Tell the Nuclear Weapons Corporations “No Money for Nuclear Weapons!” during the International Days of Action

Local, regional, national and international non-governmental organizations are coming together for a week of raising public awareness about the nuclear weapons corporations doing business in New Mexico.  The week of action begins on Monday, September 16^th and extends through Sunday, September 22^nd. https://www.icanw.org/global_week_of_action_on_nuclear_spending

New Mexicans will challenge two of the nuclear weapons profiteers who operate here.  They are Honeywell https://warheadstowindmills.org/nuclear-weapons-map/ and HII, or Huntington Ingalls Industries https://warheadstowindmills.org/nuclear-weapons-map/ .

HII is a subcontractor to Triad National Security, LLC, the primary nuclear weapons contractor at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). https://www.triadns.org/

On Tuesday, September 17^th from 4 to 6 pm, please join us in Santa Fe as we gather on the sidewalk in front of the LANL complex of offices near the corner of St. Michael’s Drive and Pacheco Street.  The office buildings formerly housed Public Service Company of New Mexico, or PNM, and are on the east side of Pacheco opposite the Smith’s Grocery Store.  https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0308-pacheco-office/

Honeywell operates Sandia National Laboratories, located in Albuquerque, for the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration.  It produces guidance instruments for the Minuteman III and the proposed Sentinel nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles.  https://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/honeywell-international/

On Monday, September 23^rd from 11:30 to 12:30 pm in front of the University of New Mexico, on the public campus sidewalk area at Cornell and Central, a peaceful protest will take place challenging Honeywell’s corporate profiteering relationship with Sandia National Laboratories.

Alongside the in-person actions, it is important to make sure the corporations feel pressure in other ways on these days of action.  Please concentrate your efforts to write letters, spam their social media, and call them on each company’s specific day of action.  Monday, September 16^th is HII’s day and Saturday, September 21^st is Honeywell’s day of action.

The Warheads to Windmills website contains all the tools you need to take action to tell the profiteering corporations: NO MONEY FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS!  Go to the website to edit a prewritten email to the CEO and submit it. Tag them in your own posts. Be sure to use the #PressuretheProfiteers hashtag to amplify your message. Learn what products and brands to boycott with the “Boycotting” drop down menu.  https://warheadstowindmills.org/

During the two weeks of action – the first week about nuclear weapons and the second week about fossil fuels – the peaceful Friday protest from noon to 1 pm on the corners of Alameda and Sandoval in downtown Santa Fe will continue.

It’s time to raise our voices and challenge nuclear weapons together.

1. Friday, September 13th at noon at the intersection of West Alameda and Sandoval for the weekly one-hour peaceful protest for nuclear disarmament. Join the weekly peaceful protest with Veterans for Peace, CCNS, Nuclear Watch NM, Loretto Community, New Mexico Peace Fest, Pax Christi and others. Bring your flags, signs and banners!

2. Friday, September 13^th at 9 am to 3 pm virtual and in person – Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee of the NM Legislature meeting in Hobbs, NM.  To watch the webcast: go to: https://www.nmlegis.gov/ and click on webcast for this meeting. If you would like to make a virtual public comment, please click here.   Instructions for providing virtual public comments are here.  The agenda is posted here: https://www.nmlegis.gov/agendas/RHMCageSep13.24.pdf       Discussion topics include: uranium enrichment; WIPP Operations, Expansion, Storage and Shipments of Transuranic Waste and the Proposed Clean Energy Project at WIPP (Don Hancock of SRIC, DOE and NMED will each present); Setbacks from Oil & Gas Operations; Produced Water and Water Reuse; and public comments.

3. The video of the Saturday, September 7^th Forum on Nuclear Strategy: Disarmament and Deterrence in a Dangerous World at UNM is now available at:  https://www.youtube.com/@iacsusc

4. September 1^st through September 30^th – the Sierra Club Grassroots Network Nuclear Free Team concludes its first Nuclear FREE Film Series with the powerful independent film – ATOMIC BAMBOOZLE: THE FALSE PROMISES OF A NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE. Watch the film – FREE OF CHARGE – followed by a live webinar on September 30^th with the filmmaker and stellar panel moderated by Mike Carberry, Co-Chair, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Team. The 46-minute film available on Eventive – free with registration.  https://scnuclearfree.eventive.org/welcome#!

5. Friday, August 30 through September – 58 years: a retrospective of works by Cathie Sullivan at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de La Familia, Santa Fe.  Opening on August 30 from 5 to 7 pm.  The exhibit includes 57 oil paintings, drawings and limited edition silkscreen prints, three bronzes, 20 animal carvings and hand and digitally printed note cards.  80% of sale proceeds will be donated to Amigos Del Parque, Nuclear Watch NM and El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe.   https://www.elmuseocultural.org/exhibit/csretro-24

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