NH #752: In Memorium - Jim Heddle, Director, SOS: San Onofre Syndrome - Nuclear Film's Fierce, Gentle Warrior

Filmmakers and life partners Mary Beth Brangan and Jim Heddle, who along with Morgan Peterson directed the award-winning film SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome

This Week’s Feature:

Some weeks, it’s personal.

It is with great sadness that this week’s Nuclear Hotseat commemorates and memorializes a fierce, gentle anti-nuclear warrior who spent decades filming protests, meetings, interviewing, and documenting the work of activists – James Heddle. He and Mary Beth Brangan were life and work partners since 1983, and worked together as documentary video and radio producers, educators, community and international organizers. They co-directed EON, the Ecological Options Network,  producing video reports and blogs on activists and organizations working at local, national, and international levels for solutions to planetary challenges.

Jim died suddenly and unexpectedly two weeks ago, leaving so many of us behind mourning his loss. To commemorate his life and activism, we present an interview from 2023 with Jim and Mary Beth, just prior to the premiere of their film SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome.

We spoke on September 22, 2023

Links:

• TRAILER for SOS: The San Onofre Syndrome

Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story w/Linda Pentz Gunter:

It was a totally nutty week in DC, including — and especially — in the nuclear sector.
Linda Pentz Gunter explains it all in this week’s Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story.

ICAN Update w/Alistair Burnett

Alistair Burnett of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), provides the latest on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or TPNW, direct from the headquarters of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in Geneva, Switzerland