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NEWS RELEASE
29 March 2015

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Brian Terrell (773) 853-1886
John Amidon: (518) 312-6442

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Sacred Peace Walk
to Killer Drone Base, the Nuclear Test Site
and Proposed Nuclear Waste Site during Spring Religious Festivals

Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), a faith-based 33-year old nonprofit organism, is conducting the annual week-long peace walk from Sunday, March 29, 8:30 AM, at the Atomic Testing Museum until Friday April 3rd at national nuclear testing grounds on Western Shoshone lands. NDE has organized annual peace walks to the nuclear test site and the historic Peace Camp (south side at US-Hwy 95 Mercury Exit) since 1996.

A Powerful, 59-mile walking meditation across the Mojave Desert, in the name of Peace begins on Palm Sunday. Responding to renewed calls to resume testing of nuclear weapons and to store high level nuclear waste and increased usage of drone assassinations, all at U.S. government facilities in Nevada, local peace and justice activists will be joined by others from around the United States, Europe and Japan, for Nevada Desert Experience’s 20th Sacred Peace Walk (SPW). Many of those walking are Buddhist Monks and Nuns from Japan, and are including the SPW as a leg of their own walk from San Francisco to the United Nations, in New York City, for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference taking place in May.

This 59-mile, annual pilgrimage to the Nevada National Security Site (formerly The Nevada Test Site/NTS) began on March 28 with an orientation in Las Vegas. On March 29 (Palm Sunday) at 8:30 AM, the walkers will start their trek from the National Atomic Testing Museum (755 E Flamingo Rd) with a short program of prayer and song. By Tuesday evening, March 31, the walkers expect to be in Cactus Springs where they will be guests at the Sekhmet Temple of Goddess Spirituality.

The next morning, April 1, the walkers will engage in a nonviolent protest at Creech Air Force Base. Arrests are expected during this prayer-action. Peace and justice activists are hoping to inspire Creech to voluntarily shut itself down, or at least close its gates again, as Creech did on March 6th, 2015 for seven minutes during an hour-long protest and traffic jam created by Veterans For Peace activists trying to stop drone assassinations. Later that day some Peace Walkers will take a road trip to the southwest side of Yucca Mountain for a Western Shoshone prayer for the healing of the Earth, led by Chief Johnnie Bobb. The SPW concludes on Good Friday as we greet the sunrise with the Western Shoshone, and then have a Good Friday Stations of the Cross liturgy and ritual civil resistance arrests at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site at 8:30 in the morning.



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NEWS RELEASE
1 April 2015


Contact
Brian Terrell (773) 853-1886
Marcus Pegasus: (505) 379-6942

12 Residents From Japan Walk To New York
Witness Road Blockade At Creech Air Force Base

More than a dozen people originally from Japan (some still current Japanese citizens) are walking across the USA from San Francisco to New York City in time for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. This group of Buddhist prayer-walkers have joined Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), for NDE's annual Sacred Peace Walk. On April first, the entire group of about 40 people will be at Creech Air Force Base while on their way to the national nuclear testing grounds. NDE, a decades-old faith-based nonprofit organism, is conducting the peace walk from Sunday, March 29, 8:30 AM until Friday April 3rd at Nevada National Nuclear Site on Western Shoshone lands. Chief Johnny Bobb of the Western Shoshone is with the Sacred Peace Walk. NDE has organized annual peace walks to the nuclear test site and the historic Peace Camp (south side at US-Hwy 95 Mercury Exit) since 1996.

Responding to renewed calls to resume testing of nuclear weapons and to store high level nuclear waste and increased usage of drone assassinations, all at U.S. government facilities in Nevada, local peace and justice activists are joined by others from around the United States, Europe and Japan, for Nevada Desert Experience’s 20th Sacred Peace Walk (SPW). Some of those walking are Buddhist Monks and Nuns from Japan, and are including the SPW as a leg of their own walk from San Francisco to the United Nations, in New York City, for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference taking place in May.

Prompted by the Sacred Peace Walkers entering the public roadway into Creech, Clark County Metro Police redirected traffic to the West Gate a mile away. After a five-minute warning, three of the prayer-activists were arrested when they continued praying in the roadway. They are Judy Kehr of Los Angeles, Joan Monastero of New York, and Marcus Page-Collonge of Albuquerque. The prayer-action was in response to the peace and justice violations committed by the U.S. Air Force at Creech, including regular assassinations by drone at the behest of the CIA. The three who were arrested have a court date in Las Vegas Metro Court on May 20th 2015.

