NUCLEAR ABOLITION DAY of ACTION

BREAKING THE NUCLEAR CHAIN
University of Nevada at Las Vegas, April 8, 1996

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No Mining! No Testing! No Production! No Ddumping! No Nukes!

100 ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVISTS CLOSE NEVADA
NUCLEAR TEST SITE WITH 20' TRIPOD


Three Radioactive Waste Trucks Delayed on Highway

MERCURY (NV.) - In the predawn hours of Monday April 8, antinuclear activists for the Nuclear Abolition Day of Action closed the main entrance to the Nevada Test Site (NTS) using one tripod (a 20 foot three-pose structure) and an antinuclear activist locked on top, with one person locked to each leg and eight people locked together with lockboxes (their arms are laced into metal tubes and locked inside the tubes) on the road underneath the structure. Other activists blockaded the remaining two entrances. The activists are demanding 1) that the Department of Energy cancel the upcoming "subcritical" nuclear tests -- recently delayed by the DOE, 2) that no nuclear waste be trucked through Las Vegas and into the Test Site for either temporary or permanent storage and 3) that the US government recognize the sovereignty of the Western Shoshone tribe over the area that includes the Nevada Test Site. The airport road entrance to the NTS is also blocked off with people in the road.

The Nye County sheriffs and the Nevada Highway Patrol have blocked off the exit to Mercury, the Town on the NTS, to keep cars from exiting to the Test Site. Three radioactive waste shipments and ten K-T Services buses, among dozens of cars were delayed by this action. For more than an hour the NTS was completely closed down. At this point the DOE is rerouting traffic through another entrance while the blockade continues.


INITIAL ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS:
Alliance of Atomic Veterans
American Friends Service Committee
BAN Waste Coalition
Bay Area Action
Center for Energy Research
Citizen Alert
CTB Clearinghouse
Economist Allied for Arms Reduction
Gray Panthers
Grandmothers for Peace (Northland Chapter)
Greenpeace
Hawaii Coalition Against Nuclear Testing
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Community
Idaho Citizens Action Network
Manhattan Project II
National Environmental Coalition of Native Americans
Nukewatch
Peace Action
Peace Action Education Fund
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma
Proposition One
San Francisco Area Physicians for Social Responsibility
Sane/Freeze Hawaii
Seeds of Peace
Shundahai Network
Southeast Center for Ecological Awareness
Students and Teachers Against Nuclear Dumping
Unity Foundation
War Resisters League
Western Shoshone National Council
Western States Legal Foundation
Wetlands Preserve Environmental Center
Women's International League of Peace and Freedom
Women Strike for Peace


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