[CPEO-MEF] Apr. 13/Good Friday Action at Livermore Lab

[marylia@earthlink.net]

Info about an April 13, 2001 action at Livermore Lab. All are welcome.
Peace, Marylia

"Not by Might"

by Carolyn Scarr and Marylia Kelley
from Tri-Valley CAREs' March 2001 newsletter, Citizen's Watch

For nearly 20 years, people of faith and other peace advocates have
gathered on Good Friday to demonstrate and witness outside Livermore Lab.
The theme for this year's event is "Not by Might."

Sister Stella Goodpasture, a longtime  Good Friday participant, will be the
keynote speaker. Sister Stella is a member of the Dominican Order, in the
congregation of Mission San Jose. She is the justice promoter for this
region and also works at St. John the Baptist  Church in El Cerrito where
her responsibilities include education and community action in social
justice issues.

Tri-Valley CAREs' Ann Seitz will welcome the participants to Livermore and
provide a short update on the nuclear weapons work being conducted at the
Lab. There will also be music and a procession to the gates of the
Livermore Lab.

As we gather this Good Friday, there is strong Lab management and Bush
administration support for "Star Wars" missile defense concepts and for new
weaponry, including a deep earth-penetrating "mini-nuke."

Further, Tri-Valley CAREs and Western States Legal Foundation, in separate
Freedom of Information Act requests, have recently discovered additional
evidence of widespread Lab involvement in a broad array of new, advanced
weapons concepts--from plans to use the National Ignition Facility for
"fireball" weapons development tests to research into two new
"modifications" of the W80 warhead.

These weapons concepts, already begun during the Clinton era, are now
accompanied by the Bush administration's posture of increased hostility and
saber-rattling in a number of areas of tension.

This is a very important year to join your friends, fellow peace activists
and neighbors at the Livermore Lab on Good Friday, April 13. Come to the
corner of East and Vasco for the service. The procession, an opportunity at
the gate for those who choose to nonviolently risk arrest and a community
meeting nearby will follow. (See page 3 for more information.)


Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA USA 94550

<http://www.igc.org/tvc/> - is our web site, please visit us there!

(925) 443-7148 - is our phone
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Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley
CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear
Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the
Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the
U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink
campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert.



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