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NEWS RELEASE
25 December 2008
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ENDING THE NUCLEAR AGE; BEGINNING THE NEW WORLD


Trinity Nuclear Abolitionists (TNA) will continue its monthly prayer-actions at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 2009. On Tuesday, January 27th, 2009, TNA will commemorate the 58th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons test on Shoshone land (at the Nevada Test Site). This commemoration will look the same to the public and to LANL security officers as the past monthly prayer-actions; between 3 and 13 individuals will stand vigil at the corner of West Jemez & Diamond, right in front of the main LANL sign, this time from 7:30 am until 8:30 am. The TNA group is always nonviolent, peaceful and playful, despite their awareness of the national, local and international crimes being committed by LANL employees on-site. TNA believes that loving enemies (rather than developing bombs) brings about the highest quality of security, and therefore calls for nuclear disarmament along with active rebuilding of a peaceful infrastructure in the USA.

On April 14th, 2008 two members of TNA were arrested for praying at LANL in opposition to war taxes. {They were part of a group of six who held vigil on the 14th and 15th of April. The two were interrupted while standing on Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation land, which houses Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS). LANS manages LANL and includes direct involvement from the University of California.} Both were charged with alleged trespass. One defendant, Mike Butler, made a plea bargain in September 2008, and was later exonerated. The other defendant, Marcus Page, previously had a mistrial on Monday August 18th, and he will go back to trial on March 31st 2009 for for alleged trespassing while praying at Los Alamos, NM, because the prior trial utilized a jury which failed to reach consensus on guilt or innocence. For more information, see last November's news release regarding the re-trial
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LANL is a facility of the Department of Energy (DoE). TNA is opposed to the missions and visions of LANS, LANL and the DoE. TNA is committed to the goodness of their employees, yet decries their works of war and nuclear barbarism.