Posion Dust: A new look at U.S. radioactive weapons - 2/15 New School University

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Posion Dust: A new look at U.S. radioactive weapons - 2/15

New School University

 

 

 

PREMIERE SHOWING

Full length documentary

 

Poison DUst

A new look at U.S. radioactive weapons

 

Tues, Feb 15, 2005, 6:30

New School University

Swayduck Auditorium

65 Fifth Ave on the ground floor

 

Film Showing and Forum exposing the U.S. use of

radioactive depleted uranium weapons.

 

Featuring:

 

• Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General—wrote

the International Call for a BAN on DU weapons

 

• Juan Gonzalez, Daily News reporter & Democracy Now

host—broke the story on U.S. soldiers poisoned by DU

 

• Sue Harris, Peoples Video Network— Editor of Poison

DUst

 

• GI'S, VETS and FAMILIES— who have been poisoned by

DU

 

In this new Iraq War — It's worse than before During

the current Iraq War the U.S. use of radioactive

Depleted Uranium weapons increased from 375 tons used

in 1991 to 2200 tons. Geiger counter readings at sites

in downtown Baghdad record radiation levels 1,000 and

2,000 times higher than background radiation. The

Pentagon has bombed, occupied, tortured

and contaminated Iraq. Millions of Iraqis are

affected. Over one million U.S. soldiers have rotated

into Iraq.

 

Today, half of the 697,000 U.S. Gulf War troops from

the 1991 war have reported serious medical problems

and a significant increase in birth defects among

their newborn children. The effects on the Iraqi

population are far greater. Many other countries and

U.S. communities near DU weapons plants, testing

facilities, bases and arsenals have also been exposed

to this radioactive material which has a half-life of

4.4 billions years.

 

Let's get vocal! Demand full testing, full healthcare,

decontamination, a thorough clean-up and reparations.

Let's work to educate ourselves and mobilize people to

understand what the Pentagon has unleashed on the

world.

 

A forum organized by New School GPIA Human Rights

Group & The Depleted Uranium Education Project of the

International Action Center

 

for more information:212-633-6646

 

 

 

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