Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) will hold their monthly vigil at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on Friday November 12th from 3:30 to 5:30pm. The vigil this month will include between 4 and 10 people. Decades ago on this date (in 1965, 1981 and 1982) LANL conducted 3 full-scale nuclear tests (code named “Sepia”, “Rousanne” & “Seyval”, respectively) at the Nevada National Security Site. TNA's vigil will be at the southwest corner of West Jemez & Diamond Drive, on land under the control of LANL, in front of the main sign.
The safety of all creatures, including LANL employees and visitors, is of prime concern to TNA, which conducts events that are peaceful and nonviolent, and does not damage anyone's property. TNA complains that LANL is still out of compliance with the U.S. Constitutional treaty obligations, still infatuated with nuclear weapons, and still conducting international criminal activity, as shown by the nuclear bomb pit production work at the Chemistry Metallurgy Research (CMR) facility, and as LANL continues to build a replacement for the current CMR facility. As demonstrated in the past, the activities of TNA do not disrupt LANL workers.
This will be the 40th picketing event at LANL since TNA began monthly vigils in 2007, and the third demonstration since TOTB's prayer-action on August 6th 2010. TNA members believe that LANL's nuclear weapons work interferes with the spiritual work being conducted in the USA, requiring a spiritual solution. “Nuclearism is one of the most significant social sins in America today,” said a member of TNA. She continued, “Nuclearism has infected most sectors of society, breaching the security and peace that every spiritual tradition offers in the hearts of people.”
TNA holds the position that LANL employees commit local, federal and international crimes on-site in this territory rightfully belonging to various Tewa pueblo peoples. TNA is always nonviolent, peaceful and usually playful. The lovarchists of TNA attempt to love enemies, and advocate for others to do likewise, in order to bring about the highest quality of security. TNA thereby calls for cleanup of radioactive sites, disarmament of nuclear weapons industries and active rebuilding of a peaceful structures in the USA. TNA denounces nuclearism because TNA is a spiritually grounded group promoting peaceful disciplines and healthy ways of living in harmony with creation.