*Anti-nuclear protest in Moscow

MOSCOW — Twenty activists of the international ecological group For Mother Earth were arrested in front of the French embassy on October 2 during a peaceful protest against the latest French nuclear test on Fangatufa. The activists, with blue Earth flags, unfurled a 15-metre long banner with "Stop nuclear terrorism" and spray-painted "Stop Hirochirac" in front the entrance. Nineteen of the 20 were freed after appearing in court the next day with the exception of a 15-year-old Ukrainian boy who was sent to a children's prison before being deported to the Ukraine. For Mother Earth believes the wrong people were put on trial. President Chirac nuclear testing program is the real threat to the community. France is also violating human rights by using the land of the Maohi people for their experiments. Indigenous people world wide have been the first victims of nuclear testing programs: France started its nuclear testing program on the land of the Touareg in north Africa before moving to Polynesia; the British tested on Aboriginal land in Australia; the USA on the land of the Western Shoshone Indians in Nevada, and in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific; China tests on the territory of the Uygur in its' north-west; and Russia has contaminated the lands of Kazakhstan and the Nenets near Novaja Zembla.
[Reprinted from Ecodefense!]

From GLW issue 208