Virtual Registration Link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofuisrzkvE9DKjFLFCVhtDiSeZNY4AY3s

In-Person Registration Link:

https://form.jotform.com/222836798629172

Oppenheimer: Sins of Omission

Catch this national webinar on the Nuclear Industry. March 14, 2024. 5:00pm MST. Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action. For more information and to register, go to: https://masspeaceaction.org/.../webinar-what-oppenheimer.../

SAVE THE DATE!

New Mexico Environment Department in-person and virtual Listening Session on WIPP’s Permit

September 22, 5-7,

Larrazolo Auditorium, Harold Runnels Bldg. 1190 So. St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505 (corner of St. Francis and Cordova)

NMED and a number of New Mexico Non-profit organizations negotiated an operating permit with the Department of Energy to prioritize shipping the legacy wastes threatening our drinking water.

Is this important to you?

What other issues concerning WIPP are important to you?

This is the time to let your voice be heard. Need more info?

stopforeverwipp.org

Save the date:  Saturday, August 5th from 2 to 6 pm at Roosevelt Park in Albuquerque – Albuquerque Peace Festival – Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemorative Rally in collaboration with Hiroshima Day in Japan.  Details to follow.   

Thursday, July 27, 2023 from 5 to 7 pm – Kirtland AFB Bulk Fuels Facility leak project open house at the groundwater treatment system facility.  The GWTS is located on Kirtland Air Force Base, with public access provided for this event through the Ridgecrest Gate (Ridgecrest Dr SE & Louisiana Blvd SE, south of Gibson Blvd.) 

If you would like additional information, please contact the 377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs office at (505) 846-5991 or by email at 377ABW.PA@us.af.mil 

Friday, July 21 release of Oppenheimer in the U.S. and U.K. by Universal Pictures.  https://www.oppenheimermovie.com/ 

Sunday, July 16th – Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester’s service about A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS:  An Interfaith Remembrance of the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945, at the Santa Maria de la Paz Center at 11 College Avenue, Santa Fe (just before the Santa Fe Community College (road work is taking place in the area – allow for extra travel time).https://archdiosf.org/living-in-the-light-of-christs-peace 

13th Annual Candelight Vigil from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at Albert Johnson Park, 896 N. Main Street, Las Cruces, NM.  Program begins at 8 pm.  Bring a chair or blanket, sunscreen, bug spray and water.  For more information:  https://www.trinitydownwinders.com/  

  Message from the Downwinders of New Mexico:  

  Stand in solidarity with the Downwinders of New Mexico.  Many people cannot be with us in Las Cruces for our 13th Annual Candlelight Vigil where we memorialize those we’ve lost to cancer.  If you want to participate from your own home make a luminaria and light it in solidarity with us on the evening of July 15, 2023.  

  For those of you who are not familiar with the traditional New Mexico luminaria, it is a brown paper lunch bag with a cup or so of sand in the bottom and a votive candle placed in the middle of the bag.  You can write your own message on the bag.  At dusk you light the candle and leave it lit until the candle extinguishes.  Let us know that you are standing with us by sending us an email at info@trinitydownwinders.com

Saturday, July 15th  - Trinity:  Legacies of Nuclear Testing, a People’s Perspective Art Exhibit from 11 am to 1 pm at the Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main Street, Las Cruces, NM.  Exhibit will be up until September 23, 2023.   

Saturday, July 15th from 7 am to 9 am MT free virtual meeting of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space – Latest development on war via space.  https://space4peace.org/  To register:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-network-31st-annual-meeting-latest-developments-on-war-via-space-tickets-638565886757  

Saturday, July 15th from 7 am to 4 pm – 44th Annual Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill Commemoration, hosted by the Red Water Pond Road Community, the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining, and the Pipeline Road Community.  For more information, please contact Susan Gordon at sgordon@swuraniumimpacts.org 

Friday, July 14th from noon to 1 pm MT – Join the weekly peaceful protest for nuclear disarmament on the corners of Alameda and Guadalupe in downtown Santa Fe with Veterans for Peace, CCNS, Nuclear Watch NM, Loretto Community, Pax Christi, Nonviolent Santa Fe, and others.  

Please join us for a press conference when we deliver over 1,100 petition signatures to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham asking her to protect New Mexicans from the federal expansion of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). This is your opportunity to let her know that vastly increased shipments of the most dangerous form of nuclear weapons’ waste, lasting the rest of the century as it is transported past your neighborhood, is not a risk you accept.

For full Press Release Click here

New Mexico Legislature Session Begins Jan 17 - March 20, 2021

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Report From Santa Fe This Week:

DON HANCOCK, Director, Nuclear Waste Program, Southwest Research and Information Center

Topics Include The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Its History& Development of a New Mission for the Facility

It will be Showing Sunday November 21 @ 8:00 a.m on channel 5.1 & @ 4:30 p.m on channel 5.4 and Streaming on the PBS Video App

The DOE will conduct a virtual town hall meeting to provide an update on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

WHEN: Thursday Nov 18, 2021, starts at 5 p.m.

WHERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrcOmqqTwqHd2BxW4zXnEwdgpMlOyetnAN

QUESTIONS: For questions regarding this virtual town hall meeting please contact the WIPP Information Center at infocntr@wipp.ws or by calling 1-800-336-9477.

United to STOP FOREVER WIPP

Don’t miss the:

NM Legislature Interim Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee meeting.

Fri. Nov. 12th at 9AM

Live at the State Capitol in Senate Chambers

Virtual at https://nmlegis.gov/Committee/Interim_Committee...

Click on Webcast in the navigation bar

Presentations include:

Environment Department Cleanup Actions;

LANL Operations & Updates;

LANL Legacy Waste Cleanup;

Weapons Grade Plutonium Transportation Concerns presented by

SF County Commissioner Anna Hansen

Community Concerns on Plutonium Pit (Weapons Triggers) Production

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board;

Northern NM Citizens’ Advisory Board.

If you have limited time, we highly recommend the presentation by Commissioner Hansen at 12:00 noon, which contains pertinent information for the public about transportation risks in our neighborhoods.

A public comment opportunity will be available immediately after this presentation. To comment, sign up as early in the meeting as possible. You can sign up through the webcast or in person at the Senate Chambers.

Don’t miss this opportunity to voice your concerns!

To View this past hearing click here.