NH #751: SPECIAL: Powerful Navajo Nation Nuclear Films – Int’l Uranium Film Festival at Window Rock

This Week’s SPECIAL Episode on the International Uranium Film Festival in Navajo Nation

The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) came to Window Rock, the capital of Navajo Nation, for the fourth time to present films focusing on all dangers of the nuclear fuel chain, with a special emphasis on uranium mining. Fourteen films over two days, plus live performances and Navajo drumming, singing, ceremonial dancing. For the full program, CLICK HERE.

Two Honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards 2025 Window Rock were given to:

Honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards 2025 Window Rock:

• At left, Jan Boudart, board member of Nuclear Education and Information Service (NEIS) in Chicago for her decades of tireless activism as she is about to turn 90 years old.
• Norman Patrick Brown or his lifetime of indigenous activism, with special focus on uranium issues and the impact on the Navajo people.
• At right, Marcia Gomes de Olviera, co-Founder and co-Director of the International Uranium Film Festival.

Photo of the winners is the Keystone image for this episode.

Norman Patrick Brown (l) and Anna Rondon (r) – two powerful activists making an important difference for their people and the world.

Toni Pinedo, who responded so powerfully and meaningfully to the film The River that Harms.

Swiftbird Drum from Taos, NM, presented Native drumming, singing, and led us in a circle dance in the lobby of the Navajo Nation Museum

Damacio Lopez, a veteran of both the U.S. Air Force and decades of activism against depleted uranium, with his newly published book: MY LAST BATTLE: BAN URANIUM WEAPONS. We’ll have a full interview with him near the book’s official release date.

Outside the hogan preparing for the pre-Festival sacred ceremony. (l-r) Front: Jan Boudart, Norbert Suchanek, Marcia Gomes de Oliviera, Nuclear Hotseat’s Libbe HaLevy, CA activist Darryl. Back: Damacio Lopez, director Guy Morgan. Note the clouds seeming to radiate from the sacred space.

Libbe HaLevy with director Jeff Gipe (Half-Life of Memory: America’s Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory)

Libbe HaLevy and Haul No!’s Leona Morgan

Lynda Williams, “The Physics Chanteusse,” straight from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, knocked our socks off performing excerpts from her show ATOMIC CABARET. Then she rocked the house with the world premiere of her new song – finished just that afternoon! – HAUL NO!, in honor of Leona Morgan and Haul No’s fight against uranium transport via truck through Navajo lands.

The Awards ceremony. (l-r) Norman Patrick Brown, Jan Boudart, IUFF co-Executive Directors Norbert /suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliviera