DATE: 2 June 2006
CONTACTS: Lee
Dazey, 324-4027, ldazey@mindspring.com;
John Hadder, 827-4200, hadder@citizenalert.org;
Laura Fillmore, (775)450-8727, fillmore4@charter.net
RENO, NV –
Tomorrow, Saturday, June 3rd, Nevadans will call upon their
Congressional Delegation to cancel Divine Strake through a march
and rally at the Bruce R. Thompson federal building in Reno. There
has been a postponement of the June 23rd 700-ton explosion of
ammonium nitrate and fuel oil that was to be detonated in an area
of the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone homeland where six
nuclear tests occurred.
Divine Strake is a
violation of Western Shoshone rights.
On March 10, 2006, the
U.N. Committee to Eliminate Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged the
U.S. to “desist from all activities planned and/or conducted on
the ancestral lands of Western Shoshone, which are being carried
out without consultation with, and despite protests of, the
Western Shoshone peoples.”
Divine Strake is not
friendly or safe and is a precursor to development of low-yield
nuclear weapons, representing a major policy shift previous U.S.
Administrations goals toward disarmament and non-proliferation
goals.
WHAT: “River of
Peace” march from West Street Plaza (Brick Park) along the
Truckee River to the Bruce R. Thompson Federal Building where
Nevadans will rally and call upon the Nevada Congressional
Delegation to deny permit to the National Nuclear Security Agency
for the Divine Strake test. The rally at the federal building will
include a presentation by Western Shoshone grandmother Carrie Dann,
other speakers, as well as Native American singers and drummers.
WHEN: Saturday,
June 3rd, 3:30 - 5:30 PM
WHERE: Marchers
will gather at West Street Plaza (Brick Park) on First Street
(between Arlington and West Streets) in downtown Reno at 3:30 pm
and march to the Bruce R. Thompson Federal Building where the
rally will commence at 4:30 pm.
“This is a direct
violation of the CERD finding and an affront to our religious
belief that mother earth is sacred and should not be harmed. All
people who are opposed to these actions by the U.S. should step
forward and make their opposition known.”
-- Chief Raymond Yowell
of the Western Shoshone National Council.
ON THE WEB: Divine
Strake & Coalition, http://www.shundahai.org/index.html
& Reno AntiWar Coalition, http://renopeace.org
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