27th Sept 7.30pm Friends Meeting House 300 Gloucester rd Bristol
Film Showing +Talk +Discussion

How Radioactive Waste is Used in Modern Warfare.
Deadly Legacy - Iraq

Since the early 1990s, wars waged by the US and UK have left a legacy of complex health problems including an upsurge in cancers and birth defects. Not only have civilian populations suffered but also allied troops stationed in those regions. A recent epidemiological study carried out by Dr Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi in Fallujah, shows increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia, and changes in the normal sex ratio greater than those of the A-Bomb survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A likely cause of these devastating health effects is the use of uranium metal in conventional weapons systems, but serious public investigation is being thwarted by powerful Western governments and corrupt science.

Deadly legacy – Iraq is a short, but moving, Australian documentary on the birth deformities and cancers in Fallujah and Baghdad, and the terrible price being paid by women and children.

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/7/2828/

Joanne will then give a short talk outlining the need for greater transparency in weapon’s development, the power of the military-industrial complex. This will be followed by a general discussion and ideas for action.

Joanne co-authored

Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars

By Abdul-Haq Al-Ani & Joanne Baker

Foreword by Professor David MacGregor

Environmental Law Series 2 ISBN: 978-1-60042-078-8, June 2009, Paperback,

Available online at http://vandeplaspublishing.com/store/product.php?produc...id=97

Also available at www.amazon.co.uk..