April 6-13,
2009
Please note that this year's
walk includes the Mahavir Janant (Jain), Easter
(Christian), Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu), Pesach (Jewish),
and Theravadin New Year (Buddhist).
See
the Pictures of the 2008 Peace Walk
We
walk in the footsteps of a long legacy of peace walkers
and spiritual leaders to draw attention to the nuclear
dangers that continue to threaten our sacred planet
and the community of life. Please join us in transforming
fears into compassion and apathy into action in NDE's
2009 Sacred Peace Walk.
NDE's
62-mile, annual pilgrimage to the Nevada Test Site
will begin on April 6th with an orientation in Las
Vegas and preparation for our six-day walk starting
on April 7th. The main Walk ends on Sunday, with an
extra special action on Monday for those who can hang
out longer in the desert.
We
have a support vehicle available for those who need
extra support, and for emergencies as well. Some Walkers
on the Sacred Peace Walk only come for a few days--all
are welcome to do as much or as little of the SPW
as the Spirit calls...
Click
for Schedule
Resources for Peacewalkers:
Map of Peace Walk Route (PDF
93k)
Peacewalker Reading Packet (PDF
5.26mb)
Sample
Fundraising Letter for Peacewalkers (PDF,
536k)
Fundraiser Sheet (PDF
20k / Word
44k)
Driving Directions to Peace Camp:
Take Hwy 95 North out of Las Vegas. 65 miles out of
town you will see the Mercury exit (past Indian Springs
and Cactus Springs). Take the Mercury exit, then make
a U-turn when it's safe, so you can then drive under
the freeway, to the south. (If you fail to make the
U-Turn as you drive NorthEast, you will come to the
legal boundary of the Nevada Test Site.)
What's Happening in 2008?
The DOE plans to revamp US nuclear weapons facilities
to rebuild every weapon in the stockpile under its
Complex Transformation plan. . . .
The US is actively seeking new warhead designs for
new warfighting scenarios under the Reliable Replacement
Warhead program. . . .
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) continues to
explode subcritical nuclear test bombs at the Site.
. . .
Will 2008 & 2009 Be The Time? Will This Be
The Place?
Join a spiritual pilgrimage from
the the epitome of unsustainable excess consumption
to the place
of the greatest violence on earth. Come help us
stop this suicidal nuclear violence! Come walk the
ways of peace in the desert! Hundreds of people have
walked from Las Vegas, Nevada to the Nevada (Nuclear)
Test Site for the cause of abolishing nuclear weapons.
(The Test Site is situated unlawfully on lands belonging
to the Western Shoshone Nation. Since 1951 the U.S.
has contaminated the desert and the earth 1000 feet
below by exploding over 900 nuclear weapons tests
which included over 1000 detonations of nuclear bombs.)
See the Pictures
of the 2008 Peace Walk
Read
about the 2007 Peace Walk
