- Signatures: 2,769
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: 5-3-2008
It is time to tell everyone we know about this well kept secret. It
is time for Congress to quit ignoring the appeals for help from survivors of the H-bomb testing.
| Number | Date | Name | City | State | Zip/Postal Code | Are you willing to do more on this issue? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,773 | 9:28 pm PDT, Apr 26 | Lori Dellaverson | Virginia | 20120 | I think it is an atrocity what has happened in the past. It needs to be amenden and an apology with compensation to the people of the Marshall Islands who have suffered through this with various cancers and birth defects. | |
| 2,772 | 2:58 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Anonymous | Colorado | 80218 | ||
| 2,771 | 5:13 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Amanda L | Palm Bay | Florida | 32909 | |
| 2,770 | 10:45 pm PDT, Apr 17 | Anonymous | Salinas | California | 93907 | The Marshall Islanders deserve better living conditions and better food and health. So much has been taken from them in our effort to have a strong hold in the Pacific. Certainly they should be honored in a much more dignified way with better education, food and less crowded living situations. |
| 2,769 | 9:59 am PDT, Apr 16 | carl lanje | springdale | Arkansas | 72764 | |
| 2,768 | 9:08 am PDT, Apr 16 | hazel dardano | pelham | Massachusetts | 01002 | |
| 2,767 | 6:28 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Anonymous | federal way | Washington | 98198 | everything brought upon the marshallese people will never be undone and yes no amount of money will be enough to pay for the people who suffered. |
| 2,766 | 4:47 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Carol Christianson, RPCV | South Dakota | 57022 | I would be willing to attempt to educate Americans as to the significant residual effects of the USA's nuclear experimentation in the RMI. | |
| 2,765 | 1:03 pm PDT, Apr 12 | Anonymous | Keaau | Hawaii | 96749 | |
| 2,764 | 9:55 am PDT, Apr 10 | Jennifer Sheehan | Montpelier | Vermont | 05602 | |
| 2,763 | 7:04 pm PDT, Apr 9 | JOHN SHEEHAN | Southampton | Massachusetts | 01073 | It is time for the President & the Congress to stand up & tell the truth about nuclear testing & to make amends for harm done. |
| 2,762 | 6:13 pm PDT, Apr 9 | Anonymous | Hawaii | 96822 | ||
| 2,761 | 5:06 pm PDT, Apr 9 | Meaghan Sheehan | Honolulu | Hawaii | 96822 | |
| 2,760 | 12:43 am PDT, Apr 7 | Stefan Fenners | Duesseldorf | 40219 | ||
| 2,759 | 5:34 am PDT, Apr 6 | Kyung Hee Ha | California | 94110 | ||
| 2,758 | 10:35 pm PDT, Apr 5 | Tiffany Rose Naputi Lacsado | California | 94612 | Yes! I would love to bring this issue to the larger Asian Pacific Islander movement in the continental U.S. I've started to get national API groups interested in militarism in Guam as well as issues regarding federalization of the CNMI. If the organizers of this petition is interested please do not hesitate to contact me directly. | |
| 2,757 | 7:17 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Debbie Quinata | Merizo | Guam | 96916 | |
| 2,756 | 4:48 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Donna Ashizawa | San Francisco | California | 94116 | |
| 2,755 | 9:36 am PDT, Apr 4 | Lynn Miles | Longtan, Taoyuan | 32554 | Yes. All the money in the world will not bring the survivors justice, just as one cannot survive by eating money. But it would be a big help, and also it would go part of the way towards the U.S. acknowledging the lie of the 50s, that nuclear weapons were making the world safer for anyone at all. The amount of money being asked for is equivalent to what is today being spent to wage two hours of war in another atrocity, the U.S occupation of Iraq. | |
| 2,754 | 9:27 am PDT, Apr 4 | Stephen Wayles | Phoenix | Arizona | 85051 | |
| 2,753 | 9:48 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Doug Wingeier | Asheville | North Carolina | 28801 | |
