Rocky Flats Then And Now: 25 Years After The Raid
Rocky Flats Then and Now:25 Years After the RaidAn arts and humanities eventmarking the 25th anniversaryof the FBI’s historic raid on thenuclear weapons factoryLen Ackland, Event CoordinatorJune 6, 7 & 8, 2014
Friday, June 6Saturday, June 7Sunday, June 87:00 p.m.Welcome and OverviewPhilip C. Sneed,Executive Director, Arvada Center for theArts and Humanities10:00 a.m. - NoonThe Raid in Retrospect — Keynote PanelModerator: Patty Limerick,Director, Center of the American West,University of Colorado BoulderJon Lipsky,Former FBI agent and leader of the Raid teamRoy Romer,Former Governor, Colorado (1987 - 1999)David Skaggs,Former Congressman, Colorado (1987 – 1999)1:00-2:30 p.m.What Do We Know about Rocky FlatsWorkers’ Health Issues, 25 Years Later? –Panel DiscussionParticipating moderator:Laura Frank, Vice President, News, RockyMtn. PBS and Executive Director, I-NewsTerrie Barrie,Founding Member, Alliance of NuclearWorker Advocacy GroupsLee Newman, MD,Coordinator, medical surveillance programof former Rocky Flats workersRocky Flats Then and Now –An IntroductionLen Ackland, Author, Making a Real Killing:Rocky Flats and the Nuclear WestCitizen ForumPersonal Memories of theJune 6, 1989 RaidChair: Dr. Kennette Benedict,Executive Director and Publisher,Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsCharles Church McKay,Representative for the Church/McKayfamily – 4th generation neighboringlandowner and rancherLeRoy Moore,Ph.D., Former academic, writer and RockyFlats activistJack Weaver,Former Rocky Flats Deputy AssistantGeneral Manager of Plutonium OperationsNoon – 1:00 p.m.Lunch break and discussions in theInformation Center1:00-2:30 p.m.Secrecy and Its Fallout –Panel DiscussionParticipating Moderator: Dorothy Day Ciarlo,Ph.D., Retired clinical psychologist andoral historian.Judy Danielson,Rocky Flats peace activistKen Freiberg,former Rocky Flats workerJon Lipsky,Former FBI agent and leader of the Raid teamNat Miullo,Former Environmental Protection AgencyInspector at Rocky Flats2:30-3:30 p.m.Break and discussions in theInformation CenterInformation CenterAn information center representingvarious perspectives will beopen Saturday, June 7 andSunday, June 8. Opening andclosing hours will correspondwith the panel discussions.ExhibitionPlease visit the Arvada HistoryMuseum located on the firstlevel to see a special exhibitionmade possible by the RockyFlats Institute and Museum. RockyFlats in History, Art, and Memoryfeatures historical artifacts andphotographs from the RockyFlats Institute and Museum, aswell as art from more than adozen painters, sculptors, poetsand photographers. The exhibitionis free and open to the publicthrough August 22.3:30-5:30 p.m.Imagining the Real: Art and Rocky Flats –Performance and ConversationModerator: Bryan Taylor,Professor, Department of Communication,University of Colorado BoulderRobert Del Tredici,Photographer of nuclear sitesBarbara Donachy,Ceramic artist and peace activistJohn Craig Freeman,New media professor and augmentedreality artistCarole Gallagher,Author, American Ground Zero: The SecretNuclear WarKristen Iversen,Author, Full Body Burden: Growing Up inthe Nuclear Shadow of Rocky FlatsPatrick Malone,Poet and peace activistTom Mayer,Author, Rocky Flats: A Nuclear MusicalEric Wright,Song writer and peace activistAnne Waldman,Poet; Co-Founder, Jack Kerouac Schoolof Disembodied Poetics7:00 p.m.Film Screening: Dark CircleIntroduction: Conny Bogaard,Rocky Flats Institute and MuseumAn audience discussion will take placeafter the screening2:30-3:30Break and discussions in theInformation Center3:30-5:00 p.m.What Do We Know Today aboutContamination from Rocky Flats? –Panel DiscussionModerator, Len Ackland,Author, Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flatsand the Nuclear WestDavid Abelson,Executive Director, Rocky FlatsStewardship CouncilNiels Schonbeck,Chemistry Professor, University ofColorado Denver and Regis UniversityCarl Spreng,Rocky Flats Legacy ManagementAgreement Coordinator for the ColoradoDept. of Public Health & Environment5:00 – 6:00 p.m.Closing Reception/cash bar andappetizersCatering provided by The Gourmet Kitchen
