What's New
31 December 2007
The Atomic Mirror 2007 Annual Report of Activities
is now available to download as a PDF (938kb)
6 November 2007
Atomic Mirror and Clean Up Rocketdyne present:
America's Forgotten Nuclear Disaster in the Santa Susana Hills
Oxnard College, 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m
25 October 2007
Atomic Mirror at the UN
Join us for a panel discussion celebrating the 40th birthday of the
world's first Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
Update: Read Statements from the panel discussion
26 September 2007
Chelmsford Peace Tree rededicated to the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the memory of Janet Bloomfield, Atomic Mirror UK Director
9 August
Nagasaki Day Screening: White Light Black Rain
Atomic Mirror and Cine Revolucion show the new HBO release: White
Light Black Rain at the Café on A, 438 South
“A” Street, in Oxnard, starting at 7:00 p.m.Call 805 487 8986
for more info.
6 August
Hiroshima Day Vigil
Join Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions and Atomic Mirror at the Ventura
County Government Center (corner of Telephone and Victoria) at 6 p.m.
Pamela Meidell and Mike Takeda, son of a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing
will speak.
6 April 2007
Our beloved UK Director, Janet Bloomfield,
dies suddenly 2 April
31 March 2007
Atomic Mirror to show Greenham Film at Borderlines
Film Festival.
14 February 2007
Atomic Mirror launches Valentines for a Nuclear
Free World Campaign
at Mexico City 40th birthday celebrations of world's first nuclear weapons
free zone
22 January 2007
New
Briefing on The Future of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty written by
Janet Bloomfield
This is the final piece of work written by Janet as Oxford Research Group's UK Security Consultant. She is now concentrating fully on her role as British Coordinator to Atomic Mirror. ORG is pleased to announce that she will continue her association with ORG as one of our new Patrons.
Download the briefing as a PDF from the Oxford Research Group website
16 January 2007
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
in Oxfordshire
Janet Bloomfield joins Q&A on film and social change.
2 January 2007
Monika Szymurska joins Atomic
Mirror Staff
The Atomic Mirror is delighted to welcome Monika Szymurska as our new Assistant Director. Monika previously coordinated the Abolition 2000 Network, of which Atomic Mirror is a founding member.She will be working out of our Pacific office, coordinating our Nuclear Weapons Free Zone work.
Atomic Mirror office opens in Ventura County, USA
We are very pleased to announce the opening of the Atomic Mirror Pacific office in Oxnard, California on January 2, 2007. The office is located at 4225 Saviers Road in Oxnard, California, 93033, at Centro Mujer, a grassroots regional women’s organizing center. Please stop by to visit or call us at +1 805 487 8986
13 November 2006
The Atomic Mirror joins the Big Trident Debate. Visit
the website and join the debate now.
8 November 2006
'"THE LAST ATOMIC BOMB" movie reviewed by Jeannette
Catsoulis for the New York Times. Read the review online at:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/movies/08bomb.html
21 -22 October 2006
Atomic Mirror "Thinks Outside the Bomb"
Pamela Meidell and Janet Bloomfield join students at the THINK OUTSIDE THE
BOMB CONFERENCE UC Santa Barbara.
Now available to download: resource sheet on 'Organizing 101' - WORD (31kb)
14 September 2006
Janet Bloomfield to speak at European
Parliament
Click here to read Janet Bloomfield’s speech
5 September 2006
Central Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty
signed
World's first Northern Hemisphere nuclear weapons free zone.
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May 2006
Atomic Mirror Returns to Hay Festival
British Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, delivered the first Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture this morning (Sunday, May 28 2006) to a packed crowd of over 400 people at the Guardian Hay Literature Festival in Wales. Journalist Jon Snow of Channel Four News introduced him and moderated questions and answers.
Read more on the Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture
1 May 2006
Students Against Nuclear Insanity
for Tomorrow's Youth
Please join us for SANITY's annual nuclear awareness Youth Caucus
this year focusing on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident.
26 April 2006
Mother, What Ails Thee? Imagining Chernobyl
Reader's Theatre script now online.
10 April 2006
The Atomic Mirror sponsors:
Photographs by Yuriy Kossin — A Private Viewing
Please join us for wine and light fare, and meet this incredible
person, once a technician at Chernobyl, now an artist who seeks to expose
real life in the fallout zone.
5 April 2006
Chernobyl Remembered
Atomic Mirror joins in worldwide commemorations of the 20th
Anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Just after midnight on 26 April 1986, at 1:24 a.m, the reactor core of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded. Twenty years later people are still suffering the after effects. In 1996 the Atomic Mirror organised a commemorative pilgrimage around the nuclear and sacred sites of the British Isles. In 2006 we will be joining with people around the world to remember and mourn and commit to working for a world free of the dangers of nuclear technology.
