The Return of Navajo Boy

Sydney Levine at Indiewire.com turns to Democracy Now and Amy Goodman’s story “A Slow Genocide” and asks the question, “When are films political?” Recently, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman published this story about the controversy over re-opening uranium mines on Navajo lands. The documentary, The Return of Navajo Boy, has been credited with bringing the issue […]

Amy Goodman reports on Uranium Mining with The Return of Navajo Boy as a resource: Let’s turn to another clip from the film, The Return of Navajo Boy, the award-winning documentary produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who have suffered health problems due to environmental contamination. Here, we hear […]

Al Jazeera reports: The vast reserves of uranium under Navajo Land have shaped the experiences of generations of Navajo, from the miners who were first employed to extract and refine the yellow ore to the families who still live with radioactive waste sites in their backyards. Approximately four million tons of uranium ore were extracted […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Navajo Boy Film and Media Campaign Guides EPA to Environmental Justice Navajo Activist and Filmmaker Present their Story Today at EPA Headquarters       WASHINGTON DC — A documentary film and decade long media campaign by Groundswell Educational Films and a Navajo family opened eyes in Congress and paved the way this summer for […]

Filmmaker and Navajo activist invited to teach tribal environmental leaders how to build new groundswells for action

Read the press release here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Japan struggles to contain radioactive contamination, Groundswell is reminding Americans that over a thousand abandoned Cold War-era uranium mines still contaminate the American Southwest. The US Department of Energy will feature The Return of Navajo Boy project as a case study in film, media, public engagement and measurable […]

September 25th, 2008

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