Trinity Nuclear Abolition
NEWS ADVISORY
11 July 2012
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Hunger Strike Calls For Nuclear Abolition


Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) will hold a peace vigil in front of the main sign at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) on Monday July 16th 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 to nuclearism at LANL. The demonstration will be held from 11:00am to 1:00pm, including 12 demonstrators.

TNA is supporting the hunger strike initiated by former Los Alamos resident Alaric Balibrera. The hunger strike starts on "New Mexico Nuclear Disasters Day" (July 16th) and ends on "Hiroshima Day" (August 6th). The demands of this 22-day hunger strike are listed below. A list of the hunger strikers is available from NukeFreeNow.org. TNA breaks no laws, but rather intends their prayers to help LANL's employees STOP committing crimes (against humanity, according to the Nuremberg Principles). TNA and other nuclear abolitionists see the production of plutonium pits as patently illegal (according to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty). Such production already occurs at LANL, yet the people devoted to nuclear-bomb hegemony hope to boost production of pits via the Chemistry Metallurgy Research Replacement facility (CMRR).

The July 16th vigil will be the 60th TNA demonstration at LANL. Meanwhile, the Pentagon's pro-nuclear activists consistently keep poison fire production alive through the nuclear weapons complex and the use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions.

TNA pledges to continue these demonstrations 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.


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+++++++++FROM ALARIC'S LETTER++++++++++


Therefore, we strike. Here are our demands:

1) We call for a meeting with our Congressional representatives, and with LANL Director Charles McMillan to share our concerns and our commitment to progressively transform all nuclear weapons work at LANL to clean-up, remediation, and other life-affirming sciences.
2) We call for the creation of thousands of jobs in New Mexico to decontaminate our water and our land, which will provide steady work to thousands of people for decades to come.
3) Due to violations of seismic safety at LANL (non-compliance with Executive Order 12699), repetitive and ongoing threat of large-scale tragedy by fire, and the presence of contamination in our drinking water, we call for the permanent cancellation of all plans to build the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) facility and a moratorium on all work that employs plutonium or other Special Nuclear Materials.
4) We demand LANL’s compliance with the New Mexico Environment Department’s Consent Order of 2005 that requires the closure of Technical Area G where 42,000 barrels of radioactive wastes are stored in fabric tents less than a mile from the town of White Rock.
5) New Mexico residents who have suffered illness and loss of loved ones as a result of our state’s nuclear weapons activities must be recognized and compensated; therefore we support the proposed amendments to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) in SB 291 (HT 1490), introduced by New Mexico Senators Udall and Bingaman and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, and we call for a hearing to move this legislation forward.
6) We call for funding for comprehensive, community based health studies to document health impacts we know have occurred and are ongoing.
7) Finally we call for A Change of Heart. A world of peace and beauty is possible. We call for our scientists to use their brilliance to create this world, to nurture and enrich life. Science is possibilities, therefore we call for a Vision of Possibilities: clean energy, health and safety, freedom from want, etc. Quantum physics revealed the Enlightenment paradigm of separateness to be an illusion. We are all interdependently connected. In recognition of this, we call on Charles McMillan to present us with a Proposal of Vision for the future of science in Los Alamos, specifying how LANL can progressively transform all its life-injurious programs to life-sustaining programs.


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