| 2,752 | 8:31 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Jane McNamara | Phoenix | Arizona | 85018 | |
| 2,751 | 6:10 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Fred Howard | Phoenix | Arizona | 85007 | |
| 2,750 | 6:09 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Barbara Mason | Phoenix | Arizona | 85028 | |
| 2,749 | 6:02 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Judy Whitehouse | Arizona | 85008 4215 | Yes. I will forward to friends and family to call attention to the long wait for a response from our congress. | |
| 2,748 | 5:36 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Lisa Roger | Phoenix | Arizona | 85048 | Yes, I'm forwarding this petition request to my fellow UCC church members |
| 2,747 | 4:45 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Gary Massoni | Corvallis | Oregon | 97330 | |
| 2,746 | 3:57 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Madeleine Adamson | Maryland | 21231 | Please keep me informed of actions to take | |
| 2,745 | 11:15 am PDT, Apr 3 | Helen Patterson | Waianae | Hawaii | 96792-1940 | |
| 2,744 | 12:27 am PDT, Apr 3 | M.Immaculata Ochoa-Retana | Saipan | Northern Mariana Islands | 96950 | Yes, whenver possible |
| 2,743 | 11:47 pm PDT, Apr 2 | Anonymous | Hawaii | 96814 | ||
| 2,742 | 9:42 pm PDT, Apr 2 | Joy Brown | Ohio | 44122 | People of color around the world should have never been used as sacrificial lambs in the name of science for the US Government. Having been in Majuro to support the affected Atolls on Bravo Day of 2007, I am floored that my government still does not feel compelled to rectify this catastrophic event. The nuclear tests have destroyed entire families including generations to come. The very least that is owed to the people in the Republic of the Marshall Islands is superior (not just adequate) health care and substantial monetary compensation to ensure that they can rebuild their native land, have resources to thrive in a changing world and be given the opportunity to push toward a sense of normalcy. None of which will be possible if the United States does not accept accountability for the damage that has been done. Turning a blind eyes is not acceptable. It is a grave insult to a wonderful nation of people. | |
| 2,741 | 4:33 am PDT, Apr 2 | Anotia Addy | Agana Heights | Guam | 96910 | |
| 2,740 | 1:54 am PDT, Apr 2 | Sr. Katherine E. Bromwell,MMB | Agana Heights | Guam | 96910 | |
| 2,739 | 7:21 pm PDT, Apr 1 | Beth Baclay | North Bergen | New Jersey | 07047 | |
| 2,738 | 5:47 pm PDT, Apr 1 | Jacintha Marsil | Agana Heights | Guam | 96910-6451 | |
| 2,737 | 5:12 pm PDT, Apr 1 | Anonymous | Agana Heights | Guam | 96910 | Yes! |
| 2,736 | 4:34 pm PDT, Apr 1 | Anchein Koto | Federated States of Micronesia | 96942 | Yes, I will do more on this issue! | |
| 2,735 | 1:43 pm PDT, Apr 1 | whitney joel | TUCSON | Arizona | 85712 | yes i appericate about this issue |
| 2,734 | 12:57 pm PDT, Apr 1 | John Schinnerer | Hawaii | 96749 | ||
| 2,733 | 11:18 am PDT, Apr 1 | Regina Doone | Northern Mariana Islands | 96950 | Yes | |
| 2,732 | 8:48 am PDT, Apr 1 | Leuren Moret | Berkeley | California | 94705 | Since visiting the Peace Museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2000, I have worked non-stop on the nuclear issue around the world. Nuclear technologies introduced in 1945 with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, have turned the atmosphere of this planet into a radioactive poison gas chamber. No one and no living thing can escape being exposed now to low level radiation. Let us help the Japanese Hibakusha, the Marshall Islands Hibakusha, the Native American Hibakusha... and all the Hibakusha around the world. We really have no other choice, because now we too are Hibakusha. The insanity of Uranium mining globally is driven by the greed of the international bankers in the City of London and Wall Street. The nuclear weapons and nuclear power programs are driven by the greed of the international bankers in the City of London and Wall Street. We must end this insanity or humanity cannot survive. |
