Trinity Nuclear Abolition NEWS RELEASE
1 January 2011
Peace Vigil Honors Shoshone Sovereignty
Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) will hold their monthly vigil at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on Friday January 21st from 3:00 to 4:00pm. The vigil this month will include between 4 and 7 people. Under the authority of the U.S. government, LANL conducted three full-scale nuclear tests on January 21st in 1966 (one explosion code named Dovekie) and in 1969 (two bombs code named Piccalilli and Planer). These disturbances of the peace on Indigenous Western Shoshone lands were detonated at the Nevada National Security Site (formerly called the Nevada Test Site). The Security Site was seized from Shoshone families in 1948 and January 27th 2011 will be the 60th anniversary of the first LANL bomb explosion in Shoshone territory.
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 41st TNA picketing event at LANL is the fourth 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 reminds the world 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 aim to love enemies, advocate for others to love enemies, and hope 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.
LANL and the Nevada National Security Site are facilities of the Department of Energy (DoE). President Obama has pushed for a transfer of such facilities back into the hands of the War Department (DoD). TNA is opposed to the missions and visions of LANS, LANL, the DoD and the DoE. TNA is committed to the goodness of their employees, yet decries their works of war and nuclear savagery.