Monument to the Workers of Chernobyl
Slavutich, Ukraine / 1996
By Mike Alewitz, Assistance by Sergei Shutov, Olga Bondar, Ksenia Bagrai, Viktoria Cherniavskaia, Olga Lazarenko, and Marina.
Two Walls in Slavutich, in the Chernobyl region of Ukraine. “From the ashes of the old, we will build a new world.”
—from labor’s song, Solidarity Forever
“My 1996 journey into the Death Zone of Chernobyl only reinforced my belief in the utter insanity of nuclear power. Despite the fact that the Fukushima disaster (2011) may eclipse Chernobyl, global capital continues to threaten millions of people with annihilation from this uncontrollable poison. If we do not take power out of the hands of these lunatics we will all surely die.” -MA
On the Chernobyl Project
By Paul Buhle
An excerpt from Insurgent Images, the Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz, 2002
