From our friend, Don.
Am trying to spread the word about Monday's events in Los Alamos
don hyde
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From: Greg Mello <gmello@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:44 AM
Subject: [lasg_nm] "Atomic summer" event Los Alamos (Aug 6, afternoon and
evening)
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Cc: twm@xxxxxxxx, gmello@xxxxxxxx
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Los Alamos: Monday, Aug 6, afternoon and 6 pm: "Beyond Hiroshima"
- The afternoon
Please join us in Los Alamos in the afternoon and evening of August 6.
What we do there in the afternoon is still under discussion and depends in
part on how many people can come. We can tell you it will be thoroughly
nonviolent, legal, tasteful, clear, and firm. We mean to impress upon audiences
near and far to the best of our ability, on August 6 and in continuing
trenchant opposition and protest afterwards, that northern New Mexico will not
passively accept or welcome a pit production plant to make new nuclear weapons
for Donald Trump or any of his successors.
The (so far unspecified) events will start at 3 pm. Please a) write Trish if
you think you can come at 3 pm and b) please start recruiting as many others as
you can. Please reach out to your friends and families, personal email lists,
and social media contacts.
You will hear a lot more about this in the coming week. Your early RSVP will
help us. Please let us know if you can help in organizing -- we can very much
use the help!
2. The evening
Please join us at 6 pm at Fuller Lodge, 2132 Central Avenue, Los Alamos (map)
for a panel discussion, "Beyond Hiroshima." It's very important for people
outside Los Alamos to come to this event. Los Alamosans are both passive and
frightened, as the few with the temerity to come to our events on the Hill have
told us. LANL has sometime sent photographers to document who comes to our
events, and in today's neo-McCarthyite atmosphere we are sure the security
situation is worse than ever. We want to fill the hall to overflowing with
disarmament-oriented people who "remember their humanity," in the words of
Rotblat, Einstein, and Russell.
Please write Trish if you think you can come. We will get the word out more
widely but your solidarity is very important to us not just in general but in
these Los Alamos events in particular right now.
We promise to have some quite different and complementary voices on that
panel.
Please help us make the events of August 6 enough of a success that we can put
the subsequent press accounts on the desks of key government actors in the days
to follow. We see this as the kick-off for a new wave of permanent and much
more trenchant opposition not just to pit production but to the overall nuclear
weapons mission of LANL -- and this, quite consciously, in solidarity with our
collective broader efforts to rise to the converging crises we face.
Want to know what the pits are for? The planned successor to this weapon
system (5:43 video). (You can start 2 minutes in.)
Thank you all,
Greg & Trish, for the Study Group
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Greg Mello
Los Alamos Study Group
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