48th ANNUAL MEETING

Bring a friend! The public is encouraged to attend.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 1:30 pm

1:30 Refreshments − 2:00 Members Meeting − 3:00 Break −
3:15 Dr. Hutner − 4:15 Wrap-up

118 Elliot, 118 Elliot St., Brattleboro

Dr. Heidi Hutner
Stony Brook University

ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN: The
Women of Three Mile Island

We are honored to be joined by Stony Brook University professor, Heidi Hutner, filmmaker, writer, producer. Former Chair of Sustainability Studies and former Associate Dean in the School of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at SBU, Hutner is a scholar of gender and nuclear history. She films, writes, and teaches about ecofeminism, race, nuclearity, and the environment.

At this October 26th event, Heidi Hutner will screen a short from her documentary feature, Accidents Can Happen: The Women of Three Mile Island. The documentary tells the story of the women from Three Mile Island. This is the tale of four mothers– Linda, Joyce, Beth and Paula—ordinary American housewives who lived five miles from the nuclear power plant at the time of the meltdown. The accident turned their lives upside down and awakened them to the politics of the nuclear industry and the silencing of truth. The mothers fought back and organized, forming, “Concerned Mothers and Women,” an antinuclear advocacy group.

A woman-led movement was galvanized on a larger scale as well by Three Mile Island meltdown, as the documentary will show, including the likes of Dr. Helen Caldicott, Jane Fonda, Bonnie Raitt, Winona LaDuke, and German Greens co-founder, Petra Kelly, and Aileen Mioko Smith (Japan), among many others.

Three Mile Island story is also located within a larger framework, as nuclear weapons and power are rooted in systemic patriarchy. Throughout nuclear history, women’s voices have been silenced. Women have been excluded from participation in nuclear policy-making; women and girls are most harmed by radiation exposures; socio-economically, women and children suffer most in nuclear disasters; and women who speak up and seek the truth are called “hysterical” or “radiophobic.”

Despite it all–women play a vital role in peace and antinuclear advocacy, as Accidents Can Happen shows. These heroic female stories must be told .

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Dr. Heidi Hutner , winner of the 2015 Long Island Sierra Club and 2018 Sierra Film Grant awards, writes for the New York Times (Dot Earth) , Ms. Magazine , Aeon Magazine , Yes!, ISLE (Oxford), among others, and she has published books and chapters in books with Oxford University Press, University of Virginia, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Regal, and many more. Hutner recently gave the popular Tedx, “Ecofeminism and Eco-Grief,” and a talk at NBC Think! On “Water Rights as a Human Right.” She co-produced the off-Broadway show, Endangered. Her book-in-progress, Radiophobia: A Nuclear Memoir, will accompany the documentary film, Accidents Can Happen: The Women of Three Mile Island.

For more about the Accidents Can Happen: The Women of Three Mile Island , please contact: Dr. Heidi Hutner, Sustainability Studies, English and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University.
Website: https://www.accidentscanhappenthefilm.com/
Email: Womenofthreemileisland@gmail.com
Email: Heidi.Hutner@stonybrook.edu

The New England Coalition has been the people’s advocate for safe energy since 1971.  The Coalition was founded by several groups of citizens and scientists concerned about the nation’s growing civilian nuclear power program.  Our mission has not changed: we investigate the safety, suitability, and environmental effects of nuclear power plants; we participate in government hearings; and we inform the public and government agencies of the hazards and risks of nuclear power. A combination of the NEC’s network of technical advisors, engineers, lawyers, students, activists and citizens, and the many years of experience and document collection, has earned the Coalition the respect of industry, government and citizens’ groups.  They are currently involved in issues about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee.

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