David Abelson has worked onRocky Flats issues since 1995. Anattorney with twenty years’ experience on complex public policyissues, Mr. Abelson representedRepresentative David E. Skaggsfrom 1995-1998, then served as theExecutive Director of the RockyFlats Coalition of LocalGovernments from 1999-2006. He has served as theExecutive Director of the Rocky Flats StewardshipCouncil since 2006.Len Ackland is a journalist andAssociate Professor Emeritus ofJournalism, UC Boulder. Previouslyhe worked as a reporter at theChicago Tribune and the DesMoines Register, among otherpublications, and was editor of theBulletin of the Atomic Scientistswhen it won the 1987 NationalMagazine Award for coverage of theChernobyl accident. He wrote Making a Real Killing:Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (UNM Press, 2nd ed.,2002). He is coordinator of Rocky Flats Then and Now:25 Years After the Raid.Terri Barrie began her advocacywhen her husband, a former RockyFlats worker, became ill in 1995.Through the years, she was ableto meet other advocates fromacross the country and helpedform the grassroots Alliance ofNuclear Workers Advocacy Groups(ANWAG). Ms. Barrie was theco-petitioner for the expandedSpecial Exposure Cohort and is Secretary of the newlycreated Citizen Volunteer Division of Energy EmployeesOccupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) InterimAdvisory Board, to the U. S. Department of Labor.Kennette Benedict has been theExecutive Director and Publisher forthe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistssince 2005. She came to the Bulletinfrom the John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation, where shedirected the international peace andsecurity program from 1992 to 2005.She also established and directedthe foundation’s initiative in theformer Soviet Union from 1992 to 2002. Before joiningthe foundation in 1987, she taught at Rutgers University(1980-1981) and at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign (1981-1985). Benedict received her A.B. fromOberlin College and a Ph.D. in political science fromStanford University.Conny Bogaard is the ExecutiveDirector at the Rocky Flats Instituteand Museum and teaches at thecollege level in the Denver metroarea. Previously Ms. Bogaard servedas curator for the Hotel de ParisMuseum in Georgetown and theGolden Pioneer Museum.Larry Borowsky has beeninvolved in museum exhibit development since 1995. He has wonawards from the American Allianceof Museums, American Associationfor State and Local History, NationalAssociation for Interpretation, andHistory Colorado. Mr. Borowsky isthe former editor of ColoradoHistory, a semiannual journal.Dr. Dorothy Ciarlo, a retiredpsychologist and volunteer with theOral History program of the BoulderPublic Library, initiated doing oralhistories with Rocky Flats workersin the late 1990s before the closureof Rocky Flats. Working with a committee of the Rocky Flats Cold WarMuseum, she and others expandedthe oral history collection to includeothers involved with Rocky Flats, including peace andenvironmental activists, state and federal regulators,politicians, and involved community members. Themore than 160 oral histories are archived at the CarnegieLibrary’s Maria Rogers Oral History Program in Boulder.Judy Danielson is a mother,grandmother, physical therapist andconcerned citizen. She was on theDenver staff of the American FriendsService Committee during the 1970sand was one of the organizers ofthe Rocky Flats Action Group(RFAG). RFAG held rallies and ledpublic education campaigns in aneffort to close the plant and convert the jobs to peacetime industry.Robert Del Tredici hasphotographed (as an independentand for the U.S. Department ofEnergy) the twelve key facilities ofthe U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex.He was principal photographer anddesigner for three U.S. Departmentof Energy (USDOE) reports on theattempted cleanup of the H-bombfactory system. In the process, he documented RockyFlats on three separate occasions.
