Featured Image:  Human mural spells out “Fukushima is Here”
on San Francisco beach in August, 2013

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This Week’s Featured Interviews:

Pacific radiation levels explored with two activists: 

• John Bertucci, admin at Fukushima Response Campaign on Facebook and a long time anti-nuclear activist, speaks on water sampling of the Pacific off the coast of Pt. Reyes done in conjunction with the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Our Radioactive Ocean. 
• Molly P. Johnson explains the increased readings in the Pacific Ocean down the coast at San Luis Obispo, done for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace.  Donate to support their testing here.

Voices from Japan:  Filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka

Trailers: 

• “Little Voices from Fukushima”
• “Hibakusha at the End of The World” (trailer is in Japanese; screening is English version)
• More information on upcoming US screenings below in Missing Links.

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

• The late evangelist Billy Graham’s daughter  wishes all of us in the US a Happy Nuclear Detonation! because, like, we’re all sinners… and we deserve to be nuked… according to her.  But then again, she’s an evangelical who wants the world to end, so hey, why not get the ball rolling?

Unexpected Interview:

With thanks to Kumar Sundaram of DiaNukes.org for the first interview I’ve ever been asked to give about Nuclear Hotseat:

The Missing Links:

• Bob Alvarez article: “New Nuclear Policy Expands Arms Race with Russia, China“
• Filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka’s website and Facebook page.

Screenings:

• GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY “Little Voices from Fukushima,” Thursday March 22, 2018, 6:30 – 9:30 pm, HFSC Screening Room; Q&A with Hitomi Kamanaka and Dr. Norma Fields.
• NIRS “Little Voices from Fukushima,”Monday March 26, 2018, 6:30—9:30 pm, Busboys & Poets, 235 Carroll St. NW, Washington, DC 20012; Q&A with Hitomi Kamanaka and Fukushima activist Ruiko Muto. https://www.nirs.org/actions/little-voices-fukushima-feature-film-screening-filmmaker-hitomi-kamanaka-activist-ruiko-muto/
• SAN CLEMENTE “Little Voices from Fukushima,” Thursday March 29, 2018, 6-8pm; San Clemente Community Center – Ole Hanson Fireside Room. Q&A with Hitomi Kamanaka. https://www.facebook.com/events/184579355491670/
• SAN DIEGO “Hibakusha at the End of the World,” Sunday, April 1, 2018, 12-3 pm; Museum of Photographic Arts, Q&A with Hitomi Kamanaka and Helen Jaccard of Veterans for Peace. https://www.facebook.com/events/545184575853511/

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