Women Against Nuclear Energy
The Australian organization Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) was founded on April 21, 1980 in Perth and worked with women's groups in the trade unions and other women's groups. The immediate reason for the establishment was a scheduling conflict over a demonstration against the construction of nuclear power plants and uranium mining in Australia , which was planned and organized by the trade union movement on the same day of International Women's Day .
As a result, women decided that they had to organize themselves in the anti-nuclear movement in Australia in order to strengthen it and to mobilize other women outside the unions for this movement. WANE had strong links to the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE). The women's organization later helped set up the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) organization. Its aim was to educate and activate women against the use of atomic energy , nuclear weapons and uranium mining , but also against hierarchical structures and misogyny in the organizations of the anti-nuclear movement .
WANE gave information to immigrant women, supported the use of alternative energies, organized seminars, film events, readings, slide presentations and discussions with guest speakers. The women's organization trained women in free speech so that they could spread and represent the ideas of the anti-nuclear power movement; and a feminist perspective in the anti-nuclear movement was considered. The group spread its views on the Women's Liberation Newsletters and Radio, the Women's Art Movement, and the Women's Resource Center . WANE hosted dance and film nights and sponsored the Sound Women's Peace Camp event in Cockburn Sound , Western Australia and the Pine Gap Peace Camp .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) (1980 -) at www.womenaustralia.info . Retrieved February 18, 2011