Barbara Donachy has both aBachelor of Fine Arts and a Masterof Public Health degree. She wasU.S. Director of Potters for Peacefor eight years, where she wasengaged in the research, training,and evaluation of a locallyproduced home-use ceramic waterfilter. Between 1982 and 1993, shedesigned and coordinated the production and exhibitionat seventeen locations of Amber Waves of Grain, a32,000-piece clay replica of the U.S. nuclear arsenal andTwilight’s Last Gleaming, an equally large depiction ofvolumes of plutonium and nuclear waste.Laura Frank is Vice President ofNews for Rocky Mountain PBS;Executive Director of I-News; andhas covered Rocky Flats healthissues as a Rocky Mountain NewsReporter.Ken Freiberg worked at RockyFlats from 1953-1991, after which hewas a Senior Consultant for RockyFlats and the Department of Energy(DOE) from 1991-2014. He heldvarious positions while at RockyFlats, including Health PhysicsManager, Manager for PlantServices, and Manager ofEngineering and Construction for Rocky Flats NewProjects and Facilities.John Craig Freeman is a publicartist with over twenty-five yearsof experience using emergenttechnologies to produce large-scalepublic works at sites where theforces of globalization are impactingthe lives of individuals in local communities. His work seeks to expandthe notion of public by exploringhow digital networked technologyis transforming our sense of place. In November 1990,Freeman created Operation Greenrun II, consisting ofeleven 10’ x 40’ billboards near the front gate of theRocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.Carole Gallagher has been therecipient of numerous awards,including a grant in 1988 from theMacArthur Foundation’s Program onInternational Peace and Security.Ms. Gallagher’s photographs andjournalism concerning the nuclearweapons complex have beenpublished in The New York Times,Newsweek and The Times (London), among others. TheInternational Center of Photography in New York andthe Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicagoexhibited her photographs from American Ground Zero:The Secret Nuclear War.Kristen Iversen is the author ofFull Body Burden: Growing Up inthe Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats.She grew up near the nuclearweapons plant and later workedthere herself. Winner of the 2013Colorado Book Award and theReading the West Book Award inNonfiction, Full Body Burden waschosen one of the Best Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviewsand the American Library Association, Best Book aboutJustice by The Atlantic, and was a finalist for the Barnes& Noble Discover Award and the Andrew CarnegieMedal for Excellence. Iversen’s work has appeared inThe New York Times, The Nation, Reader’s Digest, andmany publications. She holds a Ph.D from the Universityof Denver, and currently teaches in the Ph.D program increative writing at the University of Cincinnati.Patty Limerick is the FacultyDirector and Chair of the Board ofthe Center of the American West atthe University of Colorado Boulder,where she is also a Professor ofHistory. Limerick has dedicated hercareer to bridging the gap betweenacademics and the general publicand to demonstrating the benefitsof applying historical perspective to contemporarydilemmas and conflicts.
