ANAWA screens Chernobyl Heart

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FREMANTLE — On April 24, two days before the 20th anniversary of the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, 150 people packed into Fremantle's La Tropicana Cafe for a screening of the academy award-winning 2002 documentary film Chernobyl Heart.

The film screening, organised by the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia, was addressed by Greens Senator Rachel Seiwert, who also launched the booklet Let the Facts Speak, a catalogue of 60 years of nuclear industry accidents and near misses. ANAWA coordinator James Courtney called on the crowd to get involved in the struggle against the state government's Seaswap program (under which nuclear-armed US warships use Western Australian ports as supply bases). For more information ANAWA's activities, visit <http://www.anawa.org.au>.

Trent Hawkins

From Green Left Weekly, May 3, 2006.
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