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“People tell me they hold bake sales to pay for pain medications. How they have to sell cattle to pay for chemotherapy. How a wife has to go door to door in her pueblo community to try and raise money for the fuel to get her husband to and from treatments in Albuquerque. . . . We are simply asking to [receive the same compensation and benefits] as other downwinders who have been overexposed by radiation due to nuclear testing.”
- Tina Cordova, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium
Tina Cordova has seen too many suffer and die from bewildering cancers in her small town, Tularosa. When she is diagnosed with thyroid cancer, her doctor asks how and when she was exposed to radiation. Connecting the dots, Tina ignites a grassroots movement fighting for justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EwHmCpSaKY
In 2005, cancer survivor and Tularosa native, Tina Cordova formed the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium to fight for reparations and justice. Lois Lipman, a journalist and filmmaker who moved to New Mexico discovered the story and was shocked and inspired to create the film “First We Bombed New Mexico”.
Our world stands on a nuclear precipice. It is urgent that the public finally know the consequences of the Trinity Bomb -- our world's nuclear origin story -- so we are able to demand justice for countless lives lost and destroyed.