Int'l conference: Fukushima & Media

Anthony J. Hall / アンソニー・J・ホール氏(Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge, Canada). Author, From Hiroshima to Fukushima, 1945-2011: A Nuclear Narrative of Hubris and Tragedy, Mr. Hall describes how the US introduced nuclear power into Japan and manipulates the media message.

Steve Zeltzer / スティーブ・ゼルツァー氏(Labor Video Project). Director of the Labor Video Project and a producer and host on KPFA Radio, Steve is on the steering committee of the annual month long SF Labor Fest and is a member of the No Nukes Action Committee. He recently spent 3 weeks in Japan working on a documentary on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and will show some of it here.

Andrew Philipps (General Manager, KPFA Radio) As a journalist with Australia Broadcasting, Phillips reported on the coverup of the radiation impacts in Hiroshima by Wilfred Bruchette, the NY Times reporter who was allowed to go there with the military on the first plane after the bombing.

Barbara George / バーバラ・ジョージ氏(Women’s Energy Matters).
Barbara won the first McGlashan Award for Advocacy for Marin Clean Energy, the county-wide competitor to PG&E. WEM’s proposal to replace nuclear power in California with energy efficiency and renewable energy is currently being considered by the CA Public Utilities Commission.

Marion Pack / マリオン・パック氏 (veteran activist and organizer)
Marion is working to close San Onofre nuclear power plant with San Clemente Green and Residents Organizing for Safe Energy (R.O.S.E). As Exec. Dir. of the Orange Co. Alliance for Survival, she was a leader of the successful 10-yr. effort to close the Ward Valley Nuclear Dump. Currently she is the assistant to the Regional Director for the CA Democratic Party.

Donna Gilmore (Communications Director, SOS: San Onofre Safety)
A resident of San Clemente, Donna’s professional background is in IT, project management, and human resources. She launched a website for SOS: San Onofre Safety when she learned employees were harassed and fired for reporting unresolved safety violations at SoCalEdison’s nuclear power plant, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has repeatedly cited for having the worst safety culture in the US.

Kei Sugaoka (Former Tepco Engineer) will report via Skype on the Nuclear industry in Japan.

Seungkoo Choi / 崔勝久氏(Christian Network for Nuke-Free Earth).
An Osaka born Zainichi* Korean 
activist, Pak won an ethnic-based discrimination case against Hitachi. He participates in anti-nukes actions and community
 organizing with Citizen’s Group for New Kawasaki and will report on anti-nukes movements in Korea, Mongolia, and Japan.

Yuko Tonohira /殿平有子氏 (founder of Todos Somos Japon) A native of Hokkaido,
the Northernmost island of Japan, Yuko now resides in Brooklyn, NY. His group hosts a bilingual website Japan–Fissures in Planetary
Apparatus. He will talk about organizing anti-nuclear actions and “we being the media.”