March 2 - 4,
2007
Indian Springs and Nevada Test Site
Hope and Resistance in the Nevada Desert
Daniel Berrigan, SJ
Photos © Mario P.
Intino, Jr.
Louis Vitale, OFM |
Steve Kelly, SJ |
Daniel
Berrigan, SJ (Wikipedia
/ Jonah
House profile), Steve Kelly, SJ, and Louie Vitale,
OFM joined with over sixty others in cultivating community,
strengthening resistance, and finding hope.
The Pacific
Life Community is a network of people who are committed
to ending nuclear weapons and war-making through non-violent
direct action along the Pacific Rim in collaboration with
the global peace movement. The PLC includes communities
based in the Catholic Worker and other radical discipleship
and peacemaking traditions from the Rockies westward into
the Pacific.
Nevada Desert Experience is an interfaith organization
that invites people to the Nevada Test Site to pray and
protest for nuclear abolition. At a time of increasing
nuclear danger, we witness for an end to subcritical nuclear
testing in a desert that has been bombed nearly 1,000
times.
Pacific
Life Community website
Read
about the event at Las Vegas Indy Media
More
Photos at Las Vegas Indy Media
Friday
We gathered in Indian Springs on Friday and after sharing
a meal gathered in
a room lined with photos of those committed to nonviolence
who have gone before us.
Julia offered us the opportunity to remember those who
inspired us and those who
were not able to be with us for the weekend, but were
present in our hearts.
And we met in large and small groups.
Saturday
In large and small groups we shared where we've been and
explored where we could go.
At the Test Site, Daniel Berrigan, SJ reflected on Isaiah
19,
the world we find ourselves in today and upon sorrow.
In silence we walked into the desert with sorrow and hope.
And returned to share our inspirations, reflections, and
songs.
We shared a beautiful meal together before more work and
some fun and socializing together.
Sunday
"We Shall Overcome . . . Some Day"
Anne leads us in prayer at the Line
34 Cross the Line and are Arrested for trespassing on
the Nevada Test Site
Into the holding pens
Why we continue in resistance and hope for that Some Day
...
Until we meet again.
Daniel Berrigan, SJ & Jerry Zawada, OFM
Photos © Mario P. Intino, Jr.