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September 13, 2002 MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF GRASSROOTS ANTI-RADIOACTIVE DUMPING GROUP AVAILABLE AT UNM The University of New Mexico General Library announces that the records of CARD, Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping, are now available to researchers at the Center for Southwest Research, located in Zimmerman Library. CARD, founded in 1978, is a grassroots, non-profit organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their stated mission is "to protect the land and people of New Mexico from radioactive contamination, while supporting a non-nuclear, sustainable economy." CARD began as a statewide coalition of groups and individuals organized in resistance to the then-proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a repository for defense-related transuranic waste near Carlsbad and Loving, New Mexico. CARD continues to research and organize around WIPP, opened in March, 1999, and other radioactive and toxic projects in New Mexico, the Southwest, and the US/Mexico border region. "The collection contains organizational documents, scientific reports, publications, news clippings, legal briefs and papers, legislation, correspondence, and ephemera about CARD, WIPP and the Department of Energy's nuclear projects," says Beth Silbergleit, assistant curator of manuscripts in the CSWR. The collection also contains information on hazardous, non-radioactive waste, general environmental issues, science and the philosophy of science, war and peace, uranium mining, radiation and health, nuclear science, the US Department of Defense and the military, and big business and corporate abuse. Information on alternative energy sources, alternative living, Nuclear Free Zones, alternative organizations and platforms, and alternative campaigns and actions are also included in the collection. # # #

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