Nuclear Energy is Violence Against Women
Before there was George Floyd, there was Karen Silkwood. Long before BLM, there was NOW.
The beginning of the end for Nuclear Energy was a psyop by the corporate media & wealthy leftists.
In Nov 1974, Silkwood died in a 1-car crash. She had just left her Labor Union Organizing event where she had washed down some Quaaludes with some booze -- the coroner found plenty in her blood & plenty more in her stomach.
Almost immediately, professional activists had made her into a martyr. National Organization for Women (NOW) began organizing idle leftist women around the country.
In Aug 1975, at their rally in front of the DOJ in DC, NOW president Karen Decrow made it clear why they were against Nuclear Energy:
>“there is no better example of violence against women than the Silkwood case.”
Natl Orgn for Women (NOW), on 55th anniv of women's suffrage in US, urges Justice Dept reopen inquiry into death of Karen Silkwood, employe of Kerr-McGee Corp plutonium processing plant in Okla, who was killed in '74 when her car ran off hwy; she had complained of safety practices at plant and...
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This psyop would, in 1983, become a big-budget Hollywood film, with a top director & star Cher, Meryl Streep, and Kurt Russell
Silkwood was co-written by:
- Nora Ephron (then recently divorced from Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame)
- Alice Arlen (then sister-in-law of future Clinton Sec State Madeleine Albright)
Small world, huh?
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There were plenty of Karen Silkwood rallies and riots in the intervening years...
1975:
>"On November 13th, the first anniversary of Silkwood's death, NOW proclaimed "Karen Silkwood Memorial Day.""
>"Four days later 300 nuclear critics from the Ralph Nader-sponsored Critical Mass Conference in Washington held a candlelight vigil in Silkwood's memory on the steps of Capitol Hill. Bill Silkwood, Karen's father, addressed the gathering."
>"That same weekend the media began to resurrect the Silkwood controversy. Major-length features appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Star and San Francisco Chronicle, and shorter articles were printed in the Washington Post and New York Times."
Two years after the death of a young plutonium worker, investigators face frightening questions and a curtain of silence
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1978:
>"About 400 demonstrators gathered yesterday at the Civic Plaza in Albuquerque, N.M., for a rally against nuclear wastes." ... "The Albuquerque rally was one of 125 rallies held across the country in memory of Miss Silkwood"
125 rallies in memory of Karen Silkwood are held across US on Dec 2 (S)
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>"More than 250 people gathered at the Karen Silkwood Memorial Rally in Boston" ... "Anti-nuclear activists, union organizers, feminists, and a Nobel laureate joined in the commemoration of Silkwood"
More than 250 people gathered at the Karen Silkwood Memorial Rally in Boston last night to demand an end to
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>"About 150 people gathered in Lafayette Square Park across from the White House today at a memorial rally for Karen Silkwood." ... "The rally, sponsored by the anti‐nuclear group Potomac Alliance, was held in conjunction with Silkwood Memorial Week, nine days of activities across the country."
Potomac Alliance stages rally outside White House in memory of Karen Silkwood, laboratory analyst at Kerr-McGee nuclear plant who was killed in auto accident while on her way to meet with reporter to provide documents reptdly asserting that Kerr-McGee was violating safety standards (S)
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But if you want to know more, perhaps start with Kitty Tucker.
Kitty was the primary leader of the Silkwood campaign (run from the wealthy suburbs of DC).
On her death, she got some nice accolades from WaPo and NYT.
She saw the whistle-blower Karen Silkwood as a feminist hero in the movement against nuclear power and helped organize the legal effort on her behalf.
www.nytimes.com
Or check out this extremely comprehensive blogpost of newspaper articles from the time.
November 19, 1974, Los Angeles Times, page 2, Saxbe Asked to Probe Car Crash Death of Witness on Radiation , November 19, 1974, New York T...
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