Rosalie Bertell was also a strong supporter of the No Spray 
Coalition, a fighter for decades against those misusing science and 
technology to exploit people and ravage the earth and exposer par 
excellence of the nuclear power corporate liars and profiteers.

Farewell, Dr. Rosalie Berrtell ....

- Mitchel

 From "Beyond Nuclear"

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2012/6/15/remembering-dr-rosalie-bertell.html

We mourn the passing of Dr. Rosalie Bertell, age 83, who died 
peacefully on June 14. Rosalie Bertell, scientist and Grey Nun of the 
Sacred Heart, was a tireless and compassionate advocate for those 
poisoned by chemical and radiological weapons and contamination.

Her book, "No Immediate Danger? Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth" 
published in 1985, was the first book to reveal the dangers of 
low-level radiation.

Rosalie received her Ph. D. degree in Biometrics with minors in 
Biology and Biochemistry from the Catholic University of America, in 
1966. Since that time she has worked as a biometrician and 
environmental epidemiologist. By choice, Dr. Bertell worked for the 
victims or potential victims of industrial, technological and 
military pollution with a particular emphasis on assisting the 
struggles of third world and indigenous people to preserve their 
Human Right to life and health. Her major concerns were with the 
dangers associated with economic globalization, war and the 
proliferation of chemical and radioactive pollutants as the result of 
preparation for war and the toxic products and processes developed 
from weapons research and production.

The International Institute of Concern for Public Health (IICPH), of 
which she was Founder and Immediate Past President, opened its doors 
in 1984 in Toronto Canada and continues to serve as an institutional 
support for her work. She was also a founding member of the 
International Commission of Health Professionals, and the 
International Association of Humanitarian Medicine.

Among many projects she has headed, the most notable are: Director of 
the International Medical Commission Bhopal which investigated the 
aftermath of the Bhopal disaster in India; and organizer of the 
International Medical Commission on Chernobyl to present testimony to 
the Permanent People's Tribunal. She assisted the people of the 
Philippines with problems stemming from toxic waste left by the U.S. 
Military on their abandoned Subic and Clark military bases. She has 
worked with the government of Ireland to hold Britain responsible for 
the radioactive pollution of the Irish Sea, and assisted the Gulf War 
Veterans and the Iraqi citizens dealing with the illness called Gulf 
War Syndrome. She acted as Consultant to local, Provincial and 
Federal Governments, unions and citizen organizations.

She was the recipient of five honorary degrees. Among her many awards 
can be numbered the Alternative Nobel Prize, Right Livelihood Award; 
World Federalist Peace Award; Ontario Premier's Council on Health, 
Health Innovator Award; the United Nations Environment Programme 
Global 500 award and the Sean MacBride International Peace Prize. She 
was selected to be one of the 1,000 Peace Women nominated for the 
Nobel Peace Prize, 2005. Rosalie published numerous articles, 
reviewed articles for professional journals and was editor of the 
journal, "International Perspectives in Public Health".

Read a longer tribute to Rosalie, by Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri, 
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31448>here.





http://www.MitchelCohen.com


Ring the bells that still can ring,  Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack, a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen