Trinity Nuclear Abolition
NEWS ADVISORY
21 September 2011



VIGIL COMMEMORATES LANL BOMB TESTS


Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) will hold a peace vigil in front of the main sign at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on October 18th. The vigil at the corner of Diamond and West Jemez begins at 7am and ends at 8:30am. Recognizing the danger Los Alamos presents to the world, TNA demonstrators pray for peace, safety, environmental justice and they hope to alert employees of the shared duty to stop LANL's criminal activities as per the Nuremberg Principles. TNA will have 5 to 10 courteous demonstrators on-site at this month's peaceful, nonviolent, non-obtrusive vigil. TNA is not intending to break any laws, but rather intends their prayers to help LANL's employees STOP committing crimes against humanity (which are supposed to be illegal under international law). Following this vigl, the LANL Fathers Day Five will have a pre-trial hearing in the town of Los Alamos at the Magistrate Court.

TNA vigils have been conducted at LANL since August 2007. This peace vigil will be the 52nd picketing event for TNA. These monthly vigils are conducted to remind the public and the LANL employees that the Lab 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 (CMRR-NF) 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 6 billion dollars.

October 18th is the anniversary date for FOUR nuclear test explosions in Nevada's Shoshone Homelands. The NPG/NTS/NNSS detonated 4 nuclear bombs on October 18th, in 1958, 1962, 1967, and 1991. The names of these bombs are: "Rio Arriba, Tioga, Lanpher, Lubbock." LANL conducted an additional test on this date in the Johnston Island arena, called "Chama." TNA pledges to continue public witness activities until LANL becomes a clean-up facility, ceasing all NEW nuclear weapons research, development, or production. 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 is always nonviolent, playful, prayerful and peaceful in the prayer-actions conducted at LANL.



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.



TNA vigil on the International Day of Nuclear Disarmament (August 29th 2011).

Next Month's vigil is postponed: September 21 is the anniversary date of two LANL nuclear bomb detonations code named Luna (1958) and Oscuro (1972). Those nuclear bombs were exploded in Shoshone territory at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). On this same date Lawrence Livermore Lab in California was responsible for detonating another 4 bombs in 1967 and 1983 desecrating Shoshone lands at the NNSS. The Department of Energy/NNSA have yet to apologize to the Shoshone people for these offenses. Meanwhile, the United Nations has declared this INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY on which all wars will conduct a cease-fire for the day.

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