Deer in the fallout zone of Chernobyl
- Photograph by Yuriy Kossin
Details of Chernobyl 20th Anniversary Commemoration Activities in the USA & UK
21 March 2006
Shigeko Sasamori Cousins featured in Ventura County Star
13 March 2006
Waking Up in the Nuclear Age: Becoming a Global
Citizen at Home
California State University, Channel Islands
and its community partner, the Atomic Mirror, Present
Waking Up in the Nuclear Age:
Becoming a Global Citizen at Home
Monday 13 March & Tuesday 14 March 2006
"Sunflowers instead of missiles in the soil will
ensure peace for future generations"
Former US Secretary of Defense William Perry
A two-day event at California State University Channel Islands bringing awareness to the campus and neighbouring community about the nuclear age.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to raising awareness about "Waking Up in the Nuclear Age" at California State University, Channel Islands this week--students, faculty, staff, community members, featured speakers, reporters, photographers. We rekindled historical memories -- both personal and societal -- and evoked community dialogue. Let's continue to work together to deepen our understanding.
Above: International and local guests welcomed at Cafe on A community reception: (L to R) Coco and Gabino Aguirre, Pamela Meidell, Adam Horowitz, Janet Bloomfield, Frank Barajas, Debbie DeVries, Tony de Brum.
05 March 2006
Invitation: Please come to the Atomic Mirror Open House Honoring Nuclear
Free Awareness Week in Ventura County
An Open House, in conjunction with California State University, Channel Islands, welcoming our honored guests: ,Shigeko Sasamori Cousins, Hibakusha “Hiroshima Maiden”, The Honorable Tony de Brum, former Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, Janet Bloomfield, Coordinator of Global Abolition Now Citizens Campaign and British Citizen, Dr. Gabino Aguirre, former Mayor of Santa Paula & Mayor for Peace and Adam Horowitz, Filmmaker from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
24 February 2006
Pamela S. Meidell represents Mayors for Peace at the
2006 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's International Law Symposium
From 23-25 February, 2006, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation held its 2006
International Law Symposium entitled At
the Nuclear Precipice: Nuclear Weapons and the Abandonment of International
Law, in Santa Barbara, California. The 2006 Symposium brought together
highly respected experts in the area of nuclear policy, including policy,
including Pamela S. Meidell, Director of the Atomic Mirror, who spoke on
behalf of Mayors for Peace. Pamela's remarks on "The Power of Place:
Citizens and Local Elected Officials Uniting to Create a Nuclear Free World
" can be downloaded from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website
at:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/
international-law/annual-symposium/2006_papers/
meidell-pamela_napf-2006-international-law-symposium.pdf
(PDF 58.5kb)
13 December 2005
The People Speak: Atomic Mirror hosts Santiago, Chile delegation report
back on America’s Nuclear Role in the World at the Café on A in Oxnard
The Atomic Mirror and Abolition Now-Ventura County hosted a forum on American international policy on Tuesday, December 13 from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Café on A, Oxnard, California. The forum featured local citizen diplomats former Santa Paula Mayor Dr. Gabino Aguirre, Carmen Ramirez, esq., and Dr. Deborah DeVries, recently returned from the Latin American Nuclear Weapons Free Zone meeting (OPANAL) in Santiago, Chile. They reported back to the community, and invited discussion on US nuclear policy in light of the nuclear weapon free status of 90% of the Western Hemisphere.
7 and 8 November 2005
Atomic Mirror breaks new ground with citizen delegation to OPANAL meeting
in Santiago, Chile
A Ventura County delegation of citizens went to Santiago, Chile in November
2005 to take seats at the diplomatic table of the world’s first nuclear
weapons free zone: the biannual meeting of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which
includes all of Latin America and the Caribbean from the US-Mexico border
south. Dr. Gabino Aguirre (Santa Paula City Council member and former mayor)
joined Carmen Ramirez (Oxnard attorney and recently elected member of the
California State Bar Board of Governors) and Dr. Debbie DeVries (co-director
of the KEYS Academy, Oxnard Youth Leadership Program, and owner of Oxnard’s
Café on A) in carrying the hopes and concerns of our central California
coastal region for a nuclear free world.
28 October 2005
Atomic Mirror sponsors special sneak screening of new film "The
Last Atomic Bomb" at the United Nations
24 September 2005
The Atomic Mirror sends its warm congratulations to our friend
and advisor Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, of Vanuatu in the South Pacific
on receiving the 2005 Nuclear
Free Future Resistance award. This honour is richly deserved.
1 September 2005
We Remember Your Humanity: Sir Professor Joseph Rotblat
Farewell to a Beloved and Great Human Being
We learned his morning, 1 September 2005, that Sir Professor Joseph Rotblat, one of the great heroes of the Nuclear Age, Nobel Peace Laureate, and friend and ally of all who worked for a nuclear weapons free world, died peacefully in his sleep in London last night.
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