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Recent Media Coverage of PLC
34 were arrested on March 10th at the NNSS.
In March, 2014 the Pacific Life Community (PLC) conducted its annual retreat in Las Vegas with support from the Vegas Catholic Worker. The final act in the retreat was on the day before the Fukushima Disaster's anniversary, so the PLC environmental justice activists had this message to deliver. In addition to prayers and education at the retreat, the group focused on two air force bases and two nuclear facilities (the nuclear test site, or NNSS, and the NNSA building, which is a D.o.E. facility managing the test site).
On March 8th the PLC folks held a vigil at Creech AFB, on the 9th they held vigil at Nellis AFB, on Monday they held vigil at the nuclear test site, and a few hours later, they held vigil at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) building. All of this was in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the US bombing of Rongelap (hurting Japanese fishermen) and the 3rd anniversary of the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear power plant meltdown disaster, affecting millions as the pollution continues to spread across the Pacific Ocean.
10 PLC folks entered the building seeking to gain wider access to employees to distribute this message/flier.
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Here are some of the PLC participants who wished to speak with as many employees as possible on this eve of the anniversary of the disaster in Fukushima, Japan!
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After the PLC representatives were denied badging entrance passes into the facility, they continued to hold vigil outside the NNSA badging office in the parking lot.
Recent Coverage
First NDE News Release
Second NDE News Release
John Amidon's newsreel of PLC @ Nellis
Slide-show: Welcome Back, PLC! (soon-to-be-posted--Friday 21 March 014)
We are from the Pacific Life Community-
a group organized by faith to abolish nuclear
weapons. We are here today in grievance and
repentance of the destructive actions we
have complacently allowed to happen in our
world. The 11th of March marks the third
year of the continuing flow of radiated
water pouring from the nuclear facility in
Fukushima, Japan into the Pacific Ocean.
We are here today as conscientious
objectors to the continued growth and risk
of every kind of nuclear disaster. It is our
collective responsibility to prevent our
involvement in the spread of nuclear
injury and it is our legal responsibility to
uphold the obligations prudently set by
the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty.
Seeing the disaster that has emerged from
nuclear engineering through Fukushima,
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Rongelap and many
other areas, including the Nevada
National Security Site, we are obligated to
transform this tragedy into a beautiful
sustainability for our world.
To do this we all must accept our
responsibility to turn the direction of the
Department of Energy into one that is
healthy for everyone.
There is no one who
can do this better than those who work
with the Department of Energy, the
workers who have the experience and
knowledge of this organization and their
own good personal potential to make a
change for the better. We stand in unity
with the workers to conscientiously object
to the continuous contribution to nuclear
disaster, by directing the Department of
Energy to creatively use the skills and
talents of these workers in areas that
will ;preserve life and not death, that will
illuminate clean energy without nuclear
radiation. We urge workers to organize
and advocate this change to create jobs
that bring hope and create stewardship
that will lift the the heavy weight of despair that will only fall onto the
shoulders of our children if we do not
overcome this burden.
Charles Franch's Olympics 2020 artwork
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