| 2,731 | 5:31 am PDT, Apr 1 | Shoji Sawada | Nagoya | 458-0003 | Internal exposure due to intake radioactive invisible fine particles from fallout of nuclear tests have given serious after effects as recently clearified among Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors. Please read Cover-up of the effects of internal exposure by residual radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 58\74, 23 (2007). | |
| 2,730 | 5:03 am PDT, Apr 1 | Isabel Seman | Guam | 96910 | Yes! | |
| 2,729 | 4:22 am PDT, Apr 1 | HYO DUK LEE | Honolulu | Hawaii | 96815 | Yes! |
| 2,728 | 4:09 am PDT, Apr 1 | Filo Hirota | Tokyo | 166-0003 | YES | |
| 2,727 | 2:14 pm PST, Feb 19 | Jim Philippo | San Diego | California | 92112 | Yes |
| 2,726 | 12:30 am PST, Feb 19 | Nani Rogers | Kealia | Hawaii | 96746 | Yes |
| 2,725 | 1:36 pm PST, Feb 11 | Marko K | Kolonia | Federated States of Micronesia | 96942 | yes |
| 2,724 | 3:41 am PST, Feb 11 | Jessica Nangauta | Merizo | Guam | 96916 | Yes I am |
| 2,723 | 2:28 am PST, Feb 11 | seve susuico | Guam | 96913 | Long live the people of guam! | |
| 2,722 | 6:36 am PST, Jan 23 | karwerster lp | 97500 | I belongs to God. anti-nukes may be very easy. Let more than 9/10 of people put a label written " anti-nuclear" on their faces on same day. World will be changed greatly. www.anti-nuclear-weapons.com | ||
| 2,721 | 2:30 am PST, Jan 22 | Lily Van den Bergh | Amsterdam | To get justice for nuclear survivors, financial compensation is the absolute minimum. Will send out the petition. Lots of success | ||
| 2,720 | 3:36 am PST, Jan 16 | Remarr Sylvester | Hilo | Hawaii | 96720 | Aet/YYYYYYYYYeeeessss!! |
| 2,719 | 10:29 am PST, Jan 9 | karuo yiu | 97500 | http://www.anti-nuclear-weapons.com/ | ||
| 2,718 | 7:59 am PST, Jan 8 | resitun kiw | 95464 | |||
| 2,717 | 3:41 pm PST, Jan 1 | Simos Tarabatzis | Kavala | |||
| 2,716 | 8:30 pm PST, Dec 30 | Dana Yandle | Greensboro | North Carolina | 27403 | |
| 2,715 | 6:51 am PST, Dec 27 | Anonymous | Stuttgart | 70911 | ||
| 2,714 | 8:48 am PST, Dec 26 | REGINA WIRTH | Stuttgart | 70199 | ||
| 2,713 | 6:27 am PST, Dec 26 | Jose Bonilla | Bogota | 57001 | Anything I can do from my country. | |
| 2,712 | 3:20 am PST, Dec 3 | Jared Catahay | Guam | 96915 | yes! no compensation can justify these wrongdoings, we must come into realization that we can only overcome if we are united, to stand up for what we believe is right. we must find justice within ourselves to protect those who are to come. | |
| 2,711 | 9:24 pm PST, Dec 2 | Moņeka De Oro | Sinajana | Guam | 96910 | Moving people off their island which has been their home for hundreds of years, only to destroy it, is a crime to humanity. |
| 2,710 | 7:49 pm PST, Nov 25 | David Dishman | Greenwood | Indiana | 46143 | |
| 2,709 | 7:45 pm PST, Nov 25 | Tawni Burton | Greenwood | Indiana | 46143 | I am dumbfounded by the Bush Admin.'s complete disregard for the RMI's Changed Circumstance petition. They're so eager to attack and wage war on someone who put a dent in our national infrastructure while completely blowing off any responsibility for completely eradicating the lives and homes of thousands of people who once formed a healthy self sufficient nation of unique and individual human beings. The People of the Marshall Islands deserve no less than the respect and care we give to our own citizens. This is absolutely ridiculous that there is even a need for me to be writing this. We should have responded and acted for the people we wronged 7 years ago! |
| 2,708 | 8:39 am PST, Nov 22 | Angel Heart | Burgenlandkreis | 06712 | ||
| 2,707 | 3:43 pm PST, Nov 21 | Melinda Lester | Odd | West Virginia | 25902 | |
