John Jormoto Stephen

Marshallese Nuclear activist, Minister of Health, Environmentalist, & First Pacific Islander to win the Goldman Environmental Prize ‘Green Nobel’. 1933-1993.

©: RLA 1985.

“I have often thought that those Americans who allowed my people to be exposed to radioactive fallout, and subsequently used as human guinea pigs. Should face a Nuremberg like tribunal for the callous disregard for human life.”- Jeton Anjain.

“This is how you do it. You have to let us hear your voice, your needs, and your ideas. Don’t ever whisper because if I can’t hear it, nobody else will. Don’t ever whisper.”- Darlene Keju Johnson, Marshallese nuclear activist. 1951-1996.

©: Giff Johnson.

For twelve years we suffered unimaginable horrors.

©: U.S Department of State. Henry A. Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, September 22, 1973 to January 20, 1977.

“There are only ninety thousand people out there. Who gives a d*mn?.”

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s remark refers to the displacement of the Indigenous Marshallese people. From 1946 to 1958, America conducted nuclear tests on our sacred Jineane(Motherland).

“Kōm naaj ban meloklok, Kōm naaj ban jolok bōd(We shall never forget, We shall never forgive.”) -Marshall Islands nuclear survivors.

©: United States Department Of Defense. July 25, 1946. , Photograph of Baker shot in Bikini atoll, Marshall Islands. This one of the first test conducted.