'Demon Mineral' Film Screening and Discussion with Leona Morgan

The Labriola Center will host a discussion panel with Leona Morgan (Diné) followed by a film screening of "Demon Mineral"! Come join us and learn more about the ripple effects of uranium and nuclear colonialism within Native Country and our world.

Directed by Hadley Austin and co-written by Dr. Tommy Rock, Demon Mineral "documents the Indigenous struggle for vital living space in the radioactive desert of the American Southwest. Spanning the breadth of the Navajo Nation, in a landscape perforated by abandoned uranium mines, the film unearths the thousand-years-long project of reclaiming sacred homeland." 

Leona Morgan is a community organizer and activist who has been fighting nuclear colonialism since 2000. She is focused on preventing new uranium mining, nuclear waste dumping, and transport of radioactive materials in the Southwestern United States. She co-founded and works with Haul No!, Radiation Monitoring Project, and Nuclear Issues Study Group. Leona is a member of the Navajo Nation and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.