Trinity Nuclear Abolition NEWS ADVISORY
19 November 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 November 21st at the corner of Diamond and West Jemez. The focus of this demonstration is to call for clean up of radioactive contamination in the area, and for an end of funding to the plutonium pit factory at LANL. November's demonstration will start at 11:30am and end at 12:00 noon. The US Atomic Energy Commission detonated two nuclear test bombs on this date in 1969: Piccalilli and Planer. TNA calls upon LANL to stop working on plutonium pits for new nuclear bombs.
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 Charter. TNA will have 5 to 10 courteous demonstrators on-site at November's peaceful, nonviolent, non-obtrusive vigil. TNA breaks no 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).
The upcoming November prayer follows the October 18th court hearing in which five defendants who had allegedly trespassed (near the plutonium pit facility while praying for peace) accepted a plea bargain. In meeting with some of the arresting officers, Juan Montoya told the police officers that the defendants had prayed near the plutonium pit factory,“on behalf of not only our grandchildren, but yours as well, and in fact for the benefit of the whole world.” The “no contest” plea bargain reached on October 18th was signed by magistrate Pat Casados and each defendant, indicating each defendant pay $73 in court costs and break no laws in LA County for 90 days.
TNA vigils have been conducted at LANL since August 2007. This peace vigil will be the 53rd 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, also known as a plutonium pit factory). The CMRR 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.
TNA pledges to continue vigilling until the majority of LANL resources are spent on CLEAN-UP of radioactively contaminated sites at LANL. 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).
