret, President, Scientists for Indigenous People, City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner, Past President, Association for Women Geoscientists and; David Seaborg, UC Berkeley professor and evolution scientist, son of the discoverer of plutonium, Glenn Seaborg, will be talking on the consequences of Nuclear weapons and war with possible solutions.

WHEN: December 4, 2003 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
(1924 Cedar Street at Bonita)

Contact: Ingrid at 510-526-2900 for more information

Suggested donation of $5 (none turned away for lack of funds). Wheelchair accessible. Sponsored by U.U. Social Justice Committee.