The nuclear survivors group ERUB is sponsoring a workshop
this coming Monday to commemorate this year’s Bravo test
anniversary.
The workshop will be held at RRE’s Boknake House starting
from 9 am February 28.Nuclear survivors from Enewetak,
Rongelap, Utrik and Bikini (ERUB) will be testifying at the
workshop, together with people from Chernobyl, Vieques and
other parts of the world who are to arrive this weekend to
participate in events marking Nuclear Survivors Day.
March 2 to 5, according to ERUB organizers.
Next week Thursday in Honolulu, ERUB organizers and their
Hawaii supporters will hold a press conference with Dr.
Lyudmyla Porokhnyak, a “downwinder” from Chernobyl and now
medical director of the Ukrainian non-profit organization
“Zhinocha Hromada” (“Women’s Society”) who will attend the
conference on Majuro and O’ahu. She will stop over in
Honolulu on her way to the Majuro meetings.
As a survivor of the April 1986 Chernobyl accident
Porokhnyak sees this conference as a significant exchange
between people affected by radiation from so many parts of
the world, according to an ERUB statement. In Majuro,
Porokhnyak will be joined by survivors from the Marshalls
and other parts of the world.
“Future generations need to be spared the suffering that
we have endured,” Langinbelik said. “We need to educate our
communities and the world to these dangers.” |
