Trinity Nuclear Abolition NEWS RELEASE
22 June 2011
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Prayer-Activists Arrested For PRAYING At LANL
At the conclusion of a 24-hour prayer vigil organized by Trinity Nuclear
Abolition, five peaceful demonstrators were arrested at the checkpoint
leading to the CMRR nuclear bomb pit factory construction site Monday.
Three have been released on bail.
Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) held an extended vigil in at Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL) in honor of Fathers’ Day and Holy Trinity
Sunday. Will Covert, a Veteran For Peace and great-grandfather; Bobbie Sue
Davis, a former military family member and mother of three; Mitzi Kraft,
member of Military Families Speak Out and grandmother; Juan Montoya, member
of Pax Christi Holy Family and grandfather; and Marcus Page, Catholic
Worker, have been taken into custody at the Los Alamos Detention Center.
On Sunday and Monday, two dozen prayerful nuclear abolitionists prayed for
hours to end the CMRR funding and for divine intervention for a peaceful
end to the nuclear age. The reason for spending 24 hours on this spiritual
work at this time, according to Marcus Page-Collonge (TNA spokesperson) is,
“Fathers’ Day joining with Holy Trinity Sunday is a powerful social moment.
It’s a window through which we might finally achieve nuclear abolition
starting with LANL obeying the divine masculine mandate. As radicals, we
embrace the original concepts Fatherhood and the Holy Trinity.” TNA
supports the immediate peaceful ending of nuclear weapons research,
development, and production. For four years TNA has protested LANL’s
noncompliance with the U.S. Constitutional duties and U.S. treaty
obligations. TNA conducts monthly vigils to remind the public and the LANL
employees that LANL is actively 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 (the new CMRR).
The CMRR Nuclear Facility violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by
working to make more nuclear weapons. It is also sited foolishly on a
narrow mesa of volcanic ash in an earthquake zone. The price tag therefore
continues to rise each year and is currently scheduled to cost over 6
billion dollars.