Trinity Nuclear Abolition NEWS RELEASE
7 February 2011
Peace Vigil Commemorates SEVEN Deadly Tests
Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) will hold their monthly vigil at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on Tuesday February 8th from 7:00am to 8:00Am. The vigil this month will include about 7 people. Under the authority of the U.S. government, LANL/LASL and LLNL conducted SEVEN full-scale nuclear tests on this date. Stillwater (2/8/1962), Acushi (2/8/1963), Casselman (2/8/1963), Ferret (2/8/1963), Hatchie (2/8/1963), Ward (2/8/1967), Quinella (2/8/1979). The vigil occurs just a few hours before the trial of the LANL-7.
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 42nd TNA picketing event at LANL is scheduled to end an hour before the trial of the LANL Six. The trial may be reduced to a trial of only one individual who did not take the plea bargains offered by the Los Alamos Police (prosecutors in the trial of the LANL Six.) The impending trial stems from last Summer's TOTB 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.
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.