Local Independent Content
Richland Saturday August 9th at 8PM on NWPB
Preview: Special | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn about the atomic history of Richland, Washington in this new award-winning documentary.
'RICHLAND offers a portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. Moving between archival past and observational present, the film blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time.'
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Local Independent Content is a local public television program presented by NWPB
Local Independent Content
Richland Saturday August 9th at 8PM on NWPB
Preview: Special | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
'RICHLAND offers a portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. Moving between archival past and observational present, the film blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time.'
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We produced plutonium because the government was paying people to do that.
It was good work.
It was good money.
Some people may say, well, you sold your souls.
You knew what was going on, but yet you did it anyway.
We didn't know anything.
Our dads worked in the area.
What does your dad do?
He works in the area.
And that was it.
It was a very, sheltered life.
The bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki contained 14 pounds.
That's it 14 pounds.
My thought is, just leave it the hell alone.
Clean it up to as good as we're going to clean it up and just leave it.
Make this one huge natural preserve.
We were put here to protect the land, to show it the love that it gives for us, for the animals, the medicines and the roots.
This school's ver proud.
On all of our light posts we've got the mushroom cloud.
How would you get rid of that?
Like, what would you do?
Like we'd have to tear down the entire school.
Like what?
Like, how do you change that?
We were just taught to be prideful of the area.
We did this amazing thing an amazing, terrible thing.
choir singing
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