Radioactive Show

As the Talisman Sabre military war games held on this continent draw to close and we mark the 78th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we take a look at the corporate greed and colonisation that see the ongoing manufacture of these weapons and create the conditions for their use.Today we’ll hear from Monaeka Flores from Guahan and Shinako Oyakawa from Okinawa who are touring some of the continent with the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network’s current initiative the Pacific Peace Tour and Conference.Monaeka Flores is a Guahan representative – indigenous people of Guam whose land has been occupied by US military since World War II. They have desecrated sacred sites, poisoned the environment and an aquifer that supplies their water as well as committing crimes against her people. She is motivated to stand up against United States militarism and the expanding bases on her Pacific island nation because of the love of her people, peace, decolonisation and anti-racism.Shinako Oyakawa is an indigenous Pacific peace activist from Okinawa. Roughly 70 percent of the land area in Japan used for U.S. bases is in Okinawa, the stolen lands of the Ryukyans who had their homelands annexed by Japan since 1879. With the Japanese and U.S. governments violently pushing through construction of new military bases at Henoko and Takae Shinako visited the UN in April this year to highlight Okinawan issues in the context of a broader struggle for the rights of indigenous people around the world.Thanks to Kathryn Kelly for assisting in lining up the interview during a busy schedule.We also bring you a conversation between Uprise Radio's James Brennan and Mercedes Zanker with Jacob Grech (A Friday Rave) about the lesser known aspects of the building of the nuclear bomb.

Today’s show is our second featuring audio from a panel discussion marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which was held on September 26th. The online panel was organised by Reverse the Trend Pacific, a chapter of Reverse the Trend, save our people, save the planet. We’ll hear from the facilitator, Jeshua Hope, as well as panel guests, Kasha Sequoia Slavner a young filmmaker from the Global Sunrise Project, and H.E. Ambassador Teburoro Tito of Kiribati. Kiribati has been pushing the world to do more in both the international climate and nuclear spheres. https://thesunrisestoryteller.com/https://rttreversingthetrend.org/

Today on the program we will connect with co-convenors of the newly formed organisation 'Nuclear Free WA', Mia Pepper and KA Garlick, who bring us updates on all things nuclear in Western Australia. They also announce the Nuclear Free West Australia Peace Walk - 2023 on 29 October, that will begin at the WA base of one of the world's largest weapons corporations and builder of nuclear submarines - BAE System to the HMAS Stirling 2023, calling for No AUKUS and No Nuclear Subs.We then bring you a powerful song and speech from Daniel Garlett, a Noongar man from Whadjuk Yued Ballardong cultural groups, that KA recorded at a Hiroshima Day rally in Boorloo ‘Perth’ on Sunday 6 August.

We're out on the streets again - this time at the Aerospace summit in Ōtautahi Christchurch where attendees were greeted with an unwelcome party. Protesters say the summit is a weapons expo by another name. Learn more about the aerospace industry in Aoteraoa New Zealand, resistence to military rocket launches from Māori land and how AUKUS pillar two has increased the research and development of weapons in Australia.Featuring:Puti Moa, of Rongomaiwahine, local to Māhia Peninsula and member of Rocket Lab Monitor.Edwina Hughes, Coordinator, Peace Movement Aotearoa.Audio of speakers originally from this webinar: https://youtu.be/Us3heMvVXro?si=WHYaaHbgWKkoVldy