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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Dirty Harry: when an American dream became a nightmare, part 1

Frenchman Flat, Nevada - Atomic Cannon Test - first atomic artillery shell fired from the Army's new 280-mm artillery gun.Photo: Military.com In 1951, the first Atom bomb was detonated over a section of desert called Frenchman Flat, about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas.

For more than forty years, this stretch of sage brush and sand would become ground zero for U.S. nuclear testing. In fact, the last detonation happened just fifteen years ago, on September 23, 1992.

Since the early 1990’s, independent producer Claes Andreasson has interviewed test site workers, scientists, legal scholars and test officials, as well as people living “downwind” from the Nevada Test Site. “Dirty Harry: When the American Dream became a Nightmare” is a culmination of those interviews.

Host Jon Beaupre will be our guide as we hear the stories about the early years of testing and how it affected people working at, and living nearby the test site.

Featuring::

Kern Bulloch, sheep farmer, Cedar City, Utah; Hal Curtis, iron worker at the Nevada Test Site, (Interview courtesy of KNPR-Las Vegas); Troy Wade, former test manager, Las Vegas, Nevada; Elmer Picket, Claudia Peterson, Michelle Thomas, "downwinders," St. George, Utah; Janet Gordon and Patricia Gordon Dominguez, "downwinders," Las Vegas, Nevada; Mike Wilcox, former test site worker, Las Vegas, Nevada; Joseph Lyon, University of Utah professor, Salt Lake City; John Gofman, professor emeritus, San Francisco, California; Bruce Jenkins, U.S. District Court Judge, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Contributing Freelance Producer: Claes Andreasson and host Jon Beaupre
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Samson Reiny and Joaquin Palomino

“Dirty Harry: When the American Dream Became a Nightmare” was made possible in part by the PRX reversioning project.

For more information::

The Nevada Desert Experience
1420 West Bartlett Avenue
Las Vegas, NV
702-646-4814
info@nevadadesertexperience.org
www.nevadadesertexperience.org

HEAL Utah
68 South Main Street, Suite 400
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
801-355-5055
www.healutah.org

Shundahai Network
P.O. Box 51137
Washington, DC 20091
202-588-0912
shundahai@radix.net
www.shundahai.org

Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211308
Crescent Valley, NV 89821
775-468-0230
wsdp@igc.org
www.wsdp.org

Downwinders
254 West 500 North
Malad City, ID 83252
www.downwinders.org

Western States Legal Foundation
1504 Franklin St., Suite 202
Oakland, CA 94612
510-839-5877
webmaster@wslfweb.org
www.wslfweb.org

Peace Action
110 Wayne Ave., Suite 1020
Silver Spring, MD 20910
www.peace-action.org

Additional Information::

"Through the Hill" (Harold Budd-Andy Partridge)
"My Hero" (Jeff Beal)
"Back Safe At Home" (Jeff Beal)
"I am Leaving You" (Ry Cooder)
"Upstairs" (Jeff Beal )
"Letter from Lee" (Jeff Lee- Jeff Beal)
"Downwinders"
"To a Wild Rose" (Edward MacDowell-Lorelle Nelson)

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Water rights: no clear solution

Breitenbush River above French Creek near Detroit.Photo: U.S. Geological Survey at www.usgs.orgThe privatization of public water supplies is occurring in many places around the world. Sold like a common commodity, the rights for distribution and management of community water are being bought and controlled more and more by private entrepreneurs and corporations.



But a global movement of activists say this most basic element of life should stay in the hands of the people who use it and out of the control of profit-seeking corporations or government bureaucracies.

On this edition, we investigate what’s behind customer complaints of American Water, North America's largest private water company. And we’ll take you to Detroit, Michigan, where anti-poverty activists are leading the fight to demand that access to water be treated as a human right and not a commodity.

This show was made possible in part by the Park Foundation.

Featuring::

Maureen Taylor, "Detroit: Not a Drop to Drink"; Mary, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and DWSD customer; John Riehl, President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 207; Sylvia Orduno, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; Brennan Brown, formerly of the Macinac Center for Public Policy; Ian Hart, Pacific Institute; Marian Kramer, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; Dorthy Crawford, Ohio American Water customer; Milton Nielsen, American Water customer, Felton, CA; Jim Graham, FLOW, or "Friends of Locally Owned Water," Felton, CA; Barbara Springer, California American Water customer, member of Felton FLOW; Kevin Tilden, California American Water Spokesperson; Victoria Kaplan, Food and Water Watch organizing director, Washington, DC; Representative Renee Kosel, Illinois State Representative.

Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Contributing Freelance Producers: Puck Lo, Christina Aanestad, Samantha Calamari
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Samson Reiny and Joaquin Palomino, Elena Botkin-Levy

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Bonus Audio::

Public vs Private Partnerships - Can public-private partnerships ever work? Correspondent Samantha Calamari has this story from Lee, Massachusetts.

For more information::

Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
23 E. Adams, 4th Floor
Detroit, MI 48226
313-964-0618
info@mwro.org
www.mwro.org

Pacific Institute
654 13th Street, Preservation Park
Oakland, CA 94612
510-251-1600
info@pacinst.org
www.pacinst.org

AFSCME Local 207
600 West Lafayette
Detroit, MI 48226
info@afscme207.com
www.afscme207.com

Mackinac Center for Public Policy
140 West Main Street
P.O. Box 568
Midland, MI 48640
989-631-0900
mcpp@mackinac.org
www.mackinac.org

Food and Water Watch
1400 16th Street NW, Suite 225
Washington, DC 20036
202-797-6550
foodandwater@fwwatch.org
www.foodandwaterwatch.org

Friends of Locally Owned Water
P.O. Box 38
Felton, CA 95018
831-335-3053
info@feltonflow.org
www.feltonflow.org

Illinois State Representative Renée Kosel, 81st District
19201 S. LaGrange, Ste. 204B
Mokena, IL 60448
708-479-4200
contact@Kosel.net
www.kosel.net

American Water Headquarters
1025 Laurel Oak Road
Voorhees, NJ 08043
856-346-8200
www.amwater.com

American Water’s Parent Company, RWE
www.rwe.com

Veolia Water North America
14950 Heathrow Forest Parkway, Suite 200
Houston, TX 77032
800-522-4774
general.information@veoliawaterna.com
www.veoliawaterna.com

Massachusetts Senator Ben Downing
20 Bank Row, Suite 202
Pittsfield, MA 01201
617-722-1625 or 413-442-4008
benjamin.downing@state.ma.us
www.bendowning.org

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
1 Winter Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-292-5500
www.mass.gov

Town of Lee Camber of Commerce
3 Park Place
Lee, MA 01238
413-243-0852
info@leechamber.org
www.leechamber.org

Additional Information:

THIRST (the movie)
www.thirstthemovie.org/index.html

Music:

Raindrops – Avko –The Best of Electronica and New Age
Tom Neilson – www.tomneilsonmusic.com/index.php

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