FILM: "High Power"
Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom
and
the Cambridge Peace Commission
has invited nuclear
engineer-turned-environmentalist
Pradeep
Indulkar to show his film
High Power
Thursday February 6 at 6:45PM
At
Cambridge Main Library , Community
Room, 449 Broadway, Cambridge,
MA.
The film is free.
The film is open to the public. Please circulate widely
to interested people.
High Power, a 27-minute
documentary about the health issues faced by residents of Tarapur, a town in
Maharashtra, and home to the 50- year-old Tarapur nuclear power plant, recently
won the Yellow Oscar in the short film category in the Rio de Janeiro leg of the
Uranium Film Festival.
“The government was showing a very rosy picture of
Tarapur on TV, so a few of us thought of going there and interviewing the
people...That material was very strong, people were talking from their heart,
and instead of showing it on a news channel, I thought it could be made into a
documentary,” says Indulkar.
After the film, Indulkar will describe the passionate
anti-nuclear movement in India and their request for support from the global
anti-nuclear movement, particularly from those countries whose nuclear
industries are building plants in India.
Indulkar’s film tour in the western MA
occurs at a time that the US has agreed to a deal in which India buys 6 nuclear
power plants from Westinghouse – a boon for the industry that is going bust in
the United States. India reprocesses nuclear power waste into nuclear weapons
and, thus, more nuclear power translates into greater weapons capability. The
US-India agreement will require that India accept liability in case of a nuclear
accident, a tragic undermining of the post-Bhopal Indian law that placed
liability on the shoulders of the industry selling the
equipment.
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