Trinity Nuclear Abolition
NEWS ADVISORY
9 January and 10 July 2013
Contact Phone: 505.842.5697

PEACE ACTIVISTS NOT GUILTY OF "TRESPASSING"
YET JUDGE SEES THEM AS GUILTY ON OTHER COUNTS


Every year a handful of folks opposing nuclear weapons production at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) go to trial. Often the local police arrest peace activists for alleged "trespassing", while ignoring the alleged trespasses of nuclear weaponeers plotting nuclear terrorism globally. The recent Hiroshima Day (August 6th) defendants were found guilty on two counts, and not guilty on a third count by Judge Alan Kirk on January 9th--exactly 5 months after Nagasaki Day.

On August 4th, 2013 Santa Fe's Pax Christi group will hold the annual Ashes & Sackcloth meditation in Los Alamos at Ashley Pond. The next morning, Trinity Nuclear Abolition (TNA) will host a vigil for peace at LANL. Organizers expect about 100 people will be present at the Sunday Ashes and Sackcloth vigil, and 10 on Monday's Hiroshima Day prayer-action. The TNA demonstration will be at the main welcome sign for LANL at the corner of Diamond and West Jemez. This will be TNA's 65th LANL peace vigil (after a 5 month absence of peace vigils at LANL's main sign), still focused on LANL's need to face its responsibilities in the realm of environmental justice, LANL's need to clean up it's toxic legacy, and humanity's need for the cessation of LANL's nuclear violence immediately.

TNA is always nonviolent, respectful, and peaceful, upholding international law and opposing criminal activities at LANL. TNA will be distributing fliers regarding the international criminal activity of LANL, particularly the ongoing LANL work of plutonium pit production and the CMRR project, during the August 5th prayer-action.

More information about the recent arrests at LANL during peaceful demonstrations supporting the abolition of nuclear weapons can be found on this website, or on the LANL6 Support website.

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SOC blocks the road, obstructing traffic, wondering whether or not to enforce the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

SEE PRIOR news release
SEE CALIFORNIA news release