Trinity Nuclear Abolition
NEWS ADVISORY
14 February 2012
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LAMO Article

PRAYER-ACTIVISTS DECRY
COURT SUPPORT OF NUKES

Fathers Day 5 @ Occupying Ashley Pond and the Justice Center on January 26th 2011 until police arrest & book the Fathers Day 5


Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) organizes monthly peace vigils at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and elsewhere. February's vigil IS POSTPONED A WEEK until Tuesday March 6th. This peace vigil will be the 56th picketing event for TNA at LANL. The occupation of land in front of the main sign at Diamond and West Jemez will we be held from 8:00am to 9:00am.

March 6th is the anniversary of five nuclear bomb detonations: "Ermine" (in 1962) and "Cyathus, Arabis-Red, Arabis-Green, Arabis-Blue" (all in 1970).

In January, five residents of Albuquerque, NM spent 4 days in jail as a consequence of taking a stand for international law against nuclear weapons. These five prayer-activists held a peace vigil for 5 minutes at the Los Alamos Justice Center prior to turning themselves in for warrants signed last week at Los Alamos Magistrate Court (LAMC). The vigil and jail time stemmed from a Fathers' Day 2011 prayer-action and arrest at LANL and an October plea-bargain hearing regarding the June arrests. In both cases, the five who were arrested and jailed were pointing the finger at LANL's criminal activity and the LAMC's failure to uphold Constitutional provisions (see below) regarding the "law of the land". LAMC demanded that the five be jailed from 26 January to 30 January, 2012, in lieu of the five donating $73 to the LAMC. The five co-defendants who were arrested at a Father's Day Retreat (while literally crawling amidst police towards LANL's plutonium pit production site) already served 90 days probation, and donated the "mandatory court fee" to a local Tewa environmental justice program.

TNA conducted no vigil in the month of February because New Mexico's nuclear abolitionists were celebrating the end of the CMRR. Nonetheless, in November and December 2011 TNA proved that the local police and court system are supporting alleged property rights of LANL, and thus actively breaking international treaties which require LANL to cease and desist from nuclear weapons proliferation.
In November and December 2011 TNA proved that the local police and court system are actively breaking international treaties by supporting alleged property rights of LANL.

TNA is a faith-based, spirit-led group which holds monthly peace vigils at LANL and elsewhere. TNA holds the position that the Tewa of San Ildefonso Pueblo are the rightful stewards of the lands which are occupied by LANL, and that the Department of Energy needs to shut down LANL, and re-hire appropriate employees to clean up their toxic legacy in the region (under a new agency with a new mission) and make amends to the local peoples immediately. TNA wishes for peace, goodness, happiness, and environmental responsibility to replace the agenda items held by the Atomic Energy Commission, ERDA, the DOE, the NNSA, and other government agencies practicing the religion of nuclearism.

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.

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