| 2,706 | 12:07 am PST, Nov 18 | Anonymous | honolulu | Hawaii | 96816 | Many Marshall islanders watched in anger as the world's most powerful nation lavishes billions of doller on Iraq and Afghanistan but has stopped funding for medical program for nuclear test victims and is dragging its feet on a request for $2 billion in compensation. I am willing to do something about this |
| 2,705 | 7:34 am PST, Nov 6 | Johanna Peiser | New York | 11361 | ||
| 2,704 | 3:34 pm PDT, Nov 2 | Artila Elcar | Honolulu | Hawaii | 96816 | Yes, I will gladly do more on this issue. |
| 2,703 | 6:09 pm PDT, Oct 27 | Rosanne Anderson | Watertown | South Dakota | 57201 | |
| 2,702 | 6:06 pm PDT, Oct 27 | Anonymous | Eagle Butte | South Dakota | 57625 | |
| 2,701 | 3:51 pm PDT, Oct 25 | Paul Briggs |
Justice for Nuclear Survivors
Bravo H-bomb Anniversary
March 1, 2007
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:
TO THE U.S. CONGRESS:
TO THE AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
We ask the American people to educate yourselves on the injustices that we
Marshallese suffered as a result of your 67 atomic and nuclear tests!
Kemij kajitok bwe dri Amerka ren katakin ir make kin bwid im entan ko rar
walok nan kim jen 67 Nuclear test ko!
We ask the U.S. Congress to reconsider passing the Changed Circumstances
Petition (CCP) that our RMI government submitted to you in Sept. 2000!
Kimij kajitok iben US Congress bwe en bar etale im kale CCP en im kien in an
RMI ear lelok nane ilo Sept. 2000!
We ask Ambassador Clyde Bishop to advise the Administration of the United
States of America to change your position on the CCP!
Kemij kajitok iben Ambassador Clyde Bishop bwe en kokabiloklok lok
Administration en an Amerka bwe en ukot an lomnak ikjen CCP en!
Name: Position:
Address:
Mrs. Rokko Langinbelik President, ERUB P.O. Box 683, Majuro, MH
96960
I support this Petition by the Marshall Islands Survivors of 67 U.S. atomic
and nuclear tests.
1. ________________ _______________ ______________________
Please return signed PETITION to: Ms. Elma Coleman, P.O. Box 241015,
Honolulu, Hawaii 96824
Each PETITION will be sent to your elected official, and to the Chairmen of
the following: 1) Energy and Natural Resources Committee, 2) the Senate
Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 3) the
House Resources Commitee and 4) to the International Relations Subcommittee
on Asia and the Pacific and the Global Environment.
For further information please contact:
Ms. Elma Coleman,1-808-422-4690(h),1-808-224- 6402 (c);
Lmacoleman@hotmail.com
Ms. Julia Estrella,1-808-941-0317(h),1-808-497-3016 (c); tristar@hula.net
Ronald Fujiyoshi,1-808-959-9775(h),1-808-345-9688 (c); Ronsan2224@aol.com
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What is the RMI Changed Circumstances Petition (CCP)
During the negotiating of the Compact of Free Association in 1986, between
the U.S. Government and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)
Government, the full extent of personal injury and property damages
sustained by the U.S. nuclear testing program in the Marshall Islands was
not fully known. Negotiators agreed to include a changed circumstances
provision in the Compact that would allow the RMI government to petition the
U.S. Congress for additional assistance if new and additional information
about the U.S. testing program became known, and if this information was not
and could not have been known during the negotiations of the Compact.
Since the Compact came into effect in 1986, there has been new and
additional information about the personal injury and property damages
resulting from the U.S. nuclear weapons testing program that was not known
by the negotiators of the Compact. The new information comes from U.S.
government documents declassified by the Clinton Administration as part of
its Openness Initiative that began in 1993, and from changes in scientific
understanding about the health and radiation exposure.
