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Texas Week of Anti-Nuclear ActionAugust 5 to 12, 2004Remember Hiroshima | No Los Alamos Bid | Keep UT Nuke Free UTNukeFree, UT Watch, Iconmedia, Austin Center For Peace & Justice, Dallas Peace Center, Peace Action Texas, The Student Labor Coalition, The Progressive Students Association, Houston Peace and Justice Center, Texas Radiation Online, and The Peace Farm are focusing this August's Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance days on the University of Texas's plan for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Julie Enszer, the new Executive Director of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, will be a featured speaker at forums, luncheons, and workshops between August 5 and August 9 in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Arlington and Dallas. The Texas Week of Anti-Nuclear Action coincides with events in New Mexico focused on Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, Aug. 4 to 7, in California at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Aug. 8, in Nevada at the Nevada Test Site, Aug. 6 to 8, and in Tennessee at the Y-12 National Security Complex, Aug. 6 to 8. (Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day events calendar) Houston -- Thursday, August 5 -- 7:30 pm Public Forum on US Nuclear Policy and UT's Plan to Manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory Location: Houston Center for Peace and Justice Houston -- Friday, August 6 -- 12 to 2 pm Luncheon featuring NPRI's Julie Enszer Location: UT School of Public Health, Room 102A
Houston -- Friday, August 6 -- 12 to 1 pm Hiroshima commemoration featuring crane folding by members of the Japanese-American community. Location: Steps of City Hall
Pantex -- Friday, August 6 -- 3 pm Peace Vigil at Pantex. The DOE/NNSA facility assembles nuclear weapons and stores 13,000 plutonium pits. Followed by potluck, music and Closing Ceremony at the Peace Farm. Location: Front gate, Pantex Plant
College Station -- Friday, August 6 -- 7 pm Public Forum on US Nuclear Policy and UT and Texas A&M's Plan to Manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory Location: Unitarian Fellowship, 305 Wellborn Amarillo -- Saturday, August 7 -- 10 am to 2 pm Nuclear Weapons Workshops on Iraq, Los Alamos, Pantex, and US nuclear weapons. Location: Illuminati San Antonio -- Saturday, August 7 -- 1 to 5 pm Public Forum on US Nuclear Policy and UT's Plan to Manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory Location: UT San Antonio, Durango Building, DB 3.206 Austin -- Sunday, August 8 -- 2 to 5 pm Public Forum on US Nuclear Policy and UT's Plan to Manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory with NPRI, Iconmedia, and UT Watch Location: UT Austin, University Teaching Center, UTC 2.102 Austin -- Sunday, August 8 -- 6:30 to 8:30 pm Picnic and Interfaith Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembrance Ceremony Features Music, The Story of Sadako, Susan Bright's poetry, Rabbi Stephen Folberg, Imam Safdar Razi, Rev. Sid Hall, Buddhist chanting and drumming, origami cranes, photos from Alan Pogue, information sharing, candlelight procession and ceremony at Town Lake. Bring food, drink, blankets to sit on, folding chairs, flashlights, bug spray. Location: Zilker Park: The Peace Grove is at the first right turn off Barton Springs Rd when travelling from the east. Lou Neff Point is where Barton Creek meets Town Lake. map Arlington -- Monday, August 9 -- Noon Luncheon featuring NPRI's Julie Enszer.
Location: UT Arlington, Nedderman Hall, Rady Room, 5th Fl Dallas -- Monday, August 9 -- 7:30 pm Public Forum on US Nuclear Policy and UT's Plan to Manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory featuring NPRI and Dallas Peace Center. Location: UT Dallas, Green Building GR.2.302 Nationwide -- Monday, August 9 -- All Day National Call In Day: "Take Action to Prevent Further Irreversible Dangers from Nuclear Weapons & Waste." Call Bush and Kerry campaign headquarters. The suggested message is, "We ask you to explain how your candidate will reduce and then eliminate the nuclear weapons stockpile, and how he will clean up radioactive pollution throughout the nuclear weapons complex." Bush Campaign: 703-647-2700 Location: Everywhere Houston -- Wednesday/Thursday, August 11 & 12 The UT System Board of Regents will meet in Houston. Send an email message to the Regents! Location: UTMD Anderson Cancer Center |
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Help get thousands of petition signatures! Send friends a message about the petition. Print it and gather signatures. Contact the Regents Send a message to the UT Board of Regents. Tell them not to pursue the contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mail, fax, or phone the Board of Regents. UT System's Los Alamos Task Force The Task Force is responsible for advising the Board of Regents on the Los Alamos bid. |
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