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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Healing Global Wounds: Nevada test site October 2-12
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- ** Topic: Healing Global Wounds **
- ** Written 3:37 pm Aug 13, 1992 by cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM in cdp:gen.nativenet **
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- The Western Shoshone National Council
- & the Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance call for
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- Healing Global Wounds
- Indigenous Forum and Ceremony
- Nevada Test Site/Las Vegas * October 2-12, 1992
- Stop Nuclear Testing * End 500 Years of Injustice
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- Oct. 2-4: Indigenous Peoples Forum/Las Vegas
- Oct. 5: Demonstratation at the Test Site Operations
- Office/Las Vegas
- Oct. 5-9: Join European Peace Pilgrimage & Walk Across
- America for Mother Earth for the 65 mile completion
- of their 3000+ mile. 8-month walks.
- Oct. 6-12: Nevada Test Site Encampment.
- Oct. 10: Native-led Healing Ceremony
- Oct. 11: Multi-cultural Rally & Mass Nonviolent Action
- Oct. 12: 500 Years Commemoration
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- For more infomation contact:
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- Western Shoshone National Council
- PO Box 140115, Duckwater NV 89314
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- American Peace Test
- PO Box 26725, Las Vegas NV 89126 (702)386-9834
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- Citizen Alert
- PO Box 1681, Las Vegas NV 89125 (702)648-8982
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- Nevada Desert Experience
- PO Box 4498, Las Vegas, NV 89127 (702)646-4814
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- HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS Indigenous Forum and Ceremony
- Nevada Test Site/Las Vegas October 2-12, 1992
-
- An unprecedented 10-days of events will take place in Las Vegas and
- at the Nevada Test Site, October 2-12, 1992 to demand an end to the
- 500 years of injustice to Native Americans and an end to nuclear
- testing on native lands. The events will include: an Indigenous
- Peoples Forum with indigenous testimony and presentations,
- indigenous and disarmament workshops, skills sharing, strategy
- discussions and multi-cultural celebration; a demonstration at the
- Nevada Test Site Operations Office in Las Vegas, the final 4-dyay,
- 65-mile completion of two, 3000 mile, continental Walks Across
- America to the Nevada Test Site, an encampment in the desert
- adjacent to the Nevada Test Site, a native-led Healing Ceremony, a
- Multi-cultural Rally, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and more. The
- broadest alliance ever formed for a Nevada Test Site event has come
- together to plan and organize these activities.
-
- Columbus Day 1992
-
- *Prior to colonization, which began in 1492, we *controlled* 100%
- of the land and gifts of creation (also known as natural
- resources). We were 100% of the population. We have been reduced by
- violence, genocide, ethnocide and attacks against our spiritual
- ways. Our population is now 1% in the US; less than .5% in Canada*
- -Pauline Esteves of the Western Shoshone Nation, Opening Speech
- from the Turtle Island Delegation to the Nuclear Free and
- Independent Pacific Movement Conference. 1990, Aotearoa (New
- Zealand).
-
- On October 12, 1992 many governments, educational and religious
- institutions are planning a -=+Columbus Quincentennial Jubilee+=-
- to celebrate the "discovery of America" by Christopher Columbus.
- When Columbus, looking for India, arrived in the Americas, a rich
- diversity of indigenous peoples lived in thousands of tribal
- nations and villages, spoke thousands of languages and dialects,
- had highly developed culture and spiritually and lived in delicate
- balance with the earth. The arrival of Columbus marked the
- beginning of 500 years of invasion, colonization, genocide,
- ecological destruction, and injustice, which continues today.
-
- Indigenous people are leading efforts in all sectors of society to
- speak the truth about what really took place 500 years ago, to
- promote respect for the cultures and contributions of those groups
- whom our history books have slandered or ignored, and to take
- action to end continuing injustices.
-
- Nuclear Weapons Testing
-
- "We cannot help but see that the United States and other nuclear
- powers are testing their most destructive weapons on other people's
- land. We have a map of the world showing how all atomic and nuclear
- tests have been conducted on the territory of native peoples. We
- don't need these tests to prepare for destruction that will
- annihilate the people of the world. We want it stopped. Nuclear
- oppression against any people cannot be tolerated. The healing
- must begin now!"
- -Western Shoshone National Council
-
- The US is planning to explode at least 7 nuclear weapons at the
- Nevada Test Site in 1992, despite Russian suspension of nuclear
- testing and the conversion the primary Soviet Test Site in
- Kazakhstan to peaceful purposes. Testing at the Nevada Test Site
- takes place on sacred Western Shoshone land in violation of the
- 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley and ancestral land rights. Nuclear
- weapons testing, production and the mining of uranium has poisoned
- Americas air, groundwater, soil and people with the most deadly
- permanent toxins on earth. Ending nuclear testing is the single
- most important step towards genuine qualitative disarmament,
- non-proliferation and the prevention of future military
- intervention and war.
-
- Please join us in acting to stop 500 years of injustice and
- continued nuclear testiong. For more information contact:
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- Western Shoshone Nation Council, PO Box 140115, Duckwater NV 89314
- American Peace Test, PO Box 26725, Las Vegas NV 89126, (702)386-9834
- Citizen Alert, PO Box 1681, Las Vegas NV 89125, (702)648-8982
- Nevada Desert Experience, PO Box 4487, Las Vegas NV 89127, (702)646-4814
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