Karen Silkwood

Karen Silkwood. Self: Testify! Eco-Defense and the Politics of Violence. Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant laborer and union activist who died while investigating safety violations made by her employer, is viewed as a martyr by anti-nuclear activists; her story was made into the drama film Silkwood (1983). On the night of November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron River nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma, was driving her...