Later that day some Peace Walkers visited the southwest side of Yucca Mountain for a Western Shoshone prayer for the healing of the Earth, led by Chief Johnnie Bobb. The SPW concludes on Good Friday as the long-distance prayerful pedestrians greet the sunrise with the Western Shoshone, and then have a Good Friday Stations of the Cross liturgy and ritual civil resistance arrests at the entrance to the Nevada Test Site at 8:30 in the morning.


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NEWS RELEASE
2 April 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contact
Brian Terrell (773) 853-1886
Marcus Pegasus: (505) 379-6942

National Walk Against Nuclear Proliferation
Visits Nevada's Newest Archaeological Site: Peace Camp

More than a dozen people originally from Japan, including Buddhist Monks and Nuns, are walking across the USA from San Francisco to the United Nations in New York City in time for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. This group of Buddhist prayer-walkers have joined Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), for NDE's annual Sacred Peace Walk. The entire group of about 40 people finish their pilgrimage tomorrow, April 3rd at the national nuclear testing grounds.

Yesterday Clark County Metro Police redirected traffic to the West Gate of Creech Air Force Base when a dozen people entered the roadway. After a five-minute warning, most of the peaceful blockade activists returned to the roadside vigil while police arrested three of the prayer-activists who continued praying in the roadway. The prayer-action was in response to the peace and justice violations committed by the U.S. Air Force at Creech, including regular assassinations by drone at the behest of the CIA. (More information on these arrests is above in yesterday's news release.)

NDE, a 33 year-old faith-based nonprofit organism, is conducting the peace walk from Palm Sunday, March 29, 8:30 AM until Good Friday April 3rd. Chief Johnny Bobb of the Western Shoshone is with the Sacred Peace Walk. NDE has organized annual peace walks to the nuclear test site and the historic Peace Camp (south side at US-Hwy 95 Mercury Exit) since 1996. Responding to renewed calls to resume testing of nuclear weapons and to store high level nuclear waste and increased usage of drone assassinations, all at U.S. government facilities in Nevada, the Sacred Peace Walkers are experiencing the Nevada desert in a direct way by walking about 13 miles per day. The SPW concludes on Good Friday as the walkers greet the sunrise with the Western Shoshone, and then have a Good Friday Stations of the Cross liturgy and ritual civil resistance arrests at the entrance to the Nevada National Security Site at 8:30 in the morning.


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NEWS RELEASE
7 April 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contact
Brian Terrell (773) 853-1886
Ming Lai: (702) 646-4814

National Walk Against Nuclear Proliferation
Includes 22 Arrests at Nuclear Weapons Site,
Prays with Western Shoshone Chief At Yucca Mountain

More than a dozen people originally from Japan, including Buddhist Monks and Nuns, are walking in different parts of the USA from San Francisco to the United Nations in New York City in time for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. This group of Buddhist prayer-walkers last week joined Nevada Desert Experience (NDE), for NDE's annual Sacred Peace Walk. The entire group of about 45 people finished the local pilgrimage on Good Friday at the national nuclear testing grounds (NNSS).

22 people were arrested on Good Friday, April 3rd at the NNSS, including folks from eight different states in the USA, and three foreign countries (Germany, Japan & the Netherlands). Photos of the arrests are here. The other prayer-action last Wednesday at Creech Air Force Base was in response to the peace and justice violations committed by the U.S. Air Force at Creech, including regular assassinations by drone at the behest of the CIA. (More information on these arrests is above in last week's news release.)

NDE, a 33 year-old faith-based nonprofit organism, is conducting the peace walk from Palm Sunday, March 29, 8:30 AM until Good Friday April 3rd. Chief Johnny Bobb of the Western Shoshone participated in the Sacred Peace Walk. NDE has organized annual peace walks to the nuclear test site and the historic Peace Camp (south side at US-Hwy 95 Mercury Exit) since 1996. Responding to renewed calls to resume testing of nuclear weapons and to store high level nuclear waste and increased usage of drone assassinations, all at U.S. government facilities in Nevada, the Sacred Peace Walkers experienced the Nevada desert in a direct way by walking about 13 miles per day.


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