Leaflet advertising a demonstration at Advanced Nuclear Fuels in Bellevue on December 7, 1987 sponsored by the All Peoples Congress. The leaflet protests the shipments of uranium hexafluoride coming into the Port of Seattle that is being imported from Namibia by Siemens/Advanced Nuclear Fuels of Bellevue. It is imported in defiance of the South African sanctions law passed by Congress. Namibia is being illegally occupied by 50,000 South African troops, and uranium is being mined by Black Africans working under slave labor conditions. Uranium hexafluoride is a highly lethal derivative of uranium. It is taken to Hanford where it is turned into fuel rods and pellets for nuclear power plants. The...
Leaflet advertising a demonstration at Advanced Nuclear Fuels in Bellevue on December 7, 1987 sponsored by the All Peoples Congress. The leaflet protests the shipments of uranium hexafluoride coming into the Port of Seattle that is being imported from Namibia by Siemens/Advanced Nuclear Fuels of Bellevue. It is imported in defiance of the South African sanctions law passed by Congress. Namibia is being illegally occupied by 50,000 South African troops, and uranium is being mined by Black Africans working under slave labor conditions. Uranium hexafluoride is a highly lethal derivative of uranium. It is taken to Hanford where it is turned into fuel rods and pellets for nuclear power plants. The leaflet says that, in 1986, a tank of uranium hexafluoride ruptured at the Kerr McGee uranium processing plant in Gore, Oklahoma, leaving one worker dead and dozens hospitalized. The leaflet says public officials on the state, local, and federal levels are aware that it is being shipped here and allow it. The demonstration is endorsed by Men of All Colors, the Seattle Nonviolent Action Group, Tahomans for a Healthy Environment, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, and Mary Amu Eltayeb, co-chair of the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid.
