The United Nations Association Of Greater Milwaukee presents:
The International Women’s Day Program
Saturday – March 12, 2022 (10 AM – 11:30 AM
With Presentations by Two Women Leaders in the Fight for Equal Rights
Courtney Hayward on “Threats to Abortion Rights in Wisconsin”
Tina Cordova on “Victims of U.S. Atomic Bomb Testing”
Register in advance for this virtual Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkfuitqTsqHNEfmFwjP1cSnBatDcWbP2b3
“Threats to Abortion Rights in Wisconsin”
Courtney Hayward, the Government Relations Specialist at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, is responsible for all local and state lobbying for the entire organization. She is also a Board Member of the Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin.
Reproductive health and rights are under attack across the country. Anti-abortion ideologues have spent the last four years rolling back reproductive rights and cutting Planned Parenthood patients off from care. Millions of people who face systemic barriers to health care, people of color and people with low incomes, rely on Planned Parenthood.
Abortion restrictions are inherently racist and designed to work in tandem with other oppressive policies to disenfranchise people of color. Justice demands we support the rights of women everywhere.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI) provides affordable, quality, and confidential health care to more than 61,000 people each year in 24 health centers throughout Wisconsin. They provide Wellness, Preventive Care, & Reproductive Health Care, Gender Affirming Care, Cancer Screenings STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) Education, Testing, and Treatment.
Justice For The Unknowing:
Innocent Victims Of The July 16, 1945, Trinity Atomic Bomb Blast In New Mexico
Tina Cordova, the Executive Director of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, will discuss how communities in New Mexico are demanding justice and working towards a nuclear-free world. She is a 4th generation cancer survivor.
U.S. nuclear weapons testing has caused tens of thousands of cases of thyroid cancer alone. The cost of testing has been especially devastating for women, children, and Indigenous peoples.
The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium was started in 2005 by Tina Cordova and Fred Tyler along with other residents of Tularosa. They compile data on the cancers and other diseases that plague the communities surrounding the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945.
When the Trinity bomb exploded, there were families living as close as 12 miles to the test site and 40,000 families were living in a 50-mile radius. Most if not all the small villages and Native American pueblos inside of the 50-mile radius of the Trinity Site had no running water. As a result of the fallout the water and food sources were contaminated. People have continued to suffer generations of cancers and radiation-caused illnesses.
Tularosa “Downwinders” have never been recognized or compensated although they were the first people to be exposed to radiation any place in the world! Victims of nuclear testing and uranium mining are still here and deserve restitution and recognition.
For more information, contact Pam Richard – 414.269.9525 / pamrichard35@gmail.com
UNA of Greater Milwaukee website: https://www.unamilwaukee.org/