Event: Poison Wind Film Screening and Discussion

Please Join us at Busboys and Poets!

On Friday, February 27th, Beyond Nuclear will be bringing together a very special group of people at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC for a film screening and discussion. The event takes place from 5:30pm-7:30pm and is free and open to the public. If you live in the area or are visiting from out of town, please consider joining us!

Hosted by the actor James Cromwell most recently seen in Oliver Stones W - the evening will begin with a screening of Poison Wind, a new, 37-minute documentary about the effect of uranium mining on the Navajo people of New Mexico. The film reveals the deadly health impacts and the toxic environmental legacy of uranium mining in the Southwest. The film will be followed by brief remarks and a public discussion. The film screening forms part of a series of events on uranium mining, human rights and indigenous people, hosted over three days by Beyond Nuclear. The Busboys and Poets evening will feature:

James Cromwell (actor); Manny Pino (Acoma Pueblo) and Norman Brown (Navajo), leading Native American activists; Jenny Pond, director, Poison Wind; Mitch (she uses no last name), an Australian aboriginal anti-dumping and uranium mining activist; Issouf Maha or Bilalane Ouguet, Touareg leader from Niger; Dr. Bruno Chareyron, director of the French investigative lab that has conducted radiological testing at nuclear sites in France and around the world; and Nat Wasley, an activist from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative (Australia).

We hope you will join us for this important film, enjoy a delicious meal available from the Busboys menu, and participate in a thought-provoking discussion about the human rights violations caused the world over by deadly uranium mining.

Busboys and Poets is located at: 2021 14th St. NW (at V Street), Washington, DC 20009. Tel: 202.387.7638.

For more information about the Beyond Nuclear tour of indigenous activists, please contact Linda Gunter at: 301.270.2209 ext. 2.

View an excerpt of Poison Wind on YouTube here.