Dr Helen Caldicott Meets the Press

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MEDIA RELEASE
June 22, 2007

Dr. Helen Caldicott Meets the Press

Dr Helen Caldicott meet the press
Rockhampton Airport
3pm
Friday, June 22, 2007

Outspoken and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction.

She co-founded the Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

Dr Caldicott has received many prizes and awards for her work, most
recently the Lannan Foundation's 2003 Prize for Cultural Freedom, 19
honorary doctoral degrees, and was personally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Linus Pauling - himself a Nobel Laureate. The Smithsonian Institute has named Dr Caldicott as one of the most influential women of the 20th Century. She has written for numerous publications and has authored five books, Nuclear Madness (1979, revised edition by W.W. Norton in 1994), Missile Envy (1984, Bantam), If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992, W.W. Norton) and A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography (1996, W.W. Norton; published as A Passionate Life in Australia by Random House), and The New Nuclear Danger: George Bush’s Military Industrial Complex (2001, The New Press in the US, UK and UK; Scribe Publishing in Australia and New Zealand; Lemniscaat Publishers in The Netherlands; and Hugendubel Verlag in Germany). Dr. Caldicott’s most recent book is Nuclear Power is Not the Answer (September 2006); her next book is War In Heaven, forthcoming from The New Press.

She is also the Founder and President of the Nuclear Policy Research
Institute (NPRI), headquartered in Washington DC.

Dr. Caldicott will be speaking at the Peace Convergence “Welcome Forum” at Yeppoon Town Hall from 7pm tonight, Friday, June 22; and at Saturday’s Peace Concert at Yeppoon beachfront from 3pm, on Saturday, June 23.

Media contact: Helen Caldicott media: Jasmine Williams 0428 22 8084