NH #719: US Nukes in England?!? 10-Day Lakenheath Peace Camp Opposes US Nuclear Weapons on UK RAF Base – Angie Zelter
This Week’s Featured Interview:
- Angie Zelter is a British peace activist and the founder of a number of international campaign groups, including Trident Ploughshares and the International Women’s Peace Service. Zelter is known for non-violent direct action campaigns and has been arrested more than 100 times in Belgium, Canada, England, Malaysia, Norway, Poland and Scotland, serving 16 prison sentences for her beliefs.
Angie is a member of the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace, a coalition of groups that is dedicated to preventing the return of US Nuclear weapons to Royal Air Force Lakenheath. She is also one of the organizers of the Lakenheath Peace Camp, which starts next Monday, April 14, 2025 and runs through the 26th, 2025. The 10-day event is cast in the image of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, which ran for 20 years to protest against nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England, and was ultimately successful in having the nuclear weapons removed.
Photo from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, 1981 – 2000,
the model for the upcoming Lakenheath Peace Camp.
LINKS from Interview:
For people in the USA or other countries wanting to get involved or send a statement of support to the Lakenheath Peace Camp, you can write to: [email protected] or use this link: https://lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk/front-page/about-us/contact-us/.
To help you get and stay motivated, here is a link to Angie Zelter’s book, Activism for Life: A whistle stop tour of the last 45 years of nonviolent direct action in the UK and abroad.
Second Featured Interview: Mary Stamos-Osborn, Three Mile Island Mutated Plants
March 28 marked the 46th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown at the Unit 2 reactor Three Mile Island in Middletown near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I always like to include historical material from that time during the anniversary period. The timing didn’t work out for last week’s show. So I’m happy to this week be able to present my interview with Mary Stamos, also known as Mary Osborn, a long time Middletown resident, TMI survivor, and Three Mile Island Alert member. Mary, who had no previous history as an activist, became involved in issues immediately after the accident when she noticed plant mutations – known as fasciation – that can be traced to radiation exposure. Her collection of mutated plants and flowers was accepted by the Smithsonian Institution in 2019 to be preserved, digitized, and made available to the public.
Mary Stamos-Osborn passed away on February 19, 2024. This interview is from the 40th anniversary of the TMI accident as reported on Nuclear Hotseat #405, March 25, 2019.
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter
All these Holtec claims about small modular nuclear reactors – a Sputnik moment, or a sputtering senior moment? Linda Pentz Gunter has the hot story.
Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):
Why fool around with major corporations, government agencies, and billion dollar contracts? A 12 year old boy from Tennessee built a fusion reactor in his bedroom with parts from ebay. We are all doomed… (ps – Elon Musk is rumored to have offered him an upper management post at DOGE.)
LINKS:
- Webinar based on materials presented at the United Nations 3rd Meeting of States Parties on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – GENDER AND RADIATION: Towards a New Research Agenda Addressing Disproportionate Harm. Presented by Mary Olson, founder, Gender and Radiation Impact Project; Dr. Amanda Nichols, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Cindy Folkers, Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist for Beyond Nuclear.
THE WEBINAR IS FREE BUT YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER TO ATTEND: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/K0lCXWlLRRCTYF0W3898fg#/registration - Nuclear power is officially a clean energy source in Colorado. Not everyone is pleased.
- Should Canada explore developing a nuclear weapons program?
