Trinity Nuclear Abolition NEWS RELEASE
16 May 2011
Peace Vigil Remembers 7 Bombs
Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) will hold their monthly vigil at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on Tuesday May 17th from 7:00am to 8:00am. The vigil this month will include 10 people. This date is the anniversary of 7 nuclear bomb test explosions, all of which disturbed the peace in Nevada and Colorado. TNA laments the destruction of the environment on earth and underground, as well as the waste of tax-payer money on these exploits of nuclear technology due to nuclearism.
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. As demonstrated in the past, the activities of TNA do not disrupt the peace for LANL workers. TNA's peaceful behavior is in opposition to the violent disruptions of nature in Nevada and Colorado. Under the authority of the U.S. government, LANL was responsible for detonating two full-scale nuclear bomb explosions on this date in 1963 while Livermore Labs conducted two others (in 1968 and 1972). Those four bombs disrupted the Nevada desert, while three others disrupted land in Rifle, Colorado on May 17th in 1973. The code names for these seven explosive nuclear bomb tests were Harkee, Tejon, Clarksmobile, Zinnia, Rio Blanco-1, Rio Blanco-2, and Rio Blanco-3.
This 45th TNA picketing event at LANL is scheduled for only one hour. TNA members believe that LANL's nuclear weapons work interferes with the spiritual work being conducted in the USA, requiring a spiritual solution. 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.
TNA maintains a presence at LANL to remind LANL employees that they are daily committing federal and international crimes on-site in this territory rightfully belonging to various Tewa pueblo peoples. TNA is always nonviolent and peaceful. TNA advocates for the love enemies, hoping to bring about the highest quality of security, and therefore calls for cleanup of radioactive sites, disarmament of nuclear weapons industries and active rebuilding of a peaceful structures in the USA. TNA denounces nuclearism in the midst of spiritual work to promote 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.