Jon Lipsky, M.A.S., was the FBIprincipal lead agent coordinatingthe 1989 – 1992 investigation ofenvironmental crimes at the formerRocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.Mr. Lipsky is the principal consultant with EcoEd, which published anon-profit non-fiction book aboutthe FBI raid, Ambushed Grand Jury:How The Justice Department Covered Up GovernmentNuclear Crimes and How We Caught Them Red Handed.Mr. Lipsky helped to create a Citizen EducationInitiative, archiving materials and developing a course ofstudies concerning Rocky Flats crimes, social impact andits enduring legacy. Mr. Lipsky is currently the ownerand qualified manager of Mission AccomplishedInvestigations, a California private investigative agency.Patrick Malone lived in the tipion the railroad tracks leading in toRocky Flats for most of the ninemonths of the occupation. He wasone of the last two people arrestedat the occupation. Mr. Malone wasarrested at Rocky Flats ten timesand spent over six months in jail.He currently still has the tipi.Tom Mayer is a sociologist whoworks in the fields of politicaleconomy, social class analysis, andmathematical sociology. He taughtat CU Boulder for 40 years andretired in 2010. Mr. Mayer is alongtime activist for peace, socialjustice, and environmental sanity.He is currently active in the RockyMountain Peace and Justice Center.Tom wrote the book and lyrics for Rocky Flats: ANuclear Musical, which played in Boulder and Denverin the fall of 1980.Charlie McKay of Church Ranchowned the southern portion ofwhat had been Rocky Flats and thebuffer zone. The Church/McKayfamily has been connected to thisland for over 100 years, andinvolved in agriculture, clay andgravel mining, land developmentand water rights.Nathaniel Miullo (U.S.Environmental Protection Agency)moved with his family to Coloradoin the early seventies and he haslived here since. He has worked inEPA’s Regional Office in Denver forover 30 years on complex environmental problems that include policy,economic, social, and political challenges in almost every program EPA administers. Nat’sexperience includes helping set national policy on cleanup of “mega” Superfund sites like the Rocky MountainArsenal and Rocky Flats. He recently served as anEnergy and Revitalization Advisor to the EPA’s RegionalAdministrator, and currently supports communities indisaster recovery as EPA’s Resiliency Adviser.LeRoy Moore, Ph.D., is one ofthe founders of the Rocky MountainPeace and Justice Center. He hasbeen engaged as a writer andactivist with environmental, publichealth and disarmament issuesrelated to Rocky Flats and thenuclear weapons enterprise since1978. He taught courses on nonviolentsocial change at the University ofColorado from 1980 until 1996. His writings includeRocky Flats: The Bait and Switch Cleanup, publishedin the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,January/February 2005.Dr. Lee Newman is a pulmonaryand occupational medicinephysician and professor who hasprovided medical care for thousandsof Rocky Flats workers. He wasinstrumental in identifying workrelated health conditions at RockyFlats including chronic berylliumdisease and plutonium-induced lungfibrosis while working at NationalJewish Health from 1985-2005. Dr. Newman’s researchhas led to the widespread use of a blood test fordetection of chronic beryllium disease. He has contributed to the development of national policy related tothe health of energy workers. For nearly 30 years,Dr. Newman has been conducting medical screeningprograms and health research studies to benefit RockyFlats workers and other Department of Energy (DOE)site workers. He co-directs the Department of Energyfunded National Supplemental Screening Program,which has provided more than 2,000 exams for formerRocky Flats workers, as well as more than 11,000workers from other DOE sites across the country.
