by Silvia Musso
France: 318; South Africa: 3; Germany: 13; South Korea: 2; United States: 7; Spain: 22; Italy: 46; Japan: 5… They are just some of the 459 actions that from 2nd to 26th April for 25 days have celebrated the Chernobyl disaster of 25 years ago.
“Chernobyl 25th anniversary - 25 days of actions. Let’s change with the times, and leave the nuclear behind!” is the name of the international campaign coordinated by Réseau "Sortir du nucléaire", a network of 875 French organisations tha involve 108 partners everywhere in the world.
In these last months it was possible to adhere to the initiative registering own action on the website Chernobyl-day.org. The procedure was quite easy. “Organize actions” suggested some possible ideas to develop and replicable in every national or local context; “Register your action” made possible to insert alla the data and subscribe the action that became visible in the “List of actions”.
Actions that could be organized were multiple and with different impact and scope. You could for example print a sign Chernobyl-city and place it under the name of your city, organize meetings or information points, to organize a communication campaign using billboards and posters already available online on the site, demonstrations and protest marches and much more.
Objective of the organizers of these events is obviously involve as many citizens as possible to raise their awareness on the nuclear issue and especially support for the autonomy and independence of the WHO by the IAEA.
May 28th 1959, at the beginning of the programme “Atoms for Peace”, the World Health Organization adopted an agreement (law WHO 12-40) with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that subordinates the WHO to the decisions of IAEA. This agreement has allowed that all the dates about medical consequences of nuclear disasters of last years have not been communicated. The agreement WHO/IAEA denies the right to information, founding principle of democracy.
For our readers who also want to do something to make a gesture to mark the sad anniversary of Chernobyl maintaining high attention on the most recent disaster in Fukushima, we recommend to download the list of activities organized throughout the world to see if there 'is some event close to home. We would also like to suggest a book, a play and a new Italian campaign launched by the NGO Mondo in Cammino.
"Il naso lungo di Chernobyl. Fra scienza e libertà di informazione" is the last book by Massimo Bonfatti (Carlo Spera Editore) where the the author systematically dismantles the lies of the IAEA on the Chernobyl disaster and reveals the treacherous and dangerous path of nuclear power since its inception.
"Girone radioattivo" is a play and an educational proposal inspired by the book Ulitsa Sadovaja and that intends to give voice, throughout the main character, to the thousands voices of Russian and Ukrainian citizens involve into the disaster.
"Mai piú Hibakusha" (Never again Hibakusha) is, finally, the Italian campaign launched by Mondo in Cammino in the Easter period, which this year coincided with the commemorations of the anniversary of Chernobyl, which the equivalent an Easter egg, or what you want, can be devolved to the "Children of Fukushima”.
As you can read on the association website: «At twenty-five years of the Chernobyl many are reminding the so-called "children of Chernobyl". It would be immoral not even remember the "children of Fukushima”, who, perhaps, need, paradoxically, greater support, as children of a double abandonment established by the policy of nuclear energy minimization and, ironically, by world community that considers Japan an economic power able to assist by its own their citizens».
So that "the voluntary for Chernobyl" also becomes "voluntary for Fukushima" we must re-engage to support actions such as these whose ultimate aim is the constant and consistent diffusion of punctual information and of a greater awareness.
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