September Williams Author of Chasing Mercury and Toxic Water Minamata Japan Children's book

August 31, 2017 in Bioethics, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, Chasing Mercury the Novel

Today I found a box at my front door. At first I thought it was expresso pods. When I opened it two gorgeous hard covered books were in it. Toxic Water, Minamata Japan - a book offered by Bearport Publishing for children's school libraries , and for which it was my honor to consult, is out and ready to be purchased by a school library near you! Let them know it exist. This is a book that is a part of Bearport's environmental disaster series helping the next generations understand what has happened in the past.

September Williams' Characters of my novel Chasing Mercury are ready to meet You! They Celebrates Human & Environmental Rights! They wanted to say HAPPY July 4th!!

July 02, 2017 in Baby Boomers, Bioethics, Bohemian Forest, Chasing Mercury the Novel, Echo Boomers, Eco-Fiction, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, mercury pollution, Minamata disease, Occupational Disease, Peace, Resistance, Romance Novels, September MD-Writer, Romance Suspense Saga, Swan Lake

CHANGE IS SLOW But it happens. The Minamata World Convention goes into force April 16, 2017. 40 years the need was recognized. Something to Celebrate!!! Chasing Mercury by September Williams awaits you. The novel is a soaring cross cultural romantic suspense saga. CHASING MERCURY by September Williams E-book is at these outlets: AMAZON, APPLE IBOOKS, BARNES & NOBLE, GOOGLE PLAY, KOBO, also soon at libraries using OVERDRIVE and BIBLIOTECH IF Chasing Mercury consider reviewing it. ( Especially on Amazon or Good Reads.) It turns out what you think encourages others to read the book.

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TWITTER CHAT ON CHASING MERCURY,BIOETHICS and FILM With September Williams

June 13, 2017 in Baby Boomers, Bioethics, Chasing Mercury the Novel, Echo Boomers, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, mercury pollution, Minamata disease, Occupational Disease, Resistance, Romance Novels, September MD-Writer, Social Justice

I'm excited to do my first twitter chat with the AMAJournal of Ethics. TodaySeptember Williams Author of "Chasing Mercury" TODAY AT 12 NOON PT -1:45 On Twitter Chat talking About Bioethics, Film and Chasing Mercury! On twitter go to #EthicsChat at noon. ( Photo by Unique Real see on FB)

September Williams Author of "Chasing Mercury" TODAY AT 12 NOON PT -1:45 #EthicsChat

The Minamata Convention on Mercury has been ratified!

June 04, 2017 in Chasing Mercury the Novel, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, mercury pollution, Minamata disease, Peace, Resistance, Social Justice, Bioethics, Victor Hugo

This is sunset over Minamata Bay. It may take a long time for the Minamata Convention to be enacted despite being international law as of August 16, 2017 but something is better than nothing!!! and 148 countries made this happen in all. The last 54 signed to ratify ( only 50 were needed.) Next steps are the negotiating to implement - beginning the outlining of the same in September 2017 in Geneva.

September Williams' Chasing Mercury, the Great Lake Michigan, mercury + Krypton

June 02, 2017 in Bioethics, Chasing Mercury the Novel, Echo Boomers, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, mercury pollution, Peace, Social Justice

Lake Michigan has always been important to me. It comforted me after long nights on call when seeing it the next evening as I headed home. I looked out at it with my first cup of morning coffee from my balcony. But Environment Illinois explains, Lake Michigan has been something of a dumping ground for years.

Chasing Mercury, Chapter 5, 'Bohemian Forest Water Shed, July 1973'

April 17, 2017 in Baby Boomers, Chasing Mercury the Novel, Destiny, Environmental Justice, Peace, Resistance, Romance Novels, September MD-Writer, Social Justice, Humboldt University, Cat Stevens, Roman God Roof Statues, Bohemian Forest, Echo Boomers, Cold War, Bioethics

As the sun rises, the bus crosses the River Spree, pulling through the gates of Berlin’s Humboldt University. Hundreds of young adults perch in the stone courtyard, some hanging from the balcony, guarded by marble pillars and neoclassical Roman roof sculptures. Guitars in hand, a chorus of ‘C’s serenade them—Cape Verdeans, Cambodians, Cameroonians, Czechs, Chileans, Colombians, Costa Ricans and Cubans. They greet the tardy Canadians, voices filling the sweltering damp dawn with Cat Stevens’s song Baby, Baby It’s a Wild World--

CANADA IS THE 41st/50 Needed Ratify the Minamata Convention. Good Job Grassy Narrows First Nation

April 15, 2017 in Chasing Mercury the Novel, Baby Boomers, Bioethics, Minamata disease, Environmental Justice

http://mercuryconvention.org/Home/Video/tabid/3455/Default.aspx

Negotiators will gather in Geneva from 24 to 29 September 2017 to further discuss issues related to the Minamata Convention on Mercury at its first meeting of the Conference of the Parties, contingent to the prior entry into force of the Convention. These discussions build on the previous negotiations.

Initiated in 2009, the development of a global legally binding instrument on mercury was carried out over five sessions of the intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) held between June 2010 and January 2013 in Stockholm, Chiba, Nairobi, Punta del Este and Geneva, preceded by two Open Ended Working Group meetings.

As a result, the text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which was agreed upon at the fifth session of the INC in January 2013, was adopted at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Kumamoto, Japan on 10 October 2013 and opened for signature for one year.

Two sessions of the INC have been held since the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in 2013, INC6 from 3 to 7 November 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand and INC7, from 10 to 15 March 2016 at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

September Williams Chasing Mercury in the 41 st Open Water Rowing Regatta in Sausalito, CA

April 12, 2017 in Bioethics, Chasing Mercury the Novel, Eco-Fiction, Environmental Justice, Romance Novels, September MD-Writer, Social Justice, Rowing, mercury pollution, Minamata disease, Resistance

So there I am, Chasing Mercury in the Open Water Rowing Regatta #41, and my tenth. That barge in the background was awfully annoying blocking my view to Cone Rock as I aimed for it. It was a gorgeous day. The water was perfect. My adjusted time was 58 minutes on a 5.3 NM course so a little under 10 minutes per English mile. Yep--I was 5 minutes behind the first place rower--but she was 20 years younger than me--and I was proud to be anywhere on the same water with her. When you do things out in the environment it really pushes you to protect it. Everyday I cry for the children who have never known this kind of peace.