The RMI Government in September 2000, submitted the Changed Circumstances
Petition that requests Congress to: 1) Authorize and appropriate $26.9
million so that the Claims Tribunal can complete full payment of the
personal injury awards made as of August 15, 2000; 2) Authorize and
appropriate $386 million to satisfy the Claims Tribunal award to the
Enewetak people; 3) Authorize and appropriate $50 million in initial
capital costs to build and supply the infrastructure necessary to provide
adequate primary and secondary medical care to the populations exposed to
radiation from the U.S. Weapons Testing Program; 4) Authorize and
appropriate $45 million each year for 50 years for a 177 Health Care Program
to provide health care for those individuals recognized by the U.S. as
having been exposed to high levels of radiation during or after the testing
program, including those who were downwind for one or more test, and the
awardees of personal injury claims from the Tribunal; 5) Extend the U.S.
Department of Energy medical monitoring program for exposed populations to
any group that can demonstrate high levels of radiation exposure to the U.S.
Congress.
_________________________________________
WITNESS FOR JUSTICE #311
March 12, 2007
WELL KEPT SECRETS
By M. Linda Jaramillo
Executive Minister
Justice and Witness Ministries
United Church of Christ (UCC)
Each year in August, we acknowledge with regret the devastating
impact of the atomic bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. We know that thousands of lives were lost or changed forever.
Generations of Japanese citizens have experienced the aftermath of the
chemicals that entered people's bodies and affected their health and
environment for the rest of their lives. Most of us know about this.
This year marks the 53rd anniversary of the Bravo H-bomb test,
conducted on March 1, 1954 on Bikini Atoll. Sixty-seven nuclear tests were
carried out in the Marshall Islands from June 30, 1946 to August 18, 1958.
These were not bombs to end a war, the justification for the devastation in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the Marshall Islands, this was bomb testing!
The bombs were intentionally dropped on the Marshall Islands by the U.S.
Military. How many of us knew about this? If we did not know before, it is
time that we know now.
The H-bombs tested were 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima
atomic bomb. Dr. Neal Palafox of the University of Hawaii says that the
radiation for this testing equaled 7,000 atomic bombs. The New York Times
reported on April 30, 2001, "America's debt to this Country has its roots in
the 66 nuclear tests conducted in the Marshall Islands. Their total yield
was 128,000 kilotons, roughly the equivalent of 10 Hiroshima-sized weapons
per week throughout the testing period (twelve years)." How many of us paid
attention to that story?
The lives of thousands of residents of the Marshall Islands were
changed forever. Survivors continue to suffer from the effects of
radiation. Many of the survivors of the bomb testing have now passed away.
Perhaps, the magnitude of the H-bomb testing was not known during those
first tests in 1946. How could we not have known? We already knew the
affects of the atomic disaster in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the year before.
Granted, the United States admitted its wrong doing and signed a
Compact with the citizens of the Marshall Islands in 1986 agreeing to
compensate the citizens for injuries and damages. As of August, 2000, some
actual awards had been made for personal injuries. However, 712 of the
awardees (42%) died without receiving their full compensation. The
long-term health impact on the Marshallese people is still being discovered.
Those who were down wind of the tests continue to suffer serious health
consequences. The waters and lands are poisoned and the food supplies
remain contaminated. Today, little attention is being given to this
atrocity. Did you know?
Because of the resulting illnesses and environmental crisis, the
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands submitted a Changed
Circumstances Petition to the U.S. Congress on
September 11, 2000. They are still waiting for a response almost seven
years later. In fact, the Petition has not moved at all. How many of us
know this?
It is time to tell everyone we know about this well kept secret. It
is time for Congress to quit ignoring the appeals for help from survivors of
the H-bomb testing. It is time to challenge
Congress to respond to the Changed Circumstances Petition submitted by the
Government of the Marshall Islands. Contact your Congressperson - tell him
or her that you know about this and they
need to do something about it, now.
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