In anticipation of the 80th anniversaries of the 1945 atomic bombings in the USA and Japan, a number of hybrid educational events will be held next week.
On Thursday, July 10th from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm Mountain Time, the Arms Control Association and Win Without War will host a hybrid event, “From Trinity to Today: Nuclear Weapons and the Way Forward,” to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic age. Three panels will highlight the impacts of the bomb and showcase the role citizen campaigns have had in changing the course of nuclear history. They are:
- Toxic and Radioactive Legacy of Nuclear Use, Production, Testing
- The Role of Citizens in Reducing the Nuclear Danger
- Today’s Nuclear Dangers/Consequences of Nuclear War
To register, go to https://www.armscontrol.org/From_Trinity_to_Today
On Friday, July 11th from 6 pm to Saturday, July 12th at 6 pm Mountain Time, World Beyond War will host the Fourth Annual 24-hour Peace Wave, which addresses the need to abolish nuclear weapons. Peace Wave is a 24-hour long Zoom that moves around the globe with the sun and features live peace actions in the streets and squares of the world, including rallies, concerts, production of artworks, blood drives, installations of peace poles, dances, speeches, and public demonstrations of all variety.
To sign up, visit https://worldbeyondwar.org/wave/
On Saturday, July 12th from 6:30 to 8 pm Mountain Time, Back from the Brink will host its New Mexico Hub Kickoff at the Congregation Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. Northwest, in Albuquerque. This free, hybrid community-wide event marks the official launch of New Mexico’s involvement in the national Back from the Brink campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. Doors open at 6 pm. All are welcome.
Speakers include: Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Dr. Ira Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility; and Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester. Together, they will highlight the urgent need for action and the power of communities to create a world free of nuclear threats.
To register, visit https://www.mobilize.us/backfromthebrink/event/804539/
On Sunday, July 13th at 2:30 to 5 pm Mountain Time, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and others host an Interfaith Remembrance of the Trinity Test: 80 Years and Still Waiting, at St. Pius X School, 5301 St. Josephs Drive NW, in Albuquerque. Doors open at 2 pm. The event will also be live streamed. Pre-registration is encouraged at https://www.jotform.com/form/251126623369053. For more information, visit https://www.mobilize.us/backfromthebrink/event/806202/
- Friday, July 4th from noon to 1 pm –
Join your neighbors and friends at the intersection of East Alameda and Sandoval for the weekly one-hour peaceful protest for nuclear disarmament and against expanded plutonium pit production at LANL. Join with Veterans for Peace, CCNS, Nuclear Watch NM, Loretto Community, New Mexico Peace Fest, Pax Christi and others. Bring your flags, signs and banners in support of nuclear weapons disarmament.
- Watch the “Television Event”
2:13 minute trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5RGRsTwjM It is about the television movie of the week during about nuclear war during the Reagan administration.
- Monday, July 14th –
public comments due to National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) about the scope of the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production at Multiple Locations. https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/english-scoping-presentation-eis-0573-plutonium-pit-production-2025-05.pdf
- Wednesday, July 16th –
80th Anniversary of the first atomic bomb test at the Trinity Test Site in New Mexico. See “80 Years of Struggle” to learn about the three events:
* Sign dedication at the Stallion Gate Entrance to the Trinity Test at 11 am;
* Mass and Dinner Reception at St. Francis de Paula Catholic Church in Tularosa at 6 pm; and
* 16th Annual Candlelight Vigil at the Tularosa Veterans Park at 8:30 pm.
For more information at https://www.trinitydownwinders.com/single-post/80-years-of-struggle-1
- Wednesday, July 16th at 5 pm MT –
Trinity Day 80th Anniversary Zoom Event, hosted by the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom US Disarm Committee and the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee – for a teach-in on Trinity Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear test. Register here: https://bit.ly/Trinity80thPanelists include: Hideko Tamura, a Hiroshima survivor and a leader of WILPF; Tina Cordova, founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium; Mary Yakaitis, a leader of the Downwinders; Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy & Environmental Research; and Professor Peter Kuznick, Director of the American University Nuclear Studies Institute. Following the presentations there will be a general discussion.Trinity laid the groundwork for the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and for the ensuing nuclear arms race that has repeatedly, and once again, brought the World to the precipice of nuclear annihilation.
As we face yet another nuclear crisis, we will discuss the meaning of the Trinity Test and its implications for today.
Please distribute this invitation widely. As the Anti Nuclear Movement again mobilizes to meet this latest crisis, it is important that we be fully informed.
In Peace and Solidarity,
John Steinbach & Ellen Thomas https://www.wilpf.org/
- Saturday, July 19th from 6 am to 4 pm
– 46th Annual Uranium Tailings Spill Commemoration at the Red Water Pond Road Community, 12 miles North of Red Rock State Park on State Highway 566.
YOU ARE INVITED to join the community on this journey to heal our Diné and Mother Earth and restore the Hozho’. We begin at 6 am with breakfast and opening prayers in the teepee. The walk to the spill location will begin approximately at 6:30 am. We will return to lunch and speakers in our shaded arbor. There will be educational tables and a silent auction. Free t-shirts!
This historic event is open to all ages and will share the struggles people face in their daily lives, the healing yet to come for our people and Mother Earth, and the awareness and education required in the local area, tribally, statewide and on the national level. We would like the younger generation to be present, advocate and carry on these traditions of caring for Mother Earth.
Let us come together again and share these issues and concerns, collaborate and strategize, to push for clean up of these contaminated environments among our Diné people. Let’s collaborate to restore, preserve and protect our Mother Earth and to provide a life of balance and harmony for our people now and for the future generations.
It is said that The Four Sacred Mountains say to us,
“My child, I will feed you, give you good health, and I will give you strength and courage. My child, I will give you clean air and clean water to drink.
I am your Life. My child, get ready now and educate yourself. Improve yourself and don’t forget who you are. My child, what I am dressed with, is what you are dressed with. I am your home and your mother and father.”
For more info contact RWPRC Executive members: Edith Hood 505-728-9350, Terry Keyanna 505-979-0552, Jackie Jefferson Bell 505-728-7935
RSVP – Early Registration, Donations, Questions to email: redwaterpondroad@gmail.com
7. Saturday, August 9th – Nagasaki Day – New Mexico PeaceFest is planning a commemoration in Los Alamos, NM. The plans are developing and if you would like to help with the planning and publicizing, please join the planning meeting on Tuesday, July 8th at 5 pm MT on zoom. For more information, please email ccns@nuclearactive.org.