Governor Roy Romer was the39th Governor of the State ofColorado for twelve years from1987 - 1999. He was involved in theoversight and monitoring of RockyFlats on a weekly basis. He wenton to serve as the Superintendentof the Los Angeles Unified SchoolDistrict from 2001 – 2006.Niels Schonbeck is a biochemistby training. His interest in environmental radioactivity was sparked bymeeting Dr. Edward Martell in 1985at the National Center forAtmospheric Research. Since thenhe has worked on Rocky Flatsissues, primarily as a member ofseveral committees, including theRocky Flats EnvironmentalMonitoring Council (1988–1993) and the Health AdvisoryPanel of the Historical Public Exposures Studies(1990–2003).Congressman David Skaggsrepresented Colorado’s 2ndCongressional District (1987-99)during the period of the FBI raidand the shutdown of Rocky Flats.As a State Representative (1981-87)he introduced legislation to enableworkers compensation for diseasecaused by radiation and other toxicagents at the plant. After leaving Congress, CongressmanSkaggs started an organization to promote politicalreform and civic education and, after returning toColorado, headed the Department of Higher Educationfor Governor Ritter.Philip C. Sneed has been theExecutive Director of the ArvadaCenter since February of 2013, afterhaving served as Producing ArtisticDirector of the ColoradoShakespeare Festival for six years.His interest in Rocky Flats beganduring his undergraduate years atthe University of Colorado Boulder, inthe late 1970s, when he commutedfrom his family’s home in Golden and drove every daypast the tipi blocking the railroad tracks into the plant.Although Sneed did not join that protest, he did participatein the Encirclement of the plant in 1983. After livingthroughout most of the 1970s and 1980s in Arvada andGolden, Sneed’s father died of lymphoma in 1987.Carl Spreng worked as an exploration geologist after receiving BSand MS degrees in Geology fromBrigham Young University. Since1992, he has worked for theHazardous Materials and WasteManagement Division of theColorado Department of PublicHealth & Environment as a projectmanager overseeing environmental restoration at theDepartment of Energy’s Rocky Flats Site. Currently healso serves as co-leader of the Interstate Technology andRegulatory Council’s (ITRC) Remediation Management ofComplex Sites team.Bryan Taylor is co-editor ofNuclear Legacies: Communication,Controversy, and the U.S. NuclearWeapons Complex (2007). He was aMember (2000-2007), Vice-President(2002-2003), and President (2004) ofthe Board of Directors of the RockyFlats Cold War Museum, Inc. Hewas also a Member and Secretary ofthe Rocky Flats Citizens’ AdvisoryBoard (1998 -2001).Anne Waldman has been a prolificand active poet, performer, editorand teacher for many years. She is afounder of the Jack Kerouac Schoolof Disembodied Poetics and ArtisticDirector of its celebrated SummerWriting Program. She is engagedwith creating radical hybrid formsfor the long poem, both serial andnarrative, and engaged in “documentary poetics,” which fuels her ethos as a culturalactivist. She is also the author of the magnum opus TheLovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment(Coffee House Press, 2011), a feminist “cultural intervention” taking on war and patriarchy, which won the PENCenter 2012 Award for Poetry.Jack Weaver went to work at Rocky Flats in 1961. Hewas a laborer, Assistant Chemical Operator, ChemicalOperator, Foreman, Shift Supervisor, Building/ProductionManager, and Assistant General Manager of Plutonium ofPlutonium Operations. He retired in 1996 but stayed onas an oversite contractor until 2002.Eric Wright is a peace and socialjustice organizer, currently retiredand living in Denver. He is an occasional songwriter and singer ofsongs for peace rallies and events ofall kinds.
Rocky Flats Then and Now: 25 Years After the RaidSteering CommitteeLen Ackland:Journalist, Assoc. Professor Emeritus,CU BoulderRocky Flats in History, Art, and Memory special acknowledgmentsKristin BuebKen FreibergConny Bogaard:Executive Director, Rocky Flats Instituteand MuseumGene McCrackenLarry Borowsky:Exhibit Curator, Rocky Flats in History, Art,and MemoryCollin ParsonTeresa Chamberland:Chief Development Officer, Arvada Centerfor the Arts and HumanitiesKurt Gutjahr:Program Director, Center of the AmericanWest, CU BoulderDoug ParkerDebra SandersDave SeilerCarol StutzmanJack WeaverMurph WiddowfieldDan James:Board Chair, Rocky Flats Institute andMuseumClark Johnson:Chief Operating Officer, Arvada Center forthe Arts and HumanitiesPatty Limerick:Faculty Director and Chair of the Board,Center of the American West, CU BoulderMelanie Mayner:Public Relations Manager, Arvada Center forthe Arts and HumanitiesCollin Parson:Exhibition Manager and Curator, ArvadaCenter for the Arts and HumanitiesPhilip Sneed:Executive Director, Arvada Center for theArts and HumanitiesRocky Fla
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