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^Trojan Decommissioning
ote announces its plan of
violently bar'ra leading the en-
to the plant. The Alli-
reached a consensus to
mil disobedience on Aug-
5( the anniversary of the
pg of the atomic bomb on
lima, Japan.
It Alliance feels that the in
ti of governmental agencies,
officials and courts in failing to
put an end to the danger leaves
them no other choice.
So far, over 200 protesters
have been arrested for trespas
sing at Trojan on two separate
occasions.
In the first mass
trial, all 96 defendants were ac
quitted by a Columbia County
jury. During both occasions, the
Trojan
Decommissioning Alli
ance maintained a non-violent
stand.
Non-violent
training work
shops will be set up and will be
mandatory for all participants in
the August 6 protest. The mem
bers of the Alliance explained
their opposition
to violence
causes concerned Oregonians to
occupy the Trojan plant as an
all-out effort to shut Trojan
down.
The Alliance feels, in view of
the fact that the Trojan plant
produces 40 tons of nuclear
waste a year and that nuclear
waste remains highly dangerous
for 250,000 years, that Trojan
should be shut down.
Jeff Bolarsen
Trojan Decommissioning Alliance
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HI Governor Rhoades you
them and buried them why
jthey stay dead?
many people who were so
y affected by the terrible
¿s inflicted by the Viet-
war tragedy. May 4, will be
jibered as a particularly
wful day in history.
mt years ago on this date
Republican Governor James
Ides sent national guard
’¡onto the campus of Kent
University to quiet student
¡st against the recently re
illegal Cambodia bomb-
[This action of the Govern-
p to the fatal shooting of
[students by the National
jsmen. The Guardsmen
¡tried for the killings and
led of any wrong doing,
governor while admitting
«fulness of the tragedy has
jtently defended his actions
tintense public criticism,
fently being Governor in
¡means never having to say
sorry,
[May 4, one year ago, a
of 200 students had to
their way into the trust
eeing at the conclusion of
hears commemoration pro-
1 The students arrived in
to hear the University's
lees announce their final
ion to erect a gym on the
bfthe student killings. The
pts protested by setting up
city on the site. The high-
rge’datmosphere of the en-
ent lasted 62 days, the
t occupation in the hist-
f the American student
pent. The encampment
able to stay while a long
battle was being waged but
ily 12 sheriff's deputies
1194 arrests of non-violent
terson "Blanket Hill".
Way 4 we might do well
^template the half com
shell of a gymnasium and
find an appropriate ephi-
» mark this place of the
youth while reflecting on
and taken cherished sym-
four own lives.
more plutonium than they used
up.
Silkwood liked her job but
had begun to develop doubts
about it because of frequent
employee complaints of expo
sure to airborne plutonium. This
is no small matter when you
consider that one-millionth of a
gram of this highly toxic sub
stance has caused cancer in test
animals. Once this plutonium
gets into the air it cannot be re
covered. By fall of 1974 the
Kerr-Mcgee Company had 'been
forced to tell the Atomic Energy
Commission of 73 accidental
contaminations at the plant,
workers complained of dozens
more. Karen Silkwood became
a union activist.
One week before her death,
Karen was involved in the invest
igation of the plant for her
union, the Oil, Chemical, and
Atomic Workers International.
She was trying to gather enough
internal company memo's to
prove that Kerr-Mcgee was falsi
fying records and violating AEC
safety guidelines. During that
week Silkwood discovered that
she had eaten three Bologna and
cheese sandwiches which had
been poisoned with a microscop
ic amount of plutonium. The
AEC later decided that this
poisoning was no accident. Scar
ed out of her mind, Silkwood
arranged a meeting with a OCAW
union health expert and a re
porter from the
New York
Say man you want to buy
some paraquat gold?
Paraquat is an exceedingly
toxic herbicide used by the
Mexican government in cooper
ation with the United States
agencies to eliminate heroine
producing poppy fields.
program has also been extended
to cover marijuana fields. Less
than a month ago the Environ
mental Protection Agency re
stricted the use of paraquat in
the United States, Some feel
that the chemical will soon be
banned for use in this country,
Paraquat remains in
i
the body
longer than DDT and has no
antidote.
Presently the EPA
allows paraquat levels of .05
parts per million in our food
stuffs. Samples of confiscated
marijuana samples last November
found levels ranging from 177
-2200 parts per million. Para
quat is a fail safe suicide system!
This poison is a quick way to
ensure illness and possible death.
Yet it is estimated that about 14
tons of paraquat contaminated
marijuana will be eaten in the
United States this year.
Although the studies are not
conclusive they seem to show
that smoking of paraquat will
quickly bring about lung damage.
How much paraquat contami
nated herb is in the United
State is not known, although in
Oregon the problem has been
extremely low. The scare is not
over however.
The Mexican
government will continue to use
U.S. planes and chemicals and
technical assistance to contami
nate peasant fields. Also mari
juana dealers
in the United
States, since the paraquat scare
has made the bottom fall out of
the Mexican pot market, are
said to be hoarding large quanti
ties of Mexican pot for distribu
tion in the late summer when the
scare has died down.
In the
meantime one should be very
cautious of any weed they buy.
Even the White House office
of drug-abuse policy has admit
ted that paraquat-treated mari
juana, once manicured is very
difficult to recognize.
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.here is the strange and
|leKaren Silkwood story.
1972 Karen Silkwood, a
mother of two, went '
ik for the Kerr-Mcgee
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Times. She was supposed to de
liver a manila folder of papers
from the company. Karen never
arrived. On her way to the meet
ing her light weight car slammed
into a concrete culvert and Karen
was killed.
No manila folder was found
in the car. Disappeared. Law
enforcement officials looking in
to the case ruled Karen's acci
dent routine despite evidence
that her car had been forced
off the road. The FBI and two
subcommittees
congressional
have dropped investigations into
the Silkwood Case because they
consider it an unsolvable riddle.
The questions Karen's death
raises about the
Kerr-Mcgee
Company are also the questions
being asked about the nuclear
industry. How safe are they?
Can the power companies and
plutonium manufacturers
be
trusted to keep high safety stan
dards? How easily available is
plutonium? How much is get
ting into our environment? It is
becoming more
obvious that
the nuclear energy people do not
want examined to closely.
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