WE'RE NOW DEVELOPING  a documentary on nuclear workers who have become poisoned by heavy metals, radiation and other contaminants and who are also struggling for adequate compensation and care for their illnesses and for acknowledgement that those who have died did so as a result of limited or no recognition that their illnesses were caused by exposure to contaminants, flawed human safety procedures and limited care.

   ** ABOVE is a 14-minute video clip of a rally in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, organized by the Coalition for a Healthy Environment, whose organizers have been working since the mid-1990s for compensation, care and recognition. Many among this group are sick from the poisons as well.
   The rally, on June 25, 2008, was among others that day in Cleveland, Ohio, organized by Bethlehem Steel former workers in Buffalo, New York, in Denver, Colorado, organized by Rocky Flats former workers, and in Hispañola, New Mexico, by Los Alamos workers.
   If you have trouble viewing the video above, a lower connection-speed version is available at this link ...

   ** WE ALSO have posted an interview video clip with sick uranium worker Vina Colley, co-founder of National Nuclear Workers for Justice, who worked at the Portsmouth/Piketon OH uranium enrichment plant. Colley is also president of the Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security (PRESS). To view the video clip, visit this web page.

   More details and video clips will follow.

   Some of the things we understand right now to be pertinent are these:

    * People in power who produce within the nuclear fuel chain count costs more than people and thus people become contaminated in deadly ways -- then the contaminated people are finessed or lied to, and suffer in sickness and death as do those they are intimately associated with.
    * People who should be holding the producers accountable in the public interest don't, or won't, or don't know how to, or try to but run into obstacles and are discredited or don't have the resources to carry on their struggle.
    * People who are sick, dying, and their survivors, have extreme difficulty in finding out how they got that way, then when they do, in finding remedies that will help them, in whatever arena and labyrinth.
    * People who struggle against this betrayal each and all have a story that ought to be heard and taken to heart. The film and posted video clips aim to be a way their stories can be heeded.
    * In particular, one of the supposed remedies, the EEOICPA (Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act), is flawed, and for many represents just another betrayal.

   
   Wild Clearing's work is produced by Eileen and Wes Rehberg;
   Wes is doing Wild Clearing's filming at the moment ...